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DC Walmart Giant-Sized Comics Make It to the UK – for Only Twice the Cover Price

I'm in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne today, a city I haven't been to for 20 years, not since Alan Moore's 40th birthday recording of Birth Caul. But I used to live here, as a student at the University and then working for local radio station Metro FM. So I took the chance to walk through the university and the city, refamiliarising myself with its landmarks.

DC Walmart Giant-Sized Comics Make It to the UK – for Only Twice the Cover Price

Including a certain Forbidden Planet (previously Timeslip) on Grainger Street. And what was once a very small shop has expanded rather in the last two decades.

DC Walmart Giant-Sized Comics Make It to the UK – for Only Twice the Cover Price

And downstairs in the basement with the rest of the comics? A few titles from the grey market, snatched off the shelves of Walmarts in the UK, posted to the North East of England and put on display.

DC Walmart Giant-Sized Comics Make It to the UK – for Only Twice the Cover Price

That's £10 each — or around $12-13 these days. Twice the cover price, which is pretty good considering they will have been bought at retail price and posted halfway around the world.

DC Walmart Giant-Sized Comics Make It to the UK – for Only Twice the Cover Price

Oh, and Kieron and Jamie? They appear to have sold out of this week's The Wicked + The Divine.

DC Walmart Giant-Sized Comics Make It to the UK – for Only Twice the Cover Price


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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