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The Dandy, The Beano, and Comic Cuts, are all British, although in modern times British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and Japanese manga.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

    Hurrah!

    What a wonderful range of uploads. Thanks to the scanners as ever. Grateful thanks to Boutje for organising this impressive horde of material.

    Special thanks to Kate (if I recall correctly) for sourcing and scanning the Valiant 1980 summer special. I had been trying to source that in hardcopy for years. Kate had said (some time ago) that it was quite rare (and probably not cheap) but she got hold of it in the end. The terrific Bolland cover, complete with manically grinning robot puppet made it a must buy for me as a kid.

    Also special thanks to Boombox for those early twentieth century story papers and radio/cinema comics. Not usually my interest, but some of the covers are great and will draw me in; the comcis are real historical documents. I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody starts a PhD about “Youth, Popular Culture and Empire” or “Entertainment Media and Childrens Comics in the 1940s” off the back of that lot.

    Well done all. Keep it up!

    Kris

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  2. cristiano pereira says:

    I cant dowload any of the update on the phone or tablet it says wrong format or something is it pc only dowload then

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  3. Anonymous says:

    many thanks to boombox, mulo kibizer and all other uploaders and scanners for their continued support for this site. regards Ian.

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  4. unabashedlya9265122bc says:

    More wondeful stuff from Boombox and Mulo Kibizer, your hard work is much appreciated, not forgetting of course the great Boutje, best wishes to you all Keith

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    • boutje777 says:

      Thank you very much, i will update these later today along with the 2 from yesterday. I will organize the page chronologically also and make a picturelink with the drawing you provided.

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  5. https://www.mediafire.com/file/20g4ahstcds7fp8/Crackers_1940-10-05_598.cbz/file

    Late run issue after the format change that meant it fits on a scanner really nicely.

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  6. anthony grech says:

    Are there any Rover Comics?

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    • Anonymous says:

      I believe Rover was a D.C. Thompson publication so the answer would be no. Legal issues.

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    • boutje777 says:

      That was an DC Thomson publication and not allowed on the site.

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      • rayhgte says:

        is not pre 2000 dc thomson not allowed I was told pre 2000 was not in copyright please can you inform me on if this is correct.

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        • boutje777 says:

          Everything from DC Thomson is not allowed, not before and not after 2000.

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        • That’s absolutely not correct, I’m afraid. Boutje only posts pre-2000 content but copyright varies drastically by publisher.

          DC Thomson are well-known for adopting a very, very hard line on enforcing copyright (moreso than, say, even the major American publishers) – they once tried to sue Viz for parodying one of their characters.

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          • (reply intended for rayhgte, not Boutje)

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          • Kate H says:

            This is a response to your later post, which doesn’t have a reply button.

            You’re mistaken about Captain Marvel. DC didn’t neglect to renew the trademark on the name. Captain Marvel was published by Fawcett until 1953 but once his series was discontinued the trademark lapsed. DC didn’t start publishing Captain Marvel (in comics titled “Shazam!”) until they licensed the rights in the early 1970s, by which time Marvel had claimed the trademark for their own character of the same name.

            You’re possibly confusing it with Marvel’s mid-1960s tussle for the trademark with a fly by night publisher (possibly Myron Fass but I can’t recall off the top of my head).

            Also I’d recommend Padraig O Mealoid’s “Poisoned Chalice” for a detailed look at the rights to Marvelman/Miracleman and why they’re even more complicated than everyone had previously assumed.

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        • Anonymous says:

          Copyright can also vary by country. Canada a few years ago changed its laws to bring it in line with the US laws. Copyright only lasts for a certain number of years. For example the first two Winnie-the-Pooh books, the cartoon Steamboat Willie and the original version of Peter Pan, among other things are now in public domain. That was why a couple of years ago someone was able to bring out a slasher film featuring the Pooh characters, though not as they were shown in the Disney cartoons, which are still under copyright. As well the law specifies where the copyright notice is printed and says what the notice has to state and that has to be visible. a lot of Charlton material fell into public domain because the company simpy stated “international copyright secured” which did not meet the legal specifications. Also not who it was but one company loved to hide the notice in the artwork, which also wasn’t valid.

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          • IIRC DC Comics (as in the American one) have a long list of copyright idiocies, including not trademarking their logo until another company tried to do so in something like the 1980s and losing the Captain Marvel trademark to Marvel despite having a character with a much longer history of the same name.

            Notable British cock-ups include the infamous 2000 AD Action Special, which features a bunch of characters Fleetway didn’t actually have the right to use at the time which – from what I can gather – resulted in no legal action beyond being instructed not to do it again (which was a good thing considering how bad the comic was). In the field of British comics, generally the amounts involved in stuff like this makes it not worth legal action – it’s not like Spider-Man or something where it’s a multi-million property; I doubt most Treasury of British Comics trades hit five figures for sales.

            While most of it is (apparently) a false trail the history of Marvelman/Miracleman is a good example of how different the British system is – L. Miller sold out to Alan Class, who went broke some time later. Alan Class’ assets were then available for purchase from the official receiver’s office, rather than going into the public domain.

            Again with the disclaimer I’m piecing this together from various stuff read online, it would seem that British stuff goes to the receiver until someone buys it, so the copyright has lapsed but can still be purchased by someone else. Obviously if there’s no active copyright holder – I *think* Ace Hart falls under this – and no-one to actually pursue legal action it amounts to the same thing as public domain.

            It is a very complicated area, and as you say varies from country to country. America has a much more progressive system, despite Walt’s best efforts.

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          • Anonymous says:

            “the history of Marvelman/Miracleman is a good example of how different the British system is – L. Miller sold out to Alan Class, who went broke some time later. Alan Class’ assets were then available for purchase from the official receiver’s office, rather than going into the public domain.” You may have misunderstood. Alan Class traded as a limited company. It is only in the case of a company going into liquidation that its assets vest in the Official Receiver. And this would only be relevent if the company owned any copyrights. Alan just didn’t own any, he had licenced (from the copyright owner) the right to use Marvel’s strips for a short period, but he had not bought the actual copyright — that would have given him perpetual ownership, by transfering the ownership from Marvel to him.

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          • cjkerry says:

            At the time Marvel came out with their own Captain Marvel DC in fact didn’t have anything to do with the original Captain Marvel. That was owned by another entity who had acquried it from Fawcett when they got out of the comic book business. Even when they started publishing their own Captain Marvel book (Shazam) they did it under license from the actual owner. I believe they do own the characters now but of course that doesn’t help with the trademark situation. As a point of information Martin Goodman decided on creating Marvel’s Captain Marvel after a small company in the sixties put put a Captain Marvel comic, three issues of which can be found in the Silver Age section of Comics for All under Captain Marvel.

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  7. stephenhyde says:

    Hi boutje, here’s 6 of The Best Of Comics from the last update, I’d missed a page from each one.

    https://www.mediafire.com/folder/hdkqajx5wcutg/Best+of+Monthly

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  8. Anonymous says:

    hi boutje just saw your comment about dc thomson not being allowed,are you sure its all dc thomson or just the post 2000 stuff. What about the 1950s 60s surely thats no longer being published so therefore out of copyright?? Please correct and inform me about this please, where did you get your information about dc thomson not being allowed.

    thanks

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