Welcome to the Grand Comics Database!

The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is a nonprofit, internet-based organization of international volunteers dedicated to building an open database covering all printed comics throughout the world.

Give our search a try, use my.comics.org to track and manage your comic collection, or look how you can contribute.

GCD Comics Timeline
1903 January 30 - 1971 January 6

Benjamin David "Stookie" Allen (30 January 1903 – 6 January 1971) was a cartoonist who specialized in nonfiction and inspirational features. He created the nationally syndicated comic strips Heroes of Democracy and Keen Teens. For the pulps, he created and drew Argosy magazine's Men of Daring and Women of Daring, and Detective Fiction Weekly's Illustrated Crime.

He worked on the comic strip Flapper Fanny during the 1930s with his wife, Gladys Parker, while they lived in New York City. They moved to Los Angeles in 1937. When Allen moved to California, he drew a horse racing tip sheet comic called It's a Bet for the Los Angeles Herald-Express.

1916 January 30 - 2003 May 17

Emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1922.

1910 January 30 - 1994 February 5

Walter sold his first cartoons to the national farming magazine Successful Farming. His gag cartoons were published in more than 20 magazines. He served in the Army during World War II and was awarded the Bronze Star. Wetterberg worked on the comic strip Out Our Way (The Willets) during the mid-1960s.

1980 January 30

Aya Kanno (菅野文) is a manga artist and illustrator known for works like Soul Rescue (ソウルレスキュー / Souru Resukyū), Otomen (オトメン(乙男), Blank Slate (悪性 -アクサガ- / Akusei – Akusaga), Requiem of the Rose King (薔薇王の葬列 / Bara Ou no Souretsu), Kokoro ni Hana wo!! (ココロに花を!!), Hokusō Shinsengumi (北走新選組) and Kōtetsu no Hana (凍鉄の花).

1914 January 29 - 1991 February 15

Syndication work:
Sportsman's Digest weekly (General Features Corporation) 1952-XX-XX - 1974-XX-XX [Sharp wrote and did the art.];
Sportsman's Digest weekly (Los Angeles Times Syndicate) 1974-XX-XX - 1992-XX-XX [Sharp wrote and did the art. Probably reprinted after his death.]

1954 January 29

Yukinobu Hoshino (星野之宣) is a manga artist with extensive credits to his name in both science fiction and history genres. Known for works like 2001 Nights (2001夜物語 / Nisen'ichi Ya Monogatari), Blue Hole (ブルー ホール, Burū Hōru), Yamataika (ヤマタイカ), Blue City (ブルーシティー), Saber Tiger (サーベル・タイガー / Sāberu Taigā) and the Professor Munakata manga series.

1973 January 29

Mu-jik Park (Korean: 박무직), known professionally as Boichi, is a South Korean manhwa-turned-manga artist living in Japan.

Intending to be a manga artist from his childhood days, Boichi majored in physics in college as preparation to draw science fiction works, and also to learn the technology of performance and imaging. He went on to graduate school to major in image technology. In 1993, while still enrolled, Boichi debuted in a Korean girls manhwa magazine. Since then, he gained popularity releasing a number of works and publishing books on how to draw manga targeting a wide range of readers.

1907 January 28 - 1965 October 13

Connie Rasinski was an animator best known for his work with Terrytoons, which he was a director for from 1937 to 1965.

Rasinski did comic book work for Jason Comic Art from 1945 to 1946, which appeared in titles by Spotlight Publishers [1940s], Magazine Enterprises, Round Publishing Company, and Harvey.

By 1947, and continuing until at least 1954, Rasinski worked on Terrytoons comic book titles for St. John.

1956 January 28

Suehiro Maruo (丸尾末広) is a manga artist, painter and illustrator known for his striking visual style reminiscent of 19th century Japanese woodblock muzan-e prints. His published works in English include Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show, Strange Tale of Panorama Island and Ultra-Gash Inferno.

1963 January 28

Kia Asamiya (麻宮騎亜) is a manga artist who made his debut in 1986. He first became known for the series Silent Möbius (サイレントメビウス). Other works include Martian Successor Nadesico (機動戦艦ナデシコ), Compiler and Steam Detectives (快傑蒸気探偵団). He's also done work featuring Western franchise brands including a Star Wars adaptation and the Batman: Child of Dreams series.

Uploading Milestone!

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We reached 1,325,000 comic covers !

