UPDATE (8/20/19): We are proud to announce that part of the birthday celebration will be brought to you by the letter D and Montclair Bread Company. D is for DONUT and the first 50 people who buy something (ANYTHING) will be able to tear into a delicious CUSTOM MBC / Marvel Comics 1000 donut! Don’t miss this tasty treat!!!

East Side Mags is all about comics! And customers! And we want to celebrate the release of Marvel Comics #1000 with you! And even though it’s Marvel’s birthday - YOU get the gifts!

Join us for a fun-filled day of celebration!

50% off ALL MARVEL COMICS BIN BACK ISSUES

10% off ALL MARVEL COMICS TRADE PAPERBACKS AND HARDCOVERS

10% off ALL MARVEL COMICS MINOR KEYS (tagged books)

Local Artist Paul Belliveau will be here sketching for customers on blank comic covers from 1pm-5pm! Come get a sketch of your favorite Marvel character (or any character, it’s all good)!

We’ve also got a few extra surprises up our sleeves so stay tuned…

What's Halloween ComicFest you say?  Why - only the greatest Halloween activity EVER!

Think of it like this - FREE COMIC BOOK DAY of the Fall season!  With me now?  Great!

Join us for a day of fun-filled and SPOOKY activities including:

Artist Sketches!  Meet Idan & Bella! 

Idan just graduated from the Kubert School and Bella moved to the state's this summer following her dreams of becoming a comicbook artist.

Both artists live in NJ at the moment and enjoy drawing all day.

Idan & Bella will be drawing on blank sketch covers from 10am-7pm .  Buy a blank sketch cover, get a FREE pencil sketch.  You can also upgrade to black & white inked drawings, full color or get a full-blown commission done.  Additional charges will apply for the upgrades but you pay the artist directly!

Help support local artists AND get a cool comic cover drawn by either one (or both) of these amazing artists before Dark Horse or DC Comics snatches them up and their original art costs you a million dollars!!!

And what would Halloween be without a costume contest?  Boring - that's what.  That's why were hosting the ULTIMATE ESM COSTUME CONTEST! A contest for the ages - ALL AGES!  All you have to do to enter is come by in costume or cosplay, we'll take your picture and your contact info and notify you if you've won!  Prizes include - $50 East Side Mags gift card, Free Mystery Comic Bundles, toys and MORE!!!

Did we mention FREE COMICS?  Halloween ComicFest works just like FREE COMIC BOOK DAY in May.  A whole bunch of publishers put together really cool titles or sampler versions of current titles - mostly Halloween themed - and East Side Mags makes them available for you, for FREE!  Some of the titles that will be available are:

• Scooby Apocalypse / Hanna Barbera Sampler
• DC Super Hero Girls
• Haunted Mansion #1
• Spidey #1
• Darth Vader Doctor Aphra #1
• Three Stooges Halloween Hullaballoo #1
• My Little Pony the Haunted Dungeon
• Afterlife with Archie Season Two
• and so much more!*

*Please note - not ALL titles are ALL AGES friendly.  Please ask us about the titles if you are not sure.

Last - we'll have buttons, stickers and other really cool swag that we'll be giving out all day.  It is Halloween after all!

So get spooky! Get scary! and get ready!  We're gonna have a TON OF FUN!

Well dudes, dudettes and duderinos - here we are!  ONE YEAR!!!

It was this weekend in 2014 where we had our big Grand Opening blow out featuring bands, artists and more comics than you can shine a bat-signal on!  Well, this year we're hitting the ground hard!  MORE DETAILS to be forthcoming but here's what's in store for you - our valued and loyal customers:

Meet Joe Caramagna - Eisner & Harvey-nominated comic book writer and letterer of Marvel's AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN:  WEB WARRIORS, AVENGERS ASSEMBLE, AVENGERS VS, FREE COMIC BOOK DAY ROCKET RACCOON and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY!  He currently lives in NJ with his wife and three kids!

Meet Isaac Goodhart - a lifelong comic fan, graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2010.  In 2014, he was one of the winners for Top Cow's annual talent hunt.  He is currently drawing POSTAL for Top Cow comics!

