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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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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.

Dick Rogers (b. 1929)

1929 June 19
In the early 1960's began cartooning by assisting George Crenshaw before moving on to his own strips.

Gena Rowlands (b. 1930)

1930 June 19
Film, stage and television actress whose career spans decades. She wrote some stories for the series Crime Does Not Pay in 1952-53.

井上桃太 (b. 1985)

1985 June 19
Momota Inoue (井上桃太) is a manga artist whose output includes the series Red Enza (赤きエンザ / Akaki Enza) as well as manga adaptations of the video games Puzzle & Dragons X (パズドラクロス / Pazudora Kurosu) and Puzzle & Dragons Z (パズドラZ / Pazudora Z). Other works include multiple adaptations of the Pokemon movie series.

Michael Barnaart (b. 1983)

1983 June 18
A fashion designer by trade, Barnaart has also illustrated several stories for his favourite comic book series, Jan, Jans en de kinderen in magazine Libelle.

James Montgomery Flagg (b. 1877)

1877 June 18 - 1960 May 27
James Montgomery Flagg was an American artist, comics artist and illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his political posters.

Mark Gruenwald (b. 1953)

1953 June 18 - 1996 August 12
Long time editor of Marvel Comics.
Writer of Squadron Supreme limited series.
Co-creator of D.P.7.
After his death, as per his request, his ashes was mixed with the ink used to print Squadron Supreme (Marvel, 1987 series).

Carolyn Wells (b. 1862)

1862 June 18 - 1942 March 26
Carolyn Wells was an American writer and poet. Her first book, At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), was a collection of charades. Her next publications were The Jingle Book and The Story of Betty (1899), followed by a book of verse entitled Idle Idyls (1900). After 1900, Wells wrote numerous novels and collections of poetry.

Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. Then she devoted herself to mystery stories.

In addition to books, Wells also wrote for newspapers. Her poetry accompanies the work of some of the leading artists in illustration and cartooning, often in the form of Sunday magazine cover features that formed continuing narratives from week to week. Her first known illustrated newspaper work is a two part series titled Animal Alphabet, illustrated by William F. Marriner, which appeared in the Sunday comics section of the New York World. Many additional series ensued over the years, including the bizarre classic Adventures of Lovely Lilly (New York Herald, 1906–07). The last series she penned was Flossy Frills Helps Out (American Weekly, 1942), which appeared after her death.

吉住渉 (b. 1963)

1963 June 18
Shojo mangaka known for works like Handsome na Kanojo (ハンサムな彼女), Marmalade Boy (ママレード・ボーイ), Mint na Bokura (ミントな僕ら) and Ultra Maniac (ウルトラマニアック).