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A selection of rare and highly valuable comic books has been steal from their rightful owner , includingAvengers # 1,Iron Man # 1 , andJustice League of America # 1 . Thankfully , the bumbling burglar behind the holdup turn out to be as far from a supervillain as you could get .
The burglary took lieu at Mile High Comics , the well jazz proprietor based in Denver , Colorado and former staple of San Diego Comic - Con over the Memorial Day Weekend . The thief broke into the store , smash glass cases one at a time , and plucked out carefully pick out emergence ( includingNew Mutants # 98 , the first appearance ofDeadpool . But the looting took a tour when the clumsy burglar thin themselves on the confused drinking glass , and turn a quick smash - and - snatch into a crashing mess .
Mile High adumbrate the detail of the crime ( viaComicBook ) , the injuries incurred by the burglar , and the full cost of the item steal through the stores’official website :
Our Memorial Day weekend was filled with drama , but not in a unspoiled style . At approximately 5 AM on Sunday morning we had someone break in through the rearward door of Jason St. He then move to take the air our front area of the store , where we have five 6 ' tall cases filled with our most significant back issues . He smash the door off three of those cases , and then prefer 14 comics to slip , which had a net retail time value of $ 42,000 + .
While his criminal offence netted him some beautiful comics , it number with a significant possible price . First , we have video of him engaged in his thievery , which we have shared with the news metier throughout Colorado . Tips have already been coming in to the Denver P.D. as to his identity . Second , he apparently cut himself rather importantly , as he left a shower of blood cast off all around the cases , and also over by our sink . Denver P.D. go to great duration to get his DNA and other grounds , so if he is eventually identified , he is function to have a very heavy metre denying his culpability .
Mile High ’s William Moulton put up video of the geological fault - in , including the burglar slicing themselves open on a gravid piece of impoverished glass , toDenver7 News . After actualize the extent of their harm , the burglar headed for the store ’s own cleanup product and began to clean up the suit with magnate towel . evidently they eventually realized that , having failed to actually bind or wrap the wound , the blood spread throughout the shop while cleaning made cleaning a bit senseless . At some tip in the burglary , they also apparently removed their masquerade party devote surveillance television camera a facial expression at his face , as well .
It ’s easy to play armchair cat burglar , but a brilliantly executed heist this was most unquestionably NOT . The decision to leave glass intact , attempt then abort cleanup , and even leave behind a newspaper list of the book he intended to steal – hand drop a line , and presumptively covered in his fingerprints – all make this an light incident for Moulton to laugh at . But Mile High ’s optimism may also be due to the burglar ’s targets . Or , more accurately , what comics they were n’t interested in . Moulton explains :
One inexplicable specialness of this law-breaking was the selection outgrowth . While our stealer did slip 13 rare funnies and my personal incredibly coolheaded 1943 letter from the Superman Fan Club of America , he lead behind over $ 100,000 in other rare issues . After you ’ve already busted out the display case doors , why would you leave behind such great back issues as a slabbed AVENGERS # 1 and a SPIDER - MAN # 50 signed by Stan Lee and John Romita ? ! ? That is the part that none of us who function here can image out . citizenry are strange …
In hindsight , most reader who hear of the news are likely to be as mix up as Mile High ’s employee . Upon shattering the case ( which contain the store ’s prime , worthful items ) , why not toss out everything into a loge , and go out as quickly as possible ? Perhaps the burglar was merely look to bestow to their personal compendium … insure the evidence will be in their possession when their image , prints , and desoxyribonucleic acid top police to their door . Let ’s just be beaming that real - life history felon are n’t nearly as smart as a whip as the amusing book variety .
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Source : Mile High Comics , Denver7(viaComicBook )
