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The Dandy, The Beano, and Comic Cuts, are all British, although in modern times British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and Japanese manga.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

















I can’t seem to reply to the anonymous comment above but if I come across as rude and condescending I apologise and will try to do better =)
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Hi everybody – I have a story that will make everybody realise how grateful we should be to boutje and all the scanners and uploaders. I have a friend (Margaret, 1960s generation, like me) who collected girls comics and annuals. She hoped to pass these on to her two daughters and granddaughter as a bit of ‘mum’s family history’, to show the girls what she read in 60s and 70s UK. The comics, annuals etc were all stored in the family home where she had grown up. During covid, however, Margaret was trapped in Australia after a family wedding. Her elderly mother became ill and had to have some conversion work done at home to help with mobility around the house. Needless to say, the guys carrying out the work did not appreciate how important the comics and annuals were, and along with various other ‘junk items’, the comics and annuals were dumped. When a very distressed Margaret told me about this, I pointed her in the direction of boutje’s site. After only a few minutes on the site, she rang me in tears, saying how great it was to have everything in a digital archive. She has downloaded a few personal favourites. Her daughters and granddaughter tend not to download, but read things on-line using their tablets. I hope this proves the importance of this site and the thanks we all owe to everybody involved here. Many thanks and kindest regards. Ian.
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Awwww, that’s lovely =) Thanks Ian! Hello Margaret!
I do dread to think how many British comics have been binned in house clearances and the like because they look like tatty old newspapers.
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Thanks for sharing this story, its great to read how much influence these old comics still can have on someone’s live.
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Terrific story. Just proves the enduring worth of the scanners work, and Boutje’s work in organising all this material and making it easily available.
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Here’s another Best of Buster Monthly…1990-05.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/41hy8z1v333nzgh/The+Best+of+Buster+Monthly+1990-05.CBR/file
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Thank you very much.
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Another Mike Hammer
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DVOSZ6S_ggtrF4mFyjr4B9IMOj4syOLQ/view?usp=sharing
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Thank you very much, i will update this tomorrow.
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/nmzthe1g35n4y5o/Princess_1983-10-08_03.cbz/file
The only 80s Princess issue I have
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you. 🙂
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Hi Boutje,
Hope you’re enjoying your break. Here’s some Marvel UK Captain America’s for the next update.
Captain America #26 – #28
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pb1s220vt3e8i8kqxn2mx/Captain-America-026.cbz?rlkey=wkp674niu5n1ydairkoawmq9v&st=c0sdzbqv&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dd2wxs2w21swj7n908yww/Captain-America-27.cbz?rlkey=90sx42vd9ayan1nmff6hc8kvv&st=f9s7thqy&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dvb4sehz37ve11rithgvi/Captain-America-28.cbz?rlkey=dbisnn2vbsxorlpq65cccf5bo&st=fznqsaa4&dl=0
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Thank you very much.
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All remaining Mike Hammer stories here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Co_zbY61OtG_ZXoklLZ8sjZytSyS83at/view?usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pW4XaHeSyjIsTsj7tNo3VAzWrE2laR1f/view?usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XLOAHZd-BE6fLaVraGzKt7sbXlW_2Jt5/view?usp=drive_link
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Thank you very much, i will update these tomorrow.
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The Best of Whizzer and Chips Monthly 1991-06.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/kqjpxn3ojsrcryf/The_Best_of_Whizzer_and_Chips_Monthly_1991-06.CBR/file
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Thank you very much.
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/uh9tv98jrkbv3yn/Mirabelle_1976-03-06.cbz/file
A seventies Mirabelle =)
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Thank you very much.
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Two issues of Sandie
https://www.mediafire.com/file/0lkfjwsqi9tyayi/Sandie_1973-09-15.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/iprmwc0nu2roluy/Sandie_1973-10-06.cbz/file
One has a poster of the guy out of Slade that looks like a police mugshot.
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Thank you very much. That is a funny poster, i really get down with it.
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Thanks for these!
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3 x Katy
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ur7be76hkmixiad/KatyX3.zip/file
Honestly what an amazing title! Vulcan for girls! Covers are reuses of Purita Campos’ majestic run of Princess Tina paintings, contents from all sorts (Witch Hazel, Alone in London, Creepy Crawley) in very well done colour on some really nice paper, and it’s roughly US format. If I had to nitpick I’d say the pinups are weird. Sadly this magnificent 1987 fortnightly only seems to have lasted ten issues (plus a sneak-peek freebie “#0”).Ignore the printed page numbers; my working theory is that they’re cumulative for each story so whichever sub-editor was putting the thing together knew where they were up to.
