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NielsenIQ Book Data confirmed to the BBC that the title had been marked as "withdrawn from sale" at the request of the publisher.

Stein had trouble finding publishers for her work throughout her life.

However, an attempt to sell the Telegraph to a group of investors led by Dovid Efune, the owner and publisher of the New York Sun, fell flat.

Arcement, 14, then traveled to a toy conference and fair in Chicago where she scooped up two awards and held a string of meetings with publishers about licensing her game, Drizzle.

The comic books have sold more than 260 million copies in Japan and worldwide by November last year, 40 years since the franchise's birth, according to publisher Shueisha.