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Calling all the heroes to Nostalgia and Comics in Birmingham

Tash Wharrad, aged 20, from Four Oaks, is SuperGirl.

SUPERGIRL flew into Birmingham to help the city’s oldest comic shop celebrate an international event of epic proportions.

Fans were at the Nostalgia and Comics shop on Smallbrook Queensway, which opened 31 years ago, to snap up special editions of their favourite characters, including the X-men, Iron Man, Simpsons and Dan Dare.

The shop celebrated international Free Comic Book Day in a bid to draw in new fans and reward their regular customers.

Among them was assistant Tash Wharrad, from Four Oaks, who got into the spirit of the occasion as Supergirl.

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