2 x Barbie Annualsh
ttps://www.mediafire.com/file/x3ui6g2npf52vxz/BarbieAx2.zip/file
The other two IPC ones to tie in with the Barbie Magazine; the first one is missing about a third of its pages and is very much still on my hitlist.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/o5lgec6yhxei9gh/Film_Picture_Stories_1935-01-19_26.cbz/file
This one was a tiny bit of a personal disappointment; Film Picture Stories (not to be confused with the later Newnes-Pearson library title of the same name) is considered the first British comic to primarily feature dramatic picture strips, but this one is very much a story paper with slightly more pictures. That said it only managed 30 issues before merging with Film Fun, so the format might have shifted by this point. And I’ll be buying any I find for less than a fiver anyway, so there’s that.
A few odds: –
https://www.mediafire.com/file/4mcr1tjgx2fhbda/Home_Sweet_Home_1901-02-09_413.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/viqygj2kba4xx5c/Nelson_Lee_Library_1930-09-09_V3_033.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/5yu4uxu83aovldv/Schoolgirls%2527_Weekly_1934-11-10_629.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/9dyscluh8pp8cje/SGOL_292.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/pftjh04v8jjsyov/The_School_Friend_1923-09-29_V1_229.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/5q666kb9lnuobrg/The_Triumph_of_Jane_Russell.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/nhxctwcbsi4171w/TSG140.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/17uozu46299gvv4/Woman%2527s_World_Library_200.cbz/file
And finally a webfind: –
https://www.mediafire.com/file/es0rhp35z6yjsn2/Girls%2527_Own_Annual_Vol._40_%25281919%2529.cbz/file
The Girls Own Annuals were (like BOP and Chums) just a huge bound volume of the weekly with the covers striped out and a few plates added. This makes them big. Despite my personal opinion of GOP/BOP being that they’re meh, it is a shame that every other comic and paper didn’t do annuals this way, as a huge amount have survived.
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Thank you very much.
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Katy isn’t even listed at the GCD so I am going to be interested to take a look of them next month when Broutje does his update. Thanks.
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Link should still be active, I am trying to be more convivial and less me =)
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I wish you good luck with that (just a little joke, no offence intended).
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Thank you. Was going to wait for September, but this was too tempting.
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…couldn’t resist too, and thank you! A couple of interesting ones for me. 🙂
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For the record, I’d never heard of it until I saw it advertised in one of the later issues of Barbie Magazine, which again I’d never heard of until about a month ago. I do genuinely love just finding out about this stuff =)
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Sorry rayhgte, i removed your comment, because i don’t want to wake sleeping dogs. What other sites conceirned i never interfere or critisize other comicsites, just let them do their thing like they want. Offcourse you may have your opinion about 1 or 2 other sites, but i like to keep the comments clean from those because i want to avoid discussions on this site also.
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Superb listings from boombox as always. Many thanks to boombox and all those making this site so great. Regards Ian.
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I’ve been on work from home for a couple of weeks, which is good news in terms of being able to get some scanning done. The bad news is it’s mainly been stuff that fits on the scanner plate so I can do it mechanically, which has meant a slight divergence from my planned scanning order.
Many of these are titles I’m not actively collecting right now, just sampling and/or have ended up with from job lots, so there might not be any more of any of them sorry. Also probably a bit of a slowdown in general coming up.
So first, 7 issues of Pink.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/xil209x4cxopill/PinkX7.zip/file
(weird how some titles had numbers for ages and others dropped them after 3 or whatever… I’m guessing it must have been an editorial decision title by title)
I’m still doing some work on the exact sequence but in the early 70s IPC regeared the remaining romance comics (I think just Valentine and Mirabelle) into comic-magazine hybrids, with photo covers, more colour and a greater proportion of articles on fashion, health, pop music and “fellas”. Gerry Finley-Day was involved with some of this revamping.
Pink was a new title either setting or following this template, with the first issue dated 24 March 1973. Despite the large amount of nonfiction the standout is still Sugar Jones, one of the last great British girls strips, drawn by Rafael Busom and still among the best things Pat Mills has ever done. In 1974 Pink absorbed Princess Tina (which had reverted to simply Tina for its last few months), which added Purita Campos’ brilliant and indestructible Patty’s World to the line-up. Later it also took over Music Star and then Mirabelle, though those seem more like nominal mergers. Pink seems to have done alright, notching up 377 issues before being folded into Mates after the 14 June 1980 issue.
