Welcome on this blog full of information about Newspaper Comic Strips, and offcourse the comics.
The first newspaper comic strips appeared in North America in the late 19th century. The Yellow Kid is usually credited as the first. However, the art form combining words and pictures developed gradually and there are many examples of proto-comic strips.
The Swiss teacher, author and caricature artist Rodolphe Töpffer (Geneva, 1799–1846) is considered the father of the modern comic strips. His illustrated stories such as Histoire de M. Vieux Bois (1827), first published in the USA in 1842 as The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck or Histoire de Monsieur Jabot (1831), inspired subsequent generations of German and American comic artists. In 1865, the German painter, author and caricaturist Wilhelm Busch created the strip Max and Moritz, about two trouble-making boys, which had a direct influence on the American comic strip. Max and Moritz was a series of severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children’s stories such as Struwwelpeter (“Shockheaded Peter”); in one, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill and consumed by a flock of geese. Max and Moritz provided an inspiration for German immigrant Rudolph Dirks, who created the Katzenjammer Kids in 1897. Familiar comic-strip iconography such as stars for pain, sawing logs for snoring, speech balloons, and thought balloons originated in Dirks’ strip.
Hugely popular, Katzenjammer Kids occasioned one of the first comic-strip copyright ownership suits in the history of the medium. When Dirks left William Randolph Hearst for the promise of a better salary under Joseph Pulitzer, it was an unusual move, since cartoonists regularly deserted Pulitzer for Hearst. In a highly unusual court decision, Hearst retained the rights to the name “Katzenjammer Kids”, while creator Dirks retained the rights to the characters. Hearst promptly hired Harold Knerr to draw his own version of the strip. Dirks renamed his version Hans and Fritz (later, The Captain and the Kids). Thus, two versions distributed by rival syndicates graced the comics pages for decades. Dirks’ version, eventually distributed by United Feature Syndicate, ran until 1979.
In America, the great popularity of comics sprang from the newspaper war (1887 onwards) between Pulitzer and Hearst. The Little Bears (1893–96) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journal’s first color Sunday comic pages in 1897. On January 31, 1912, Hearst introduced the nation’s first full daily comic page in his New York Evening Journal. The history of this newspaper rivalry and the rapid appearance of comic strips in most major American newspapers is discussed by Ian Gordon. Numerous events in newspaper comic strips have reverberated throughout society at large, though few of these events occurred in recent years, owing mainly to the declining role of the newspaper comic strip as an entertainment form.
I only place newspaperstrips from before 2000, with the occasional exception.
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.
You can view the comics with any cbr-reader like CDisplay or ComicRack.
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 information :
UPDATE 08-12-2022
Dinky Dinkerton D027 Updated – Errors Corrected
Dinky Dinkerton Dailies 36-41
Thanks to:
Ar
ComixFiend
Ranjan Gangopadhyay
Udai Singh
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UPDATE 09-12-2022
Flash Gordon 5 Sunday Stories 161-165
Thanks to Ar
Modesty Blaise – 06 – Uncle Happy (Upgrade with missing strips)
Thanks to Ar
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Hey Boutje, cool colllection and great work, man. Any chance of repairing the Fosdyke Saga downloads – Vol 2 is OK but the others are all afiling at various stages.
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What is the problem precisely, i can’t find any.
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UPDATE 16-12-2022
Dan Dunn 8 Stories with better quality
Dan Dunn – Detective Dan Secret Op Book
Thanks to Ar and Udai
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UPDATE 20-12-2022
Modesty Blaise – 26 – The Gallows Bird Updated page 15 is now complete.
Thanks to Ar.
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UPDATE 21-12-2022
Modesty Blaise – 27 – The Wicked Gnomes
(added a missing page strip 3194)
Thanks to Ar.
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Good morning everyone
Sincere wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Ar
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Thank you Ar, all the best for you and your relatives.
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Good evening Boutje and everyone
This is a small CHRISTMAS story, which the group “Ar – Comix – Ranjan -Udai”, wants to dedicate to all those who, like us, try to preserve those comics, which made our youth a more cheerful and happy place.
Thank you UDAI for having managed to find a gift that, in addition to making our hearts happy, will make many hearts happy all over the world.
