Newbury Comics

Newbury Comics is an American entertainment retailer based in the northeastern United States. It began as a comic book vendor on Newbury Street in Boston, but later expanded to include music, movies, fashion, and other pop culture items. The company was founded in 1978 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology students John Brusger and Mike Dreese. Dreese also published Boston Rock, a music tabloid which was active from 1980 to 1987 that focused on punk, new wave and indie bands.

The company currently has 29 stores open across six states: 12 in Massachusetts, eight in New York, four in New Hampshire, two in Connecticut, two in Rhode Island, and one in Maine. Newbury Comics' first location to be opened outside of New England was at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, New York, in 2016. The chain also had a sister store called Hootenanny which mostly sold punk-style clothing, located one floor below the Newbury Comics in Harvard Square. Hootenanny closed in May 2012, while the flagship Newbury Comics banner was altering its product mix to include more fashion. Newbury Comics stores are gradually shifting from strip centers to mall locations.