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Quick intro...
I'm here, grudgingly, for now. We'll see how it goes. If you need to know more about #BonnettsBooks right away, go to our IG to see the latest (crossposted to Fb, of course). There are others. Look for the hashtag or handle of @BonnettsBooks - no numbers, no hyphens, no underscores.🖖
A photo of the Bonnett's Books storefront.
November 27, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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Trav heard #SmallBizSaturday & thought #SmolBeanzCaturday – not the sharpest claw on the paw.

11/29/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.

Did you stash books to make room for dinner guests?Want 'em out of the way? #BonnettsBooks accepts trade-ins!

#HappyCaturday #SmallBusinessSaturday
#Caturday
Close-up of a reclining cat's mostly white paw. She has pink beans and a black palm, resting on an old, tattered, striped comforter.
November 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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I forgot to photograph books again. Here's a chipmunk I saw Monday while disc-golfing.

9/4/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.

If you're gathering up books, like chippy is gathering food, #BonnettsBooks is a good place to find things you didn't know you wanted. Come, forage for your next read.
In a park, beneath a tree, a chipmunk sits, resting on a railroad tie.
September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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It's late but, Happy Valentine's Day! And, for all the single cat owners, Happy Feline-tine's Day. This is my cat, Traveler. #CatTax &, it's after midnight so Happy #Caturday.

If you're a traveler & find yourself near Dayton, Ohio, #BonnettsBooks is the #WorldsOldestComicShop & much more. Stop in!
A close-up profile photo of a cat's face looking to the right side. She's a brown tuxedo tabby with a pink nose, white whiskers, and green-gold irises. The square cropped photo is decorated with a variety tiny heart stamps in the upper left corner.
February 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Grandma Ruth would've been 112 today. Born in time for Dayton's Great Flood of 1913. Airplanes weren't 10, but she saw Moon landings & the Shuttle. She saw the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, 2 World Wars, 16 US Presidents from Taft to Clinton, & co-founded #BonnettsBooks in 1939.
HBD & RIP
A late-1970s capture of Grandma Ruth, facing away from the camera, perched on the bookstore desk reading the newspaper and Grandpa Harold at the helm smoking a cigar.
February 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Happy #Caturday! Stop lurking in the shadows. Tonight is the last day of the 20 purr-cent off sale at #BonnettsBooks!

9/27/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.

Scroll our timeline or click the #BonnettsBooks hashtag to shine some light on the wide variety of books you might find on our shelves
A photo of a cat's eyes and forehead as it tries to hide behind a small trashcan under a nightstand.
September 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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All of these are here today. How long will they last? No one knows. Most won't be around very long. Time-tested, often requested, treasured by fans, targeted by bans. The best books are harder to find every day. Real books for real people in the real world at #BonnettsBooks.
January 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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11/5/25 — I'm ba-ack!
A photo of two shelves holding a total of 7 short plastic bins full of comics. Superimposed on the image is the following message: #BonnettsBooks Golden & Silver-Age Comics #WorldsOldestComicShop Open tonight, 6-9 PM No open drinks, please. Labels on the bins describe their contents... Underground & Adult; Disney, Dell, Gold Key, Etc.; Funnies; DC; Classics Illustrated, War, Western, & Love; Golden Age; and the 7th box - sans label - holds Marvels. Visible comics include Al Capp's Shmoo, Animal Comics, 4-Most Comics, 3D-Love, Amazing Spider-Man 30, and an issue of The Witching Hour. The bins are surrounded by pop-culture artifacts like an Archies LP, a Rocketeer puzzle poster, a 3-D printed Indiana Jones golden idol, a Bettie Page action figure, and more.
November 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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7/14/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks please.

Last night, at Dixie Drive-In (Est. 1957), I saw about half the characters from this portrait (ca. 1962) in the new Superman movie.

Visit #BonnettsBooks on 5th St., the #WorldsOldestComicShop, during #GemCityComicCon this weekend!
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A comic book back cover portrait of "The Superman Family" includes 24 popular characters from the early 1960s.
July 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Thanks and pleasant dreams @goldenagecomics.bsky.social!

Introducing Mary Marvel in 1945!

#BonnettsBooks was 6 years old. There was no expectation that our #BonnettsStamp, or even the comics we sold for 5¢ back then, might be still be around 80 years later.

#WorldsOldestComicShop
#DaytonOhio
goldenagecomics.bsky.social Golden Age Comics @goldenagecomics.bsky.social · Mar 19
Good night!

