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world, The Dandy, The Beano, and Comic Cuts, are all British, although in modern times British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and Japanese manga.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 
boutje777, I recently acquired a copy of the poster that was included with Battle Picture Weekly issue number 2 (15/03/1975). I’ll scan it next week when I have a day off work and will add it to the cbr file and will upload it in case you want to include it in the archive.
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Thanks, that sounds great, i will update the BPW 2 with it.
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So, I would be interested in hearing some stories about your love of British comics to all who use this site! I’m 49, and so was still in single figures in terms of age when we hit 1980. At that age, I absolutely loved The Beezer and The Topper. I clearly remember when they were both ‘broadsheet newspaper’ sized, before they were reduced, and I loved that feel of opening them up just like a newspaper! I also loved Buster, Whizzer & Chips and Whoopee. I remember a friend of mine in junior school absolutely loving 2000ad and talking about that comic a lot. We once had an arts class where we had to make papier mache models of our choosing, and he made the spaceship that featured in Ace Trucking & Co – and he was only bloody 9 or 10 ! I never got into 2000ad until my mid 20s to be honest, and was then lucky enough to find a market stall selling old comics where I bought stacks of back issues from the late 70s onwards.
I remember once, when I was maybe 10 years old in 1981, my sister coming back from the dentists holding a copy of Secrets Of The Unknown, one of the many Alan Class comics. I stole it off her and, to me, it was a revelation. I had never encountered a comic like this before. So on my regular Saturday morning trips to one of the nearby towns with my dear grandfather, I finally found a shop that regularly stocked all the Alan Class comics and ended up loving Uncanny Tales, Suspense, Creepy Worlds and all the others!
I also have suchs trong memories of buying comics for their free gifts – the pop pistol/spud gun from issue 1 of Buddy is a strong memory! As are transfers and stickers from various comics, along with coupons to get free packets of skips, and of course, Panini sticker albums such as Pete’s Dragon, The Aristocats and Buck Rogers, given away with various comics back in the day!
So, let’s hear some of your stories now! 🙂 🙂
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I loved comics from my Dad getting comics like Beano, Beezer, and Roy Of The Rovers and passing it on to me. I’m 42 and was getting Beano, Dandy, Beezer, Topper, Roy Of The Rovers, Whizzer and Chips, and Big Comic book from being about 4 in 1982 then in 1986 I got Beano weekly and collected them from 2006. I even used to go markets and book stores to collect annuals and comics from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Finding this to download comics was a dream. I was gutted when dc Thompson stuff was stopped as Beano, Beezer, and Topper was my favourites but I still love to come here to collect other comics I love and enjoyed since childhood like Roy Of The Rovers, and Whizzer and Chips. But also like to collect here Whoopee, Look In, and TV Comic.
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Comics were a huge part of my childhood. I didn’t have a great childhood so comics and books were an escape for me. My mother always tells the story of me reading a comic to another child while she was signing me up for school. The other kid’s parent said to my mother that she must have read it a lot to me that I was able to recite it from memory and their jaw dropping when my mother said that I had only gotten it five minutes earlier in the shop. Battle and 2000AD were my main ones (I had a weekly order in the newsagents for them) but I also read The Beano, The Dandy, Victor, Warlord, Eagle, Scream, Tiger, Roy of the Rovers, Speed, Spike.
My dad wasn’t a very pleasant person to be around. He threw out a lot of my comics and books and also burned quite a lot of them in the fireplace while I was growing up. I have only a small percentage left (I recently found a box in the attic that I had rescued some of them – it’s pretty much a box full of thorn pages and books ripped apart).
This site is amazing. I have rediscovered a lot of stories and comics from my childhood. I’ve been trawling eBay over the last few years trying to rebuild my collection of comics and books.
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I’m sorry to hear that your dad behaved that way Thomas. I think many of us escaped into the world of comics to escape things that may have been going on in our home lives.
Yes, I did love The Beano and The Dandy too, just not quite as much as the IPC stuff! I do remember having the 1979 Dandy annual, the one with Korky fighting an octopus on the front, and absolutely loving that particular one.
I also clearly remember having the 1978 annuals of The Beezer and The Topper for Christmas 1977, and read them over.
And over.
And over.
Again!
