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The Dandy, The Beano, and Comic Cuts, are all British, although in modern times British comics have been largely superseded by American comic books and Japanese manga.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

    Thanks for the reply. In fact some of the Fleetway publications were translated into a south Indian language in 1970s featuring Johnny Nero, Steel claw and Barracuda. In my young age I used to read them. Only now I came to know of the original English versions, thanks to your humongous efforts.
    By the way, there was one ‘Indrajal comics’ active in India in the 60s and 70s featuring Phantom and Mandrake under ‘Times of India’ brand, licenced from ‘King features’. Now they are freely available in the Net.
    I thought of sharing this. Thanks.

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  2. KH says:

    Yes I just saw. I posted following 2 queries at the 2 links shown below.

    First one posted at:
    https://indrajalcomicsblog.wordpress.com/comment-page-1/?unapproved=299&moderation-hash=87138a39114f54d1f9acc42d8f6ba84c#comment-299
    I have an old Indrajal issue containing only a few pages (without the cover pages) featuring the Phantom. This talks about young “Kit and Caribo” who reached Americas before other Europeans. Kit was a cabin boy in Columbus’ ship. The following links show the artwork connected with that issue; it’s in Bengali language. Can anyone tell which is it’s English equivalent? And the link for that?

    Second one posted at:
    https://fourcolorcomicsblog.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/uncle-scrooge/

    This following issue explains the evolution of the money (monitory system) nicely. I am unable to get this in the Net anywhere. Does any one have the link? I have copy with a few pages missing.

    http://duckcomicsrevue.blogspot.com/2010/12/uncle-scrooge-and-money.html

    Thanks.

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  3. Bosco says:

    Hi Boutje, Belated Happy New Year, this old man has to catch up slowly.
    Many thanks again to you for a brilliant site, and to all contributers.
    Tried to download latest ‘Swift’ section and had following message:-
    “Pagina niet gevonden
    Het opgegeven document is niet gevonden op deze server.
    Klik hier om terug te keren”
    Sorry if this is in ‘Dutch’ I cannot interpret, appologies.
    Tried other Comic sections and got same message, and not able to download.
    Can if be fixed???

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    • boutje777 says:

      The downloads are working for me. Perhaps it was something temporary or else because the Swift page is renewed, perhaps the old one is still in your cache ?

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  4. kevin keaney says:

    hi, im trying to download the latest updates but it looks like STACK needs me to log in? never had this problem before, is there something im doing wrong?

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  5. Anonymous says:

    I’m going to attempt to scan some of my picture libraries. I’m a novice when it comes to scanning. Would someone please be so kind as to let me know how they look.

    Battle Picture Library 1159 http://www.mediafire.com/file/xjjra0qb6ys6a0s/Battle_Picture_Library_1159_%2528Phantom59_scan%2529.cbz/file

    Air War Picture Story 17 http://www.mediafire.com/file/599lyjtzt2g65t2/Air_War_Picture_Story_17_%2528Phantom59_scan%2529.cbz/file

    More to come.

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    • boutje777 says:

      I am not a scanner myself but to me they look great, thanks. Keep in mind that i don’t place issues from 2000+ and from DC Thomson.

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      • Anonymous says:

        No problem. I knew about the trouble with DC Thomson. I have a small collection of Conflict, Combat and Air Ace that I’ll be scanning in the days ahead.

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  6. dinesh says:

    hi boutje

    i am trying to download flash gordon strip vol 2 and vol 3 (newspaper strip section )The download link doesn’t appear to be working. only vol 1 link is appear, pl.reupload

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    • boutje777 says:

      You mean the UPDATE 29-11-2016 in the Newspaperblog ? I can’t find the volumes apart, they are in one download and that is working for me, the rest are only daily and sunday stories.

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      • dinesh says:

        yes,

        112 pages/strips Flash Gordon – Alex Raymond V2
        112 pages/strips Flash Gordon – Mongo Planet Of Doom
        109 pages/strips Flash Gordon V3 – The Tides Of Battle

        only middle strip Mongo Planet Of Doom (this is vol.1)112 page link is their and first one and last v2 and v3 story pages missing .

