The shop, which will close its doors May 29, is holding a firesale.
Fat Jack’s Comicrypt has been evicted from its Center City location. The iconic comic shop will close after 48 years.An exterior shot of Fat Jack's Comicrypt, a ong-running comic book store in the Rittenhouse neighborhood that is in danger of closing, on Monday, Jan. 07, 2019.Mike Ferrero, 72, Fat Jack’s owner, said the shop’s landlord had scotch-taped an eviction notice to the window of the Sansom Street store earlier this week.“It was month to month.
“We’re looking to see what we can find,” he said. “But Center City may have outpriced us. Hopefully, it’s not the end of an era.” Last year, Fat Jack’s longtime manager, Eric Partridge, who was laid off this week, organized a GoFundMe campaign calledto help the shop raise money. At the time, the shop owed $80,000 to its distributors. The effort, which raised nearly $24,000, kept the store afloat, but could not save it.On Wednesday, the day new comics are released each week, the shop was busy with customers who had come to share in the bad news.
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