Treasure Island is a comic book shop based in New York City.
History[]
The Police Strike of 1977 took place in front of Treasure Island in New York City where Nite Owl II and the Comedian attempted to quell the rioters.[1]
In 1985, Treasure Island featured a poster ad for a comic book titled "Mutiny on the Bounty".[2]
Trivia[]
- Treasure Island is named after the classic Robert Louis Stevenson adventure novel of the same name.
- The shop's title being pirate-themed also reinforces the degree to which pirate stories have completely replaced superhero fiction as the main genre in comic books within the Watchmen universe.
- Above Treasure Island storefront is an advertisement for Nostalgia from Veidt enterprises.[3][2]