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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
1918 August 20 - 2000 July 14

Bengt Olof Wennerberg född 20 augusti 1918 i Västerås, död 14 juli 2000[2], var en svensk tecknare och illustratör, även känd under pseudonymen Bowen. Bowen har bland annat illustrerat serien Tusen och en natt i Vecko-Revyn, omslagen till serietidningen Mika, serieversionen av Anderssonskans Kalle, omslagen till 50 av pocketböckerna om Kjell E. Genbergs västernhjälte Ben Hogan, varit verksam som reklamtecknare, och gjort tusentals illustrationer till Svenska Mad.

Bowen var en skicklig illustratör och tecknare, och uträttade bland annat ett stort arbete som tecknare till serien Tusen och en natt som löpte under många år i Vecko-Revyn. Denna serie tog han över efter Bovil 1949. Han var även verksam som reklamtecknare. Ett av de mera spridda verken var vikingaskeppet på Explorer Vodka-flaskan.

Under tidningen Svenska Mad:s storhetstid var Bowen en av de mer aktiva medarbetarna. Han var också en duktig målare. Enligt en anekdot ska han som ateljéchef på en reklamfirma ha fått i uppdrag att ta reda på vilka tjänster man kunde dra in för att spara pengar. Den enda Bowen kom fram till att man kunde vara utan var Bowen själv, så han slutade.

Bowen var verksam långt in i hög ålder. Under många år ledde han långt in på 1990-talet en tecknar- och målarkurs för anställda och frilansare inom Bonnier-förlagen.

1890 August 20 - 1937 March 15

H. P. Lovecraft was an American writer known for his works of horror and weird fiction. His stories often explored ancient beings, forbidden knowledge, supernatural forces and a fear of the unknown. He created fictional settings and creatures that became part of the Cthulhu Mythos. His writing has influenced later authors and helped shape modern cosmic horror.

1922 August 20 - 1984 December 8

Jack O'Brien grew up in Los Angeles, California and graduated from George Washington High School in 1939. He enlisted in the Army in 1940, and served in the Army Air Corps. He was a self-taught cartoonist, working as a clerk in public relations at post headquarters at Moffett Field, California, where he held the job of putting out the post newspaper. When he had extra space in the paper to fill, he says he just started drawing cartoons. In 1942 he won a cartoon contest sponsored by the Elks Club. After his second tour of active duty, Jack joined the Army Reserves, spending six years on active duty during the 1950s. While there, he worked as a staff cartoonist for the Armed Forces Press Service, providing cartoons for around 1,700 camp newspapers worldwide. While still in the Army, Jack did cartooning on a freelance basis, selling cartoons to various magazines including Esquire, Life, Liberty, Time, Post, and some large newspapers. In the 1950s, he sold a comic strip, “The Bumbles,” to various newspapers. Jack retired from the Army in 1965. He then began writing and illustrating “Sad Sack” comic books for Harvey Comics, ghosting for George Baker. Jack created the beatnik character named “Cool Cat,” and wrote and drew “G.I. Juniors,” about kids in a military school. He began a LGBTQ adult publishing business in the late 1960s and continued that until his death.

1968 August 20

Greg Pak is an American comic book writer and film director. He is best known for his work on books published by Marvel, including X-Men (most notably X-Treme X-Men), several titles featuring the Hulk, and Hercules. For DC he wrote Batman/Superman and Action Comics. In 2019, Pak began writing Star Wars comics for Marvel.

1920 August 20 - 2000 February 19

George Roussos did art study training in England. He did support work for DC as a letterer, from 1940 to 1948, and as a colorist, from 1943 to 1946 and from 1969 to 1974. Roussos did support work as well for Marvel as both a letterer and a colorist, from 1964 to 1992.

George assisted Bob Kane with backgrounds and lettering on the Batman feature in 1940.

He did the lettering for the Spanish language edition of the comic strip, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, from 1939 to 1940.

