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world, The Dandy, The Beano, and Comic Cuts, are all British, although in modern times British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and Japanese manga.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 
HI, here’s another Buster, 4th November 1994.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/f8g1pmwf8doz249/Buster+4th+November+1994.CBR/file
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Thank you, yet another one bites the dust.
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Buster 25th November 1994
https://www.mediafire.com/file/djxnhyvy31hukj0/Buster_25th_November_1994.CBR/file
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Thank you.
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Here’s the last of the 1994 Buster’s that I have to upload. 2nd December 1994
https://www.mediafire.com/file/6u0j18o9xrej7tj/Buster_2nd_December_1994.CBR/file
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Thank you very much.
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/u2gar2apurvwecv/Wham%2521_008.cbr/file
Hi here is my first attempt to try and upload my stash of early Wham comics to the site (which I have to say is a never ending treasure trove!).
This should be number 8.
Hope this worksas I have quite a few more to offer up.
All the best and stay safe.
Regards
Rob
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Nice one.
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Thank you very much.
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Thanks very much for one of the missing Whams, Rob. It’s a good quality scan, photos, text and illustrations are reproduced well, but I wonder if the comic is too big for your scanner, because some things are missing from the edges. I’m not complaining, it’s just an observation. I’m very grateful that you’re taking the time to do this.
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Yesmy scanner is only A4 but this one was just a test and i expect to have the first 30 issues (including a more comlete scan of issue 8 soon.would do it sooner but am the middle of a house move but it will get done !.
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Buster Fortnightly 56 [1997-03-04] (Cover needs to be fixed)
Buster Fortnightly 62 [1997-05-27] (Cover needs to be fixed)
Buster Fortnightly 69 [1997-09-02] (Cover needs to be fixed)
Buster Fortnightly 76 [1997-12-09] (Cover needs to be fixed)
Buster Fortnightly 130 [1999-12-22 ~ 2000-01-04] (only has front & back pages)
here is the link
https://mega.nz/file/FOgUzQSC#qL6ZRbp8uws0O871OUQnom8nnuybFKpYcfsHYjZsPEY
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Thank you very much.
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Morning everyone, here’s the Buster and Monster Fun Holiday Special 1993, enjoy.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/grebvx6vkref46f/Buster+and+Monster+Fun+Holiday+Special+1993.CBR/file
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Thank you that’s a keeper for the next update.
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Hi, iv’e updated the front pages of Buster Fortnightly issues 56, 62 & 69.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/e3i1bmpmfozisvj/Buster+Fortnightly,+56,+62,+69.+with+fixed+front+pages.CBR/file
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Thank you very much.
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Thanks, i can’t seem to get this download unpacked in a normal way, it keeps asking to overwrite files or not, some files i had to remove the hard way after unpacking.
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Not sure why that is, I can upload individually if you want me to.
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Yes if it’s not too annoying for you, or else only the covers you updated, i can replace the others with yours that way.
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I won’t get chance to do it today, will update it tomorrow.
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Managed to do the front pages again fo Buster Fortnightly 52,62 & 69
https://www.mediafire.com/file/dn3gwz4u2egqlqg/Buster+Fortnightly+56,+62,+69+Front+pages+.CBR/file
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Just tried the download, it seemed to be ok for me.
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Thanks Stephen, problem solved.
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I know how to solve the problem.
When you go to unzip, select ignore all, in unarchiver, it will open the file, remove the d.store file, then rename file and create new zip file.
after that it will not have a problem to open again.
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Hi, I’ve just updated the front pages of 56,62 & 69.
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If anyone is interested, i finished the theme punkmusic in the 70s and 80s in Vintage Vinyl.
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eBay’s Global Shipping Centres are disgraceful. One of the sellers I purchased three of the missing issues of Tiger from sent them via the eBay Global Shipping Centre (because of course UK-Brexit-EU etc).
Some absolute genius (not what I actually called them but I am using family friendly language here) in the shipping centre slashed the envelope open with a knife in order to check the contents.
Normally I would frown on comics being folded in half but in this case it was lucky that the seller had folded them in half, because the knife sliced open the inner plastic bag that the comics were in but missed cutting the comics themselves by mere millimetres. If the comics hadn’t been folded in half, at least one of them would have had several pages slashed by the knife.
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That is a strange way to behave to check for content when you don’t know what’s inside. Indeed a stroke of luck that the comics were folded.
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I’m a member of several woodworking and antique tool groups on Facebook. One of the most often complained about topics is the manner that eBay’s Global Shipping Centers deal with items (damaging items, seizing items without verifying first if it can be legally shipped abroad or not).
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Fresh Scan:
Rampage Magazine Monthly 026 – Marvel UK (August 1980)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/g2q9rnoxtfejapg/Rampage_Magazine_UK_026_Lee_McDaid.cbr/file
Lee
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Thank you ever so much.
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Here is a new compilation of a selection of Original Art Work from various Comics, such as :
Buster, Cheeky Weekly,
Cor!!, Jackpot,
Krazy, Knockout,
Monster Fun, Whizzer & Chips,
Whoopee! Wow!
https://mega.nz/file/AD4mkLTA#V3AjJS85P5jtptVXaHYSWO7ovmdQZtQb2fJPefnwHvw
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Thank you, i will update these in the Compilationsblog tomorrow.
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boutje777, I’m currently scanning the 5 Tigers that I received yesterday. I hope to have them finished and ready for you by the end of the weekend.
