EAST LANSING, MI — Did you know the world’s largest publicly accessible comic book collection is in Michigan? I didn’t, until my editor pitched me the idea of visiting Michigan State University to peruse the approximately 350,000-strong cache.
The treasure trove grew from a few thousand issues at its inception in 1970.
The collection, housed within the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections, offers something rare in the world of comic preservation — the opportunity to actually handle the materials…