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The Dandy, The Beano, and Comic Cuts, are all British, although in modern times British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and Japanese manga.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

    Last ones before my holiday, 12 Buster 1982 Upgrades.

    https://www.mediafire.com/folder/2hmzpnulaxhpn/Buster+1982

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  2. BoomboxTestarossa says:

    I seem to have killed my scanner so there might be a brief interregnum while I waste time speaking to customer support before giving up and buying another one.

    The good news is this gives me a perfect opportunity to process some of the stuff I have already scanned.

    The bad news is I have the attention span of a squirrel on cocaine, so don’t get your hopes up.

    Have a Comet, though.

    https://www.mediafire.com/file/tr5daog5lzyeqth/Comet+1949-08-13+076.cbz/file

    Anyone giving odds on how likely it was Pett drew any of June at AP page rates?

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    • boutje777 says:

      Thank you very much. I hope something positive comes out of the contact with customer support.

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      • BoomboxTestarossa says:

        Thanks! Depends on your perspective… if you’re Jeff Bezos it was positive, because I bought another one off Amazon!

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  3. Anonymous says:

    BoomboxTestarossa, what sort / type did you buy!.

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  4. Kate H says:

    Unedited scans from Valiant Summer Special 1980:

    https://we.tl/t-niwvz4iB4A

    (The link should be live for the next three days.)

    This is more than a bit rare, so I hope will fill a gap in people’s collections. In terms of content, it looks like mostly reprint though. Mytek the Mighty and Raven on the Wing are definitely reprints (though the latter has a couple of pages in colour that were originally bw). The House of Dolmann has a great new cover by Brian Bolland but the actual strip is from the 1967 special.

    As far as I can see, the only story original to the 1980 special is Kelly’s Eye. This was, I think, the last “official” KE appearance until Albion a quarter of a century later. He did show up in 1990’s Classic Action Holiday Special and from 1991-1993 in 2000AD; these were all published by Fleetway – who didn’t actually own the rights to the strip but assumed that they did!

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    • BoomboxTestarossa says:

      Nice! Always loved that cover, great to have the rest of it! Brave going in for a special too, them things can be pricey!

      Mental that the Fleetway-Egmont Fleetway revivals got into print before anyone checked they owned the rights… the big shame being no-one realised before Mark Millar got involved.

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    • boutje777 says:

      Thank you very much.

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    • Jacko says:

      Hi Kate

      Not sure if I’m doing something wrong.

      When I click on the link, there is nothing there to download.

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      • Kate H says:

        Once you’ve accepted cookies and such, then there should be a screen with a download box on the left embedded in a big white box labelled “Ready When You Are”. If that’s not appearing, try it on a different computer or browser.

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        • Jacko says:

          Hi Kate

          Got it. Thank you very much. Fantastic to see this Valiant special finally show up.

          Out of curiosity, there is a list of incomplete/damaged issues of Valiant on the Valiant 1960s page. Can you help with any of these, especially issues 11,12 and 13 which I have been trying to find for years.

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          • Kate H says:

            I’m happy to have been able to help.

            Unfortunately I don’t have any other issues of Valiant at all. I’ve just been tracking down the occasional special here and there to help plug gaps in the general collection.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Superb work Kate! Thanks! You may recall a long time back I’d been looking for a scan of that – couldn’t even find a physical copy on ebay. You were kind enough to advise me of its rarety. I just loved that Bolland cover as a kid; I must have sold it on as a feckless teen though. I was too slow in checking in and noticing to download it, so shall just look forward to the update when Boutje comes back from a well earned rest.

      Boombox – must say- although the type of ‘boy’s own’ story paper you scan is not usually my thing, some of the covers are absolutely terrific and I’m getting curious. You are also preserving documents of real ‘popular culture’ historical interest too. Don’t be surprised if someone gets a PhD or a history project out of those!

