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.
Robert Génin est un scénariste français de bande dessinée, journaliste et traducteur. Il a notamment scénarisé la série Brunelle et Colin avec François Bourgeon puis Didier Convard, L’Étalon noir avec Michel Faure et Sylvain et Sylvette avec Claude Dubois, Yann le migrateur, avec Claude Lacroix.
Michael J. Vassallo, DDS is a noted historian of Marvel's Timely and Atlas-era comic books and pulp magazines. He has authored multiple books on the subjects, and has contributed to several reprint collections of stories from those periods by writing introductions, curating the material, or serving as editor.
Irving "Ving" Fuller was a newspaper cartoonist, best remembered for his humorous comic about the mad scientist ‘Doc Syke’ (1944-1960). But he also drew various other humorous newspaper comics and was active as an animator. He was active from the 1920s to the 1960s. He was predominantely a newspaper cartoonist, but he also sold occasional gag cartoons, had a brief stint as an animator and as a commercial artist.
Carlo studied at the Liceo Artistico and at the Accademia di belle arti di Brera. In 1950, he started drawing covers for the magazine series Il Giallo Mondadori, and later covers and interior illustrations for the science fiction magazine Urania. In the 1960's working for the D'Amy Studio, he produced covers for Fleetway comics and later covers for various Italian comics.
He has created over 3,000 covers for books, magazines and comics.
Eldest son of company founder David McKay, Alexander McKay was the president of the David McKay Co. from his father's death in 1918 till 1950, when the company was acquired by outside interests. The David McKay Co first began publishing books of comics and comic books during this time frame, and their comic book line ended with the sale of the company. McKay married Margaret "Margery" Zinn, and they had two daughters, Margery McKay (later Margery McKay Cridland) and Jean S. McKay, both of whom worked as editors at the David McKay Co.
Richard Powers, also known as Rich Powers, began his comics career coloring for Now Comics, from about 1987 to 1989. He also worked in production and did coloring work for First, from 1988 to 1991. During 1992, Powers did coloring for Eclipse and Comico. By 2003, Rich began working for Dark Horse in production and design. By 2020, Powers was handling prepress technology for Dark Horse.
Florence Steinberg was a publisher of one of the first independent comic books, the underground/alternative comics hybrid Big Apple Comix, in 1975.
During the 1960s, she was hired as Stan Lee's secretary at a time when he was the only full time employee, making her the second member of the Marvel Bullpen. In addition to serving as Lee's secretary, Steinberg coordinated with and cajoled artists to turn their work in by deadline, responded to fans' letters, including sending paying members the Merry Marvel Marching Society fan-club kit, and sending artwork to the Comics Code Authority to be examined in order to carry the industry's self-censorship Comics Code seal. She also had to field uninvited fans who would appear at the office, hoping to meet the comics creators.
Steinberg became exposed to the underground comix scene after meeting and becoming friends with Trina Robbins, who had come to the Marvel offices to interview Lee. Through her, Steinberg became acquainted with contributors to the New York City alternative paper the East Village Other, and met underground cartoonists.
In 1975, Steinberg published Big Apple Comix, a seminal link between underground comix and modern-day independent comics, with contributors including such mainstream talents as Neal Adams, Archie Goodwin, Denny O'Neil, Al Williamson, and Wally Wood.
As of 1984, she was managing editor of the Manhattan-based Arts Magazine. In the 1990s, Steinberg returned to work for Marvel as a proofreader, and continued in that role at least part-time through 2017.
Dani studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She has worked for 2000AD, has been providing backup stories in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: The Salmon of Doubt (IDW, 2016 series), and was the artist of Coffin Bound (Image, 2019 series) and The Low, Low Woods (DC, 2020 series). She is the creator of Tales from the Strips (DaNi, 2014 series), a self-published series that won the Reader’s Choice Award at the Greek Comics Awards in 2015. She has participated in a number of exhibitions, competitions and conventions, and has taught an introductory comics workshop at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.
Painter, sculptor and comic book artist Paolo Rivera was born in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1981. He moved to Rhode Island, after graduating from Mainland High School (Daytona Beach) in 1999, to study at the Rhode Island School of Design. While at RISD, he studied under comic book artist and writer, David Mazzucchelli and spent his junior year studying in Rome. By his senior year, he was creating covers and pin-ups for writer Jim Krueger. He had previously met Jim at a MegaCon in Orlando, FL while he was in high school and had shown him his artwork. Paolo graduated from RISD with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2003.
The milestone cover was the cover by Mathieu Lampron for the issue Le démon du hockey published by Glénat Québec.
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.
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.
The milestone issue was Tex Willer Gigantbok #13 - Den siste opprøreren from Norwegian publisher Egmont.
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.
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.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).
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There are several ways in which you can help us to improve our site and its content.
More information is at our github page.
Further development of the API depends on user feedback and contributions.An import of issue and story data in JSON/YAML-format is now available, independent of the API.
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.