In Popular Culture
- The New York store was featured in an issue of The Authority vol. 4, #2. When the eponymous superhero team ends up in the "real world", they visit Forbidden Planet and discover comic books that feature them.
- The St Giles High St store appeared in The Daredevils issues #3 and #4 in a Captain Britain story.
- Landau, Luckman & Lake, a fictional organization in the Marvel Universe, is named for the original three founders.
- British store employee Jan Waicek was quoted in the May 2000 issue of Maxim magazine, in an article titled, "Hardest of the Hardcore" which examined various items with extreme statistics or traits ("Hardest Dinosaur, "Hardest Natural Disaster", "Hardest Aircraft", etc.). Waicek was asked his opinion on who is the "Hardest Superhero", and cited Wolverine's adamantium skeleton and claws, and Superman's near-invulnerability.
- One of the potential flatmates interviewed in the 1994 feature film Shallow Grave prominently holds a Forbidden Planet carrier bag.
- In the 2011 fantasy novel Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer, Darquesse crashes through the Dublin store's window and remarks, "A comic store. How fitting".
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