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Description: From Barbie Dolls to Superman, here are the world's largest memorabilia collections that are a sight to see. Subscribe to Knowledge Feed for awesome mysteries, discoveries, fun topics and all around AWESOME videos! 6. Donkeys While Delores DeJohn is the official record holder with 690 donkey related items in her possession, she has some competition in 79-year-old Bernice Rabin. A proud Democrat, Rabin started her collection in the 1980’s and never stopped. She has donkey placards from Europe and an ostrich egg painted with a donkey that she acquired from Curacao, an island country in the southern Caribbean Sea. Her own estimates say that her Donkey memorabilia numbers over one thousand pieces, meaning we may see her in the record books before too long. 5. Comic Books Perhaps on a whim, an eight-year-old Bob Bretall decided that he wanted Amazing Spider-Man #88, in which the Spidey Boy encounters a fearsome foe, Doctor Octopus. This comic, published in 1970 would be well liked and remembered as one of the best in a great series. Apparently, it was also received warmly by Bob, who would go on to amass this ridiculous collection of comics, which Guinness named the World’s Largest on May 1st, 2014. At the time the collector had gathered 94,268 unique issues that weighed a total of nearly seventeen thousand pounds. Bretall told Guinness that he plans on keeping his comics and passing them on to his kids. 4. McDonald’s Known deservedly as the world's biggest collector of McDonald's memorabilia Mike Fountaine has amassed more than 75 thousand items related to the fast food chain. The collection includes thousands of happy meal toys, many of which are presumably Beanie Babies (don’t get jealous Chris Robinson you probably own them all already) 20 thousand lapel pins 1,200 cups, nine Ronald McDonald statues and an original 1962 McDonald’s sign from a Lancaster PA McDonald’s. On top of all of this Fountaine also owns and operates two restaurants of his own. 3. The Purple Rain Collection Mary Boyer could remember the exact moment she became in awe of famous pop icon Prince. It was July 1984 when her, sixty years old at the time and her friend went to see the movie Purple Rain. The moment she saw him on the big screen she began to worship Prince. Before she passed away in late August 2016, she was the owner of a collection that included 300 different posters 100 T-shirts and over 1,200 unique albums in every format. She had photos, magazines, pins, laminates and practically any other memorabilia item you could imagine. Boyer even had a room in her Cleveland house dedicated to her collection that she painted, you guessed it, purple. Over the years she saw Prince 25 times, including four times in a span of seventy-five hours, which is impressive simply for the fact that Prince once performed four shows in seventy-five hours. 2. Superman Marco Superman Zorzin, yes he changed his middle name, is the owner of the largest collection of Superman items outside of Krypton. In the 2017 edition of Guinness Zorin holds the record with 1,518 items related to the legendary fictional hero. Today, however, his stash has grown to around two thousand items that include a six foot ten tall replica statue of Superman. Herbert Chavez, who has been featured in previous Guinness editions has spent years not only collecting memorabilia but also trying to replicate the look of Clark Kent through twenty plus surgeries, including liposuction, nose jobs, and skin whitening. 1. The Father of Card Collectors For card collectors, Jefferson R. Burdick is something of a hero. Born in 1900, Burdick became obsessed with collecting cards and tried to own any that were ever published. He wrote articles about card collecting and began to catalog them on his own, employing a methodical system. Burdick published these lists in his magazine, the American Card Catalog. He amassed over thirty thousand baseball cards, including the incredibly rare Honus Wagner T206. He didn’t only collect baseball cards; he gathered a total of over three hundred thousand items including advertising inserts, posters as well as hockey and gymnastics cards. Burdick would pass away in March 1963 but not before donating his entire collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where a portion of his collection is on display for all to see today. His grave marker in Central Square, N.Y. gives testament to his collecting greatness.