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Fla. comic book store owner asks for help identifying burglar [Video]

The owner of Mythical Mountain says thousands of dollars worth of comic books were stolen from her Mandarin store.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Comic books stolen from a small business in Jacksonville Tuesday amounted to thousands of dollars, that business owner said.

Kathy Dellaire, the owner of Mythical Mountain in Mandarin, showed First Coast News surveillance video of the crime from multiple cameras in her store. The burglar’s eyes are visible in several frames of the video, though he is wearing a hat, hood and mask. Dellaire said the burglary took place in under 60 seconds.

Surveillance video shows a man crouched outside the storefront early Tuesday just before 2 a.m. Dellaire said they broke the lock. Video then shows the man run inside, straight for the highest-value comic books at the back of the store.

“Jumped up on the counter behind the counter, grabbed their books, ran out,” Dellaire said. “And as a …

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