Clint’s Comics, the nationally-known comic shop which was located in midtown Kansas City for decades and owned by local business icon Jim Cavanaugh up until his death in 2017, had to uproot and move across town after its historic home became untenable. Between the COVID pandemic and worsening water concerns, customers’ shopping experience had been impaired for years. Clint’s dates back in some form to the 1960s, and from the mid-1970s Cavanaugh ran the shop, which was tied to pioneering direct d