Alabama Comic Store Goes To Pot

Published Sat, 08 May 2010 18:33:45 -0500

Last updated Sun, 09 May 2010 18:09:21 -0500

A number of comic creators do their best work on it. Some do their best work about it. Any plenty of comic readers have enjoyed their favourites while enjoying it.

But actually selling it, that's a no no.

Danny Wayne Barton of Kryptonite Komics/Good Karma in Alabama was arrested on Thursday on the charge of distributing unlawful substances within a three mile radius of a school. The arresting officer stated that purchases of marijuana had been made at the store.

Not quite your traditional comic store, the owner had repurposed part of the business as a head shop, selling drugs paraphenalia.

If convicted, Danny faces a mandatory sentence of five years.

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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.