[2] In addition to their distribution business, the partners also immediately founded a retail location, the Forbidden Planet bookshop, a small store on Denmark Street in London.
[4] In late November 1979, Titan began operating the London Comic Mart (a venture started by Landau and his former partner, Rob Barrow, in 1972),[5] staging shows roughly on a bimonthly basis at Central Hall Westminster.
Gravett invited artists to send him their homemade comics, which he would sell from the Fast Fiction table, with all proceeds going to the creator.
This was one of the earliest high-quality, book-format publications of comic material in the UK,[citation needed] and Titan Books followed the first title with numerous other 2000 A.D. reprints.
Titan Books expanded operations in 1987, putting out its first original title — Pat Mills and Hunt Emerson's You Are Maggie Thatcher — and also taking over publishing Escape magazine.