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world, The Dandy, The Beano, and Comic Cuts, are all British, although in modern times British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and Japanese manga.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.
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Been working from home for a few days, so here are a few things I’ve ended up with largely by accident that were easy to scan: –
https://www.mediafire.com/file/s5os6zp5bjvh1nx/Boy%2527s_Own_Paper_1879-01-18_0001_%2528facsimile%2529.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/e1eiibe78u2malt/Boys_Prince_of_Novelettes_0185.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/2iolbopojvvlylx/Fab_208_1978-11-25_%2528incomplete%2529.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/1lgap4fau2ch17v/Our_Boys_1953-10.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/jsgujs5cb632j6m/Tom_and_Jerry_Weekly_1973-10-13_01.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/t9hv53bezd6p9l8/OK_1977-04-12.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/v6tym7mahvj0vju/OK_1977-06-04.cbz/file
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Hi Kate H! Same problem, so here’s my reply =)
Looks like I did get in a muddle about the whole Shazam thing, thank you for setting me straight.
Re: Poisoned Challice, I think I have read it, or at least a lot of the contents in all those articles; my main recollection was how pointless most of it was given the apparent discovery that the character had never actually not belonged to Mick Anglo. It really felt like it was written to be the ultimate detective story untangling the origins and was hurriedly redrafted when they turned out to be really, really simple. George Khouri’s book weirdly stands up better IMHO, even if I wish he was a less convivial interviewer, as it’s not just barrelling down a blind alley. Though it does make you basically dislike every single person involved .
Now, if someone wants to write a book on how hugely unlikely it is that Mick Anglo *actually* retained ownership of the character, how much Anglo was actually aware of what was happening around the Marvel purchase given that very weird interview with Joe Quesada (not to mention highly suspect stuff like the sealed Classic trades), how Anglo really didn’t deserve any credit as it was just a Captain Marvel rip-off and the only reason anyone really remembers it is because of the revival, etc. etc – now that would be a read.
But the end of the Miracleman saga is pretty much that it now has the Marvel/Disney legal steamroller behind it. Having the eighties stuff back in print is nice, though I’m not sure at all whether five half-comics written by Buckingham, an edgelord Grant Morrison story and the character who only works as one of a few unique beings on a planet now in the Marvel Universe actually has the work itself in a better position than it was when Eclipse went under…
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(was it Morrison or Ennis? The one with a priest that was in a special written in the nineties when they both wrote basically the same Crisis-style stuff)
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It was by Morrison, pre-fame. He originally pitched it to Warrior in the 1980s but it wasn’t published until Marvel took over. (Morrison claims that this submission was the reason Moore took against him but as with anything either of these two say about each other it needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.)
Ennis hasn’t written for MM as far as I can tell, but Peter Milligan wrote an original story for a Marvel MM annual. The Marvel strips aren’t set in the MCU (but could still conceivably still take place in the Warrior timeline that Alan and Steve Moore worked out back in the early 1980s).
Recent developments make it seem really unlikely that we’ll ever see “The Dark Age” published. I reckon if O Mealoid ever updates his book it’ll be twice the size of the first edition.
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I thought Mike in the MU was trailed in something called Endless or Timeless… have to say though the odd Hickman run aside I kicked Marvel in general to the long grass after Civil War.
And yes, I remember that now! Something like Skinn trying to get another writer in after he fell out with Moore or something and Moore vetoed it… Warrior’s loss was Action Force’s gain I guess. I do always find myself torn with books and magazines about comics as I love finding out stuff but honestly so many of the best writers and artists are unpleasant and catty.
I’m not too sure the Gaiman thing will actually ankle the Dark Age, unless it’s PR backlash. The Silver Age seemed to be very much led by Buckingham and I would not be shocked to learn Gaiman either a) just gave him some old notes or b) let his pal use his name. While Silver Age was probably on a hiding to nothing after ~30 years of hype, that it was so bad and so lacking in content was a genuine surprise.
