Twin Cities' Shinders Chain Closes Shinders, a Minnesota newsstand chain that was a key retail presence and provider of comics in the 1980s Twin Cities comics community, becoming as well if not better known as a collectibles business, has closed down its eight remaining stores after an extended series of business setbacks and accusations of major, potentially criminal malfeasance by its current owner. As a longtime magazine seller whose heyday moving comics coincided with a growth period in retail locations that took place from late 1970s to the early 1990s, Shinders enjoyed what was likely a unique perspective on comics selling among a growing class of comics specialists coming from places like those dealing in back-issues at conventions and those making new comics sales part of their used book and collectible comics businesses.
Shinders, a Minnesota newsstand chain that was a key retail presence and provider of comics in the 1980s Twin Cities comics community, becoming as well if not better known as a collectibles business, 