The link
https://www.mediafire.com/file/mommep9zqpewak0/Bucky%2527s_Christmas.cbr/file
Stay well
Merry Christmas
Ar
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Thank you Ar and Udai, Merry Christmas.
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To all my sincere wishes for a Happy New Year 2023
Big hug
Ar
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Thank you Ar, i wish you a fine en healthy 2023.
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UPDATE 03-01-2023
Flash Gordon 5 Sunday Stories 166-170
Thanks to Ar
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UPDATE 04-01-2023
Flash Gordon 1 Sunday Story 171
Thanks to Ar
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UPDATE 12-01-2023
Prince Valiant 1971,1972
Thanks to Ar
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UPDATE 16-01-2023
Saint – 028 Goggles
Thanks to Ar
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UPDATE 29-01-2023
Buck Rogers Daily Story 57
Thanks to Ar
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Good morning
Something’s up with the Secret Agent X9 comments…
The last one that appears has the date of “September 23, 2021”
Will it be just with me?
Ar
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Not you, it’s with me also September 23, 2021 at 8:33 am
And nothing in the spam- or deleted box, perhaps there were no comments after this date.
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Good afternoon everyone
To all those interested and followers of the Buck Rogers strips, I thank you in advance for your attention to the comment I left in the respective area.
Thank you all, and be safe
Ar
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UPDATE 02-02-2023
Buz Sawyer D052 Nuclear Submarine Expert
Upgrade Better images
Thanks to Ar
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UPDATE 06-02-2023
Mary Perkins On Stage 1973
Thanks to Mulo Kibizer
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UPDATE 07-02-2023
Buck Rogers Daily Story 31 Martian War Threat – Upgrade now complete
Thanks to Ar and Maroni
Buck Rogers Daily Story 57 Rocketship Graveyard – Upgrade now complete
Thanks to Ar and Valiant
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UPDATE 08-02-2023
Incredible Hulk – 10 (800804- 801109) – Upgrade now complete
Thanks to Ar and Michael Horoky
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UPDATE 16-02-2023
Flash Gordon 1 Sunday Story S027
Thanks to Ar
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UPDATE 26-02-2023
Steve Canyon 10 parts 1949-1951
PDF Format
Thanks to MD
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I’ve reorganized the Flash Gordon page.
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A logical timeline with daylies and Sundays separated is always helpful… 🙂
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That’s what i was thinking, with all the updates (good thing offcourse) the page was getting a little unorganized.
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UPDATE 27-02-2023
Buck Rogers 7 parts daily stories
Thanks to Ar
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” 7 parts daily stories”, what title…?
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At the Buck Rogers Page, sorry, forgot to mention that, will do that in a jiffy.
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Nice job,in Flash Gordon page…
Ar
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Thank you Ar.
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UPDATE 02-03-2023
NP Incredible Hulk – 12 (810216-810531) – Upgrade now complete
Thanks to Ar
Caroline Baker, Barrister At Law (New Title)
Thanks to:
Ar
ComixFiend
Ranjan Gangopadhyay
Udai Singh
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Thank you Ar for all your great work. Particularly Caroline Baker. Never thought I’d be able to read the complete run.
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Good afternoon Paw Broon
You are welcome.
My concern, and I warned Boutje of that situation, was that it was you who had launched in the
area of “British Comics Compilations” C. Baker’s first time, however after contacting Udai, he verified, that it was coming from a magazine, whereas the group had obtained it through newspaper strips.
The important thing, I think, is to complement and complete as much as possible the comics that we love so much.
Be safe
Ar
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Hi Ar,
My compilation was from 2 stories which were released years ago by ADCCC (All Devon Comic collectors Club) – sadly out of business now.
They specialised in collating and reprinting British newspaper strips for members. It’s where my interest in Buck Ryan started.
Paw.
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UPDATE 04-03-2023
Buck Rogers Daily Story 036 Martians Invade Jupiter
Thanks to Ar
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UPDATE 05-03-2023
Buck Rogers 17 Daily Stories
Thanks to Ar and Valiant
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UPDATE 06-03-2023
Flash Gordon 7 Sunday Stories
Thanks to Ar and Saikat
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