Nick Landau

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Nick Landau is co-owner of the Titan Entertainment Group which publishes Titan Magazines.

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Landau was an assistant editor on the British comic 2000 AD in its early days (#17 to 85) and is a keen comics collector.[citation needed]

Landau first at when he 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. He 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.[citation needed]

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 and wife Vivian Cheung. As well as the shops, TEG included 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.

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, Forbidden Planet International, 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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

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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He has also written some comic stories:

  • M.A.C.H. 1: "Origina" (with co-author Roy Preston and art by Lothano, in 2000 AD #59-60, 1978)

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