The front door of Orbital Comics. Sign with a drawing of batman and words "Comics! Books! Gallery".
Would you ever believe that you can actually find heaven on a normal narrow street in London? That is true! On 8 Great Newport Street, London, you can find the heaven for comic lovers’ in Orbital Comics, a comic book shop where there is everything about comics. The best way to get to the shop is to take the tube and get off at Leicester Square station and the shop is only one-minute walk away from the station.The shop doesn’t look so big from outside, with a narrow glass door and a yellow sign which says “Orbital Comics”. But the comics world inside the shop will definitely amazed someone who are not interested in comics at all once they walk through the front door.
Overall view in the shop. Shop owners at the counter are chatting with comics-lover customers. On the shelf on the left hand of the photo above are the new released comic magazines.
Comic magazines were put into boxes and labeled by signs with drawings on them.
At the front room of the shop, new released comic magazines are sorted by “this week”, “one week ago” and “two weeks ago” on the shelf. Keep walking inside there are a larger collection of comic books and magazines from years ago. All the comic magazines were sold like how discs are sold in music shops, put into boxes with signs sticking out indicating the categories of the magazines.
There are not only comics but also kids' picture books in the shop as in the second photo. And the third photo is the little gallery where valuable posters are fames and displayed on the wall in the shop.
The first room on the left hand side are all about picture books, not comics books for both adults and children. While the second room on the left hand side, at the very back of the shop is a small comics poster gallery. In the small gallery classic and historical comics posters were framed and hung on the wall.
Other comic-related things sold in the shop, such as the t-shirts in the first photo and the garage kits in the second photo.
There are comics everywhere in the shop. Even the inside of the book shelf in the first photo and the sings in the second and third photos are all covered in drawings.
Apart from comics, there are also many comics-related objects in the shop. Such as the garage kits (AKA small dolls of comics characters) and the t-shirts with comics’ characters. Signs and walls were covered with drawings—comics are penetrating to every corner of the shop.
