Nick Landau

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Nick Landau, who was an assistant editor on British comic 2000AD in its early days (#17 to 85) is a keen comics collector and co-owner of the Titan Entertainment Group, which includes the Forbidden Planet stores, Titan Books, publishers of both new and licensed graphic novels and film and tv tie-ins, and Titan Magazines, publishers of Star Trek Magazine, Wallace and Gromit comic, UK editions of [Simpsons Comics] and many other titles.

Landau first saw the opportunity to distribute US comics in the UK in the 1970s, when only a small range of US comic books were available in British newsagents.

Nick says the reason he first opened opening the first store was because he was a distributor for imported comic books in the 1970s and with the closure of one of his leading customers he needed to take a radical step to avoid going out of business himself.

He established the Forbidden Planet shops – the first was opened in Denmark Street, London in 1978, also known as 'Tin Pan Alley' – and now runs the business, as part of the Titan Entertainment Group with current business partner Vivian Cheung.

TEG no longer distributes comics. In 1992 Forbidden Planet and Titan parted company with then business partner Mike Lake, who sold Titan Distributors to the US comics distributor Diamond and then established his own Forbidden Planet line of stores, mainly in northern England and Scotland.

Landau puts the success of Forbidden Planet down to the location of the store and the success of [Star Wars], which prompted a surge of interest in SF memorabilia and comics.

Customers have included Ridley Scott who was looking for storyboard artists during the making of Dune. Landau recalls his team ended up providing the director with a number of people from the comic book industry.

Although TEG has made some attempts to establish Forbidden Planet abroad there are no longer any TEG-owned FP stores outside the UK.


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