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The Dandy, The Beano, and Comic Cuts, are all British, although in modern times British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and Japanese manga.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

    Great work again, Gerry.

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  2. Andy says:

    I am impressed how you improved in British comics reorganised , it is better more simplified to see titles more quickly and most probably saves you more space I guess!

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    • boutje777 says:

      Thanks, space isn’t the issue, it was more like i thought there was too much information and scrolling on the mainpage, i felt that this would be easier en more enjoyable to use.

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  3. Andy says:

    There was a Zebra that is not sure if he was born White with Black Stripes or born Black with White Stripes!

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  4. David R says:

    I see that you have compilations of The Trigan Empire and was wondering if you’d also be interested in some of the books/collections for this site? I ask because I notice with some other comics like Dan Dare you have the collected books on this site and the compilations from individual comics on the compilations site. At the moment I have the 1978 Chartwell “The Trigan Empire” as well as the 3 recent collections from Rebellion “The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire”. Let me know if you have any interest in them and I can upload if needed. Thanks. (I don’t have the 12 volume set from The Don Lawrence Collection unfortunately, was dead in the only place I’ve seen it, so still looking for that)

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    • boutje777 says:

      Thanks for the offer, i hope Rebellion “The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire” is also from before 2000, like the 1978 Chartwell, i only place publications from before that year. I sure have interest, in Chartwel i have interest anyway offcourse.

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      • David R says:

        Yes the Rebellion books are new (2020/2021) but they are reprinting the old strips. I think the 3rd Rebellion book gets up to 1973 in the original comics. So I guess that meets your definition as the content is originally from before 2000, like those Titan Dan Dare books? They’re good collections in that they are fully complete stories without any editing down, the Don Lawrence Collection set (the one I’m still looking for) was the first to do that. I’ll upload and post a link.

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  5. David R says:

    @Bosco It was a “new” print/collection of old strips. That’s what I was clarifying with Boutje above, so new publications are not included on the site even if they are reprints of old material. Which is understandable for various reasons.

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  6. Alex Brown says:

    Do you have Rupert (Bear)?

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    • boutje777 says:

      Thank you very much, well done, great work.

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    • Lee McDaid Donegal says:

      Fantastic work, Gerry. Another Bronze age UK Marvel title bites the dust!

      Lee

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    • Jacko says:

      Thanks for completing another Marvel UK title.

      However, a few issues of the FF 1982 series are incomplete.
      If these could be checked and upgraded, that would be most excellent.

      FF14 – page 14 is damaged
      FF17 – page 7 is missing
      FF20 – page 4 is missing
      FF21 – centre 4 pages are missing

      Also, Mighty World of Marvel 325 – page 14 is missing.

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      • Lee McDaid Donegal says:

        I’ve just checked issue 325 of MWOM against the original FF story from the American Issue #185 and the pages/story are correct and in the right order.

        It must have been a printers error, Jacko; as when you think about it you can’t have a single “page” number missing from a comic, it would have to be 2 missing pages ie 13 & 14 or 14 & 15 … you can’t physically remove a single “page” 🙂

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      • Lee McDaid Donegal says:

        Yes, the copy of Fantastic Four #14 (January 5th 1983) has a piece of a page missing from pages 13 & 14 – maybe Gerry has a better copy of that issue and can repair my scan?

        Lee

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      • Lee McDaid Donegal says:

        I checked “FF17 – page 7 is missing”, Jacko, against the original American issue #116 and again it appears to be a printing error rather than a missing page as the whole story is complete.
        Same thing again, you can’t have a single missing “page” number it would have to be 6 & 7 or 7 & 8 missing.

        Lee

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      • Lee McDaid Donegal says:

        Jacko = “FF20 – page 4 is missing” yes, there is indeed a story page missing from this issue; but you’ll notice again a printers error ..how can only “page” 4 be missing??? surely it would have to be pages 3 & 4 or 4 & 5?

        “FF21 – centre 4 pages are missing” must have been an advertising supplement or something? because the story is fine and complete.

