Personal Narrative: Marvel, DC Universe, And Dark Horse Comics

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As I walked down the street to a local comic book shop, I thought to myself “what am I going to read today”. I walked into the store not knowing what I was going to get, so I started looking around and found several different brands of comics. There was Marvel, DC Universe, and Dark Horse Comics. I looked at them all and it was crazy there were so many good titles like “Deadpool”, ”Star Wars”,and ”Batman”. I was so intrigued by it all I must have sat there for hours daydreaming. It was hard enough looking at the comics, but the collectibles they had were crazy. I sat there drooling over the thought of “what if that was in my collection?” I figured I should just go ask the guy in the front what should I get, so I did. As I walked to

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