Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet is the name of a chain of bookshops (or, to be more specific, two chains which grew out of a single store) in the United Kingdom, the USA and Ireland. The original Forbidden Planet (named after a 1956 Sci-Fi movie) was opened in 1978 by Titan Books bosses Nick Landau, Mike Luckman and Mike Lake (who were later immortalised in comics by Chris Claremont as the partners in holding company Landau, Luckman & Lake in Marvel's X-Men and Wolverine titles) and was located at number 23 Denmark Street, just off London's Charing Cross Road. Instantly recognisable to British comics fans of the time, the store was the setting for an epic battle between Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) and Slaymaster in Marvel UK's The Daredevils Vol 1 4, and was also visited by Torquemada in a photo-strip in 2000 AD.