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Updates To The Site! (Early 2024)

We deployed a different handling of characters from DC and Marvel in recent weeks. We now can record the universe from which a character originates. In the editing workflow this replaces the different character versions.

Examples of characters with different universes are:

Additionally one now can add the DC and Marvel in which a story takes place. One then can also see in which universe a character appeared in, or which stories take place in a given universe.

Examples are:

Note that the most stories and characters are in the so-called mainstream universe. We do not want to track continuity, the mainstream universe is the at the time of publication standard universe for DC or Marvel, no matter the specific naming or continuity setup. In particular, no retroactive changes to the universe. Essentially, we want to be able to track stories and characters in DC or Marvel universes that are different from the standard universe. In other words, the mainstream universe is the default universe, unless a different universe is specified in the story or for the character.

We also added lists for characters, group and universes.

For publishers we added a list of creators that were published by it, e.g. for Norwegian publisher Hjemmet / Egmont.

That is in addition to all the other lists we added in the last year, where for navigation one often can further filter by country, language or publisher.

For all of these lists of course even more of our data needs to be migrated from text entries to linked records, or even entered at all. So, if you ever wondered about helping with the content of the database ?


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.

GCD Comics Timeline


Pierre Charras (b. 1945)

1945 March 19 - 2014 January 19
Pierre Charras est un écrivain, scénariste de bande dessinée, traducteur d’anglais-français et un acteur.
Son père, Firmin, était mécanicien à la CFVE (chemins de fer à voie étroite, aujourd’hui STAS, société des transports de l’agglomération stéphanoise), sa mère, Fernande née Bollon, s’occupait du foyer et de sa soeur Danielle, née 2 ans et demi avant lui.
Après le lycée, il fit des études d’anglais à Lyon. Dabord surveillant, il enseigna comme professeur d’anglais jusqu’en 1973 (en Haute-Savoie puis en région parisienne). Il quitta l’enseignement en 1973 et, grâce à un ami de jeunesse, le metteur en scène Alain Scoff, il allait trouver l’opportunité de jouer la comédie. Il joua dans la pièce d’Alain Scoff "J’ai confiance dans mon pays". Il enchaîna des rôles au théâtre, à la télévision et au cinéma jusqu’en 2004.
Entre 1982 – avec "Deux ou trois rendez-vous" (Slatkine, 1982), qui sera réédité dans une nouvelle version au Dilettante sous le titre "Plop!" en 2005 – et 2009, il publia 13 romans et quatre pièces de théâtre, dont certains ont étéb primés: "Monsieur Henri" (prix des Deux Magots 1995), "Comédien" (prix Valery-Larbaud 2000), et "Dix-neuf secondes" (prix du roman Fnac 2003). L’Académie française lui décerna le prix Mottart en 1992 et le prix Amic en 2007.
Auparavant, il avait publié des chroniques dans le magazine de bande dessinée "Pilote". En bande dessinée, il est le scénariste de deux albums avec Chantal Montellier : "Le Sang de la commune" (Futuropolis, 1982) et "La Toilette" (Futuropolis, 1983).
Il s’occupa également de la traduction de BD américaines pour l'éditeur Futuropolis. Il a également traduit des auteurs anglo-saxons comme Dave Eggers, Justin Cronin ou encore James Lasdun.
Il est inhumé à Paris, au cimetière du Père-Lachaise (53e division).

Sep E. Scott (b. 1879)

1879 March 19 - 1965 month? day?
Scott studied at the Royal College of Art in London. He exhibited his landscape and portrait paintings at the Royal Academy and was elected an associate of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1919, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1920 and Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1927.
He became a poster and book illustrator, creating World War I propaganda posters and advertising posters for Lifebuoy Soap, Mars Chocolate and Players cigarettes as well as railway advertising posters.
In 1948, he started working for Amalgamated Press contributing strips and covers for Knockout, Sun and Thriller Comics Library.

Alan Sulman (b. 1919)

1919 March 19
Sulman created the Blonde Phantom for Marvel Comics (under its Timely predecessor name).

Sulman wrote Biff Bronson, from 1939 to 1941, and Socko Strong, from 1939 to 1940, for DC. He ghost wrote for his brother Joseph some Zatara the Magician scripts for DC (stories currently unknown).

Sulman served in support capacity for Marvel as a staff script and story editors from 1941 until drafted into the military during February 1942. Sulman worked for Marvel as a writer for the Blonde Phantom, from 1946 to 1947. He credited by Marvel as working as an assistant editor, during 1947, and then as editor, from 1948 to 1950 and off an on until 1958, though Sulman referred to it as more akin to being a script editor.

