EXHIBIT 24.1


                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Frank F.
Khulusi and Richard M. Finkbeiner and each of them, as attorneys-in-fact, each 
with the power of substitution, for him in any and all capacities, to sign the 
Annual Report on Form 10-K of Creative Computers, Inc., a Delaware corporation, 
and any amendment to such Form 10-K Annual Report and to file the same, with 
exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the 
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting to said attorneys-in-fact, and each
of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all 
intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying
and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact or any of them, or their or his 
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

   Signature                          Title                         Date
   ---------                          -----                         ----


FRANK F. KHULUSI             Chairman of the Board of           March 30, 1998
- ---------------------            Directors, President and
Frank F. Khulusi                 Chief Executive Officer
                                 (Principal Executive Officer)

RICHARD M. FINKBEINER        Chief Financial Officer            March 30, 1998
- ---------------------            (Principal Financial and
                                 Accounting Officer

SAM U. KHULUSI               Director                           March 30, 1998
- ---------------------
Sam U. Khulusi

AHMED O. ALFI                Director                           March 30, 1998
- ---------------------
Ahmed O. Alfi