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world, The Dandy, The Beano, and Comic Cuts, are all British, although in modern times British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and Japanese manga.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 :
British Comics 
Here’s a compilation of Ron Embleton’s ‘Strongbow the Mighty’ strips from Mickey Mouse Weekly -Sept 1956 to Feb 1957. These are the four stories that immediately preceded his superb ‘Don o’ the Drums’….to follow shortly!
https://www.mediafire.com/file/exevj3vbfwq11j1/1956-MMW-Strongbow_the_Mighty.cbr/file
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Thanks, i will place it somewhere this week. Should i place it on the Ron Embleton page or make a new page for Stronbow the Mighty ?
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I think the Ron Embleton page would be the best bet as, sadly, I doubt if we’ll ever see anymore complete stories.
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Has anyone got a copy of that one ‘Beezer Book’ that’s missing … for 1965?
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I’ve reorganized the Fantastic page.
I’ve reorganized the Hoot page.
I’ve reorganized the Hurricane page.
I’ve reorganized the Monster Fun page and gave it a place between the coverlinks.
I’ve reorganized the Nutty page.
I’ve reorganized the Plug page.
I’ve reorganized the Spellbound page.
I’ve reorganized the Spike page and gave it a place between the coverlinks.
I’ve reorganized the TV Tornado page and gave it a place between the coverlinks.
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I am planning a new blog for later this year, it will be something like Family Fun and Educational Comics because so many good titles don’t fit in one of my blogs.
I have made a list with those that will be on this blog you can look through it and make suggestions if you miss anything that will fit. I will focus on those that were
published 1940-1990. The blog will not be ready sooner than somewehere at the end of the year because i have to start from scratch, many of the titles i allready have, others i have the downloadlinks but i still have to download lot’s and prepare them and so on and i still have my other blogs to maintain also.
But i like to plan ahead.
Here is the link to the page with the list.
Family Comics
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I have an almost complete run of Look and Learn (only 6 missing) plus virtually all the free gift handouts and all the annuals of whatever sort. As I am not a whizz at scanning I was wondering if anyone would be interested in borrowing them for adding the scans to the collection.
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Thanks for your offer. I don’t think many regular issues Look and Learn’s are missing, only most free gifts and handouts and annuals i believe. I hope someone is near you and like to borrow those for scanning.
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as you say, I don’t think too many issues are missing BUT I know that a lot of factfile pages were missing from issues scanned so Phil’s collection would be most welcome.
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I’ve just emailed Bill Jaycock, who has a vast online archive of the magazine, and I’m sure he’ll be in touch.
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Yes please. As I’ve scanned most of them over the years, I’d like to see the collection completed. I’ve mostly got missing issues between 1965-69 with the main bulk (over 30 issues) in 67-68 also missing many of the Card index of Knowledge pages. there’s also two odd issues 824 and 967 and some of the 1975 issues were left in a damp garage and missing booklet pages. Willing to collect, just NE of London.
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Only slight problem is that I am in Berwick-upon-Tweed. However, if you are still prepared to come up I could hand over all the available stuff though not all have the Cards of Knowledge pages present. I would be prepared to lend the annuals and freebies etc. You could have a look at them and decide.
Otherwise we could sort out which pieces you want and we could send them in the post or by sections.
Unless someone is pasing, commuting……
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Just google mapped…5 1/2 hour drive each way. I will go through what’s missing and send a comprehensive list before coming up to pick the issues. Then arrange a day to pick them up.
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Bill
We might be down in Stamford, Lincs, visiting family in September. That might cut the distance to 75 miles each way.
I’ll try and list what I have here for your selection.
Phil
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List up to Ranger merger of what is missing: 194, 195, 200-03, 205, 214, 222, 225, 226, 228,229, 231. Also 1965,66 Year Books, 1963 summer extra, Poster from 142 and 501 Q&A book from 173.
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Scrub 200 and 201, Wrighty47 has scanned them!
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And 194, 195. Sorry I didn’t transfer them to my memory card as it is full!
Just starting the 1967 issues looking for damaged missing pages. Bill
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OK, so the biggest gaps are between 280-374. Quite a lot missing or damaged and some with missing index pullouts. Please pack all of those you have and I’ll compare with scans I have. After that there are a couple of missing/damaged. 384 394 395 404 413 417 424 429 439 440 442 444 445 446 447 450 451 452 454 455 474 482 508, 509-booklet pages 517 617 . Last set of missing and damaged to come. Bill
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Bill
I’m away for a couple of days, but will start on these at the weekend.
Phil
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So last missing are 824 and 967. Damaged copies or missing booklet pages are 686, 700-711, 720, 721, 741, 802, 807, 808, and 1018-1020. Thank you.
Bill
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Bill
Are you free during this coming week? We will be in Stamford Tues to Fri and I could bring missing L&Ls with me.
Is there a way you can message me off the board so that I can send on my contact details?.
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send me a message to billjaycock@live.co.uk I’m free Wednesday evening after a funeral.
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I am also thinking of a new blog, but that will be for next year though, a sort of a continuation of the Comic Heroes of the Golden Age. That would be Comic Heroes of the Silver (56-70) and Bronze Age (71-85) both of them in 1 blog. Some series will be a continuation of what’s allready started in de Golden Age Blog but many new heroes saw daylight in these 2 periods.
Aquaman
the Atom
Doctor Solar
Hawkman
Fantastic Four
Green Arrow
Human Torch
Justice League of America
Metal Men
Nick Fury
Spider-Man
X-Men
And many more offcourse.
Not only superheroes but all kind of heroes that are typical for these periods.
With artists like Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Gil Cane, Steve Ditko, John Buscema and others that played such important roles in these periods.
My first thought was to make 1 blog for the Silver Age, but why not also the Bronze age, because that period gave daylight on some new heroes also and are still attractive to me.
It’s personal also because i find comics in these 3 periods, Golden, Silver and Bronze,
so much better than those in the Modern age. Somehow those Modern age comics don’t attract me at all, but i guess nostalgic reasons has something to do with it.
Let me know what your thoughts are about it.
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Wonderful idea! I think a single blog is the best, because is a continuation thing. Great
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Here’s my compilation of the 2 ‘Man From Uncle’ stories that Ron Embleton did for Lady Penelope in 1966. And I guess that his folder is the best place to file it. The second story, btw, features a master forger named Embleton….
1966-LP040-The Man from Uncle.cbr
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ojcbve8y2wdj3wy
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Thanks, i will place it tomorrow in the Lady Penelope widget.
Talking about Lady Penelope, the update next month will have 56 Lady Penelope’s, which will make this title complete.
PS:
I had to place it in the various widget because that Lady Penelope widget was for my own compilations.
I can make a widget for you where i can put all compilations you made if you want.
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Please note corrected link for the Embleton ‘Man from Uncle’ compilation:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ylblp448n0ggrlk
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Thank you firstly for a fantastic website and all your hard work.
Can I ask if you could maybe try and upload more football comics such as Football Picture story monthly. Loved reading those as a kid and would love to read more. Also Roy of the Rovers. I have all available on your fab site and the the ones you have bundled together. Sorry being greedy now but as with being Scottish would love more Broons and oor Wullie too.
Thank you.
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You are welcome. I would upload more football comics if i had them. Same goes for Broons and Oor Wullie. I hope to find more in the future, perhaps someone else has some more and is so kind to upload them for the blog.
With that last sentence, you mean to say that Scottish are gready or the Broons and Oor Wullie are also Scottish, you know what i mean, wink wink, say no more, say no more.
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I’d love football mags like football monthly and jimmy hills football weekly they were great
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I have over 20 The Broons and Oor Willie
However, I need first to prepare them to scan first.
When done I let you know.
Before I upload them to you I will mention the years too, so you could let me know which ones you want too,.
