At Beaver Creek Antiques

At Beaver Creek Antiques

Hagerstown, MD

Those fans of vintage science fiction and fantasy print media know that the MPorcius Blog (aka H.B.) routinely reports on the inventory available at antique stores located in the northern Maryland, and southern Pennsylvania, regions of the Mason-Dixon line.

Last week, on an unusually mild, crisp, beautiful late August day, I decided to visit one of the MPorcius haunts: Beaver Creek Antiques, located just south of Hagerstown at 20202 National Pike (aka route 40).

 

Of the antique stores I've been to in the last decade, Beaver Creek offered the most interesting assemblage of vendors of vintage comics, cards, and books. 

 

I'm not a hardcore comics collector, but the prices I saw on offer from these vendors were about par for the course as compared to those you'll find on eBay, Etsy, MyComicShop, Mile High Comics, and other major online vendors. 

 

 

 

You also had stalls offering vintage vinyl, model train gear, and Olde Tyme Christmas cards:

 

 

 

For my part, I found quite a few good deals on vintage print stuff, including Doc Savage novels, and some pulp-related hardcover books. I also grabbed some Hard Case Crime paperbacks, mainly on the strength of the cover art !

 

All in all, while traveling north on I-81 has only gotten more stressful over the past 13 years or so (too many people driving crazy in heavy traffic, and that's in ideal weather) I think I'll undertake some more trips to the 'MPorcius antique store circuit' and see what's waiting there for me to find.........!