        Lee

        PS
        Here is Fantastic Four #20 with the missing “page” 4 added back in from the original American comic. That makes the story complete

        https://www.mediafire.com/file/wtv62xcqevtktko/Fantastic+Four+#20.cbz/file

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  7. Mark says:

    Not sure if you have these, may be of interest. These could be printed out onto card and cut out. Format CBR

    Dr Who Cards…

    Daleks HQ Cadet Cards

    Doctor Who – TyPhoo Card Set (1976)

    Doctor Who 30th Anniversary Card Set (1993)

    Doctor Who Trump Card Game (1978)

    https://www.mediafire.com/file/42ajdjsh1sboea2/Dr_Who_Cards.zip/file

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    • boutje777 says:

      Thank you very much, i will save them for the next update, offcourse.

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    • Jacko says:

      Thanks for these 2 issues of Buster from the 1970s.
      Although there are a few issues which are incomplete and need to be upgraded, there are now only 2 issues of Buster missing from the 1970s

      Buster 16-05-1970
      Buster 02-07-1977

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      • Mr Tweedy says:

        I have 2nd July 77 with the centre pages missing (will do a better scan when I get a complete copy):
        https://www.mediafire.com/file/l6zyjr2vm5l6ddl/buster.zip/file

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      • Lee McDaid Donegal says:

        What I’m trying to say, Jacko, (it’s difficult to get across in a short comment) is that there are no “Real World” pages missing from those comics, Gerry either missed them (we all do it) when scanning, left them out because they were adverts or they were printing errors.
        Apart from issue #20 of FF which was missing one page of the story the others you mention don’t have anything missing so they must have been adverts.

        Lee

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        • Jacko says:

          Sorry Lee, I had already checked the original American issues of Fantastic Four, so I knew only FF20 was missing a story page.
          I know it doesn’t really matter when non-essential (advert) pages have been omitted. However, I find it’s just nice to have a comic that’s complete (i.e. cover to cover) – just too fussy, I guess.

          Thanks for fixing FF20.

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          • Lee McDaid Donegal says:

            I fully understand, Jacko – I’m the same! 🙂

            Looking back through those issues I’m now assuming that maybe Gerry skipped those “pages” because they were repeat advertisement’s; and rather than scan the same thing multiple times (Gerry was doing the FF issues 3 at a time when scanning) just scan once and use the same scan/advert in each issue – and then forgot to actually put them in.

            It’s something I’ve done myself in the past – how many bloody times did the advert for “Star Wars Watches” appear on the back cover of UK marvel comics back in the day? Sheesh!

            I don’t

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  8. Bosco says:

    Dear All.
    Lion Comics, can anyone help to complete Boutje’s Lion section, Please.
    I beleive the following are missing.
    1952 – 14th Jun, 21st Jun, 6th Dec.
    1956 – 24th Mar, 7th Apr, 14th Apr.
    1957 – 5th Jan, 19th Jan, 26th Jan, 25th May.
    1959 – 7th Feb, 21st Feb, 3rd Oct, 17th Oct, 24th Oct, 28th Nov.
    1960 – 9th Jan, 23rd Jan, 16th Apr, 30th Apr, 21st May, 4th Jun, 11th Jun, 13th Aug, 3rd Sep, 24th Sep, 5th Nov, 19th Nov, 1st To 29th Dec.
    1970 – 21st Nov, 28th Nov, 5th to 26th Dec.
    1971 – 2nd Jan to 30th Jan.
    45 issues in total.
    This would be Brilliant if it can be done.
    Regards
    Bosco

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    • Moreau says:

      Check the issues on either side of those gaps. You may find there’s no break in the stories as sometimes gaps are the results of the comic skipping weeks due to strikes and the like.

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    • Luis Miguel says:

      Hi Bosco

      The Lion 213-217 is from March 17 to April 14, 1956, there isn’t gap in this case,
      also from 1970-11-14 to 1971-02-06 there weren’t any issues due to a printer’s strike

      However I haven’t got the Lion issues

      1957-05-18
      1959-01-24
      1959-06-13
      1960-03-19
      1960-07-09
      1960-10-01
      1960-10-08
      1960-10-15
      1960-10-22
      1960-10-29

      and these issues there aren’t in your list as missing

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    • Colin Bates says:

      Lion missing 1959’s, 3 of Octobers are listed on E-bay on this link with 1 bid.
      https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224625616041?hash=item344cbae4a9:g:SbAAAOSwbwdhUc0W
      I don’t know if the 1 bid is from someone here or not though…

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  9. Bosco says:

    Dear All.
    Lion dates missing from Dec 1960 should have read
    1960 – 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th & 31st.
    Oooops, sorry.
    Regards
    Bosco

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