I buy comic book and book collections from people who need the money or are no longer interested in keeping their collections. A few years ago I received this piece in a lot I bought from an old lady who was selling her late husband's comicbook collection: X-Men 23, published by La Prensa in November 1967.
This is a normal comicbook issue, no special cover or variant edition or something, this is not an out of the ordinary comicbook whatsoever, except because it has a STAMP FROM THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER LIBRARY, which means that this issue is STOLEN.
The reason this unnerves me is that the fact that I'm holding it in my hands means someone STOLE this from the great institution that has suffered from petty steals like this one over the decades, particularly stolen comicbooks.>
This cyclical pillage prevents and impedes the institution from having a worthy comicbook heritage that will last for the ages and will provide a way for generations to come to take a trip through comicbook history.
This is outrageous. I paid some money for this piece but I decided to give it back to the National Newspaper Library.