      Kris

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  5. BoomboxTestarossa says:

    https://www.mediafire.com/file/romqlbp1d3j4sl4/Our_Girls_089_1916-11-11.cbz/file

    My sampling rampage shows no signs of abating. Our Girls was the successor to Girls’ Home (which I still don’t have one of, boooo!), and was interestingly formatted, following the 11 x 15 coloured paper format of AP’s comics rather than the magazine format of things like Forget-Me-Not.

    This might have been an attempt to reach younger readers, but it might not, girls’ papers that don’t feature the work of Charles Hamilton are shockingly under-covered, though Our Girls did run for 185 issues across two series from 1915 to 1919 before being replaced by Bow Bells (which I also don’t have any of but am strangely obsessed with).

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  6. BoomboxTestarossa says:

    Some Ally Sloper webfinds: –

    https://www.mediafire.com/file/gggtgcyq7tn3ura/Ally_Sloper_-A_Moral_Lesson%25281873%2529.cbz/file

    A compilation of Sloper cartoons from the magazine Judy. Considered by Denis Gifford (who was a pretty smart cookie outside of just counting the weeks between dates for issue totals and the “Whizzer and Chips is a continuation of Illustrated Chips” thing) among others consider this to be the first-ever comic book.

    https://www.mediafire.com/file/cb0aqy8zdoqpxzz/Ally_Sloper%2527s_Summer_Number_1886.cbz/file

    Compilations of Judy material were compiled into further specials, which continued even after Ally Sloper’s Half-Holiday began. Much like the weekly, this has a healthy dose of Victorian cheesecake.

    https://www.mediafire.com/file/vg9plkp456rovbu/Ally_Sloper%2527s_Half_Holiday_%25231_1949.cbz/file

    One of two post-WWII revivals from minor Scottish publishers (possibly the same publisher). The 1948 one is I think on here somewhere and features a red overlay. Both promised further issues but these don’t seem to have come out.

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  7. BoomboxTestarossa says:

    I’ve made a start on processing the 1950s School Friends I have, here are the three earliest: –

    https://www.mediafire.com/file/9k75ov57t8e0kms/School_Friend_009_1950-07-15.cbz/file

    https://www.mediafire.com/file/ejkj9hntat569v6/School_Friend_055_1951-06-02.cbz/file

    https://www.mediafire.com/file/4p0vnkk9e70957t/School_Friend_117_1952-08-09.cbz/file

    School Friend was the first British comic for girls, and seems to be a rare example of Amalgamated Press actually innovating. Marcus Morris had effectively gendered comics a month earlier with Eagle, so when School Friend hit it found a huge market, and reputedly outsold the latter – selling a million copies a week for much of the fifties. The editor was Stewart Pride, he and Horace Boyten wrote most of the stories

    Early issues featured only a handful of recurring characters – The Silent Three (art by Evelyn Flinders), Jill Crusoe (written by Johnny Johnson, drawn by wildlife specialist Reginald Ben Johnson) – who would often take time off between serials. Instead most stories followed the Girls’ Crystal template of “a plucky everyday gel like you, The Reader, gets drawn into some intrigue and jolly well helps the innocent and saves the day”.

    There was also detective Terry Brent, a fairly obvious knockoff of Girls’ Crystal sleuth Noel Raymond, though his strips did feature the ‘spot the clue’ format later used for Zip Nolan etc. Like Raymond, Brent had two recurring assistants – schoolgirl Trix Preston and his cross-dressing niece Paddy McNaught – and a female archenemy jewel thief, Claudette Morel.

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  8. Rob Nicholls says:

    https://www.mediafire.com/file/w4fzcv5j3e0bivl/Wham!+148+1967-04-15.rar/file

    and another one using my phone app as my a3 scanner has died!!

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  9. Rob Nicholls says:

    https://www.mediafire.com/file/kjxovx9uz9vdg5i/Wham!+137+%5B1967-01-28%5D.rar/file

    https://www.mediafire.com/file/zaf05jklszatkli/TV+Comic+0714.rar/file

    The last Wham! issue plus a rare TV Comic with Dr Who and Space Patrol to celebrate the arrival of Summer….cue rain sleet and snow!!!.Not really.

    Rob

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