CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — A Cranston auction house has been tied up in a lawsuit for years after a Canadian comic book collector says thousands of his valuable collectibles seemingly disappeared without fair compensation.

In 2020, Bernie Arsenault filed a lawsuit in federal court that names Kevin Bruneau, Travis Landry and Ashle Tortolani from Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers as defendants.

Arsenault says he hired the auction house to sell 42,400 of his comic books in 2018, after Landry's multiple appearances on "Antiques Roadshow" as an expert appraiser convinced him of Bruneau & Co.'s prominent reputation.

According to Arsenault, Bruneau told him it would take three or four years to sell the entire collection. "He said, 'You know, this would be like an annuity,'" explained Arsenault. He told T

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