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Comic Books Donated to French Museum
Fri Dec 31, 9:37 AM ET
By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press Writer

PARIS - Spiderman, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk and Daredevil have bounded across the Atlantic in a single leap � a giant donation of almost 300,000 vintage comic books to a French museum.

Jean-Pierre Mercier, who manages the collection for France's National Center for Comic Books and Images, said he was "flabbergasted" when he learned in March that Marvel Enterprises wanted to donate the huge quantity of comic books dating back as far as the 1950s.

The gift, from one of the top U.S. comic publishers, was made through Gifts in Kind, a U.S. charity that distributes donated items.

((You know, "flabbergasted" is the -exact- word I'd want/expect a guy who runs France's National Center for Comic Books and Images to say. "Je suis flabbergasted (un gaster de flab)." Also, I don't pay the right kind of attention to music to do one of those top albums of the songbird year lists, but it was fun to singshout "Formed a Band" by Art Brut. Oh, and HAPPY NEUTRON YEAR to all of you all(s).))

fell on 2004-12-31 at 5:34 p.m.

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