Welcome on this blog full of information about British comics and offcourse the comics.
A British comic is a periodical published in the United Kingdom that contains comic strips. It is generally referred to as a comic or a comic magazine, and historically as a comic paper.
British comics are usually comics anthologies which are typically aimed at children, and are published weekly, although some are also published on a fortnightly or monthly schedule. The top three longest-running comics in the world, The Dandy, The Beano, and Comic Cuts, are all British, although in modern times British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and Japanese manga.
You can access the information and comics through the sidebar.
The comics are mostly in packages from around 100mb, inside these rar-packages you will find the comics in cbr format.
There are no DC Thomson related comics on the site, because i had to remove these.
You can view the comics with any cbr-reader like CDisplay or ComicRack.
Most comics are from the 50’s-80’s with some 90’s.
I only place issues from last century,
so no issues newer than the year 1999.
I did not scan the comics myself only collect them from various sites on the internet, internet archive, Usenet Newsgroups and torrents.
So thanks to all the scanners and uploaders.
This blog is purely ment to preserve the comics and to enjoy them, no financial meanings are involved, if you like the comics buy them as long as they are availabe, because nothing can beat the feeling of reading a real comic.
If you find something wrong (downloads, numbering, information) please let me know so that i can correct the error.
Thanks to the following sites for the information :
British Comics 
Just a quick note to Boutje to say thanks for all the wonderful work youve done over the years maintaining these sites and giving us all a chance to relive childhood memories. Also thanks to the scanners and uploaders.
Have to say that its a shame Rebellion have got involved. I fully understand theyre within their rights to do so, but also have to question how much money theyve actually lost from a sharing site like this. I could understand if everything is available to purchase elsewhere, but im guessing theyre not. I cant think that the original artists and authors have made any money from these for years and probably have no way of doing so. You have to wonder how far they will go. Stop people from selling on ebay? I hardly think so, even though the principle is exactly the same.
On a personal note, my quest to get all Roy of The Rovers comics may well have come to an end. Either that or I will have to purchase myself and use my pitiful knowledge to scan them myself. Maybe whomever has been uploading them can contact me directly.
Once again, thanks for everything Boutje and I truly. truly hope that this isnt the end.
Darren
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It will be a huge shame to see this site go. Even if it’s not being updated it would be nice to see the remaining material left still available for reference.
I feel honoured to have been able to contribute occasional pieces here and there but whatever contribution I’ve made has been dwarfed by the literal hours of pleasure I’ve had from this amazing archive. I think if I’d known as a kid that this place would one day exist then I would have exploded with excitement – and also frustration that I wouldn’t be able to access it for another four decades.
It’s a small thing but can I say how happy I am that you were able to complete Lion before the axe fell. Finally being able to see all the early Robot Archie strips made me incredibly happy and it’s sad to think that if they’d been scanned even a month later we would have missed out.
I’m sorry this is the end, but you only regret endings when the journey there has been so special – and this site was always truly special.
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Thanks so much for all your work and organisation over the years Boutje. This British Comics site will have given surprise and enjoyment to many thousands of perople over the years – not many people can say they have done that!
Thanks also to all the scanners – Lee McDaid, Kate H, Boombox T and all the others too numerous to mention. Take a bow all of you!
If I had just discovered this site and all that was on it was Marvel UK, Eagle and Alan Class etc I would still have been utterly delighted with the content. However, I can completely understand that losing Rebellion/IPC associated stuff must have felt like the site was being eviscerated; and you might be wondering ‘whatever problem next’? If it feels right for you to close British Comics WordPress Boutje, then that’s the right decision.
I hope that that poster’s strange DC Thomson query awhile back had nothing to do with this. If he was involved ‘Bad Cess’ to that poster say I!
I’ll raise a glass to the scanners, Boutje, Freaky and the other bird supporters this evening.
Take care all
Kris
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I am very sorry. A dear habit will be lost.
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Many thanks for this blog. It’ll be strange not to come here.
Fellow comments: anyone trying to download everything they can? A post to r/DataHoarder could help (I deleted my Reddit account a while ago…). It’d be good if a lot of people had a backup.
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Many thanks for this blog. It’ll be strange not to come here.
Fellow commenters: anyone trying to download everything they can? A post to r/DataHoarder could help (I deleted my Reddit account a while ago…). It’d be good if a lot of people had a backup.
