The first acquisitions from this agreement arrived shortly after the 2011 SPX festival held in September.
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As a result, the Serial and Government Publications Division receives the Ignatz Award nominees in various print categories, as well as other selected comics.
Included are also adaptations of popular foreign comic books such as Gunsmith Cat as well as translations of popular American comic books into foreign languages (i.e., Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan). Primarily an English-language collection, the comic book collection includes some translated reissues of Japanese manga (e.g., Akira), a limited number of Spanish language titles published in the United States and Mexico, and a small number of German and French comic books (primarily from the 1960s and 1970s). Most of the collection is composed of single issues of titles, but includes a small collection whose issues have been bound that date back to the 1940s and 1950s. The Comics and Cartoons Collection Policy Statement guides the division’s acquisition efforts.
Also, selected historical issues are acquired through purchase and gift. More recently acquisition efforts have broadened to include some experimental, self-published comic books since past experience has demonstrated the need to collect the initial efforts of new artists. Titles are added to the collection on the basis of quality of text and graphic depiction significance of the artist, writer, or publisher originality of story or main character the title's popularity as reflected in circulation statistics or media attention representation of new ideas or social trends or availability through copyright.
For some of the earliest modern comic books (those which began publishing in the 1930s), the collection holdings begin with the early 1940s. The collection is most comprehensive from the mid-1940s on however, many titles date back to the 1930s. Primarily composed of the original print issues, the collection includes color microfiche of selected early comic book titles (such as Superman, More Fun, and Action Comics), bound volumes of comic books submitted by the publishers and special reprints. and foreign comic books-over 12,000 titles in all, totaling more than 140,000 issues. The largest publicly available collection of comic books in the United States is housed in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room. The Comic Book Collection - Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room (Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress) The Comic Book Collection - Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room (Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress) The
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