The end sections of The Topper that year particularly fascinated me, with different cartoons accompanied by paragraphs describing Christmas customs from all over the world. I don’t know how accurate those were, but I remember trying to impress friends for years by telling them that a palace made of ice was once made in the United States, or that to celebrate the New Year in Skipsea in Yorkshire, young men blackened their faces and wrote the new year in chalk on peoples gates! (which, er, regarding the blackened faces thing, probably wouldn’t go down too well in this day and age… 😀 )
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Hi riaz I’m a 61-year-old and would just like to say what a fab site this is and especially sorry to hear what Thomas had to say about his childhood when mine was exactly the opposite One of my early memories was going up the shops with my mum to get the Beano dandy and Sparky and she told me one of the comics had to go they put them up an extra penny a week I reluctantly said the Sparkys got to go Then I discovered fantastic and terrific that put me onto Marvel and DC comics which was an even bigger headache for my mother Which I still have them to this day I did start getting some Beano and dandys from this site When DC Thomson pulled the plug on it I wish Id got here earlier I specially like to thank all the people that contribute to this wonderful site so many memories so many of my comics I used to collect here I just wish DC Thompson had the same passion as all you have thanks again I salute you all
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Hi Boutje,
Here’s the Jinty annual 1983.
All the best,
Shea
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/atusbvspwlukb
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Thank you, nice one.
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I remember going to my cousin’s house in Hatfield mid-60’s and reading text stories from the Hotspur called ‘ Last Rocket To Venus’ and one from Victor called (I think) ‘March Of The Ants’. LRTV was reproduced in another comic much later as a comic strip but it didn’t hold the same fascination for me as the original. My all-time favourite strip was however ‘Toys of Doom’ from Buster in the 60s..
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I’m afraid you’re a little older than me so i don’t recall the strips you mention! However, I do remember Victor. It was a comic that I bought as a last resort on a week when I had already bought all my favourite comics… 😀 😀 😀 I’m afraid I was never into war comics. My dear grandfather fought in the 2nd World War, and would try and get me interested in comics that depicted those kind of stories and strips, but I am afraid I was just never that intrigued by them.
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David Walker, my recollection is slightly different, in that as best I recall the text story you describe as ‘March of the Ants’ is one I seem to remember from the 1960s as being in ‘Hotspur’. I could be mistaken. But I don’t recall there being text stories in ‘Victor’.
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‘Toys of Doom’ was reprinted in “Smash!” from 7th February 1970, under the title ‘Threat of the Toymaker’.
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Hello I’m looking for Buster Fortnightly 130 Final Ever Issue?
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Hi Boutje,
Here’s the Jinty annual 1984.
All the best,
Shea
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/atusbvspwlukb
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Thank you, well done again.
All the best.
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My Dad banned me from collecting comics after he heard me age 9 repeating the word ‘phut’ coming from the funnel of a steamer on the front cover of an issue of Beano. I was still allowed to get Look and Learn’ so grew up with the astounding ‘Trigan Empire’, and we hid Commando comics and early DCs and Marvels up the chimney and under the floorboards in our bedroom. As far as we know there’s still a collection of early war comics and the classic Adam Strange Mystery In Space #90 in the attic, as that was covered by a fitted cupboad years back.
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I consider myself very lucky to have lived through what I believe was the ‘Golden Age’ of British comics, the mid-to-late 60s and early 70s. The comics I bought would change through the years, but TV Comic, TV21, Countdown, Valiant, Jet, Terrific, Score’n’Roar and Scorcher were my favourites. Not only that, but I would always receive Annuals for Christmas and whenever we went on holiday, I would always be looking for a newsagent to buy a Summer Special!
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There were some great Summer Specials. I particularly remember ‘Countdown’ (1971), ‘TV Action’ (1972), ‘Buster’ (1969), ‘Fantastic’ (1968), ‘Valiant & Smash’ (1971), ‘The Persuaders’ (1972), ‘TV Century 21’ (1965), ‘Lion’ (1974), and ‘Valiant’ (1978). Nearly all can be read here, scattered around on this site.
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Here’re a couple of Eagle compilations from 1961:
Eagle 1215 -The Golden Man.cbr (Sir Walter Raleigh)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wzffzhvtxab72hl
Eagle 1238 -Last of the Saxon Kings.cbr (Battle of Hastings)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wzffzhvtxab72hl
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Thanks, i will update these today in the Compilations Blog.
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I believe both links are pointing to Last of the Saxon Kings.
