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Monday, April 14, 2008
Former Etobicoke Comic Shop Burns; Body Found
:: Posted by Bryan @ 4/14/2008 06:30:00 AM 
Hamlet Books, a onetime comic book store that had become a repository for its packrat owner's massive accumulation of books, memorabilia, and electronic junk, burned down over the weekend. The Etobicoke store, located at 3231 Lakeshore Blvd. W, was packed so full of books and other items that it took 4 hours to extinguish what would have been a small fire if not for the floor-to-ceiling piles that hindered firefighters. The fire broke out shortly after midnight Friday. A body, believed to be the elderly male owner who lived in the basement of the apparently defunct store, was discovered on Sunday.
Tamara Shephard/Inside Toronto
Chris Doucette/Toronto Sun
Amy Fuller/Toronto StarLabels: comics retailers, Ontario, real world, Toronto
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