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So sorry this has happened, not for me, but for you Boutje. You have done a fantastic job over the years.
Others have made the points that I would like to make, perhaps more clearly than I could manage, but it seems to me, as someone who knows a wee bit about the world of comics, that most of the material you have been told to take down will seldom, if ever, be reprinted. Yes, JD, 2000AD, Misty, some other titles, will always have a bit of an audience but those old girls’ titles, Boys Own, even early pocket libraries have very limited appeal nowadays, especially in a hardback or reprint comic. New paper, re-sized, sometimes re-coloured, sometimes edited, puts existing readers off a bit and a new, young generation of readers wont come on board in any great numbers as it’s all old and yesterday’s entertainment in most young peoples’ eyes.
So, all that old material will sit there protected by copyright unlikely ever to see the light of day again. But I’m old. Nostalgia for newsprint comics, and the scans of those old papers on this site is what I enjoy.
Thank you so much for all the great reading.
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There is no need to close the site.
The DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) is an American law, so it only applies to American citizens, and only to acts done within the USA. You are not an American, and you do not live in the USA, so the Act does not apply to you. If your web servers are also outside the USA, there is in practice no action that can be taken against you under the DMCA.
You are only bound by laws that exist in your own country, not by laws that only apply in the United States of America.
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And what if WordPress is an US based company ?
Automattic Inc. is an American global distributed company which was founded in August 2005 and is most notable for WordPress.com (a freemium blogging service), as well as its contributions to WordPress (an open source blogging software).
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Rebellion are not within their rights to be doing this.
These comics were published in England. In English law, the publisher of a comic (or a book) only has what is called ‘publishers copyright’, which only lasts for 25 years (under the 1956 and 1988 Copyright Acts of the UK). Comics published in the 20th century, i.e. over 25 years ago, no longer have a valid publisher’s copyright, it has expired.
It does not matter what rights IPC used to have. IPC was only the publisher, so if it sold its rights to Rebellion they only have what IPC had, which is a copyright that only lasts for 25 years from the date of publication.
For example, an issue of a comic published in, say, 1960 lost its publisher’s copyright 25 years later, in 1985.
Rebellion is bound by the UK law, because it would have to sue in a UK court to enforce a UK copyright. It is making empty threats if it claims to own the publisher’s copyright in periodicals that were published in the UK more than 25 years ago.
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Will people please stop suddenly becoming ‘armchair lawyers’ and pretending you know what you are on about regarding copyright law? Enough of this. All you are doing is spreading misleading information and confusion!
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Mr Amstrad is now going to tell us why, in his opinion, the copyright law of the UK does not apply to Rebellion. Or perhaps he isn’t…
For anyone who cares to look, you can find a summary of UK copyright law on Wikipedia. It only took me 10 minutes to find the above details.
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Copyright law in the UK protects creative works from being copied, distributed, performed, or adapted without permission. The primary legislation governing copyright law in the UK is the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Here are some things to know about copyright law in the UK:
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The comics themselves perhaps, but probably not the associated trademarks. Rebellion would not have spent money acquiring the rights from Egmont and later IPC if they could have just done it for free.
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This is great news
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Everyone probably knows by now that Boutje’s blog has been attacked by Rebellion, who have sent WordPress.com, the site’s host, a DMCA takedown notice.
The DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) is an American law, so it only applies to American citizens, and only to acts done within the USA.
The DMCA notice can be effective against Boutje, even though he is not an American and does not live in the USA, because it attacks WordPress.com, the website he hosts his comics blog on, which is an American company.
He could operate his blog on a website outside the USA, and be immune from the DMCA: his mistake was to use an American site to host his blog on.
He could also fight the DMCA claim, by filing a counter-notice, if Rebellion are claiming to own the publisher’s copyright in comics published more than 25 years ago in the UK, as UK law (in the 1988 Copyright Act) limits the duration of publisher’s copyright to 25 years only, and that time has now expired (for the pre-1999 comics he has posted on his blog).
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Why should *Boutje* be doing any of that? Seriously? Why can’t you do it?
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https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/contents
Where is everyone getting this 25 years number from. It’s 70 years. SEVENTY YEARS minimum! Follow the link and read!!!
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