Wimbledon Green : The world's Greatest Comic Book Collector
By Seth (Gregory Gallant)
Published by Drawn and Quarterly, 2005
What is it like to collect comic books? In Wimbledon Green it is mostly an adventure of clashing (wealthy) personalities and a great deal of long-distance traveling in order to acquire some valued pamphlet comic from the golden age of comicdom.
The hero of the piece is a rotund master collector who can distinguish significant details about an old newsprint comic by things like the odor of the rotting paper pulp, the position of the staples,
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