Chances are good that at least one of your favorite childhood toys has popped up on “Comic Book Men” over the course of its seven seasons on AMC.

Set at the Red Bank, New Jersey, comic book shop known as Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash, the store has had clients from all over look through its various collections — usually in an effort to have the store bid on them.

Everything from G.I. figures to the Millennium Falcon to a recreation of the General Lee from “The Dukes of Hazzard” has made its way to the store at one point or another.

The items typically make the hearts of the men running the store jump for joy. Walt Flanagan, Mike Zapcic, Ming Chen, and Bryan Johnson work the shop, which is owned by filmmaker Kevin Smith.

Flanagan is a comic artist himself, Zapcic has forgotten more about comics than most will ever know, and Ming Chen wears his geekdom proudly. Johnson, however, sometimes finds himself the odd man out on the show. He’s a writer of comics, so it takes a little more than a superhero book or toy to get him to feel nostalgic, though it has happened — and there are a few items he remembers fondly.

One was an Evil Knievel stunt cycle toy he played with as a kid; the other was a “Race with the Devil” movie poster he still keeps up in his home today.

“[The toys are] usually horror-related because I’m not super-into comic stuff,” Johnson told LifeZette about the items that get him excited.

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Besides seeing rare objects the cast can possibly bid on, “Comic Book Men” also invites genre royalty onto the show.

Everyone from “Karate Kid” Ralph Macchio to “Nightmare on Elm Street” star Robert Englund has walked through the doors of the New Jersey shop to geek out and discuss their careers.

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Though he’s met some legends, Johnson says he’s still hoping to get one person on camera — Henry Winkler.

“I loved ‘Happy Days’ as a kid, and I loved the Fonz,” said Johnson, “so much so that my grandmother went out and got me a leather jacket so I could look like the Fonz. When she brought it back in a very grandmotherly kind of way, she didn’t see the distinction between a black leather jacket and a white leather jacket, so I looked like an ’80s chick going to a glam rock concert.”

Johnson said he’s tried for years to get the Fonz on his show, but it hasn’t panned out quite yet.

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As for any items he’s keeping an eye out for in future episodes, Johnson said, “I’ve been trying to get creepy crawlers, but it’s tough.”

The next episode of “Comic Book Men” will move beyond rare items and star guests, and get a little more personal. The show’s midseason premiere, which airs on late night on AMC this Sunday, follows Johnson and company as they attend the New Jersey premiere of “Shooting Clerks,” a film about the making of 1994’s classic “Clerks.” It’s the movie that made filmmaker Kevin Smith a star and would eventually give him the means to open the very comic shop his friends work in and promote.

Smith was a convenience store clerk with big dreams but an empty wallet.

It’s quite a story, which is why it’s surprising it’s taken so long for it to be told on film. Smith was a convenience store clerk with big dreams but an empty wallet. He eventually maxed out his credit cards and sold off various comics to put together enough to make a movie. Instead of venturing too far outside of what he knew, he set his film inside the very convenience store where he worked. He’d serve customers during the day and then work on the film at night. The flick eventually made its way to the Sundance Film Festival — and the rest is history.

Johnson, who worked the same convenience store with Smith and would go on to be a filmmaker himself, had an odd role in the making of “Clerks,” and that was shown in the new film about the signature time in both their lives.

After a falling out due to a work schedule mixup (which is in the movie), Johnson wasn’t involved in the actual filming of “Clerks,” something he’s said he wished he could have done. “Comic Book Men” star Walt Flanagan, on the other hand, famously pops up in the movie in multiple roles to help his friend save on costs.

Was it surreal watching actors play out their drama as he and Smith sat in the same theater? Johnson responded, “I feel like after being on a TV show for this long, nothing really feels that surreal anymore. That’s almost the height of surreality.”

He added, “It was interesting, though, to see it through someone else’s lens.”

He thought that lens actually put him in a better light than he may have deserved. “I was actually a much bigger a**hole in the story — so they were actually kind to me.”

“Comic Book Men” returns to AMC this Sunday (February 25) following “The Walking Dead” block of programming.

PopZette editor Zachary Leeman can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter