Comics Stolen from Homes, Lockers & Comic Stores Across North America

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Happy Thanksgiving… however it’s not nice for some comedian shops or collectors throughout North America, after a brand new wave of comedian guide thefts.

Happy Thanksgiving… however it’s not nice for some comedian shops or comedian collectors throughout North America, as there seems to be a brand new wave of comedian guide thefts.

The Comics Place comedian guide retailer in Bellingham, Washington was robbed this month with the thieves making off with comics and Magic the Gathering playing cards, together with Fantastic Four #48. The proprietor Django Bohren estimated between $2,000 and $4,000 price of comics had been stolen, although provides, “I’d left Devendra Barnhart’s Insect Eyes playing at max volume as a prank for the opening staff. So the robbers got to listen to that at a deafening level. And so did the five or six police who responded. Guns drawn. Flashlights splashing over comics and IKEA shelving while the Hills Have Eyes 2 trailer song blasted over the sound system.”

In Connecticut, a choose has provided suspect Saul Salazar, charged within the 2019 theft of extra 5 hundred comics price $200,000 in comedian books, together with Amazing Fantasy #15, X-Men #1 and Fantastic Four #1, a option to both inform the state how he acquired the comics, after their theft from a locked unit in a Shelton self-storage facility, and be freed, or go to trial for a attainable 40-year sentence. He is one in every of three charged with first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny. He was arrested in 2020 and rejected a plea deal in 2021. State Superior Court Judge Kevin Russo famous that he had no legal file, which might make him eligible for the fees to be dismissed if he efficiently completes a pretrial diversionary program and confesses as to how he acquired the comedian books. The choose said “They just want to know how something like this could have happened. And if you were able to provide those details to the state’s satisfaction, I would consider granting you one of those programs, with a few attached conditions that trust me, you’ll be able to do, and you’ll walk out of here with a clean record.” The arrests had been made after comics had been bought to a different retailer.

Chatham-Kent police in Ontario, Canada, are asking for assist after about $3,000 price of comedian books had been reported stolen after a house break-in, within the space of Oxley Drive. Burglars broke in by a window and stole round $3000 price of comedian books earlier this month.  Anyone with data is requested to contact Const. Carley Horvath at 519-436-6600 mailbox #87359 or electronic mail carleyh@chatham-kent.ca. Anonymous callers could name Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) and could also be eligible for a money reward.

Burglars stole $25,000 price of comics from Tails to Astonish in West Seattle, just a few months since burglars beforehand stole $20,000 in comics again in August. Shaun Duff, the proprietor of Tails to Astonish, said “First thing I thought of is, ‘I don’t know if I can continue to do this.’ Just because so much of our back stock was taken…  Four books that were all signed by Stan Lee, including the first Black Panther appearance, first appearance of the Guardians of Galaxy, first appearance of Captain Marvel, first appearance of Ms. Marvel, countless books” and said “We got a year left in our lease .A little bit less than a year left in our lease. So, at the bare minimum, we’re going to try to make it to that. I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future.”

And Robert Cape had his storage locker raided in Nolensville Pike in Nashville, Tennessee, with hundreds of comics and toys stolen, although the corporate modified palms between the time of the suspected theft and now.

I get one other lock for the shed on Black Friday, I believe.

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