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Collection contains the draft of a comic written by Harvey Pekar (and eventually drawn by Joe Sacco) about novelist Felipe Alfau as well as the comic book, Dark Horse presents Pink Tornado #104, in which the comic was published.

Comic art by such artists as Fred Fredericks; Giancarlo Malagutti; Joe Orlando; Jack Sparling, etc.

The collection comprises a selection of comic books, mainly of the 1960s to 1970s, from Marvel, DC, and Harvey, as well as other educational comics.

Collection is comprised of the comics selected as finalists and winners of the MoCCA Awards of Excellence.

Nine recorded interviews with comics creators such as Barry Windsor-Smith and Vaughn Bode, taped by Peter Kuper in the early 1970s, when he was working on his fanzine.

A collection of a veriety of comics, including Mad Magazine and Zap, as well as individual artists, including R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, and S. Clay Wilson.

A small collection of 75-100 letters from well-known cartoonists, covering a roughly 35-year period, some typed, some handwritten.

Papers of the Society, including correspondence among the officers and directors of the Society, memoranda, reports, legal papers, minutes, financial records, radio scripts, clippings, scrapbooks, comic books, and a subject file of pamphlets and clippings on all aspects of crime prevention. Also, an extensive history of the Society.

Primarily a collection of overseas editions (small formats, light-weight paper, no advertisements) of popular magazines for the Armed Forces distrubuted by the Special Services Division, U.S. Army, and by the Bureau of Navy personnel. Among the titles represented are: Esquire; New Yorker; Newsweek; Time; Pic; Readers Digest; Down Beat; and an array of comic books. In addition, there are guides to foreign countries, War Department education manuals in the G. I. Roundtable Series, books on the organization and administration of an army library, training manuals for army hospital librarians, and a copy of the R.B. [Reference and Recreational Book] LIBRARY CATALOG: AN INDEX TO THE BOOKS INCLUDED IN THE 1945 RECREATIONAL LIBRARIES FOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS OVERSEAS (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1944). Also included are two small containers of U.S. Office of Price Administration ration tokens, one red the other blue