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The Dandy, The Beano, and Comic Cuts, are all British, although in modern times British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and Japanese manga.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

    A question to friends of the site: what do you think is the best program for correcting pages scanned or downloaded from the Internet? Specifically, to adjust colors, remove yellow patina, and erase dark stripes on edges. Thanks.

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  2. Anonymous says:

    I use Corel Aftershot to straighten and crop and contrast curve to correct drastic fading. I then use Corel Paintshop Pro to erase dark stripes on edges and remove gross marks. The tip is to not overuse these tools too much, over whitening or blasted out contrast looks hokey.

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  3. mulo kibizer says:

    I will be clearer: I am looking for a program that will allow me to correct the color of digital images. Specifically, of the dominant yellow color. Something that gets straight to the point, if you understand me.

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    • XNView is what I mainly use, tweak the contrast, brightness and colour temperature. Exactly the same settings rarely work twice, but that’s the nature of the beast, depends how good a job you’re after.

      If you want quick and easy, Android gallery has some filters that de-yellow but even I think they’re heavy-handed, and you’ve all seen how much I process.

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    • Generally it’s not an area with shortcuts or simple solutions, in my experience. I’d honestly estimate processing scans takes 3 or 4 times as long as actually scanning.

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      • mulo kibizer says:

        Yes, I understand that. My problem is the absence of instruction. I had tried with Gimp, but in front of an almost 700 incomprehensible pages manual (at least for me) I gave up. In that sense I was looking for a clear solution rather than a simple one.

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        • Okey dokey; GIMP can be a bit overwhelming.

          For XNView once you navigate to the image you want and hit CTRL+E and you have a group of sliders that allow you to play with most of the options. For removing unwanted lines and marks you can just select a tiny white area, CTRL + C, drag over the unwanted bit and CTRL + V. There’s also CTRL + Y as an Undo function. SHIFT + S brings up resize, SHIFT + C canvas resize.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Corel Aftershot has a tint min and a white balance button so you can make the background white and regular colors stay the same. You end up with an image like this http://marvel1980s.blogspot.com/2011/01/simonsons-thor-omnibus-preview.html

      While it looks nice you can immediately tell that the scan was digitally worked on and is not representative of what it looked like when originally sold. You could manually adjust the color settings and once tweaked save that setting to apply to other images.

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  4. boutje777 says:

    UPDATE 15-10-2024

    With special thanks to the following contributors:

    Barry Spencer
    BoomboxTestarossa
    Garthounet
    Mr. Tweedy
    Petomantis
    Rayhgte
    Rob Nicholls
    Stephen Hyde
    Tom
    Xemnu88888
    Zacksternz

    And offcourse thanks to all unknown scanners
    and original uploaders.

    Let me know if i forgot someone.

    2000AD (2)
    Air Stories (5)
    All-True Library (1)
    Ally Sloper (1)
    Battlecry Picture Library (1)
    Battlestar Galactica (1)
    Big Comic Fortnightly (1)
    Biggles (1)
    Bow Bells Almanack (4)
    Boy Soldier (1)
    Boyfriend Book (3)
    Boys Cinema (1)
    Boys Comic Journal (1)
    Boys Magazine (1)
    Boys of the Empire (1)
    Boys Own Paper (2)
    Boys Prince of Novelettes (1)
    Boys Sunday Reader (1)
    Bubbles (1)
    Bumper Story Book (2)
    Buster (16)
    Butterfly (1)
    Captain America (8)
    Champion (19)
    Champion Journal (2)
    Chiller Pocket Book (1)
    Chuckles (3)
    Chums (1)
    Claras Rescue (1)
    Comet (1)
    Cowboy Picture Library (11)
    Crackers (1)
    Daily Mail Annual (6)
    Dick Turpin Library (3)
    Donald and Mickey (2)
    Eagle (9)
    Fab (2)
    Film Fun (4)
    Film Pictorial Fleetway Thriller Library (1)
    Frozen Crew Of The Ice-Bound Ship (1)
    Funny Wonder (1)
    Fun-to-Know (1)
    Girl (4)
    Girl Picture Library (3)
    Girls Cinema (1)
    Girls Crystal (3)
    Girls Friend (1)
    Girls Own Paper (1)
    Golden Fun and Story Book (1)
    Halfpenny Surprise (1)
    Heartbeat (1)
    Hey Diddle Diddle (1)
    Home Chat (1)
    Home Companion (1)
    Home Library Of Powerful Dramatic Tales (1)
    Horners Stories (2)
    Ivan The Terrible (1)
    Jingles (2)
    Jinty (5)
    June (8)
    Kim (1)
    Knockout (2)
    Lion (20)
    Look and Learn (5)
    Madame Weigels Journal of Fashion (1)
    Marvel Madhouse (2)
    Mechanical Boy (1)
    Merry and Bright (1)
    Mirabelle (1)
    Miracle (2)
    Miracle Library (2)
    Modern Boy (2)
    My Guy (7)
    New Buffalo Bill Library (1)
    New Daily Mail Girls Annual (1)
    New Moon Series (3)
    New Penny Standard Library (1)
    Nugget Weekly (1)
    Oh Boy! (4)
    OK (2)
    Our Boys (1)
    Pearsons Library (1)
    Penny Library of Famous Books (3)
    Photo-Love Weekly (6)
    Photoplay (2)
    Pictorial Weekly (1)
    Picture Show (2)
    Picture Stories Magazine (6)
    Playbox (1)
    Playgroup (1)
    Playhour (1)
    Poppet (1)
    Princess Ballet Book (2)
    Princess Picture Library (10)
    Princess Tina (13)
    Radio Fun (2)
    Rob Roy Library (3)
    Robin Annual (1)
    Robin Hood Annual (1)
    Romantic Adventure Library (1)
    Rose Mortimer (1)
    Roving Jack, The Pirate Hunter (1)
    Roy Of The Rovers (10)
    Sandie (1)
    School Friend (6)
    School-Days (1)
    Schoolgirls Own Pets Annual (1)
    Sinister Tales (5)
    Sons of Britannia (3)
    Sparky (1)
    Spring-Heeld Jack (1)
    Standard Journal (1)
    Sun (1)
    Supercar (1)
    This Is It (1)
    Tiger Tims Weekly (1)
    Time Screen (1)
    Tit-Bits (4)
    Tom and Jerry (1)
    True Life Library (5)
    TV Comic (1)
    TV Crimebusters (1)
    Valentine (1)
    Violet Magazine (1)
    W Heath Robinson Illustrated Story Book (1)
    Week End Novels (1)
    Whizzer and Chips (1)
    Whoopee! (2)
    Womans Weekly (1)
    Woman’s World Library (4)
    Woodwose of Cannock Chase (1)
    World of Frank Richards (1)
    Young Briton (3)

