The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. is a crime-fighting supply retailer in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn, New York. The store is the brainchild of writer Dave Eggers and the sales support 826NYC, a non profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 through 18 with writing and literary workshops.
With both a brick and mortar store as well as an online site, The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. sells actual products ranging from capes and costumes to secret identity kits, maps exposing good and evil, force-field shampoo and fake products including an invisible plane (listed price, $4 million).
Stores for Caped Crusaders
Dave Eggers Opens the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.
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