Scope and Contents From the Collection: Donated by the collector Thomas Bentley Rue, this collection features comics and adventure strips ranging from the 1930s to the 1950s. Early American comics were collections of re-published newsprint cartoons, and this collection has several prominent Platinum Age (1897-1937) collected titles, including Popular Comics, Tip Top Comics, and Famous Funnies, the latter considered by some historians to be the first...