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UK specialty store closes after 4 decades

Harrow Online reports a comics store in the UK is closing after nearly 4 decades of business:
Calamity Comics, a shop that has been a part of Harrow for nearly 40 years, is set to close its doors for good this November, it has been announced.

The sad news was posted via the official Calamity Comics Facebook page this afternoon (6 October).

The announcement said: “It is with great sadness that, after almost 37 wonderful years of serving you all with your weekly comics, books and everything associated, we are going to be permanently closing the Harrow Calamity Comics store in November.

“Over that period we’ve made numerous friends, hosted some notable creator appearances (Chris Claremont, Grant Morrison, Kevin O’Neill and Pete Milligan to namedrop just a few!), and supported an ever-growing group of gamers on our game tables. It’s genuinely been a blast!

“As you can imagine, all of that has made this a very difficult decision to arrive at but with recent increases in our overheads we have decided to consolidate the business and focus solely on the Hatfield store plus the Mail Order and Online side of the business.
Claremont's an okay choice for a guest, and maybe O'Neill too, but what a shame they had to associate with modern leftists like Morrison and Milligan. We could honestly do without their attendance.

By overheads, I assume they mean the costs of deliveries and distribution, and that's certainly a shame when things get too expensive. But that seems to be a most unfortunate effect many businesses are experiencing lately, and this store too appears to have sadly been a casualty of all the financial strains that have come about lately.

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