Indictments In 2009 Ben Novack Killing

According to a New York Times article out yesterday, Westchester County prosecutors have indicted four people including the wife in the 2009 death of Ben Novack, Jr.

The reason this case popped up on comics blogs last year is that Novack was a significant collector of Batman memorabilia. I remember receiving a couple of letters from folks disturbed how significantly this colorful aspect played in articles about the end of a man's life. If you maintain a level of sensitivity along those same lines while you're reading the very sordid, True Crime-style article, you'll see how that fact plays into the coverage in multiple ways. According to my unofficial count, the Batman-collecting aspect of Novack's life is used to as a baseline descriptive to make him seem sort of odd, as a sign of common-man eccentricity that subtly plays against his distinguished and monied past, and as a potential murder motive introduced by his wife, the plausibility of which depends on a dim view of the comics collecting hobby generally. It's sort of fascinating, really.
 
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