Her father, Clifton Fadiman, who died in June at the age of 95, was a reviewer, critic, essayist and general book collector.

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But there's a caveat there, as well: "In the old days, when a character was killed, they stayed killed, " but that's not always the case anymore, notes George Papadimatos, an actor and comic-book collector in the New York area.

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Dated 12 August, 1960, it was discovered inside a book bought at a car boot sale in Liverpool by a coin collector.

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