I’m certainly at the stage that if no more came out I wouldn’t mind that much; TBH I’ve always found the Moore stuff read best in isolation – Golden Age is a well-written and imaginative coda but I genuinely don’t feel like the story would feel incomplete if it just stopped at Olympus.
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/o687sc6718t7gfj/Fab_Annual_1984.cbz/file
The tattered smoking corpse of Fab 208. Usual mix of photo stories, fashion, pop and problems. Be warned – contains a picture of Sting that you will not be able to un-see.
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I was thinking how can a picture of Sting possibly be a problem. Then it occurred to me you probably meant the singer, not the wrestler.
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/zpj1npowsj3blqd/MyGuyX7.zip/file
Another entry in the “I just ended up with these so I’m inflicting them on you” series – seven issues of My Guy. Lots of graffiti I’ve not even attempted to clean up. Preposterous photo stories and a straight fight between Ian Ogilvy in a dressing gown and a topless Kevin Keegan for most ridiculous pin-up.
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Thank you very much. That pin-up almost made me loose my eyesight, not to forget his hairdress, but that was probably main stream those days.
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Webfind Friday!
https://www.mediafire.com/file/6wdwqakmmrrk9hl/AirStories.zip/file (looks like an American pulp but actually seems to be an in-house creation of Newnes)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/193klktqf6vyo4a/Ally_Sloper%2527s_Christmas_Holidays_1888.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/sckiu035jf4ee5a/Biggles_Annual_1980.cbz/file (do we have this? I feel like we have this… sorry if we do)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/8r5kdydt0hocei4/Carnival_1968-09.cbz/file (City Magazines cranking up the sleaze where Gerry Anderson had stopped making shows people actually liked)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/803ggwre6tqrmyn/Fleetway_Thriller_Library_16.cbz/file (not what you’re thinking)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/a7noqdno665dn8v/Modern_Boy_1939-04-08_Vol_2_060.cbr/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/i1w2obx1pokxay8/PictureStoriesMagazine13_18.zip/file (a WW1 era magazine summarising films of the day)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/30ctuehl65vhggn/Playhour_Annual_1982.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ijzspushz1si4ar/Playhour_Annual_1984.cbz/file
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A few miscellaneous scans: –
https://www.mediafire.com/file/i5vmmunc9ras5ms/Boys%2527_Magazine_1932-01-02_513.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/1amks6koo5wcfn9/Cowboy_Picture_Library_Kit_Carson%2527s_Cowboy_Annual_1958.cbz/file (rescan)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/jmmagpp2yxmigk7/Girls%2527_Cinema_1927-06-18_348.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/wzzzszhfi9j8k76/Heartbeat_Annual_1983.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/w6n1mk0xje84go0/Home_Chat_1957-06-08_3246.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/qhu4waue9dg3o7c/Home_Companion_1952-05-17_2882.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/3hp2xrgm4bw5eq7/Knockout_Fun_Book_1952.cbz/file (rescan)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ccdi8xenct5pw2k/Mechanical_Boy_1924-12-04_014.cbz/file (to my chagrin not actually about a mechanical boy)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/z4qsg28xnvufcdx/Modern_Boy_1938-05-14_Vol_2_13.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/yshlzk22i43olp3/Nugget_Weekly_1920-08-07_04.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ot7ng6731udtqdm/Oh_Boy%2521_Annual_1982.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/26uilqgjjhr5isy/OhBoyX3.zip/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/5vj6dlngu5tevvi/School-Days_1929-06-04_043.cbz/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/mycqj2ib182tcen/The_Champion_Annual_1952.cbz/file (rescan)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/k1nzbpvfmfbqq2k/The_Champion_Annual_1953.cbz/file (rescan)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/t3ca35hsqn09hj4/Week_End_Novels_1924-08-02_247.cbz/file
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More great work from Boombox. Many thanks indeed. Regards Ian.
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Here’s a missing Buster from 1970.
Buster 1970-05-16
https://www.mediafire.com/file/x45d7zw4auq6216/Buster_1970-05-16.cbr/file
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I’ve processed the last update, everything placed on their respective pages with the exception of Buster, Tiger, Wham!, Whizzer and Chips, Whoopee! I will be working on those and before the end of the month those pages will be up to date also.
