About Us

Escape Velocity is a clean, friendly comic shop with a knowledgeable staff, located in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado.

We specialize in new and used comic books and graphic novels, including titles from mainstream and independent/small publishers.

We have a huge inventory of back issues - including thousands of comics for $1.00 each - and hundreds of Golden and Silver Age books at well below guide price. We also carry new and used action figures, toys and other comics-related merchandise, plus a complete line of collector’s supplies.

Apply for a hold file membership: you won’t miss your favorite titles and you’ll get up to a 15% discount on new comics.

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Directions to the Store

If you are coming from the north or south on I-25, take the Bijou St exit (exit 142). Go east on Bijou St. (away from the mountains) - it curves and then turns into Kiowa St.

Garage Parking
From Kiowa St, take the first left, which is Cascade Avenue. Go 1 ½ blocks to the city parking structure on the right. Escape Velocity is located 1 block southeast of the parking structure.

On Street Parking
If you'd prefer to park on the street, then stay Kiowa St. until you come to Tejon St. Turn left on Tejon. Go one block then turn left on Bijou St. Park anywhere on Bijou St for easy access to our store.

Downtown Parking

Parking Garages
You can park in any of the downtown city parking structures for $.75 per hour.
The parking structures only charges $1.00 after 3:00 PM and $1 for a whole day of parking on Saturdays and Sundays. The closest parking structure to our store is at 215 North Cascade Avenue., just north of the intersection of Cascade and Bijou. There are also city parking structures nearby the store:
127 East Kiowa Street, at the corner of Kiowa and Nevada
130 South Nevada Street, just south of the intersection of Colorado Ave and Nevada Ave

Easy Park
The City of Colorado Springs recently initiated a program called Easy Park to make downtown parking more easier and more economical. You can purchase pre-paid cards for parking meters, rather than using change to feed a meter. More info...