The Comic Art Collection in the Michigan State University Libraries is the largest comics collection ever classified using the Library of Congress call number system, and to do so we have felt it necessary to make some adjustments and innovations. These are spelled out more completely in chapter 4 of Comics Librarianship (Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Company, 1990)
PN 6700 Periodicals, societies, etc.
6702 Congresses
6705 Exhibitions, museums, etc.
6707 Encyclopedias, dictionaries
6710 General works including history
6712 Moral and religious aspects
6714 Other special topics
6720 General collections
By Region or Country:
PN 6725-6728 United States (see local development below)
6731-6734 Canada
6735-6738 Great Britain
6745-6748 France and French-speaking Belgium and Switzerland
6755-6758 Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland
6765-6768 Italy
6775-6778 Spain
6790 Other regions or countries, A-Z
This system divides the numbers for each country as follows:
(1) History
(2) Collections
(3) Individual author numbers, A-Z
(4) Individual comics by title, A-Z
Local call numbers for U.S. comic books:
PN 6728.1 Golden Age comic books of the United States,
titles beginning in the years from 1935 to
1949, by publisher, A-Z, then by title.
PN 6728.15 "Eight-pagers" or "Tijuana bibles":
pornographic comic books often illegally using
newspaper comic strip characters of the 1920s
through 1950s, by title.
PN 6728.2 Fifties comic books of the United States,
titles beginning in the years from 1950 to
1959, by publisher, then by title.
PN 6728.25 Propaganda, educational and giveaway comic
books published in the United States, by
publisher, A-Z, then by title.
PN 6728.3 Silver Age comic books of the United States,
titles beginning in the years from 1960 to
1969, by publisher, A-Z, then by title.
PN 6728.4 Seventies comic books of the United States,
except undergrounds, titles beginning in the
years from 1970 to 1979, by publisher, then by
title.
PN 6728.45 Underground comic books of the United States,
titles beginning in the years from about 1967,
by publisher, A-Z, then by title.
PN 6728.5 Eighties mainstream or color comic books of the
United States, titles beginning in the years
from 1980 to 1989, by publisher, A-Z, then by
title.
PN 6728.55 New wave comix, minis, other amateur and
self-published zines of the United States,
including black and white explosion comic
books, artist jams and 24-hour comics. Titles
beginning from about 1980, by publisher or
creator, A-Z, then by title.
PN 6728.6 Nineties comic books of the United States,
titles beginning in the years from 1990 to
1999, by publisher, A-Z, then by title.
PN 6728.7 21st century decade one comic books of the
United States, titles beginning in the years
from 2000 to 2009, by publisher, A-Z, then by
title.
PN 6728.75 Webcomics in print. Printed magazine style
comic books originating as web comics, by
by publisher, A-Z, then by title.
PN 6728.8 Teens comic books of the United States,
titles beginning in the years from 2010 to
2019, by publisher, A-Z, then by title.
Please address questions about this scheme, including requests
for further detail, to Randall W. Scott: comics@msu.edu
This segment last updated June 12, 2019
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