At Wonder Book and Video December 2025

Traveling to my hometown for the Christmas holiday, I passed through Frederick, and decided to stop in at Wonder Book and Video. The last time I'd been there was something like 4 or 5 years ago.

They had a sizeable shelf of new vintage paperbacks, but these were priced at $10 to $15 each, a little too high for my budget, so I refrained.

Their section for comics and graphic novels remains impressive, but the same phenomenon: higher prices than I remember, also was operating for this media. Although I must point out that they had a large selection of bandes dessinees for about $4 each:

I wound up paying $10 for a Very Good copy of a Charles Beaumont sci-fi anthology, along with getting some $5 vintage paperbacks, and a hardcover John Christopher novel.

Wonder Book and Video remains a destination for Paperback Fanatics but this must be tempered with an awareness that prices have jumped quite a bit......