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
1945 September 11 - 2005 April 7

Allyn Brodsky did support work as office secretary and was a writer for Marvel from 1970 to 1971.

1930 September 11 - 1998 December 29

Jean-Claude Forest est un auteur complet de bande dessinée. Il débuta dans O.K. en 1949. Dans les années 1950, il travailla pour Caméra 34 (1951-1954), Vaillant (1951-1953) - où il créa notamment le personnage du Copyright dont Mandryka s'est inspiré pour créer le Concombre masqué -, "Fillette" (1953-1954), "Mireille" (1956-1958), "Suzette" (1958-1959), "Lisette" (1962), illustra des aventures de Charlot et Bicot, ainsi que des couvertures de la revue Fiction et du Livre de poche. En 1962, il créa sa première série à succès, Barbarella, qui met en scène une pulpeuse héroïne dans un univers science-fictionnel débridé. Fin 1964, Daniel Filipacchi lui confia la direction d'un hebdomadaire dérivé de la mascotte yéyé Chouchou. Forest en fit un magazine d'avant-garde. En 1971, il créa le personnage d'Hypocrite, dans la même veine que Barbarella. Après avoir collaboré à toutes les revues d'avant-garde des années 1970 (Fluide glacial, Métal Hurlant, L'Écho des savanes, etc.), il travailla particulièrement dans (À suivre), dans lequel il créa avec Jacques Tardi le classique Ici Même puis, seul, "La jonque fantôme vue de l'orchestre" (1980) et "Enfants c'est l'Hydragon qui passe" (1982). En 1983 il reçut le Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême pour l'ensemble de son œuvre. De cette date à sa mort, il créa de moins en moins de bande dessinée. De 1985 à 1988, il dirigea cependant la section bande dessinée du magazine jeunesse Okapi, et créa Leonid Beaudragon pour le magazine. Sa dernière œuvre, "Il faut y croire pour le voir", dessinée par Alain Bignon, parut en 1996.

1960 September 10

Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home. Fun Home was subsequently adapted as a musical that won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. In 2012, she released her second graphic memoir Are You My Mother? Bechdel published another memoir, The Secret to Superhuman Strength, in 2021. Her next graphic novel, Spent: A Comic Novel, was released in May 2025. She was a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. Bechdel became Professor in the Practice, English and Film & Media Studies at Yale University in 2024.

She is the creator of the Bechdel Test, a test determining female representation in movies. To pass the test, the movie must have two female characters that talk to each other about something other than a man. She credits the idea to her friend Liz Wallace, so the test is sometimes called the Bechdel–Wallace Test.

1957 September 10

Autodidacte, Éric Cartier signe son premier ouvrage en 1989 (La mer à boire, scénario Naegelen).
Il travaille pour le magazine Spirou et la maison d'édition Futoropolis et créera International Stakhano Association une structure de soutien aux petites maison d'édition.

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Artist (mainly penciller) for mainstream comics starting in 1995.

1968 September 9

Ted Adams is an American publisher, producer and executive producer of film and television projects. He's a cofounder and long-time CEO of comics and graphic novel publisher IDW Publishing, which he ran from 1999 to 2018.

Ted Adams has a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Southern Oregon University and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.

Adams did support work for Eclipse as a district manager from 1990 to 1992 and as a marketing assistant for Dark Horse from 1992 to 1994. He worked at as an editor at WildStorm and Todd McFarlane Productions before founding IDW in 1999.

1957 September 9

King works in support for DC starting in 1990 until the present (as of 2021). He was the cover editor/art director from March 1990 to 2003. King has been an art director for DC during the entire period of employment with the comic book company to date. He also did design work during the 1990s.

In his role as cover editor/art director, King commissioned creators to create most of the comic book periodical logos for DC during that time period.

1960 September 9

Kevin Maguire is an American comics artist, known for his work on series such as Justice League, Batman Confidential, Captain America, and X-Men.

Maguire's first credited published comics work was The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe vol. 2 #6 (May 1986), he did support in production work for Marvel in 1986.. He debuted at DC with artwork in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #23 (January 1987) and #25 (March 1987).

In 1987, Maguire was the artist on the relaunch of Justice League written by Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis. He has frequently collaborated with writer Fabian Nicieza on series such as Adventures of Captain America, X-Men Forever, and Batman Confidential. Maguire and George Pérez alternated as artists of the New 52 revival of the Worlds' Finest series, written by Paul Levitz. In 2018 he joined writer Marc Andreyko as the artist on Supergirl as of issue #21 (October 2018).

1959 September 9

Dan Vado is an American comic book publisher and writer, and a fixture of the independent comics community. Vado is the owner, president, and publisher of Slave Labor Graphics, also known as SLG Publishing, which he started in 1986.

His writing credits include Barabbas (Mirage Studios), Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (DC), Bill The Clown (Slave Labor), Extreme Justice (DC), Haunted Mansion (Slave Labor), Hero Sandwich (Slave Labor), Justice League America (DC), and Universal Monsters: Dracula (Dark Horse). He also founded the Alternative Press Expo, one of the first comics conventions dedicated to alternative comics and self-publishers.

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Zekkyou (絶叫) is a manga artist and illustrator. She's known for the manga adaptation of the light novel series Toradora! (とらドラ!).

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.
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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

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.
Last Updated Issues
Statistics
17,695 publishers
113,283 creators
229,764 series
2,203,472 issues
251,430 variant issues
502,224 issue indexes
1,367,720 covers
4,544,427 stories
International Statistics
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
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