Brian Smith is a former Marvel Comics and DC Comics Editor, his credits include Ultimate Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Batgirl, Deathstroke, and dozens of other titles. Smith is the co-creator and writer behind the New York Times best selling Graphic Novel The Stuff of Legend, and the writer/artist of The Intrepid EscapeGoat. His writing credits include Finding Nemo: Losing Dory from BOOM! Studios, Voltron Force from VIZ, TMNT New Animated Adventures from IDW, and SpongeBob Comics from Bongo.

Smith is also the illustrator of The Adventures of Daniel Boom AKA LOUDBOY! Series of graphic novels. His illustration clients include Time Out New York Magazine, Nickelodeon, MAD Kids Magazine, Harper Collins, Grosset & Dunlap, and American Greetings.

A graduate of the famous Kubert School, Fernando Ruiz has worked in comics and commercial illustration for over twenty years. Much of his work has appeared in the various publications of Archie Comics. He has been the regular penciller on Archie, Archie & Friends, Archie's Weird Mysteries, and the Eisner-nominated magazine series Life With Archie. He has also drawn other Archie characters such as Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Betty & Veronica, and Jughead. His work has also appeared in comics published by Dark Horse Comics and Image Comics. In addition to his comic book work, Fernando has worked for a number of corporate clients such as Simon & Schuster, Ogilvy Commonhealth Worldwide, and JCPR drawing storyboards, toy designs, white board illustrations, and many other projects. In 2012, he published the first issue of his independent comic anthology, EPICS. In 2013, he illustrated the children's book, RABBIDS: Laugh Your Rabbids Off! Most recently, he has illustrated the popular, best-selling crossover Archie Vs Predator!

In 1995, Fernando returned to the Kubert School as an instructor.  He has been teaching there regularly for twenty years.  He is a regular guest at many comic book conventions every year.

Signings will take place from 1pm-5pm.

One of our favorite things about the past year is how great everyone in the community has been to us so to say "Thank You", we're going to hold a special RAFFLE!  Being summer and baseball season, we're offering packs of baseball cards that will be used to raffle off some amazing prizes right here in the store!  That's it!  Buy a pack of baseball cards and you can win some great comics, toys, figures and more!  We're giving something away EVERY HOUR STARTING AT 11AM!!!

UPDATE (7/14/15):  JUST ADDED!!!  When you think things couldn't get any better, we've added a musical act to our Grand Opening Celebrations!  Local Montclair garage rock band Tula Ver will be here!  Performance starts at 7pm and they are sure to bring the house down!  You can check out their Facebook page or their Soundcloud page here!

UPDATE (7/17/15):  FINAL UPDATE!!!  East Side Mags is happy to announce that we will also be having a SALE!!!  20% everything in the store (does not include new comics, wall books, artwork, pull boxes or anything already on hold).  That's it!  Save on great stuff like hard covers, toys, trades, back issues, comic sets, t-shirts, novelty items and MORE!

We're so excited to celebrate this massive milestone with Montclair and the rest of the surrounding community!  We can't wait to see you all here!

Are you ready for Avengers: Age of Ultron?  We are!  We're so excited for this new Avengers movie that we want to make sure you're caught up with everything Avengers!

We're proudly showing the FIRST Avengers movie on Saturday, April 11th at 7pm!  

Re-live the events of the attack on NYC by Loki and the Chitauri!  Re-experience the tension between Iron Man/Tony Stark and Captain America/Steve Rogers!  Re-witness (is that a word?) the death of a MAJOR SHIELD employee!  (I hope he has benefits!)

Re-watch this amazing 1st go-round of a super-hero team in LIVE ACTION on a BIG SCREEN!

Then, on May 1st, hit the theaters to see the next phase in the MCU as the Avengers take on their biggest threat to date!

Don't forget - we don't charge admission but we do request that those in attendance bring canned, healthy food for donation to Toni's Kitchen food pantry in Montclair, NJ.

Equipment is provided via Gateway AV in Summit, NJ.