Paradise 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 located in Toronto, Canada. The owner and proprietor is Peter Dixon. The store's manager is long time comic book fan Doug Simpson. Paradise Comics is known primarily as being an excellent source of silver age

Silver age

A silver age is a name often given to a particular period within a history, typically as a lesser and later successor to a golden age, the metal silver generally being valuable, but less so than gold.-Greek myth:...

, 1970s, 1980s and CGC graded comics. Paradise Comics is a leading seller of CGC Signature Series (signed and graded) comic books.

The store is located at 3278 Yonge Street in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

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Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon

Paradise Comics also puts on comic book conventions: Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon.

In 2009, Wizard Entertainment

Wizard Entertainment

Wizard Entertainment, formerly known as Wizard Press, was a New York-based publisher of Wizard and ToyFare magazines, along with various special issues for each magazine and the annual Toy Wishes holiday guide....

 acquired the Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon, "a show that has been consistently awarded The Best International Comic Book Convention (non-USA) by ComicBookConventions.com, for the last five years." Peter Dixon will still continue to be involved with the Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon..