Comic Book Resources

Damn straight they're awesome. I couldn't have a 365 Reasons column without them.

Cheers!

This is a great website. Before I found it, I used to use the Mile High Comics Database to get a look at a particular cover.

I prefer the Comic Book DB, myself. Despite it having less entries, I find it more immersive, yet easier to navigate than GCD.
CBDB entry vs GCD entry

I use it nearly every day.

The GCD is great, but it can be as slow as mollasses in January.

Wow, I've never had much patience for either site - they both seem like good ideas, but right now they're woefully sparse and numbingly incorrect. I don't know that I've ever tried to find a fact on either that ever turned out to be right. This is the first time I've ever seen anyone have anything good to say about either of them.

Obviously I need to go look again...

Thanks again for the shout out, Brian.

As to criticism of the content, all I can say is that we are always trying to fill out old entries even as we add new ones, and any help is cheerfully accepted, whether it be single corrections sent to our error list or another volunteer indexer.

layne et al., Comic Book DB is not the same as CBDB, and the confusion makes some lawyers very antsy; although, I should be grateful not to be included in this critique.

yo go re: "Wow, I’ve never had much patience for either site - they both seem like good ideas, but right now they’re woefully sparse and numbingly incorrect. I don’t know that I’ve ever tried to find a fact on either that ever turned out to be right. This is the first time I’ve ever seen anyone have anything good to say about either of them.

"Obviously I need to go look again…"

As a registered contributer to GCD, I am glad to see that last. While I would be dishonest to deny that there is some misinfornmation, I have yet to encounter any that was truly significant---unless you call listing Marvel's late '70s and early '80s
(initially) full color magazine THE HULK! as simply HULK (no article, no exclamation mark) and not responding to an inquiry if the indicia gave it that way (not likely, I feel), or listing the first issue of DC's long-running horror comic GHOSTS as a separate series because the publishers inadvertently left the "s" off the title in the indicia! Sparse indexes are plentiful, unfortunately, but I am trying to remedy that situation right now, as much as I can with the slight remnants I still possess of my once large collection. For example, I have recently asked that NOW Comics' two Green Hornet spinoff miniseries KATO & KATO II be pulled and placed in my "Reserved" folder, as the "Character Appearances" lists are incomplete & improperly located in the "Indexer's Notes" slots, there are no plot synopses or notes as to where the two stories chronologically fall in relation to the regular series, nor entries for the other features in the issues, principally letter columns in each mini's final number. I am glad that you are going to give the GCD another chance.

While not perfect, the Grand Comics Database is by far the best on the web.

Hear, hear. My "Ten of a Kind" wouldn't exist without them, and I need to thank and link to them more often. Will do so on the very next entry.

These guys at GCD are the best! Without them, I wouldn't have been able to get my research started on my dad's comic career, and starting up his website. Hooorah!

Ted, I vaguely remember the discussion on the Hulk magazine. I think what finally happened is that nobody had copies to prove or disprove what the Indica says so we ended up leaving it with what the original indexer used until somebody could confirm.

If anybody here has info on what exactly the indica says on this title, email me at rastas3204 over at yahoo.com.

Anybody that wants to send corrections to the GCD can send them to gcd-errors@lists.comics.org, or better yet help us out by becoming an indexer. Again, feel free to email me directly at the above email and I'll get you set up.

As for the Ghost/Ghosts thing, it was split because we always want folks to be able to search on the exact indica and find their book. We are working on a new background layout that will fix this problem, and will connect the two series together if you search for Ghosts and just the one issue if you search for Ghost. That's all in the planning stages and a ways off but we are moving in that direction.

Almost 108,000 books indexed and over 150,000 covers uploaded. I'm sure there is some incorrect information out there, but the vast majority is correct. We've been working with copies of DC's Schwartz editor records they generously let us copy and confirming all the credits on those. I recently found an issue of Flash, for example, that lists Frank McLaughlin as a co-inker with Giordano but Schwartz's records list solely Giordano. Things like that are being documented so the info will not be lost for future researchers.

BTW: Love your blog Brian. Thanks for giving us a shout-out.

Mike Nielsen
GCD Board Chairman.

I've used the Grand Comics Database a million-bazillion times. More times than not, they're bound to have the correct information.

I love that the site exists and am thankful for all of its contributors.

RE: "The Hulk!"

My copies of #21-22, 24-27 all show "Hulk" in the indicia, NOT "The Hulk!", so the GCD is correct.

Mike Nielsen: Comments and info noted. Thanks.

Greg F.: I stand corrected. Thanks, as well.