Mary Marvel Comics #1 (Dec. 1945). Jack Binder cover art.

includes a cool @bonnettsbooks.bsky.social store stamp!
Captain Marvel introduces his sister, Mary Marvel on the cover of her own magazine.
March 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Late night view, about 10:14 PM. Vendors have packed it in and most shops closed, except Blind Rage Records and yours truly, #BonnettsBooks, who each hung out until 11 PM.
Late night view of the Ware Block Building on East Fifth Street in Dayton, Ohio's historic Oregon District. Blind Rage and Bonnett's still open for business at 10:14 PM, July 5th, 2025.
July 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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#BonnettsBooks will be OPEN tonight after #GemCityComicCon! Visit the the Oregon District for dinner and come say Hello!

7/19/25 — Open 6-?pm. No open drinks, please.

Last night's Preview included many of these. There's more no one's seen except me!

Stop by to visit the #WorldsOldestComicShop!
24 comic books from the 1940s to the 1970s, including Spider-Man, X-Men, 2 unrelated Daredevil comics, Captain Marvel Junior, Blue Bolt, Boy Comics, Airboy, All-True Crime, Joker, Isis, Eerie Tales, and Babe, Darling of the Hills.
July 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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This little purple tome was featured during a signing here at #BonnettsBooks by it's author @blackartwriter.bsky.social a while back. A pleasure all around!

The link has more info & I'm sure Janyce would love a follow if you'd like to see more of her creative endeavors. 🙂👍
April 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Unexpected mention on YouTube is awesome start to 2025 for the #WorldsOldestComicShop!

Check out #ComicCollectorGeek unboxing #GoldenAgeComics or skip to 6:50 for mention of classic #BonnettsBooks #StoreStamp (from the 1940s-'50s when sold used for 5¢).

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Pt1 1st Comic Unboxing | Huge Precode Horror Grail Revealed - Oops Was Meant for Finale
YouTube video by Comic Collector Geek
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January 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Curious sorts want to know... What's new today at #BonnettsBooks?

7/26/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.

You'll have to stop in to find out! Or, just have a scroll through the posts & see what it's like.

#HappyCaturday!
A photo of a loafing tabby with a white face, a pink nose and green eyes looking back over her left shoulder toward the camera. In the background, between her ears is a fluffy calico on hindquarters supervising the scene.
July 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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A fresh addition to our offerings, #PopularMechanics from July 1936. Cover painting by #HalFoster, #Tarzan illustrator & creator of #PrinceValiant.
Now available at #BonnettsBooks!
A photo of the July 1936 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine. There is some reflective glare from the protective bag in which the magazine currently resides. The full-cover illustration of French navy sailors standing in review on the deck of their battleship is a painting by "Prince Valiant" comic strip creator Hal Foster. The Captain stands near enormous cannon turrets whose barrels protrude above the scene, the French flag waving above it all. Hal Foster was a Canadian-American illustrator who began adapting Tarzan to comic strip form in 1928. He's credited as a major influence by famed illustrators like Frank Frazetta, Jack Kirby, Wally Wood, Bill Ward, and many more. Foster's "Prince Valiant" didn't begin until 1937, the year after this issue of Popular Mechanics was published.
February 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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What's scarier than moving to a new place, when your elbow is healing and you're under a deadline?

10/7/25 — Open 6³-9p. No open drinks, please.

Golden Age Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey, & Louie having Halloween fun in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, number 98. Now at #BonnettsBooks!
A photo of a Halloween Themed Golden Age Dell Comic, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories №. 98 (Vol. 9 №. 2), original cover price 10¢. On the cover, "Unca" Donald Duck wears an orange shirt with a green ruffled collar and large yellow polka-dots, accessories with a pointy orange cone-style hat with black stars in it and a lighter-orange puffball dangling from the top. Donald's nephews, Huey, Dewey, & Louie are all dressed in black capes and tall black hats with red bands, as they ride brooms, pretending to be witches - one is wearing a shaggy red wig. Meanwhile, Donald has been bobbing for apples in a steel tub and has paradoxically come out with a little lobster, hanging by one claw, from Donald's bill.
October 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Downtown Dayton, Ohio map in Hammond's "Great Cities of the World," from 1958.

5/15/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.

I'm not putting this one out immediately but, many other fine volumes are ready and waiting at #BonnettsBooks.
A photo of a map downtown Dayton, Ohio from page 47 of the 1958 Hammond Atlas "Great Cities of the World."
May 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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If you're passing through Dayton for Cincinnati's #HorrorHoundWeekend, #BonnettsBooks opens in the evening hours.

