United Cigar Stores

United Cigar Stores
Company typePublic
IndustryTobacco retail, specialty retail
Founded1901
FoundersCharles A. Whelan
George J. Whelan
Defunct1962
FateBankruptcy (1932); merged into successor corporations
HeadquartersSyracuse, New York, United States
Area served
United States

United Cigar Stores was a chain of cigar stores in the United States that in its first quarter-century grew to nearly 3,000 shops. It eventually became part of the corporation that bought Marvel Comics and its parent company Magazine Management from their founder in 1968.