A single issue of Melanie
https://www.mediafire.com/file/s9hufqcr4tgjjnp/Melanie_1974-03-23.cbz/file
I’d literally never heard of this one until I stumbled across this issue and was surprised to find it’s IPC. Hardly any information about it online; according to the British Library it started in 1973. Why it’s not in either Gifford catalogue I don’t know as its clearly an Illustrated Chips/Starlord style copycat of early Pink, with some nice strips. What happened to it is a mystery to me, presumably it was merged somewhere – Fab 208 is my guess, but it really is just a guess.
Four issues of Mates
https://www.mediafire.com/file/6c19ps4052cuh81/MatesX4.zip/file
A sort of refresh of the Pink concept. Hard to be definitive from such small samples, but it features more photo strips (which I hate, both for being the death of the girls’ comic strip and because they scan badly) and seems even more man-crazy. It debuted on 8 February 1975, and took over Pink (and Patty’s World) in 1980 before being merged with Oh Boy! after 29 August 1981 and 342 issues. Annuals and specials continued until at least 1984.
15 issues of Girl
https://www.mediafire.com/file/wj82fjwaeclzxyg/GirlX15.zip/file
6 issues of Girl Annual (4 new, 2 upgrades)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/k0i337o8q9qbwbd/GirlAx6.zip/file
A year ahead of the Eagle revival… But very much in name only. If nothing else unlike the Hulton title it seems to have been made by people who have some idea what the target audience actually want. Which sadly was trash; Girl 2 is more of a My Guy Junior than a successor to the Tammy/Jinty style comics. Photo stories abound, and there are few recurring characters. The comic debuted on 14 February 1981. Soon after it gained Patty’s World (which presumably didn’t fit well in Oh Boy!) and incorporated Dreamer and Tammy along the way. The issues I have are early but going by the annuals and covers online it became even more orientated towards nonfiction as it went on. It went monthly before the end, and merged with My Guy after March 1990 and 478 issues.
I probably will grab the first annual if I see it cheap because OCD. 1988 appears to have been the last one, IIRC between the Maxwell takeover and the flood of cheap licenced Grandreams-style books, IPC/Fleetway’s annuals took a kicking about this time.
5 issues of Dreamer
https://www.mediafire.com/file/mcmb6i1kiatkox0/DreamerX5.zip/file
2 issues of Dreamer Annual
https://www.mediafire.com/file/9m69xwbdjksy128/DreamerAx2.zip/file
With its cool name and painted covers this one seems to occasionally get attention from people who think it’s a Misty/Spellbound spooky comic, but it’s not, it’s a Girl 2 clone. Again it follows the long-time Harmsworth/Amalgamated Press/Fleetway/IPC principle of “hey, our new comic’s doing well, let’s do another one before someone else does”. As such it’s mainly photo stories. Dreamer launched on 19 September 1981 and lasted 35 issues before merging into Girl after the 15 May 1982 issue.
There was a third annual; I’d hesitate to describe anything with hard covers which had a six-figure print run in 1984 as rare exactly but it certainly doesn’t come up often.
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Many thanks boombox. Regards Ian
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Brilliant as usual – love you providing rarer girls material and older, harder to find comics – been a real boost to a comprehensive uk comic collection
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Cheers!
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Thank you very much, great work again.
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Thanks! Unfortunately my storage is creaking a bit so I am going to have to bin these links sorry =(
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I think i have to make some space free also somewhere, the next update is reaching 50gb.
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Yikes! Happy to hold off further uploads until the next update is live if that helps =)
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No problem. I always have loads of things that i don’t use anymore, like the complete Batman tv-serie from the 60s, that eats a lot of space and i watched those 3 times or more. If i look carefully i can easily make 1tb free for new use. I have 5 premium accounts on 3 different sites, always room for more.
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I am not sure which I appreciate more, the scans or the information you provide.
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i just want to thank you and all your followers on this blog for all your hard work in making this a wonderful experience , it has brought back many good memories for me, the best day of the week when i was a kid here in ireland was saturdays, my dad would buy us our comics and it was the highlight of our week, bearing in mind , we had no video players, phones or any of that stuff, but it didn’t matter, the comics were all we wanted, so thank you again for the memories and hard work you do on this blog
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You are welcome, thanks to all the scanners and original uploaders.
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