As important as the New Testament or the Koran. A lost Troy waiting to be excavated.

The Book of books

In an interview with Jeet Heer he mentions the bible of the Platinum Age. Well, that' s how we call it. He tells us: 

An absolutely pivotal experience for me was first encountering, while still coping with the onset of puberty,The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics (edited byBill Blackbeard and Martin Williams). For me this is a volume almost as important as the New Testament or the Koran. It's where I first encountered Krazy Kat, Little Nemo, Polly and Her Pals, Gasoline Alley and countless other treasures. The book gave me my first sense of how great the early comic strips were, a lost Troy waiting to be excavated.

Well that is no exaggeration. It took six big trucks to move the collection of Newspaper comics  (of Bill Blackbeard) to Ohio. These photo's just show a small amount and the man himself who dead in 2011. May the comics be with him!