I’m also tidying up the pages as best as I can. 65 year old staples no longer exist in the spine of the comics. All the pages just have rust coloured holes in them. When I opened each of the comics, a small pile of rust fell out on the desk every time.
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Thanks, that is great news.
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“I’m also tidying up the pages as best as I can. 65 year old staples no longer exist in the spine of the comics. ”
What method do you use to clean them up?
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Colin Bates, I’m not physically cleaning them. That is beyond my ability (at the moment). I’m just cleaning up the digital images.
I scan them as a colour photograph, then convert them to grayscale, and then adjust the exposure levels to brighten the white and darken the black. I then use the erase tool in the photo editing software to remove any tears, rips or holes. There is a fine balance in adjusting the exposure levels (too much one way can blur the text, too much the other way can end up erasing parts of the image.
If a hole or a tear occurs where text should be, I copy and paste letters from across the page to rebuild the missing words. Sometimes, I can also patch a hole/tear in an image using similar technique of copying small amounts of the image from beside the damage.
There is a guy in a Facebook group that I’m in who does actual physical repairs to old comics. It’s on my agenda to ask him for a full rundown on doing a physical preservation/restoration.
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Thomas, that is quality dedication to the cause! It’s something similar to what I have been toying with, especially with a comic that cannot be submitted here where some of the colour changes between original colour scans and finished release comic.
I gave up on trying to join two parts of a page as I realised that when I moved the comic to get the second part of the page, I hadn’t moved it completely on a straight line, the comic deviated by a couple of degrees, so when the top of the comics two images were aligned, the bottom was out by a couple of pixels. I did try panorama software, but often this distorted the finished picture, some times so bad you’d think it was a still from a 1920’s televisor!
So last night I bought a cheep A3 scanner. So soon I should be able to start on all those Busters I’m sitting on and use my own 2000AD’s to improve on the ones currently represented if needed.
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Colin, I really need an A3 scanner as well. My scanner is only A4. So what I’m having to do is scan every page in two halves, make sure that there is an overlapping section, and then in Gimp (a freeware alternative to Photoshop), I set the transparency of one half to 50% and then use the “layer rotate” tool to make sure the two halves line up perfectly. It sometimes can take me 10 minutes or more to fully process just one page.
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Thomas, you’ve just solved the problem in one easy, albeit long process. I was certain Gimp could do the job, but I was fruitless when searching via google. I kept getting pages of people using complicated to write scripts to do jobs. Well I’ve learnt something useful today at least! Until the new scanner arrives, I’ll keep scanning a comic I can’t post here and then I’ll get cracking on the Busters!
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Just an a “before and after” example of trying to repair holes etc in the image files.
If I had a much higher quality scanner, more time, and some expensive photo editing software, I could probably do a better job. 😀 😀
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Thomas, For my efforts I scan the pages first, then I run them though a handy piece of free software called Scan Tailor. This first allows you to put all the pages up the right way, you can separate double pages if need be. Then it will straighten them out – with a manual adjustment if you think it didn’t get it right. Next step is to select content. This stage often needs manual adjustment as it sometimes misses bits. Then you set the margins, I always choose to centre the content. The final stage lets you choose if the page is to be finished in B/W, Colour or mixed. For the Buster I did previously, I used mixed on the front cover and B/W on the rest.
Once you have done the repair bits, like the ‘G’ in your example, Scan Tailor may be of use to you for some of the pages. From what you described and showed, Gimp may solve a minor problem I have with mixed so that gives me something new to try 🙂
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I’m going to offer a full rundown on doing a physical preservation/restoration of a comic.
This is a method recommended some years ago by Harry Mendryk, a professional artist who was employed by Marvel Comics and DC Comics, in America, to restore their golden age comics for publication in book format –
https://stephenpoppitt.wordpress.com/2020/04/20/comic-art-harry-mendryk/
Harry was moderator of the Yahoo Group ‘Digitizing Comics‘, which no longer exists as the Yahoo groups have all been discontinued.
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Stephen, as you were a member of that group did you download all the data Yahell had on you including all the group posts etc? There must be some useful bits on info in there to help us all.
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I have an almost complete run of Tiger from 1975 to early 1985. Which ones do you need?
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Thanks, i am glad i can say that from the periode 1975-01-04 – 1985-03-30 i don’t miss a single issue. Unfortunately i can’t tell if all issues are complete and in tip top condition.
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All the missing Tigers on boutje777’s archive here are from the 1950s and 1960s. Everything from October 14th, 1967 until the end of publication is available here.
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Thomas,
About the joining together of 2 parts of a large image: download the free ‘Microsoft Image Composite Editor’ (MICE, for short) and it does the job in under 10seconds.
Very easy to use, too.
Peter
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petomantis, thanks for that. I just downloaded it and it worked wonders. That might just save me a few minutes on each page.
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I tried to get that and when I chose either version I was sent to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/404Error.aspx telling me the download was no longer available. However I found this page, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/252274/how-to-download-image-composite-editor-20.html that gives links to both the 32 and 64 bit version of the program which is saved in the Internet Archive.
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Tammy 1971 x9:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/7a6xxpw1y59ihn7/Tammy01.zip/file
http://www.mediafire.com/file/6zugc3qtbovb2hq/Tammy02.zip/file
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Thank you very much for the Tammy comics, thank you very much,
thank you very very very much
Thank you very much for the Tammy comics, thank you very much,
thank you very very very very very very very very much.
Free interpretation of the Scaffold song.
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