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.
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.
Uploading Milestone!
We reached 1,275,000 cover scans !
We reached 1,275,000 comic covers. The milestone issue was the Finnish comic Rieku ja Raiku - Tiputarhan Kuvakirja .
Indexing Milestone!
We reached 456,789 indexed issues !
The milestone issue was Earp: Saints for Sinners #0 from publisher Radical Comics.
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.
Bonnie Bader was an editor for Scholastic Books. She edited Confessions of a Teenage Vampire -- Zombie Saturday Night
(July 1997). Bader later became editor In chief of Grosset and Dunlap and Price Stern Sloan, imprints of Penguin Young Readers Group, Penguin Random House eventually becoming editor in chief of Penguin Young Readers/Early Readers book group. At the same time, she was associate publisher of Frederick Warne, overseeing the Peter Rabbit and Spot publishing efforts.
She is also a writer of children's books.
Jones also worked in support as a letterer for ÆON, a MU Press imprint in 1994.
French science fiction writer with sociological training.
Marco Maccagni graduated from Scuola Internazionale di Comics in 2013. He won the competition "Pazzi per il Fumetto 2013" and released in collaboration with several other authors, "DMS", published by Allagalla Editore. In 2015, he started working for Action Lab-Danger Zone on comics such as Archon, Vampblade, Zombie Tramp and Dollface.
Multi-media artist whose work includes painting, sculpture, performance, installation, drawing.
Bernard Chang (born 1972) is a Canadian-American artist/designer best known for his work in the comic book industry and entertainment design.
Dave joined D.C. Thomson in about 1962 starting work on The Beezer. He wrote "Cap'n Hand and his Merry Mutineers". He became editor of Nutty when it launched in 1980 and co-created Bananaman. Prior to Nutty he had been Chief Sub-Editor at The Beano. Later on he became Managing Editor and retired from Thomson's in 2010.
Born of Jewish parentage in Egypt, Lurie is often referred to as an Israeli cartoonist. However, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1974.
The Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Awards were named after him.
Henry "Harry" Steeger III began his career at Dell Publishing in 1926 as co-editor (with friend and college roommate Ernest Heyn) of Famous Story magazine. By 1928 Heyn had moved on to MacFadden, while Steeger, still at Dell, was promoted to Assistant Editor of War Birds and Editor of Sky Riders.
In 1929 Henry Steeger became Editor of Dell's The Funnies, which was the first American comic book composed of new material featuring popular newspaper comic strip characters.
He co-founded Popular Publications in 1930, one of the major publishers of pulp magazines, with former classmate Harold S. Goldsmith, who had served as an editor at A. A. Wyn's Ace Magazines. Steeger handled editorial matters while Goldsmith took care of the business side.
Raina Telgemeier is an American cartoonist whose works include the autobiographic webcomic Smile (A Dental Drama), which was published by Scholastic Press's Graphix imprint as a full-color graphic novel in February 2010. Smile, as well as the follow-up Sisters and the fiction graphic novel Drama have all been on The New York Times Best Seller lists. She has also written Ghosts, another fictional story. Telgemeier also created the first four The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels with Ann M. Martin.
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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.
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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
- 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.- Rip Kirby #1 (Pacific Comics Club)
- Kaptein Sabeltann #8/2012 (Hjemmet / Egmont)
- Kaptein Sabeltann #6/2012 (Hjemmet / Egmont)
- Casper (Semic)
- Kaptein Sabeltann #4/2012 (Hjemmet / Egmont)
82,298 creators
214,248 series
2,124,905 issues
218,363 variant issues
471,058 issue indexes
1,287,048 covers
4,183,960 stories
