DALLAS (AP) -- Billy Wright plunked down dime after dime for comic books while growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, caring for the collection he started around the age of 9 until his death more than half a century later. On Wednesday, most of that collection sold for a whopping $3.5 million....
Man's Childhood Comic Collection Fetches $3.5m
By JAMIE STENGLE, Associated Press
Wed, 02/22/2012 - 6:05pm
Topics: billy wright comic book comics
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