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Welcome to the Grand Comic-Book Database!

Or really, welcome to our documentation! If you're looking for the actual database it's at http://www.comics.org.

The Grand Comic-Book Database (GCD) is an ongoing international project to build a detailed comic-book database. Any questions you have that aren't covered here can be directed to the GCD Contact email list.

Info about the GCD

• General FAQ
• The GCD Charter
• Email Lists FAQ
• Searching The GCD
• Glossary
• Who's Who - roles and responsibilities at the GCD

Contributing to the GCD

• How To Contribute FAQ
• Indexing
  • Online
  • Offline
  • Formatting Documentation
  • Reservations
  • Useful Resources
• Adding or Improving Covers
• Reporting Errors with the Error Tracker
  • How to report a Missing Series
• Donations and Advertising
• Editor Documentation

FAQ contributors include: Bob Klein, Jonathan Ingersoll, Will Allred, Bob Heer, Jon Lovstad, Rob Sharp, Peter Croome, Tim Stroup, Jim Vandore and assorted GCD-Tech list folks.

Technical

• Web Site Project Page
• Current Schema
  • Current data dump: gcd_dev_data.zip
• New Schema
• New Site Testbed
  • Note: This is a testing site, so we don't guarantee it will always work, or even be running!
  • Bugzilla for Technical Issues (for the New Site only!)

Contact the gcd-tech group for more information about any of the above.

More Stuff About Comics

...that doesn't quite fit in the database.

• Publishers, Imprints and Related Companies
• Significant Appearances