Comic strip syndication work:
Judge Parker daily and Sunday ? (Publishers Syndicate) 1953-XX-XX (assisted);
Judge Wright daily (United Feature Syndicate) 1947-06-12 - 1948-04-03 (pencil and inks per Holtz, inks only per Bails);
The Phantom (King Features Syndicate) 1968-XX-XX - 1969-XX-XX (unconfirmed ghost pencils)

1920 August 20 - 1990 June 29

Xavier Snoeck est un romancier et scénariste de bande dessinée belge. Il signe aussi sous le pseudonyme d’Yves Legros. Sous le nom de Phil Laramie, il a écrit des romans de science-fiction chez Fleuve Noir Anticipation à la fin des années 1980.

1958 August 20

Daniel Torres is a Spanish cartoonist, known for several series, including the science-fiction series Rocco Vargas, about a writer in a retrofuturistic world and Tom, a series for children about a friendly dinosaur.

1947 August 19 - 2006 September 18

After trying his hand at becoming a professional musical (even recording an album with the band The Subterraneans), he became a professional artist. He worked for Muziekpop and then co-created Blook (1969-1974) and Dan Teal (1970-1971) for Pep magazine.

1945 August 19 - 2015 October 8

Writer, editor, publisher, journalist. Best known as the creator of the series Real Stuff.

1966 August 19

Stefano moved to the USA in 1981. He published the six-issue limited series Kafka with Steven T. Seagle in 1987. He worked for various comic publisher including Dark Horse until 2001 when he started working for DC on Gotham Central and Batman Family. He has done storyboards for animated TV series such as X-Men, The Mummy and Spider-Man Unlimited. In 2012 he was the inker for Valiant on X-O Manowar, Harbinger, Bloodshot and Shadowman and in 2013 he started working as an inker on Image's Walking Dead.

Additional biographical information:
http://stefanogaudiano.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html

1969 August 19

Gene Ha is an American comics artist and writer best known for his work on books such as Top 10 and Top 10: The Forty-Niners, with Alan Moore and Zander Cannon, for America's Best Comics, the Batman graphic novel Fortunate Son, with Gerard Jones, The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix, and Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons with Kelly Sue DeConnick, among others.

1896 August 19 - 1963 October 22

C. D. Russell was an American cartoonist best known for his syndicated comic strip Pete the Tramp.

1972 August 19

Nobuyuki Anzai (安西信行) is a manga artist known for the series Flame of Recca (烈火の炎 / Rekka no Honō), MÄR, Rocket Princess (R・Princess) and Mixim☆11.

Multiple Names for Features

Features can now have several names, these can be used if the difference in the names is significant. For example, this goes for Captain Marvel/Shazam! or different translated names for a feature.

Indexing Milestone!

Cover Image

We reached 500,000 indexed issues !

The milestone issue was Silver Flash #41 from Australian publisher Invincible Press.

Uploading Milestone!

Cover Image

We reached 1,350,000 comic covers !

The milestone cover was the variant cover by Mark Buckingham for the issue Black Cat #4 published by Marvel.

Additional Lists

We added overview lists of character appearances in a group, e.g., Captain America and vice versa, e.g., The Avengers. You can also get a list of issues where Iron Man appeared as a member of the Avengers.

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.

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.
Creators Calendar
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

Cloudflare

We are using Cloudflare as an external service to prevent misbehaving bots overloading our webserver. These measures are preventing excessive use of our site, e.g. due to accessing many pages in a few seconds. Sometimes we need to turn on enhanced services of Cloudflare, then an interstitial Challenge Page will appear regularly.

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.
  • Disable any browser extensions (at least for our website) that may interfere (e.g., ad blockers, privacy extensions). Since we don't serve ads any more, these extension don't have an effect on our site anyway.
  • Try accessing the website using a different device or network to see if the issue persists.
  • Avoid opening many pages into different tabs in quick succession.

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)

Data Access via API - Structured Data Import

We have developedan initial version of an API for our site. While the API endpoints URLs are stable, the provided fields and data format should not be considered stable as this point.

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.

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
17,680 publishers
111,992 creators
229,219 series
2,200,045 issues
249,776 variant issues
500,771 issue indexes
1,364,553 covers
4,531,625 stories
International Statistics
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
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