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world, The Dandy, The Beano, and Comic Cuts, are all British, although in modern times British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and Japanese manga.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.dandare

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 :

UK Comics Wiki

Grand Comics Database

Wikipedia

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  1. Baby burpo says:

    On 24 March, 2020 it was mentioned on euronews that

    Albert Uderzo, the cartoonist behind the famous French Astérix and Obélix comic series, has died at the age of 92.

    “Albert Uderzo died in his sleep at his home in Neuilly from a heart attack unrelated to the coronavirus,” his son-in-law Bernard de Choisy confirmed to AFP. “He had been very tired for several weeks,” he added.

    The comic series about warriors during the Gallic Wars began in a magazine in 1959. A worldwide success, there are more than 380 million comics sold, and they have been translated into more than 110 languages and dialects.
    The writer of the comics René Goscinny died in 1977.

    Uderzo was born in 1927 and his drawings showed promise even as a child.
    Around the age of ten, according to his biography, he began to draw characters with big noses, a characteristic that would continue in his work.

    After the Second World War, Uderzo published his drawings in magazines and participated in the production of cartoons. He met his future sidekick on Astérix in 1951.

    Uderzo sketched the famous French cartoon character in 35 volumes, from the first “Astérix le Gaulois” released in 1961 until 2009 with “L’Anniversaire d’Astérix et Obélix – Le Livre d’or” which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the series.

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    • M.R.P.P says:

      My heartiest sympathy for the funaral of a great cartoonist Albert Uderzo co creator of Asterics comics, which is still a favourite comic among the children of world.
      M.R.P.P.

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  2. ComicReader says:

    @boutje777 really enjoying reading old copies of Sction from here .Thanks for making them available

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  3. ComicReader says:

    I meant Action, I spelt it Sction

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  4. Here are six issues of Rainbow (different to the series you have on this site). Very little information is known about this series. It is based on a UK tv show of the same name. I have 150+ issues I will be scanning.

    https://mega.nz/folder/3ToVQACS#YndvBG0Ijj9A-f8VR32e3w

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    • boutje777 says:

      Thanks, great find, although some of the Thriller are allready in the last update, i have to place them on their page still. Never the less some nice new issues.

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  5. Tim says:

    Just stumbled across this absolutely amazing site.
    Thank you for your fantastic work.

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  6. boutje777 says:

    I didn’t get one. What do you mean exactly with sent to this site ? You mean a copy sent to the britishcomics blog ? I don’t believe you can sent emails to the blog, only to someone who leaves an emailadress in a comment.

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  7. ComicReader says:

    In Action dated 27 March 1976 I noticed an error in Dredger.The first panel has a picture of the Daily Globe with a story about a prison breakout by three men, Jim and George MacKay and a third James reilly. But in the accompanying Globe photo the MacKays are referred to as Bill and George.

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  8. ComicReader says:

    sorry i see i am being moderated. i am not a spammer. i was just showing you the content. I am here for the comics

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    • cjkerry says:

      Everyone is moderated. Our host has to make sure that no one is doing something inappropriate or defaming anyone.

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    • boutje777 says:

      Sometimes i don’t even moderate myself, but WordPress has antispambots. If you have any problems you have to address to WordPress. You’re second comment is just an advertisement for a company and that is inappropriate because like you said it’s a blog for comics and therefore considered as spam and your first comment has a link for that company, therefore removed. How they find out you’re emailaddress i don’t know, i don’t believe the adresses of users can be seen unless they aprove so themself.

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  9. Here are the two most sought-after missing editions of ‘Smash!’ –

    Smash #160 [22-02-1969] huckyc.cbr
    https://www.mediafire.com/file/oxmksekaupwpbfc/Smash_160%5B22-02-69%5Dhuckyc.cbr/file

    Smash #162 [08-03-1969] huckyc.cbr
    https://www.mediafire.com/file/t6dq4uewberlx9t/Smash_162%5B08-03-69%5Dhuckyc.cbr/file

    With thanks to clive huckstepp who kindly scanned these.

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    • boutje777 says:

      Thanks, i will save these for the next update.

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    • Jacko says:

      Thanks for these 2 issues of Smash! and thank to huckyc for scanning them. These are major gap fillers.

      After Smash! #162, the comic was relaunched by IPC with a new look and new stories. I have a special request regarding issue #164 (Smash! 22-03-1969).This issue of Smash! is difficult to read in some parts due to the poor quality of the existing scan.This was first reported by Tommers back in July 2019. A better quality scan of this issue would be much appreciated.

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    • Tommers says:

      Wonderful, cheers Stephen (and Clive). My compilation of Bunsen’s Burner (which crosses the shift to IPC) is now complete!

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  10. boutje777 says:

    I’ve updated the Compilations Blog with 100+ compilations from 2000AD.

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  11. ComicReader says:

    boutje777 no problem. Didn’t want to think i was spamming. They must have got my email from a comment

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  12. ranger1813 says:

    Hi, has anybody got a numbering guide for Battle, if not, can anybody tell me if Battle was issued on the following dates: 19th January 1980, 26th January 1980, 2nd February 1980, 9th February 1980, 17th May 1980, 24th May 1980, 31st May 1980 and 7th June 1980. If no issue was published on these dates why was that. Cheers for any help, Phil.

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    • Thomas Meade says:

      There were no issues for those dates. The lack of issues was due to a strike/industrial action by the printers (if my memory serves me correct).

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  13. ranger1813 says:

    cheers Thomas, appreciate the quick response, had a thought that was the reason but was not sure. Phil.

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  14. petomantis says:

    Here are a couple of Playhour compilations. Hopefully someone can identify the artists involved:

    When Knights Were Bold
    http://www.mediafire.com/file/v6j0yxr6oumdp76
    The Jolly Adventures of Simon Simple
    http://www.mediafire.com/file/uhl2kkaumzaqhfy

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