Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels This comics database covers often hard-to-find comics, from the 1950s on with such figures as Basil Wolverton and Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Harvey Pekar, Spain Rodriguez, and Vaughn Bode, and modern masters including Peter Bagge, Kim Deitch, Dave Sim, Dan Clowes, and Los Bros in Volume I and pre-Comics Code material in Volume II, including works by Alex Toth, Boody Rogers, Fletcher Hanks, Steve Ditko, Joe Kubert, Bill Everett, Joe Simon, and Jack Kirby, along with series, such as Crime Does Not Pay and Mister Mystery, and a global scope.