Ontario Street Comics

Port Richmond institution since 1989 mixing 200+ longboxes of comics with vintage sports cards, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh — a Philadelphia collector staple.

Few Philadelphia card shops can claim the tenure of Ontario Street Comics, which has anchored its Port Richmond block since 1989. Comics are the backbone — more than 200 longboxes of back issues, plus new floppies bagged and boarded every Wednesday morning — but the card side of the business is substantial: sports and non-sports trading cards, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Magic all get dedicated space, and the vintage card inventory runs deeper than most dedicated card stores in the city.

The store has a distinctly old-school character that customers prize. One Google reviewer called it 'the last great comic shop unpolluted by Funko Pops,' and that ethos extends to the card cases: expect vintage wax, older singles, and oddball non-sports sets alongside current Pokemon product, with booster packs in the standard $4-6 range and singles from a quarter to well north of $500 for graded vintage.

With a 4.8 rating across roughly 490 Google reviews, it holds one of the strongest reputations of any collectibles store in Philadelphia, and it repeatedly tops local best-comic-shop lists. Families rate it highly too — staff are patient with kids starting their first binder, and the store's fast-turnover restocking means the new-release Pokemon shelf rarely sits empty for long.

Hours are generous: 10am to 8pm Monday through Friday, 10am to 7pm Saturday, and 10am to 5pm Sunday. The shop sits just off Aramingo Avenue's retail corridor with easy street parking, making it a low-friction stop for anyone hunting vintage trading cards in Philadelphia — bring time, though, because the longboxes have a way of eating an afternoon.