    New Page

    Aldine Publishing Company (23)

    You can find the link in Magazines and Books

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    • Anonymous says:

      dear sir can u please suggest some sites like yours for old French bds and Italian fumettis and south american comics and magazines. Since you are so involved in this things I suppose u have the idea where can I procure this old magazines and menusels. Please suggest a site dear sir.

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  5. https://www.mediafire.com/file/48sr61ny6rpr7p8/WideWorldMagazineX2.zip/file

    Two bound editions of Newnes’ World Wide Magazine, Victorian era. Downloaded from Archive.org and converted from PDF, so credit to the original scanner. Warning: absolute chunkers.

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  6. Anonymous says:

    it seems archive.org has been hacked and states “The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks”

    “Wayback Machine back online after DDoS attackBut it’s read-only for now”

    such a shame. can’t seem to load it even to read at the moment though.

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  7. Anonymous says:

    Hi Boutje, thank you for latest Upload, and All who contributed. Question – “Sparky” upload, is this a DC Thomson? Regards Bosco

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    • boutje777 says:

      Thanks for noticing, that slipped through my eyes, i removed that issue.

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    • Anonymous says:

      I had a chat with staff members at DC Thomson and they said it is okay to put older publications up to the year 2000.

      Also that they are thinking to employ Boutje for being such a good organizer of comics and said they think he should be an Editor to organize staff at DC Thomson Headquarters.

      A Will is being made out to give Boutje the rights to inherit all DC Thomson PUBLICATIONS!

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      • boutje777 says:

        If it isn’t a joke, thanks, but i like to have that officially. And i have to think about if i will do it anyway, 1 it will take alot of space, 2 it will take alot of time, which i don’t have too often, that is the main reason i stopped with most of my other blogs.

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        • Anonymous says:

          This is no Joke, as I work with DC Thomson.

          Anyway, could you let me know how to upload you links to your site for future comics from DC Thomson, as we have already prepared them all to upload you full collections ready for your wonderful site, we do really appreciate your wonderful efforts to preserve British Comics History.

          I know how to make links with MEGA.

          In future if we paste you link of MEGA can you access the comics this way?

          We appreciate you may feel overwhelm so we can upload you one comic at a time, gradually at a comfortable pace for you, and as we see you make a page for individual comic ready, then we can send you the next comic, etc….

          As regards to the WILL that is being made out for your inheritance, we will get back to you about that when it is ready!

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          • boutje777 says:

            Thanks, but that is not really official for me, when i had to delete all DC Thomson comics, it was a bit different approach. And like i said. i am not jumping to set DC Thomson comics again on the site. It’s not that i feel overwhelmed but i don’t have much time left when i finished my other responsabillities, not only online, but also offline, it don’t allow me much time to do so. Perhaps one of the DC Thomson employees can make a similar site only for DC Thomson issues.

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  8. Anonymous says:

    You skipped Sinister Tales 66-70. Was that an accident or are those issues unavailable?

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  9. mulo kibizer says:

    Here is another year of Donald Duck Sundays,  I was able to complete thanks to the friendly generosity of Ar.

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sG6mytqqvts-RC-hGA-DJgEyELKPmd6B/view?usp=sharing

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  10. Anonymous says:

    new information about whoopee! comic :

    The first issue was dated 2nd march 1974 not 9th march 1974, which means date and numbering guide is out by 1 place in the list, also during 1980, 17th, 24th, 31st May and 7th June did have comics published those weeks.

    This means all together there were 572 comics published.

    In addition also there were annuals published also 1988-1991, and 1993.

    The Annuals were published from 1975 until 1993

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  11. https://www.mediafire.com/file/lkgmubqxnqke0p9/Battle_Picture_Library_471.cbz/file

    Honestly not sure which series this is or even whether we have it, my brain just fogs with BPL. Scanning it and seeing if someone else can work it out seemed the easiest option =)

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  12. Anonymous says:

    Hi Boombox, BPL I believe 1st series, cover price One Shilling and Three Pence. Regards Bosco

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