Documentary record connected to the editorial archive.
A Puerto Rican museum whose documentation centre emerged unofficially from documents collected by Samuel Santiago and donated in 1974, according to the Censo-Guía.
Comics and magazines cease to be ephemeral materials when an institution, collection or digitisation project contextualises, describes and preserves them. Drawing on sources about the Museu del Còmic i la Il·lustració, public archives and digital-preservation studies, this article examines what can be verified about that transition.
Open storyComics and comic magazines were created as widely circulated, inexpensive, and vulnerable printed matter. The available documentation shows how archives, museums, digital projects, and collectors have helped reconsider them as cultural sources whose preservation requires context, description, and access—not storage alone.
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