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/cfkbeqbei880k7t/Poppet_1964-05-02_31.cbz/file
Another one off my list of white whales, an issue of the short-lived Poppet. Pitched somewhere between June and Princess, Poppet’s USPs were Surprise Corner – which was originally a 12-page strip, and still possibly the longest regular original strip to appear in a British weekly comic, and introduced Sally Starr – and the weirdness of having Black Belvet, an action highwaywoman strip drawn by Sir Geoff Campion.
Sadly this one is from when it was bombing through a mix of archival material and tedious pop music stuff and thus includes the unexciting history of Merseyside footnotes Gerry and the Pacemakers.
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Thank you very much. I consider this a true gem amongst those many gem’s you already shared.
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Thanks! I’m on the look out for other issues, preferably earlier, but they really don’t seem to come up often… I’ve seen 3 come up on Ebay the past year or so, and the others went for silly money.
Other titles I’m hell-bent on getting at least one issue of are Serenade, Bow Bells (the 1920s one), The Firefly, the Halfpenny Wonder and Sports Fun.
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Here is a missing Lion fron 1952.
Lion 18 [1952-06-21]
https://www.mediafire.com/file/rxq96qqjgup83wf/Lion_18_%255B1952-06-21%255D.cbr/file
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Outstanding stuff! Thanks for sharing =)
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does anyone know which lions, (from 1952 to 1960) if any we have missing, i am also assuming we are only uploading to 1960
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At last – Jacob Greene. No, wait, Princess Tina.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/vr0hw0i0iaw2zxb/PrincessTina67x13.zip/file
Scan notes:Through dumb luck I’ve ended up with the first 13 issues of this title; while I have others they’re a lot spottier so don’t get hopes up of many more sequences. Also as an oversized title I scan pages as halves and join them in GIMP, which is very boring and I am both lazy and distract easily.
From a technical standpoint either I’ve ended up with a lot of misprints or IPC struggled with the production of these; as well as mixing the contents of Princess and Tina the comic seems to have a weird mix of paper stock too, and some pages are almost unreadably light. I have done what I can with these, but some were obliterated by the printing process and the scans reflect this, sadly.
Same goes for some of the colour stories – Here Come the Space Girls (which really doesn’t last long) especially is very flat and drab compared to the glossy Tina strips.
Title notes: –
Princess Tina is of course the famous combination of Princess (popular in the UK but not overseas) and Tina (popular overseas but not in the UK). It’s generally classed as a new title, but honestly it is a blatant Tina continuation, with Tina herself still hosting and Tina branding everywhere; even the masthead is constructed so the title’s European syndication partners can just paste over the Princess bit.
The contents are just as lopsided – Tina provides Jane Bond, My Chum Yum-Yum, Here Come the Space Girls, Moira Slavegirl of Rome, the Trolls, Willy the Fox and Barbie; Princess chips in with Alona the Wild One (which was always a bit of a rogue Tina/June story anyway) and The Happy Days (who are relocated to Canada from suburban England). There’s also new story Dawn of the Islands, and an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz (the first part of which was in the last issues of both Tina and Princess). Tina herself even got her own strip after a few issues, replacing Here Come the Space Girls.
The combination worked, as the influx of former Princess readers propped up UK sales while the material was similar enough to keep the overseas licencees happy.I *believe* as the overseas partners either found the money to produce further contents themselves or dropped out there was a bit more churn in terms of content. Late in 1973 the Princess bit of the title was dropped once again and John Wagner became editor – and promptly killed it stone dead.
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Thank you very much, great work again.
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A tribute to Donald Duck: the first year of dailies by Al Taliaferro
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u1XR2r4iwr6PdNuNVqc7b-AeDhY7LTnr/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/cf14oh9beyzzgy0/Girls%2527_Crystal_Annual_1940.cbz/file
Just the paper rationing ones (41 42 & 43) to go. Yet to see them in the wild and low-key plotting vengeance on whoever has them and has just scanned the Noel Raymond stories.
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