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Portland State University And Dark Horse Comics Open The Country's First Comic Book Archive

Portland State University And Dark Horse Comics Open The Country's First Comic Book Archive The hallowed halls of Portland State University's Branford P. Millar Library house some very valuable holdings—the Middle East Studies collection, for example. But the library recently accepted a collection considered by most academics to be far less, well, academic. Milwaukie's Dark Horse Comics has so far donated over 3,000 volumes to the library's shelves (that's three copies of every title the company has ever produced), making PSU the first university in the country to keep such an archive. "This is an important international research collection," says librarian Helen H. Spalding. "It holds an interest for those studying [...]