Class Resources: Grand Comics Database

The GCD is an amazing research tool, cataloging thousands of comic book issues.

Although it’s becoming rarer and rarer these days, comic books used to come out as single periodicals every month or so. The GCD lets you search through all those mountains of pamphlets to find information like the artists responsible, the original date of publication, what the cover looked like, and sometimes a little description of what actually happened in the issue.