The Comic Book Sound Effect Database

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Spotlighting the "Sock! Pow! Zok!" that give comics a voice, celebrating the onomatopoeia.
The database contains 3,180 sound effects from 319 comics.

December 31, 2025

Another New Year's Eve, another update! The next nine DC Comics with January 1960 cover dates are now in the database. There are 277 new sound effects (DC war comics have a ton!), bringing the site total to 3,180 from 319 comics. Again, I'm skipping the text descriptions and most of the tags in the interest of adding more effects faster.

May 24, 2025

I've jumped over to DC for a bit, adding 10 comics with January 1960 cover dates. The 189 new sound effects brings the site total to 2,903 from 310 comics. For now, I'm skipping the text descriptions and most of the tags in the interest of adding more effects, but I'll go back and add them in soon.

December 31, 2024

It's New Year's Eve, and so this is my annual site update! This year I was able to add the remaining 10 Marvel comics from September 1963, bringing the site total up to 2,714 sound effects from a landmark 300 comics! In the next year, I plan to implement my idea from two years ago to add pictures more quickly and then go back to add tags and descriptions later. So look for more frequent updates in 2025!

December 31, 2023

This is my annual New Year's Eve update to say, yes, I am still updating this site!

It was another busy year for me, and I only managed to add three comics this year, bringing the total to 2,568 sound effects from 290 comics. I've also done a decent amount of work behind the scenes, and I remain hopeful that I can continue updating in 2024!

December 31, 2022

Just checking in before the new year to say yes, this site is still live and being updated (slowly) behind the scenes.

I hope to be more active in the coming year as I institute a new process to add in pictures and going back to check tags later. This should get many more comics on the site much more quickly.

As one example of a new feature, I'm working on adding "variants" of sound effects, when the colors or lettering in reprints differs from the original comic. Clicking on an image will show the variants, where available. Here's an example.

I've continued adding comics over the past year, listed below. I departed from my usual month-by-month additions to put in the first nine X-Men comics, with the kind assistance of letterer Kevin Lintz. Thanks Kevin!

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