Shortly afterwards, he appeared on a series of video clips advertising the Annual Sports Auction. He also brought Luthor home in order to guard it. Upon arriving, he withdrew the card and hid it under his cabinet in a Ziploc bag. Shortly afterwards, Palomino unbolted the safe and took it home with him. As it prepared to bite him, Palomino insisted that Griffin was only leaving the store. Feeling threatened, Palomino summoned Luthor, who burst inside and cornered Griffin against a display case. Griffin warned he would not get away with his trickery.

He further gloated that he had won the 'fight' for money, something everyone wanted as he saw it. When Griffin gaped at him knowingly, Palomino continued, lamenting that the world 'is a big fat scary place with people who will walk all over you if you give them half a chance,' before telling him to learn from his mistake. Palomino lied that it was a different card, and he had already sold Griffin's. Griffin had witnessed the broadcast and he was furious about his conning him. As soon as the media people had gone, he noticed Griffin returning to the museum, and told Luthor to allow him inside. In answer to the astonished reporters, Palomino said he expected he could get more than that, claiming it could be the rival of the only card that sold for over a million dollars.Ī few minutes later, the press conference broke up under the watchful eye of Luthor, while Palomino returned to his desk. The opening bid was to be 200,000 dollars. He intended to sell it at the Professional Annual Sports and Collectibles Auction on October 17. When asked what he would sell it for, Palomino insisted the card was too valuable to simply be labeled with a price tag. He insisted the card was especially valuable because of where it came from. Shortly after Griffin and Ben departed, Palomino organized a press conference where he displayed the card, standing in the courtyard of his museum surrounded by cameramen. The Bambino Operation Conning Griffin Bing His actions eventually made him an enemy of Eli Mulroney. He lived solo, usually keeping Luthor at the store.

He taught it to be vicious and only rewarded it for showing aggressive behavior. At one point, Palomino also bought an attack dog named Luthor, which he trained cruelly. Wendell Palomino's past is mostly unknown, but he set up a very successful museum, which he named after himself.

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