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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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Michael Davis (b. 1958)

1958 April 29
Worked support as a colorist at Marvel 1985, and at DC 1989 to 1998, and as the director of talent development at Milestone 1991 to 1992.

Wilfred H. Fawcett (b. 1885)

1885 April 29 - 1940 February 7
Founder, owner, and publisher of Fawcett Publications from 1919 until his death in 1940. Founded Fawcett Comics in 1940.

Fawcett joined the U.S. Army at the age of 16 in 1902. He served two years and was wounded during the Philippine-American War that resulted in his return to the United States. In 1908, Fawcett became a clerk with the Railway Mail Service. He later joined the Minneapolis Journal as a police cub reporter. During the First World War, Fawcett re-enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1918 and served as a Captain working for the Star and Stripes newspaper. It was his time in the Army that he came to be known as Captain Billy and decided to become a publisher himself. In 1919, he created the humor and cartoon magazine Captain Billy's Whiz Bang.

Hallie Lambert (b. 1983)

1983 April 29
Actress and writer, whose writing credits include episodes of the Expanse TV series.

Frank Shuster (b. 1918)

1918 April 29 - 1996 month? day?
Younger brother of Superman co-creator Joe Shuster; worked as a letterer in the Siegel-Shuster studio. He served as a Warrant Officer in World War II from November 1942 to March 1946, though continued to contribute lettering to the Superman strip through October 1943.

Jen Soska (b. 1983)

1983 April 29
Jen Soska is the identical twin of her writing partner, Sylvia. In addition to their comics work, they have been actors, stunt performers, writers, directors and producers in the film industry.

Sylvia Soska (b. 1983)

1983 April 29
Sylvia Soska is the identical twin of her writing partner, Jen. In addition to their comics work, they have been actors, stunt performers, writers, directors and producers in the film industry.

Jack Williamson (b. 1908)

1908 April 29 - 2006 November 10
Jack Williamson was a science fiction writer, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction" (especially after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988).

By the 1930s he was an established genre author, and the teenaged Isaac Asimov was thrilled to receive a postcard from Williamson, whom he had idolized, which congratulated him on his first published story and offered "welcome to the ranks". Williamson remained a regular contributor to the pulp magazines but did not achieve financial success as a writer until many years later.

An unfavorable review of one of his books, which compared his writing to that of a comic strip, brought Williamson to the attention of The New York Sunday News, which needed a science fiction writer for a new comic strip. Williamson wrote the strip Beyond Mars (1952–55), loosely based on his novel Seetee Ship, until the paper dropped all comics.

Beginning 1954 and continuing into the 1990s, Williamson and Frederik Pohl wrote more than a dozen science fiction novels together, including the series Jim Eden, Starchild, and Cuckoo. Williamson continued to write as a nonagenarian and won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards during the last decade of his life, by far the oldest writer to win those awards.

雪村ゆに (b. ????)

????? April 29
Yuni Yukimura (雪村ゆに) is a manga artist. Known for the manga adaptaton of the light novel series Hariko no Otome (針子の乙女).

Eros Kara (b. 1929)

1929 April 28 - 2011 March 11
Eros Kara studied art in Milan and moved to Rome where he created posters for films. In 1959 he returned to Sardinia where he founded the magazine Mediterranea. In 1970, he devoted himself to producing comics and later returned to producing paintings.

James Mitchell (b. 1949)

1949 April 28
Underground artist (not the Disney or Marvel artist).