The contents of this collection contain letters from fans and numerous correspondance with cartoonists who contributed to the magazine. The Dorothy McGreal Papers also contains magazines from the 1960s the 1970s, featuring comic content that contains refrence material collected by Dorothy McGreal for research. There are partial and some issues of WOCA, but not a complete run of the magazine. There is also substantial information related to subscriptions and billing for WOCA

The collection contains correspondence, magazine layouts, camera ready copy, articles, zines, photostats, tear sheets, 16mm films and costumes.

Artist Sandy Plunkett donated the collection to BICLM in 2015 and it includes correspondence between Ivie and Plunkett spanning the years from the late 1970s to the mid 2000s. Other correspondence dates from the 1950s to the 1970s and is mostly between Ivie and various aspiring young cartoonists. It includes examples of their work and some photographs of them in superhero costumes modeling for gesture drawing poses. The collection contains blueprints for Ivie's 1967 fanzine 'Monsters and Heroes' and correspondence from fans about the magazine. The draft and camera-ready copy for Ivie's unpublished, 'The History of the Comic Book', plus the correspondence with Nostalgia Press from the mid 1970s about the book's publication, are also here.

The collection contains some Superman related material including photographs of 'Superman Day', in Metropolis, Illinois from January 1972 as well as zines, indexes, photostats, and clippings that Ivie collected about other cartoonists and on comics related topics.

Ivie collected comic books widely and this collection contains his extensive gathering of golden age comic book stories. There are many tear sheets mostly from the 1940s of over forty story titles.

Ivie shot many amateur superhero films. The collection contains thirty-seven 16mm home movies shot between the late 1950s and the early 1970s. They include titles such as Superman, Rocketman, Flash Gordon, Batman, Captain Marvel, Frankenstein, and Captain America. The collection also includes handmade costumes Ivie created for these home movies including a Batman, a Robin, two Superman and two Captain America costumes.