Golden Apple Comics is a comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 store in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

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History

The store's original owner, Bill Liebowitz, was a yo-yo

Yo-yo

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 champion in the 1950s, a co-founder of Rhino Records, and had recurring roles as himself in Archie Comics

Archie Comics

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. He opened Golden Apple in Hollywood in 1979, and a second location in Northridge in 1983. Liebowitz was well known for hosting signings by comic book artists and writers, as well as for his anti-censorship activism.

After Liebowitz' death in 2004, his widow Sharon and son Ryan took over the business and continue to run the store.

In April 2009 the Northridge store was sold to Earth 2 Comics, and became their second location.

in 2010, Golden Apple became the official sponsor of the popular weekly geek podcast Bagged & Boarded

Public image

The shop has been featured in many film projects, including "Weird Al" Yankovic

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's "White & Nerdy

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" video and—perhaps most prominently—in the movie Free Enterprise

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 (1998) in which Sharon Liebowitz played herself. Blair Butler, G4TV's resident comic expert, often hosts her segment of Attack Of The Show, called "Fresh Ink," at the Golden Apple. It was also featured in an episode of the short-lived NBC crime drama Raines

Raines

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, in which an up and coming comic artist who frequented Golden Apple Comics was murdered.

Golden Apple regularly hosts celebrity guests such as Stan Lee

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, Frank Miller

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, Marc Silvestri

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 and George A. Romero

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, and has been frequented by famous patrons such as Michael Jackson

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 and Michael Boatman

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. DC Comics

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vice president Bob Wayne called Golden Apple Comics "one of the most important comic book stores in the world."