The Grand Comic Book Database

The Funny Site of the Day -- Nowadays, when the subject of comic books appears, the talk is about superheroes. What's that deal? The word ''comic'' means funny. In my childhood, which I fully intend to extend another 50 years or so, I've gravitated to nutty comic periodicals, like Scrooge McDuck, Sad Sack, The Adventures of Jerry Lewis, Bugs Bunny, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons, and especially Peanuts and MAD.

Batman and Superman were for losers, meaning: my big brothers.

The Grand Comic Book Database is a major resource. To date, more than 150,000 issues have been indexed. The goal is to catalog story, creator, and other information for "all the comic books ever published." And that practice embraces the comic ones, too.

The real joys for me are the extensive, full-color cover art galleries. Performing simple on-site searches, I was tickled to uncover these series and many others: The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, The Adventures of Jerry Lewis, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (Notice how Bob "Maynard" Denver is Jerry with a goatee.), The Adventures of Bob Hope, The Ren & Stimpy Show, The Simpsons, and Jackie Gleason and the Honeymooners.

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