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BBC News Reports The Hatton Garden Job With Seventies-Style Comics

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_87600300_frame0-title_high-res-v3It was a seventies style crime that needed a seventies style solution. The Hatton Bank Job in London saw old-style safecracker and bankrobbers pulled out of retirement for one last job.

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Seriously. That's what happened last April when Brian Reader, Daniel Jones, John Collins, Carl Wood, William Lincoln, Hugh Doyle and Terry Perkins, mostly in their sixties and seventies – including Perkins who had already been on the run for fifteen years – burgled £14 million worth of gems and gold from safety deposit boxes.

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They'll make a film, of course they will. But first, courtesy of the BBC and comic creator Adam Cadwell, we get the comic book version. In a style familiar to those who spent the seventies curled up with a boys adventure comic book….
 _87714879_frame4_high-resRead the whole thing here. Could BBC News report other stories in such a fashion?

 

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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