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Was This The World's First Comics Shop? And Do You Know The Owner?

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Was This The World's First Comics Shop? And Do You Know The Owner?BBC Scotland are working on a TV programme that features what may be the world's first comic shop. Certainly the first in Britain. Opening in 1940, Yankee Mags off Wellmeadow Street/Walker Street/Lady Lane in Paisley, Scotland was described as "stuffed to the rafters with new and used American comic books"

Does anyone know who owned the shop? And if they have any surviving relatives?

The location became a post office, now itseklf closed down, but there may be an attempt, if only for a day, to recreate the original…

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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.
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