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'American Splendor' writer Harvey Pekar dies

9:33 AM PDT 7/12/2010 by Gregg Kilday, AP

No specific cause of death reported for 70-year-old author

Harvey Pekar, who chronicled his travails as a low-level filing clerk in the autobiographical comics series "American Splendor," which was adapted into the award-winning 2003 film, has died. He was 70.

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