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[Newmark]

Your name would be Jonathan Jones would it? If so, it's eerily similar to my own name - and your arrival so close to my own would push it into 'almost spooky' territory...

Anyway, I'm Nathan Jones, welcome from another newbie!

N 

[jone5]

Your name would be Jonathan Jones would it? If so, it's eerily similar to my own name - and your arrival so close to my own would push it into 'almost spooky' territory...

Anyway, I'm Nathan Jones, welcome from another newbie!

N 

My nickname in the dark old days when i worked was johnny 5 after short circuit because my job was operating machine 5. I thought you were quite good in the wwe Nathan

[OpusAndBill]

Hello, and welcome aboard. Out of idle curiosity, are there many comic book shops in NI?

[jone5]

Hello, and welcome aboard. Out of idle curiosity, are there many comic book shops in NI?

I don't think so. I use ebay for my swamp thing collection.

[planetmirth]

Hello, and welcome aboard. Out of idle curiosity, are there many comic book shops in NI?

There are a couple, but not many. When I needed to track down comics in my youth I couldn't find any - I had to either do it via mail* or a rare trip to London, which always included a stop at Forbidden Planet.

*No internet in them days. Tell that ta kids these day, and they wouldn't believe ya! ;-)

[Colin MacNeil]

Hello and welcome.

[flip-r mk2]

Welcome.




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[OpusAndBill]

Hello, and welcome aboard. Out of idle curiosity, are there many comic book shops in NI?

There are a couple, but not many. When I needed to track down comics in my youth I couldn't find any - I had to either do it via mail* or a rare trip to London, which always included a stop at Forbidden Planet.

*No internet in them days. Tell that ta kids these day, and they wouldn't believe ya! ;-)

I thought there was a Forbidden Planet in Belfast. Has it closed?

Does anyone know if Dark Horizons ever made a comeback?

[planetmirth]

I thought there was a Forbidden Planet in Belfast. Has it closed?

Hi OpusAndBill,  I believe that Forbidden Planet is still open in Ann Street (it was one of the ones I was thinking of - the other one was in the Smithfield Market) - though neither were around in my youth.

Regarding Dark Horizons, I found this which might be of interest:

Sadly, we've only got two left. Hyperspace (nicknamed Hyperinflation due to the way it hiked the price of stuff up like 400%) went under. Dark Horizons went under because someone lit a fire and it set of sprinklers which caused steam to ruin the comics, Talisman is still there but it's now forbidden planet so it's like a toy store but with comics. Impulse comics is in smithfield, it's great.