The chain's offerings included comic books, action figures, gaming supplies, videos, and many other pop culture items.

[1] Originally established as a quaint mail order company in 1961[2] by area fanzine publisher and entrepreneur Jake "Buddy" Saunders, Lone Star opened its first brick-and-mortar store in 1977, eventually operating a chain of nine retail outlets in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

While still maintaining business locally, the company returned to its mail order roots in the early 2000s, this time as an online subscription and back-issue service.

Lone Star employees tabulated the ballots for the first Harvey Awards,[3] presented at the Chicago Comicon in July 1988.

In July 2013, Lone Star Comics sold off three of their five remaining stores, in Mesquite, Hurst, and Plano.