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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.

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GCD Comics Timeline

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Luigi Corteggi (b. 1933)

1933 June 21 - 2018 July 26
Luigi Corteggi was an Italian comics artist, art director, painter and illustrator. He is best known as the art director for Sergio Bonelli Editore, for which he oversaw the production of such books as 'Ken Parker', 'Mister No', 'Martin Mystère' and 'Dylan Dog.

Robert Kraus (b. 1925)

1925 June 21 - 2001 August 7
Robert Krauss won a cartoon contest hosted by the Milwaukee Journal at the age of ten. He went on to freelance for various magazines, including Collier's, Life, and The Saturday Evening Post.
More than 400 of his cartoons appeared in The New Yorker and he drew 21 covers for the magazine. He also wrote, illustrated and edited more than 100 children's books and was president and founder of children's book publisher Windmill Books. A selection of his work, largely New Yorker cartoons, is archived at the Syracuse University Libraries Special Collections Research Center.

青山剛昌 (b. 1963)

1963 June 21
Mangaka best known as the creator of Case Closed.

Bob Butts (b. 1919)

1919 June 20 - 2008 May 26
Assistant backgrounds on Mike Hammer strip for Phoenix Features circa 1953.

George Delacorte (b. 1893)

1893 June 20 - 1991 May 4
George T. Delacorte Jr. was an American magazine publisher. He founded the Dell Publishing Company in 1921. The company was one of the largest publishers of books, magazines, and comics during its heyday.

Guy Dorian Sr. (b. 1969)

1969 June 20
First major comics work was pencils on Marvels "The New Warriors" in 1991. He has worked as a comcis artist for Marvel, DC, IDW and Storm King Productions. Outside of comics he has produced non-comic art for Marvel Entertainment, Just Toys, 20th Century Fox and Capital One.

Justin F. Gabrie (b. ????)

????? June 20
Initially credited as Fred (or Freddy) Mendez. Then changed his name to Justin F. Gabrie for family reasons.

Gabrie did pencil work for Marvel in 1993 but primarily worked as support as a colorist for Marvel from 1989 to 1995. He was also an assistant editor for Marvel from circa 1993 to 1995.

He continued with Archie as an editor, from 1995 to about 2003.

Gabrie returned to Marvel and worked as Director of Publishing Operations and Managing Editor, from April 2005 to August 2011.

Sedat Oezgen (b. 1984)

1984 June 20
Moved to Germany in 1985.

Joe Letterese (b. 1917)

1917 June 19 - 1991 June 3
Letterer at DC Comics from 1950 to 1992.

Greil Marcus (b. 1945)

1945 June 19
Author, journalist and critic.