The milestone cover was the cover by Mathieu Lampron for the issue Le démon du hockey published by Glénat Québec.

Multiple Brand Emblems per Issue

We changed our handling of brand emblems for an issue. One now can select more than one brand emblem. There will be cleanup of the existing combined brand emblems needed.
We also updated the list per brand emblem and its usages.

Story Arcs and Reading Orders

We recently added story arcs to our database. This is to group stories associated by some sort of title, which includes traditional story arcs, crossovers and events, whether identified by story titles, trade dress or other emblems. Will take some to populate the database, and we have not finally decided what all is considered a story arc. Click for current list of story arcs.

As a form of companion functionality, we added reading orders to our collection subsite my.comics.org. Any registered user can now create individual reading orders for any purpose. These can be made public for anyone to see, we might add search capabilities for reading orders at some point.

Indexing Milestone!

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We reached 475,000 indexed issues !

The milestone issue was Tex Willer Gigantbok #13 - Den siste opprøreren from Norwegian publisher Egmont.

Updates To The Site! (Q2 2025)

Besides updating and renovating our page designs, in particular making it useable on small screens, we made a couple of changes on the behaviour of the site.

The result tables and lists are now more consistent throughout the site. On many pages you now fill find these two symbols . By clicking on them one can switch with a list view and an image view, e.g. using covers or creator faces.

Filtering of search results or lists is now usually available.

To avoid visual information overload in case of many variants or reprints, we show the full list only if their number is below a threshold. Logged-in users can set the thresholds in their profile to allow user-defined display.

The functionality for adding issues to a collection, or editing their collection status, is now accessible on the main site.

Most data objects now support markdown in the notes for visual structure. Notes now also support internal links, these are generated automatically and shown with the object name, e.g. [gcd_link_issue](442), or generally [gcd_link_'object_type'](id)

We changed the colors on the series status tables for a more consistent appearance. For issues, we added another layer to indicate that some sequence data is present.

Keywords are now generally clickable troughout the site.

No More Ads!

Due to a United States IRS ruling regarding advertising revenue as taxable business income, we will no longer be displaying paid advertising on the website.

This is good news for all our users, but we are now fully dependent on donations to cover our costs in the future.

If you wish to donate you can simply click , where for US donors this is tax deductable. Thank you for your use and support.
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Disclaimer
The Grand Comics Database Project (GCD) is a volunteer project with the goal of documenting and indexing all comics for the free use of scholars, historians, researchers, and fans.
The GCD acknowledges that the all-encompassing research nature of the project may result in the posting of cover scans for comics with images that some may find objectionable.
Viewer discretion is advised.
The Grand Comics Database Team

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Turning off these measures is not an option for us. Our site would be regularly unresponsive due to the bots (which are often AI-related bots).

If you are getting blocked, this is almost always temporarily for a few minutes. If this persists, these are recommendations one can find for those who have issues with Cloudflare:

  • Make sure your browsers are up to date, or try a different browser.
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How to Contribute

There are several ways in which you can help us to improve our site and its content.

  • You can provide missing data, update existing data, or upload cover scans. Just register an account with us, and you can start contributing.
  • Donate for our ongoing costs, e.g. the server infrastructure. We are a non-profit organization and any funds will be used for our goal of documenting and indexing all comics.
  • We need volunteer web designers and programmers! Please contact the gcd-tech group or visit our technical documentation if you can help with any of these roles:
    • Web designer / front-end developer (HTML / CSS / Tailwind / JavaScript)
    • Python / Django programming
    • ElasticSearch search server
    • Web Services API
    • Database Performance (MySQL)

Volunteers Wanted For Adding New Comics

Each week, a small number of GCD volunteers add listings to our database for the new comics released that week in North America. These are just the basic listings, not full indexes. This makes it easier for other volunteers who upload covers and for indexers, as well as for people using my.comics.org.

Each volunteer covers one publisher or a small group of publishers ("D publishers except DC", for example). From public sources such as ComicsList and Diamond Previews online, they add the issues and make note of the prices and a few other details. We are looking for additional volunteers for this weekly task.

Follow this link for a description of the process and a list of which publishers are currently covered.
Statistics
17,402 publishers
101,210 creators
222,535 series
2,169,622 issues
235,132 variant issues
487,395 issue indexes
1,331,205 covers
4,369,775 stories
International Statistics
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
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