Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.
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Not every comic book store can boast an employee who's actually involved in creating the comics, but that's the case with professional inker Jim Tournas, who adds ink over artists' pencil draw- ings. "I don't need to do it for a living," he says of inking. "I do it because I like doing it." But then again, Harrison's Comics and Collectibles isn't really your typical comic book store. In fact, owner Larry Harrison prefers to call his 5,200- square-foot Salem shop a "pop culture emporium" because it carries everything from action figures to KISS bobble-head dolls to trading card games like Yu-Gi-Oh. In addition to the main Salem location, there are two others— one in Medford and one in Nashua, NH. Not bad for a store that started with a few comics on a six-foot table. 123 123 St ar W ars