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Omg that would be fantastic if you could do that for me. The only ones I have at the moment is one on the site. I would love to be able to scan and upload too as I have 150 plus football picture story monthly but not sure how
Scott
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If you have a scanner and enough time, you can try to scan them and compress them with any compressingprogram like winrar and upload them to any fileserver and leave a link in a comment, i will make sure they will end up on the right place on the blog.
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Scott
please contact me privately so I can check the logistics of how these football picture monthlies could be collected and scanned for all – if you have as many as this plus what we already have then we would be very near a full set
Douglas – dlaird@postmaster.co.uk
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even adding Scott’s 150+ issues to what is already on the site, we would still be at least 200 issues short of a complete collection.
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Summerbreak is almost over, next week i will start to prepare the next update with around 450 issues so it wil probably be published the 1st week of september.
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Are there any sites like this one for European comics? French, Spanish, Italian etc?
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Not that i know off, sorry. You can try ComicsLive there is a part with European comics there.
http://komics-live.com/live/index.php
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Many thanks, Boutje777.
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Given that as British comics there is only British Comics, I know these sites. For French comics very good are:
http://emulebdz.p1g1.org/
http://seulementbd.blogspot.com/
For Spanish:
http://misinolvidablestebeos.blogspot.com/
http://lamansion-crg.net/forum/index.php?s=22e897d942f2aecc64d5643b2cbd970f&act=idx
They require a simple registration. In return, they offer a universe.
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Good sites as mulo says. For older French comics try this one:-
https://bdvintagerares.blogspot.com
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Hi.
Are there any sites like this one, but for every Marvel and DC comic?
Thanks.
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Not like this one, but you can try
http://komics-live.com/live/index.php
http://comickingdom.co.uk/
http://thelongbox.net/phpBB3/index.php
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Thanks, but I meant somewhere where I can actually download the Marvel/DC back catalog?
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UPDATE 02-09-2019
Thanks to the following contributors:
Barry Spencer
Jacko
Leegt
Mr. Tweedy
Rajkumar
Thomas Meade
Tommers
In Update 2019-09-02 A
You can find this at the bottom of More Comics
Action (1)
Beano (3)
Big Comic Fortnightly (2)
Boys World (3)
Buster (8)
Comet (2)
Creepy Worlds (12)
Disneyland (1)
Donald and Mickey (1)
Express (1)
Indiana Jones (1)
Jack and Jill 49)
Jackpot (3)
Knockout (6)
Lady Penelope (57)
Look and Learn (4)
Mandy (2)
Once upon a time (6)
Playhour (25)
Playland (1)
Pow (1)
Roy of the Rovers (7)
Smash (1)
Sparky (1)
Sun (2)
Transformers (102)
TV Comic (6)
TV Tornado (1)
Uncanny Tales (1)
Valiant (3)
Victor (6)
Whoopee (21)
World of Wonder (25)
Yogi Bear (1)
In Update 2019-09-02 B
You can find this at the bottom of More Comics
Air ace picture library (37)
Cowoy picture library (1)
Fleetway super library (1)
Footbal picture story monthly (29)
Gemini 2000 picture library (1)
Super detective library (5)
Thriller picture library (1)
Valiant picture library (2)
New titles on their own pages
Tracy (19)
Twinkle (7)
In Various 2
5 different issues
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Congratulations! This way of grouping updates it’s been one of your best ideas you had! Having to search for every item belonging to an update was a pain in the neck.
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Thanks. It’s easier for me also, i don’t have to switch from one page to another several times. I only need to fit the issues into the pages that are organized allready, but i had to do that anyway and i can take my time for it. I just leave all updatepages as they are for a long period for anyone who still need to download these ones. It doesn’t hurt anyone to have 25 or even more updatepages with the updatedates, perhaps i even can make 1 widget just for all the updatepages.
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I will update most of my blogs this and/or next week, 3000+ issues. I don’t know which blog when but i will let you know in a comment which blog is updated so you don’t have to look through all blogs every day.
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