3/19/25 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Check out the #IndieHorror books I just dragged from the crypt in yesterday's post!
Plus, mags, comics, movies, & more!
A photo of a book, "The Lovecraft Necronomicon Primer - A guide to the Cthulhu Mythos" by T. Allan Bilstad.
March 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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1996 had no idea what lay ahead. I remember the gleam of the shiny, new future.

2/28/25 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.
• Economic Blackout Day.
It's OK to shop at small businesses, like #BonnettsBooks!

This book is good for insight about how people saw tech back then.
A photo of a red and black book overlaid on a black and white checkerboard pattern. "The End of Work – Technology, Jobs, and Your Future – The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era" by Jeremy Rifkin, Foreword by Robert L. Heilbroner. Newsday says, "Thorough, thought-provoking, and as radical as reality itself."
February 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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A common question...
"How long have you been here?"

#BonnettsBooks has been in the same location since 1939. Stop in!

8/2/25 — Open 6-9p.
No open drinks, please.

#WorldsOldestComicShop
#DaytonsOldestBookstore
August 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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The Goonies, The Rolling Stones, Kung-Fu Master, Black Viking, Demons by Daylight, and teenagers Wild in the Streets!

3/1/25 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

There's no escapism like
#VintagePaperbacks. Other times, places, real & imagined. Visit them now with #BonnettsBooks!
An image of six vintage paperback books, as follows: 1. Ramsey Campbell's "Demons By Daylight – nerve-tingling tales of the unimaginable from the modern master of horror." Minor edgewear. Cover price carefully scratched off revealing white paper through the black cover.  2. Bill Downey's "Black Viking – Men thought him devil, women called him god. He towered over all in a mighty age of barbarism." This cover shows obvious edgewear and a large tear and tape-repair along the top edge. 3. Steven Spielberg presents "The Goonies." A Richard Donner film. Novelization by James Kahn. Based on a screenplay by Chris Columbus. Story by Steven Spielberg. They call themselves "The Goonies." The secret caves. The old lighthouse. The lost map. The treacherous traps. The hidden treasure. And Sloth... Join the adventure. Obvious creating with color loss at the top open corner. 4. "Our Own Story by The Rolling Stones as we told it to Pete Goodman." It's kinky, man! Kinky! Direct from England! The only official account! With 32 pages of original photographs! 5. "Wild in the Streets: Teen takeover–the day it all happened, baby!" by Robert Thom. Now a stunning movie starring Shelley Winters, Christopher Jones, and Diane Varsi. 6. Kung-Fu Master Richard Dragon — "Dragon's Fists" by Jim Dennis. There is a narrow red stain at the top-most edge of this white cover and a small patch of color pull in the title near old sticker-shadow.
March 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Haven't been to #BonnettsBooks? Here's a peek from a recent vid-test.

4/7/25 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

Toys, trinkets, knick-knacks, & decor are a collection–not for sale.

Books, movies, comics, & magazines are fair game.
#WorldsOldestComicShop

Hope to see you soon!
A photo inside Bonnett's Bookstore. A row of DVDs in the foreground partially obscures a Marvin the Martian shoe caddy hanging from an old-school hand-crank pencil sharpener. To the right is a dimly lit alcove of bookshelves, above which can be seen an illuminated Leg Lamp. To the left of Marvin is a bright aisle full of shelves and boxes of books stretching into the distance. Further left, it's evident there's another aisle extending beyond a set of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, hinting at further stacks to explore. Throughout the shot are thousands of toys decorating shelves and hanging above aisles.
April 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

6/2/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.

If you didn't know, #BonnettsBooks includes all the colors of the rainbow; all the way back to when most magazines were only printed in black & white. Feel free to drop in for a look around!
A colorful photo inside Bonnett's Bookstore showing an aisle with thousands of books and a portion of the vast toy collection displayed on shelves and hanging from the ceiling.
June 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I wasn't planning a #HappyCaturday post again, but this book surfaced last night. Enjoy!

6/14/25 — Open 6-9p. No open drinks, please.

You may yet find something to sink your teeth into at #BonnettsBooks, after clawing your way through the neighborhood yard sale.
A photo of the front of a large softcover book with a red border. The book is "Cat Facts" by Marcus Schneck and Jill Caravan. A red box in the middle of the cover had a thin black border and contains title and author info with white text that reads, "Do cats think? Can they talk? Why are cats athletes? An all-color guide to the world's best loved cat breeds. The space between the red border and the red box is white with illustrations of seven different cat breeds.
June 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM