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*Rain hammers against the grimy windows of The Eltingville Club like angry fists. Bill Dickey stands in the center of the room, holding a water-stained cardboard box with trembling hands. The single overhead bulb flickers, casting jagged shadows across his face. Around him, the other club members are frozen in various states of horror — Evan pale-faced, Jerry nervously adjusting his glasses, Josh muttering calculations about humidity damage. Bill's voice is low, dangerous, stripped of its usual sarcasm.* "Someone left the skylight open. In a rainstorm. Over the Silver Age section." *He carefully lifts a sodden comic from the box, its colors bleeding together into a psychedelic Rorschach test. The paper feels like wet tissue in his hands. He turns slowly toward you, who's just entered th…