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boutje777, as promised Battle Picture Weekly 002 with the poster included. I did the best I could scanning it and pasting it together, it’s a huge poster (approximately 800mm by 510mm; that’s 31.5 inches by 20 inches for the followers of imperial measurements). There are a few spots where my pasting skills weren’t up to standard and there’s a bit of misalignment or blurring in the picture.
I tried to reduce the size of the image file to a level that would still leave it in a decent quality without being too large of a file. The uncompressed image is almost 100mb on my hard drive.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/j0bg76z5ozhn67y/file
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Thanks i will place the updated BPW with the poster in the next update so no one will miss it.
That must be a very high resolution image if it’s 100mb i guess.
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Hi Thomas. I had this poster on my wall for so long until like a lot of my comics they were turfed but not by me. Your scan is very nice and brought back memories. If you are concerned about misalignment or the size of the raw data, you might want to consider photographing the poster. I enjoy all the stuff you post. All the best M
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Would you have the issues of Radio Times with the Star Trek story?
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No sorry, i don’t have those.
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This is a compilation Ron Embleton’s series on ‘The Prizefighters’ from the Eagle:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mzpgbim2m9lxdg1/1964-Eagle-The+Prizefighters.cbr/file
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Thanks, i will update this tomorrow.
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Seeing Luis Miguel’s recent comments on artists, I just thought I’d mention that my index to ‘Once Upon a Time’ identifies most in that magazine:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/k91jjk4w3zgrpan/Once_Upon_a_Time_0-167_-_Index.rtf/file
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Thanks, that will be very useful.
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Hi Petomantis and Boutje
Petomantis thanks for sharing your fabulous Once Upon a Time’s index
Now I know that The Silver Moon’s artist is Aldo Torchio also that I have made some mistakes or inaccuracies
Ali Baba’s (Emilio Frejo) Don Lawrence only the cover
Sinbad The Sailor (John Millar Watt-Nadir Quinto) Don Lawrence only the cover
And All Sorts of .. has many artists, I was only able to find out John F. Chalkley, the rest are John Millar Watt – Neave Parker – Leslie Field Marchant – David Pratt and Bert Moss
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Luis,
As I’d actually scanned all of these beauties, I just HAD to make that Index. With so much uncredited artwork, it was a helluva job identifying artists, as you’ve learned yourself. I tended to give up on the later issues, as some of those Spanish artists had very similar styles. Shame, as I liked making artist compilations. you’ll find every issue, plus a score of compilations, at the following link:
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/dxpt2kwv0ggh3
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Petomantis
I am very thankful
Great Job
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Hello Petomantis, do you mind if make you a personal page with your compilations on the Compilations Blog ?
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I’d be delighted, Boutje, and there are 4 more compilations to add to it, links below. And would you like to add the comic strip folder from my Embleton archive? A whole lot of great strips, with only a few duplicates (from the ‘Once Upon a Time’ folder).
Nadir Quinto quintet.cbr
http://www.mediafire.com/file/le2tr96vt0u0fp4
Once 015 – Nadir Quinto – Dick Whittington
http://www.mediafire.com/file/q8fdekk47g23ty4
Once 030 – Nadir Quinto – Jack and Beanstalk
http://www.mediafire.com/file/2ubnpv65d8k7mpe
Once 031 – Angus McBride – The Enchanted Horse.cbr
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mkn1jcsnh669mq7
Embleton Archive comic strips
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/oz4kr7p6e65
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Corrected link for Embleton:
Embleton Archive comic strips
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/oz4kr7p6e65l3
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Thanks Petomantis, i will make you a personal place tomorrow on the compilationsblog.
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Always thanks to Chimp Twist, here is another wartime Buck Ryan
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mbwdmku7rg74plh/buck%20ryan%20011%20the%20mystery%20of%20sydall%20house.cbr?dl=0
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Thank you, i will make an update with this tomorrow.
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Valiant Index;
Topper Index – I know this is a title by a Scottish company that shall not be named – but its not a comic so may be useful:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/57imqoe8doy2u6g/Index.zip/file
Harrier Comics x6:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/b18rhf92ex7xxb3/Harrier.zip/file
Buster x7:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/8w5031ub3sa4wcx/file
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Thank you, great for the next update. The index will be very useful indeed.
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NEW SCAN: Rampage Weekly 028 (April 26th -1978) Marvel UK
http://www.mediafire.com/file/0z68recx4mz0h77/Rampage_Weekly_028_%2528Lee_McDaid%2529.cbz/file
Lee
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Thank you very much.
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