14 Little Known Comics Stats That'll Blow Your Mind

14. The World's Largest Comic Collection Is At The Library Of Congress

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Nope, the largest comics collection isn't at Nicholas Cage's home, but rather the LOC itself, located at the heart of Washington, D.C.

The Library, which boasts the largest collection of every American newspaper, government document and well... just about everything, really, has an archive that holds over 120,000 individual comic book issues, along with over 6,000 individual titles too.

The only chance you'll get to read any of them depends on if you're a scholar or not, sadly. Given how Comics Studies is still a burgeoning discipline, it's as good a time as any to realign your major, especially if you're after a read of Detective Comics #27.

Either that, or you'll have to pull a Ben Gates and break into the place. There are worse ideas for a National Treasure sequel, I suppose...

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