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world, The Dandy, The Beano, and Comic Cuts, are all British, although in modern times British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and Japanese manga.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. boutje777 says:

    I finished processing the last update, so all titlepages must be up to date by now.

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  2. https://www.mediafire.com/file/8hzs1pypv55j7rd/Girl_Annual_1982.cbz/file

    I *think* that’s the set, I certainly can’t find any sign of any beyond 1988 (or whichever one it is with the girl who looks like she’s about to happy-slap you on the front). IIRC a mixture of the annual market being flooded by cheap TV/film tie-ins and the Maxwell takeover (which may have limited the access to the IPC archives that made annuals so profitable) had reversed the old trend of the annual outlasting the comic by the late-1980s.

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    • For the sake of my inner pedant, “(which may have limited the access to the IPC archives that made annuals so profitable)” deserves an explanation – while Maxwell-era Fleetway would have had the copyright to anything IPC published after 1970, the downsizing of the company saw most of the company’s file copies and masters were destroyed after the move from King’s Reach Towers. So yeah, another reason to be glad Big Dave gave Maxwell to those grannies to beat up in 2000AD.

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    • boutje777 says:

      Thank you very much.

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      • cjkerry says:

        I am going to presume you have the annual you are describing. The cover I am looking at matches the description you posted. However in the picture I am looking at (on the site Comics UK) it has a date on it. It sounds like the one you scanned doesn’t. Not the only time this has happened. My copy of the 1975 Lion Annual has no date on the cover but the picture on the site definitely does.

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        • boutje777 says:

          I believe so, page 3 the contents says also 1975, although below the contents it says 1974.

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          • cjkerry says:

            What I am wondering in these cases is why the two different covers. I bought mine at a W.H. Smith’s (a chain we no longer have in Canada) so maybe the covers for the UK market had dates on the cover and the ones for the international market didn’t. The inside and outside date discrepancy makes sense of course as the Annuals were published at the end of the year, thus having the next year’s date on them but the copyright date inside would be for the year of publication.

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        • The other possibility is there was damage to one of the covers and I missed that they weren’t identical… I shall check when I’m back home in a few days as I genuinely can’t remember.

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  3. Does anyone here have any experience or thoughts with scanning bound volumes of issues?

    I’ve been watching a couple on Ebay forever and pulled the trigger on one of Bubbles when it dropped in price as a cheap one to try, the plan being to cut the binding away and scan the lose pages (basically what I do to annuals).

    But now I’m actually looking at the thing it really seems a shame to destroy something that’s lasted about a hundred years and *might* even be the last one of its kind in the world.

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    • barryspencer2065 says:

      It’s a tricky one. I have some bound volumes but when I scanned them as a volume the only thing “lost” was decorative artwork on the outside of the panels. My personal take is that in scanning you are giving access to many rather than one, so you are preserving the essence of what they were originally intended for – to be viewed and read.

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      • Thanks, that’s actually a really good point; thinking about it they weren’t getting read with the previous owner and at the moment they aren’t getting read by me… and I suspect if I got hit by a bus tomorrow my next of kin would likely dump my stuff on a charity shop.

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  4. boutje777 says:

    UPDATE

    56 issues Wow!. These isssues are all better quality.
    Thanks to Stephen Hyde.

    You can find them on the Wow! page.

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  5. https://www.mediafire.com/file/pa8pyszgm7wq29q/Butterfly_1917-04-28_Vol_2_0004.cbz/file

    Quite interesting to me historically; the WW1 mergers of Butterfly/Firefly and Merry and Bright/The Favorite Comic might well be the earliest (I feel I’ve forgotten something, though…) so it’s interesting to see how wholeheartedly they were implemented at first. In this case the page count had gone up from 8 to 12 to continue various Firefly stories, though I’m not sure how long that lasted. This was probably as much because material had been paid for as it was to keep readers happy.

    This issue was also shortly after front page star Portland Bill was renamed Butterfly Bill and all mentions of his time in the clink were dropped, in response to comics being aimed at young readers and a genuine criminal not being a good role model. IIRC Tom the Ticket-of-Leave Man from Comic Cuts underwent a similar retcon at the same time.

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  6. rayhgte says:

    Hi Boutje

    my last message regarding the Lion’s not answered so can you help please.

    does anyone know which lions, (from 1952 to 1960) if any we have missing, i am also assuming we are only uploading to 1960

    thanks

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    • boutje777 says:

      I can make a list with all Tiger’s that are on the site and leave a link to download this. Why are you assuming that we only upload to 1960, on the site are 60s-80s and various.

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      • cjkerry says:

        Figuring out if any Lion’s are missing would be a bit of a task for anyone. That is because a date may be missing but that is because there is in fact no issue for that date due to a labour stoppage or something.

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        • For Lion, according to the list on my phone it’s: –

          104
          107
          109
          115
          7/2/59 364
          21/2/59 366
          13/6/59
          3/10/59
          17/10/59
          23/1/60
          19/3/60
          16/4/60
          4/6/60
          11/6/60

          Whether that is definitive or just as far as I got before my Big Special Project changed direction slightly I can’t recall, though I think we might be complete from then on for the weeklies.

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      • rayhgte says:

        hi boutje

        oh, i only saw up to 1960 on the site so pressumed maybe the reason was copyright and you didnt allow over 1960, thats why i asked. Therefore if all the Lions are allowed can I change my question to “does anyone have a list of missing Lions”??

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  7. Anonymous says:

    Dear All. Re missing Lions. I beleive the following are required, taking into account none printed issues & Strikes.

    1952-06-21

    1957-01-05 + 1957-01-19 + 1957-01-26

    1957-05-18 + 1957-05-25

    1959-02-07 + 1959-02-21

    1959-10-03 + 1959-10-17

    1960-01-23 + 1960-03-19 + 1960-04-16

    1960-06-04 + 1960-06-11 + 1960-07-09

    If anyone can obtain and post for Boutje’s site it would be amazing.

    Kind Regards to all from an Old Un.

    Bosco

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    • I think Jacko posted the missing 1952 one the other day, sorry didn’t see this before I replied

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      • Anonymous says:

        Thank you Boombox, I have found Jacko’s Post with Lion #18 dated 21st June 1952. So scrub from my list of Lion’s req’d. Regards Bosco

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    • Garthounet says:

      My list of Missings Lion

      1957 : 05-01 / 19-01 / 26-01 / 18-05 / 26-05

      1959 : 07-02 / 21-02 / 13-06 / 27-06 / 047-07 / 03-10 / 17-10

      1960 : 33-01 / 16-04 / 04-06 / 11-06 / 09-07

      That’s all… and Then, this fabulous collection is complete

      Fantastic job to all the team and forumers scanners

      Philippe

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    • rayhgte says:

      ah ok my question answered about missing lions thanks everyone for that I’ll check my collection and see if i can fill those gaps.

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  8. Anonymous says:

    Hi Boutje, I seem to be experiencing problems making a Post. When I think I leave a comment it does not show. What am I doing wrong? I have recently tried to post a comment on missing Lions. Regards Bosco.

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    • boutje777 says:

      Most of the time when there is too many text or links in a comment, the spambot puts it on hold and i have to make them visible myself, and i am not watching always so some comments will be visible after hours.

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      • Anonymous says:

        Thank you for explanation and reply, I thought you were not getting my messages. I now know to waite and see, again thank you especially for all you do and this Magical Site ✨️ 💖 💕

        Regards Bosco

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  9. Anonymous says:

    I understand that the missing Lion 1952 issue was recently uploaded. I can’t seem to find it. Can anyone direct Me to this issue please. Regards Bosco

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