The swamp thing is a fictional superhero in american comic books published by dc comics. Is there a free comic book databasecatalog software that you guys would recommend. Since he did seem to be a fairly quick artist i dont think he took breaks on asm when they were biweekly in the summer, maybe someone in editorial pointed to him as someone who could fill in on the title in a pinch. Please fill out the following form to report an issue missing from the database. Give our search a try, take a look at the menu to the left to see how you can help us improve the site, or use to track and manage your comic collection. Find the value of the dc comic swamp thing volume 1. The comic art database can be used by individuals to record and track their collections or wish lists for their own use and records. Is there a free comic book databasecatalog software that. Sixty years of the worlds favorite comic book heroes little, brown, 1995 series 1995. With modernday issues explored against a backdrop of horror, swamp things stories became commentaries on environmental, political and social issues, unflinching in their relevance. All portions of the grand comics database, except where noted otherwise, are ed by the gcd and are licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 4. Beliefnet article on ben grimm and jewish comic book writers.
Before watchmen, alan moore made his debut in the u. Except where otherwise noted, content on this wiki is licensed under the following license. He is a mass of vegetable matter that absorbed the memories. The grand comics database gcd is an ongoing international project to build a detailed comicbook database that will be easy to use and understand, and also easy for contributors to add information to it. Search our free comic book database and keep track of your comic book collection online with full comic details, cover images, and current market values. Here are a few of the new releases to the comichaus app download for free and try free for 14 days. Below are just some of our featured print comics for sale direct from indie publishers. The grand comics database gcd is a nonprofit, internetbased organization of international volunteers dedicated to building an open database covering all printed comics throughout the world. This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
To create a series or add a work to it, go to a work page. Volume 1 volume 2 annuals volume 3 volume 4 volume 5 annuals volume 6 see also variant covers. Swamp thing volume 5 variant covers, swamp thing volume 5 variant covers, textless covers. I need to create a small access database for a local comic book store that needs a way to track issues that customers would like to purchase if they are ever sold to the store. This series finds the swamp thing joined to the earth itself, surpassing even his old power as the. Beginning with the first underground comix from the 1960s to the works of modern sequential artists, this collection will contain more than 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, along with 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and. They have a nice searchable database of comics, with about 300,000 comics logged into their database.
Snyder has made a career of writing scripts that appeal to people that arent sold on the brightly colored world of comic books, so expect swamp thing to do. The fictional character the swamp thing has appeared in five american comic book series to date, including several specials, and has crossed over into other dc comics titles. Create a small access database for comic book store. Comics from swamp thing vol 1 collections from swamp. This is a case where the title of the site is quite appropriate it really is a grand comic book database. Alan moore confirms his retirement from comic books. The fictional character the swamp thing has appeared in five american comic book series to date, including several specials, and has crossed over into other. However, thanks to websites like comic book plus, which host hundreds of comics online, usually much lesser known ones, that have fallen into the public domain. Comic vine isnt the only comic book database around. A good rule of thumb is that series have a conventional name and are intentional creations, on the part of the author or publisher. Now directly connect to your clz barry barcode scanning app.
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Unique page identifier upi all registered art pages are assigned a unique page identifier upi which is a unique number to identify individual pieces. Comics are a way of creating a universe and populating it with characters using a secret code that works in the simplest and most direct way possible to enter the readers brain. Quinlan and irwin hasen, debuted in issue of crash comics, in the next year. Comics wolverine and swamp thing cocreator len wein has died. The fictional character the swamp thing has appeared in five american comic book series to date, including. We are temporarily closed in accordance with coronvirus mitigation orders from the governor of texas. Swamp thing sneaks aboard a train to the louisiana swamp where he was born.
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