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  7. dinesh says:

    hi boutje

    Any chance to post Magic Comics published 1939 t0 1949 total 123 issue

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    • boutje777 says:

      If you mean the David McKay publications, they are not British publications (although David himself was born in Scotland) if i am correct. When i find them they will probably end up in the Family Comics blog.

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      • cjkerry says:

        There was a Magic Comic published by DC. Thompson published from 1939 to. 1941. I don’t recall if it was on the list of titles you can’y use or not. Now that I think of it Football Picture Story was not on that list, so s there any chance of ever seeing more of those.

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  8. Tom says:

    Hi The last link in Attack! Picture Library for nos. 07, 29, 54, 80 is an A-Drive link

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  9. Sanatkumara Sharma says:

    Hello boutje,
    this blog of yours is super! Since I first got my hands on an Amiga 500 and an hand held SCSI scanner I had the idea to digitize my collection of the Picture Library comics, but after a couple of numbers I got derailed by other things and forgot about it.
    Now I can enjoy this incredible collection and with Steve Holland precious index can select my favorite authors and collect them in a single ‘volume’ to read it on a tablet…
    Thanks so much to you and to all this great community for their efforts.
    I can also imagine how difficult it may be to organize the vast collection of different series and sometime I get lost keeping track of the numbers I already got and the newer ones, ending up in downloading the same archives: it would be great if you can implement a solution to collect all the links for a series in a dedicated section i.e. sometime the links are mixed within the updates and are not listed on a dedicated series page…
    Cheers & thanks again!

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    • boutje777 says:

      Thanks, you are welcome. I am working on organizing the pages for all titles, i have done allready many titles as you will notice visiting some and i will implement the updates into this pages also from time to time.

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  10. Anonymous says:

    Now Brexit happened, will any law change that DC Thompson can’t take any ridiculous action of removing something they haven’t republished in ridiculous time, and any chance of either the Punisher from 1989 or savage action from the early 80s?

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    • boutje777 says:

      I am afraid Brexit will not change anything concerning copyrights infringements. When i find/get the titles you mention they will show up on the blog offcourse.

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  11. boutje777 says:

    UPDATE 2020-02-02

    Thanks to the following contributors:

    Barry Spencer
    Bill Jaycock
    Leegt
    Lee McDaid
    Mr. Tweedy
    Phantom59

    And a few anonymous posters

    Let me know if i forgot someone

    Air War Picture Stories (1)
    Battle Picture Library (2)
    Buster (2)
    Comet (2)
    Creepy Worlds (3)
    Dan Dare (1)
    Finding Out (1)
    Harold Hare (1)
    Jack and Jill (30)
    Jackpot (2)
    Knockout (1)
    Lion (26)
    Once Upon A Time (2)
    Picture Stories Of WWII (1)
    Pocket War Library (2)
    Roy of the Rovers (3)
    Smash! (2)
    Sun (1)
    Teddy Bear (4)
    Thunderbirds (5)
    TV Comic (10)
    War Picture Library (140)
    Whizzer and Chips (15)
    Whoopee! (3)
    Young Marvelman (1)

    You can find these at the bottom of More Comics
    in Update 2020-02-02

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  12. boutje777 says:

    I’ve just opened a new blog about comics from the Silver and Bronze Age.

    Comics from the Silver-Bronze Age

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  13. boutje777 says:

    I am working on reorganizing some Picture Libraries, (i like to have them all organized like Battle Picture) but it’s kinda difficult to get them chronologically organized in years, there are no dates inside most of the time. I can remember that someone posted a link with some information on Picture Libraries but it’s lost somewhere on one of my drives. Does anyone knows where i can find information on the publishingdates for Picture Libraries ?

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  14. boutje777 says:

    I’ve reorganized Starburst.

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