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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
1916 August 10 - 2003 December 28

Gotto created Ozark Ike and Cotton Woods.

Additional biographical works:
A Gallery of Rogues: Cartoonists' Self-Caricatures (Billy Ireland Cartoon Library), 1998, by Robert C. Harvey;
Cartoonews (Bill Sheridan, 1975 series) #4 (July 1975);
Comics Buyer's Guide (Krause Publications, 1982 Series) #? (January ?, 1989);
Comics Feature (NMP, 1980 series) #40 (January 1986);
Famous Artists and Writers of King Features Syndicate (King Features, 1946 ? Series) # [1946], [1949];
"Ray Gotto--The Comics' Heavy" in St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, Florida) January 1, 2004 (obituary).

From about the mid-1930s to 1943 he wrote and drew editorial, sports, and gag cartoons for The Nashville Banner (Nashville, Tennessee).
From circa 1958 to circa 1975, Gotto wrote and drew gag and sports cartoons for sports pages around the country (possible syndicated?) and for The Sporting News (Sporting News Publishing Company, Inc., 1886 series).

Syndication work:
Cotton Woods daily (General Features) 1955-07-18 - 1957-XX-XX [Writing, pencils, and inks.];
Ozark Ike daily and Sunday (King Features Syndicate) 1945-11-12 - 1954-XX-XX [Writing, pencils, and inks.];
Uncle Alvin daily (General Features) 1966-09-12 - 1967-06-17 [Per Alberto Becattini, ghostwrote this daily strip under creator Bob Sherry's name.];

1968 August 10

Kevin Kobasic did pencil and some ink work for Marvel Comics, from 1990 to 1994; pencil and cover ink work for Acclaim / Valiant, from 1994 to 1998; and a single page pin-up for Broadway in 1996. He also did pencil work on a promotion comic book for Merrill Lynch called Further Adventures of Savin' Dave and the Compounders, in 1997.

Kobasic also worked support for Marvel as an assistant editor and managing editor for Marvel in 1991.

He would form his own company in 2000, the Keviemetal Corporation, doing freelance illustration work. As of 2019, he does freelance animation at the Wunderman company.

1897 August 10 - 1977 April day?

Creator of the Double Trouble comic strip.

1953 August 10

Jean-Blaise Mitildjian est un scénariste français de bande dessinée, d'origine arménienne. travaille d'abord comme compositeur de musique et exerce divers métiers alimentaires avant de rencontrer Régis Loisel en 1987. Ce dernier lui enseigne les rudiments du métier de scénariste de bande dessinée. Il est, avec sept autres auteurs et dessinateurs de bande dessinée, membre du comité artistique du festival Des Planches et des Vaches. À l'occasion du dixième anniversaire de ce festival, en avril 2011, il a reçu un prix spécial pour l'ensemble de son œuvre en présence d'une dizaines d'artistes avec qui il collabore, notamment Régis Loisel.

????? August 9

Additional biographical information about April Campbell can be found in Women and the Comics (Eclipse Books, 1985) by Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode.

Campbell co-wrote with Bruce Jones, from circa 1979 to 1983.

She also did support work as an editor for Pacific Comics, from 1982 to 1984, and Eclipse Comics, from 1985 to 1987.

1910 August 9 - 1967 September 24

An academic specialist in Asian languages, Van Gulik was also a skilled diplomat, eventually becoming ambassador to Kuala Lumpur and Japan, in his spare time writing academic articles and books on Chinese languages, history and culture. He is best known, however, for writing sixteen detective novels about the historical character Judge Dee.

1964 August 9

Hellenes is a visual artist and cartoonist whose strip Kebbelife, published in book volumes by No Comprendo Press, is based on herself and fellow artist Vanessa Baird.

1954 August 9

Lou Manna worked as an assistant for Jim Janes from 1978 to 1982 and for Rich Buckler from circa 1980 to 1982.

Manna worked in support as an associate editor for J.C. Comics in 1983.

1957 August 9

Creator of The Fish Police.

1989 August 9

Chris O'Halloran is a comic book colorist for some of the biggest American comic publishers including Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse, and more. He is the colorist on comics such as Ice Cream Man, Robin: The Boy Wonder, Falling in Love on the Path to Hell, Immortal Hulk, Black Panther, Hellboy, and many others.

1961 August 9 - 2019 February 1

Painter, animator, comic book artist and graphic designer. He did work on various animated series including Futurama, Drawn Together, Daria, King of the Hill and Beavis and Butthead. His best known comics work was the Fuzz and Pluck series which were collected into three books- Fuzz and Pluck (1999), Fuzz & Pluck: Splitsville (2008) and The Moolah Tree (2016). Was likely better known in France than in the United States after that series was published over there.

1914 August 9 - 1994 November 2

Taras created Baby Huey and was the creator and cartoonist of Rags Rabbit for Harvey.

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.
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  • You can provide missing data, update existing data, or upload cover scans. Just register an account with us, and you can start contributing.
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  • 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
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    • 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
17,676 publishers
111,442 creators
229,058 series
2,199,306 issues
248,849 variant issues
500,149 issue indexes
1,363,451 covers
4,525,328 stories
International Statistics
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
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