Sulman also wrote for Marvel, Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and Eustace Hayseed, but which stories are currently unknown. He did production work for the men's adventure magazine Male under editor Arthur Goodman in the later 1950s. In the early 1960s, for about 3-4 years, worked as editor for Humorama magazine under Abe Goodman.

Sulman did support work as editor for Ace Periodicals from 1951 to 1952.

Sulman wrote for Cracked (Major Publications, 1958 series) in 1958.

力蔵 (b. 1989)

1989 March 19
Rikizo (力蔵) is a manga artist and illustrator whose career started in 2016. Known for being the artist on the series Sekai Saikyou no Kouei: Meikyuukoku no Shinjin Tansakusha (世界最強の後衛 ~迷宮国の新人探索者~ / The World's Strongest Rearguard: Labyrinth Country's Novice Seeker).

Haile Hendrix (b. 1897)

1897 March 18 - 1953 August 12
Syndication work:
Chronic Grouches (US Feature Service) 1919-XX-XX - 1919-XX-XX [Writer, pencils, and inks. Only known in 1919.];
Chronic Grouches (Columbia Newspaper Service) 1925-XX-XX - 192X-XX-XX [Writer, pencils, and inks.]
Famous Fans daily (US Feature Service) 1919-XX-XX - 1919-XX-XX [Writer, pencils, and inks. Only known in 1919.];
Famous Fans daily (Columbia Newspaper Service) 1924-XX-XX - 1930-XX-XX [Writer, pencils, and inks.]

Non-syndicated comic strip work:
The Crow's Nest daily ? (El Dorado Times) 1925-XX-XX - 1926-XX-XX [Writer, pencils, and inks. A "serio-comic" column.];
The Crow's Nest daily ? (Little Rock Daily News and El Dorado Daily News) 1926-XX-XX - 1926-XX-XX [Writer, pencils, and inks. A "serio-comic" column.]

Haile Hendrix worked many jobs but is best known as a cartoonist and caricaturist. He worked as a cartoonist and/or caricaturist and/or columnist/reporter for the Wichita Eagle (Wichita, Kansas) from about 1914 to 1916, Pratt Daily Tribune (Pratt, Kansas) for one week in 1920, The Hutchinson Gazette (Hutchinson, Kansas) 1920 known, Los Angeles Express (Los Angeles, California) at least during 1924, The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana) before 1926 known, El Dorado Times (El Dorado, Arkansas) from 1925 to spring 1926 known, Little Rock Daily News (Little Rock, Arkansas) and El Dorado Daily News (El Dorado, Arkansas) together during Spring 1926 known, The Journal Herald (Dayton, Ohio) during the early 1940s (from 1941 to 1945 known), New York Times (New York City, New York) dates unknown, New York Herald-Tribune (New York City, New York) dates unknown, New York World-Telegram (New York City, New York) dates unknown, Kansas City Journal-Post (Kansas City, Missouri) dates unknown, and the New York Daily Investment News (New York City, New York) dates unknown.

Hendrix did a lot of traveling and much of his work in cartoons and caricatures were done free-lance for area newspapers in an effort to earn money during his travels. So some work for newspapers does not mean he was necessarily employed by that newspaper. This was especially true during his 1920 bicycle ride across the United States.

From September 12, 1946, to 1952, Hendrix was the owner, editor, and illustrator for Caricature (Haile Hendrix, 1945 ? series), a Greenwich Village, New York-based newspaper.

Michael J. Vassallo (b. 1961)

1961? March 18
Michael J. Vassallo, DDS is a noted historian of Marvel's Timely and Atlas-era comic books and pulp magazines. He has authored multiple books on the subjects, and has contributed to several reprint collections of stories from those periods by writing introductions, curating the material, or serving as editor.

けろりん (b. 19??)

19??? March 18
Madoka Ishikawa (pen name: Kerorin) is a manga creator living in Yokohama, active since circa 1998 and currently working mainly on erotic manga for Wanimagazine and GOT Comics.

山高守人 (b. 1991)

1991 March 18
Morito Yamataka (山高守人) is a manga artist. Works include the adaptation of the anime Carole & Tuesday (キャロル&チューズデイ) and the series Kenki, Saku (剣姫、咲く).

月村了衛 (b. 1963)

1963 March 18
Writer and novelist. Co-creator of the El Hazard video game which received a manga adaptation.

青井秋 (b. ????)

????? March 18
Aki Aoi (青井秋) is a manga artist and illustrator known for the one-shot Hyakusou no Uraniwa (百草の裏庭).

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