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world, The Dandy, The Beano, and Comic Cuts, are all British, although in modern times British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and Japanese manga.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. In the running for the most ridiculous thing I’ve yet contributed. From a disintegrating bound edition, very very very incomplete versions of Penny Wonder #3 – #21. These had been scrapbooked extensively (possibly contributor copies as it’s largely the same stuff cut out from each issue) and then over the years shed all sorts of pages, including some that fell apart while scanning. I always scan everything of this age I can lay my hands on as you never know when someone might turn up a half-complete issue needing the pages we have here, but these are not fun to read due to the gaps.

    https://www.mediafire.com/file/fj0a6eie7q2kfw5/PennyWonderPieces.zip/file

    So a bit of information about this thing… It’s a descent of The Funny Wonder, which was notoriously unsuccessful until 1902 when Amalgamated Press appended the name ‘Jester’ to the title. It was then a solid seller for 10 years until AP decided to split it into two titles in a weird reverse-merge – with The Jester carrying on the original Funny Wonder numbering and Penny Wonder as a new title. Both were modelled on Pearson’s The Big Budget, which was basically a combination comic-story paper, with a 4/12 page cartoon/text split. The former included “Sammy Smite” by G.M. Payne, one panel “Marmaduke Maxim” and “Wild Woolly West” by Sir Bertie Brown, and racial stereotype fun with “Gretchen the Dainty Dutch Darling” (sorry Boutje =/), plus the usual one-off gag strips.

    The text stories are the real heavy-hitters – “Lady Turpin” about highwaywoman Galloping Gloria Gale and girl chauffeur Grace Daring of “The Woman At the Wheel!” are both smashing OTT twenties action-melodrama, weird detective story “John Flood the River Tracker” has a spooky cat and art by George “Bill” Wakefield, and “Mascar the Mystic” is about a solicitor who dresses up like a lunatic to trick criminals.

    Not sure any editorial have ever been identified. With the female protagonists, the Butterfly art team and the general air of hell-for-leather it feels very Fred Cordwell, though it might be a bit early for him. I know Harold Garrish was Funny Wonder editor a few years later so it might have been him as he was a big influence on Fat Fred. It is likely that whichever one of them it was wrote most of the stories.

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  2. https://www.mediafire.com/file/ikymvyaui0yx5wy/Giant_Holiday_Fantasy_Comic_Album.cbz/file

    I think that’s the set of Hawk Books 288 pagers. I believe most if not all of the contents are already on here in their original publications, but having already bought the thing I thought I might as well scan it.

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    • boutje777 says:

      Thank you very much. That’s nice to have all these stories together.

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    • And at a final score of Humans 2, Leeches 36 it’s a swift return to making my uploads a bizarre scavenger hunt.

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    • cjkerry says:

      As far as I know there were four in the series, Adventure, Fantasy, Fun and Girl. Thus, if we have those four we have them all. Not sure but I think I have reviewed one or two of them on Goodreads

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      • That sounds about right. Fun idea by Hawk but I think they all came out the same time so presumably sold really badly. Even for the low price the paper and printing quality is appalling; the ~30 year older originals look sharper… Same time I adored these things as a kid and early collector, whole chunks of Robot Archie, Steel Claw, The Cloak…

        Always wondered if it was maybe influenced by Zenith Phase 3 but I’ve never checked whether the dates line up.

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        • cjkerry says:

          As far as the paper goes that is what happens when you use a printer who primarily produces colouring books for children. I can’t comment on cost as all the ones I have were bought in Canada as remainders.

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          • On the plus side I have quite enjoyed colouring them in since scanning them!

            From memory they were maybe twice the price of a Summer Special for 5 or 6 times the page count, so definitely not bad on those terms and obviously Hawk did anything they could to try and make the books profitable. Like I say, while it’s easy to make fun of them in the context of pin-sharp Rebellion trades and decent resolution online scans they’re an important gateway =)

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          • cjkerry says:

            And of course the material contained within those books is for the most part material that just doesn’t seem to get collected much. With a few exceptions (The Spider or Roy of the Rovers for instance) there is not a lot of sixties material out there in trade paperback form

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      • Definitely; it’s a sad thing but apart from the really, really big hitters (as you say, Roy of the Rovers, Spider, Steel Claw, Trigan Empire) there just does not seem to be a market for reprints of pre-70s stuff. Rebellion try and try, but the number of Volume 1s with no Volume 2 speaks for itself.

        One of the reasons I think this place is a) brilliant and b) ethically sound is that material from Film Fun, School Friend, Comet, Tip Top, Butterfly and a ton of other great comics is just never, ever going to be made commercially available.

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  3. Anonymous says:

    Another Wham! issue from 1966. Wham #128, 26 November 1966, excellent quality, from a scan by huckyc.

    https://archive.org/download/wham-various-issues/Wham128%201966-11-26%20%28huckyc%29.cbz

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