Frank Marcucci, who was the comic book curator at Dark Star Books in Yellow Springs, Ohio, for more than 30 years, died March 15, Dayton Daily News reported. He was 59. Known as the "Comic Book Guy," Marcucci curated the bookstore's collection of more than 30,000 back-issue comics, and was a local expert on the subject.
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"It's such an important skill if you're selling comics, it's such a niche thing," said store owner Kate Mooneyham. "He just had a depth of knowledge, from reading comics all those years and knowing about comics and working with them, (and) this particularity for organization, everything was alphabetized and numerical."
She added that Marcucci was well-loved by the shop's customers: "He was he was helpful, he was knowledgeable, he was enthusiastic. People would come back again and again to see him."
In a Facebook post, Dark Star noted: "He spent his last day working at the shop, talking comics and Grateful Dead shows with customers, and then went dancing at Peach's. He seemed perfectly fine. We are grieving his loss, as are so many."