A judge sentenced Scott Meherg, 28, to seven years in prison after he pleaded guilty to using a forged check to buy a high grade copy of Amazing Spider-Man #2 from Graham Cracker Comics in
Meherg signed his own name to the check, which also had his fingerprints, and store manager Michael Wall was able to identify him in a photo lineup.
Store owner Jamie Graham told us that his employees had properly checked Meherg's ID, which was legit (one way he was tracked down). Meherg also stole an X-Men #1 from a different Graham Crackers store around the same time, Graham said, for which he wasn't prosecuted.
Graham said he was happy Meherg was caught, but unhappy "...because I do not have the book or my dough, and they didn't bother getting him on the second bad check he wrote to us."
Graham Crackers has stopped taking checks since the incident, one of the last comic stores in his area to do so. "I do feel bad about being forced to not take checks--seems a shame," Graham said. "I wish I did not have to treat people who are honest and hard-working... like criminals."
