The Four Color Media Monitor

The Calgary Herald reports that a Canadian collector whose comics were stolen from a storage has thankfully recovered them, as the police caught the thief and found the stolen pamphlets:

Heath McCoy would often escape the chaos of being a teenager in the world of comic books.

So when he learned his valuable collection had been stolen late last year, he said it felt “like a kick in the gut.”

On Friday, police charged a suspect in the theft.

McCoy’s run of collecting comic books stretched until he was 20. He was so enamoured of them that he planned to become a comic-book writer, eventually settling to work at the Calgary Herald as an entertainment reporter.

His comics, along with the items of several others, were stolen from Sentinel storage in the community of Mayland Heights on Dec. 23 — although the storage company informed McCoy about the incident a week later.

[...] The books not only had great sentimental value — “My whole childhood revolved around comic books,” McCoy said — but their financial value was in the thousands of dollars.

“He must have had some inkling . . . that he better sell them off individually,” he added.

However, when the suspect was arrested, police retrieved three boxes of comic books dating back up to 40 years.

The guy's lucky his collection was saved. I do think, however, that he really should donate them to a museum, if he ever parts ways with them in the future, because seriously, this kind of stuff should be for everybody to see on a legitimate display in a history archive. Collectors of very old comics must start seriously considering that the speculator market isn't everything.

Labels: history, sales