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A lot of people point to the Dark Knight Returns as the birth of dark, gritty, realistic comics...but I look back a little earlier...some 30 odd years before, the cartoonists at Topps were laying the groundwork for this now popular format.
Can't you just feel the pain in this Bennie Daniels card?
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