New York Public Library. The Comics Collection, including the Sol Davidson Collection at the University of Florida. Cartoon Research Library of Ohio State University CartoonHub, the website of the British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent James Cabell Library at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, Virginia The United States Library of Congress holds many collections of comic strips, comic books and periodicals. Comic collectors Comic collectors are people who collect comics or comic books. Many comic readers keep their comics for an indefinite period and have large accumulations, but a true collector differs in enthusiasm and degree; collectors will generally at least seek past issues rather than being content to read what new comics come along. As comic book characters become more mainstream through adaptations in other media (primarily television and film), a number of notable people have professed to be comic book collectors, such as: Actor Nicolas Cage, who changed his original last name of Coppola (part of an extended family working in film, including his uncle Francis Ford Coppola) to the stage name "Cage", based on the Marvel Comics character Luke Cage, to avoid the appearance of nepotism when he entered the film industry. A longtime comics fan, Cage amassed an impressive collection over the years, but in October 2002, he auctioned off most of his collection for combined proceeds of over $1.68 million through Heritage Auctions. Heritage sold Nicolas Cage's remaining comics privately over the next year for approximately another $325,000, and in 2009 they also auctioned part of Cage's movie poster collection. Cage also starred in the 2007 film Ghost Rider and its 2012 sequel Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Actor Ben Affleck, who has named Daredevil as his favorite comic from his childhood. Affleck played that series' title character in the 2003 film of the same name, and played Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League. Writer, director and actor Kevin Smith, whose love for comics has been reflected in much of his film work in the so-called "View Askewniverse", particularly the film Mallrats. Smith has also written stories for comics published by Marvel and DC; as a nod to his work on the Daredevil comic, he had a cameo in the film adaptation as a morgue worker. Actor Samuel L. Jackson is a reader and collector well into middle age, stating as recently as a July 2006 interview that he