When Pelham Bay Library patron Patrick Mulligan came upon some comic books for sale, he bought them for his own children. But his wife pointed out that the books bore the NYPL imprint, so he knew he had to act. Like a good Samaritan, he took the shelf's worth of comic books and returned them to a grateful library staff.

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