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Publisher: D.C. Thomson
Years in Operation: 1905 - ?
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Country: Flag United Kingdom Web Site: http://www.dcthomson.co.uk/ Brands: 2 Indicia Publishers: 3 Series: 210 Printings: 51232 (51228 Issues) Disclose Notes: Founded by David Couper Thompson in 1905, from the assets of the former W.& D.C. Thompson (1886-1905).   Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
Adventure {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Incorporated Red Arrow (D.C. Thomson, 1932 series) on 25th March 1933. Adventure was a prose fiction publication that featured occasional picture strips, usually 2 pages per issue.
1921 - 1961 1878
Air Fights of Flyer Hart {Comic Books} 1962 - 1
Bananaman Annual {Comic Books} 1984 - 1987 4
Bananaman Summer Special {Comic Books} 1984 - ? 10
The Bash Street Kids {Hardcovers} 1979 - 2000 17
The Bash Street Kids A Beano Special {Hardcovers} 1987 - ? 34
The Bash Street Kids Annual {Hardcovers} 2002 - 2009 8
The Bash Street Kids Book {Comic Books} 2001 - 1
The Bash Street Kids Summer Special {Comic Books} 1994 - 2002 9
The Beano {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Publication schedule recent to 2019 has 50 issues a year with a two week break around Christmas.
1950 - ? 3854
The Beano - Time Out Magazine insert {Comic Books} 2013 - 1
The Beano and The Dandy - A Celebration of Dudley D Watkins {Comic Books} 2020 - 1
The Beano and The Dandy - A Seventies Selection {Comic Books} 2006 - 1
The Beano and The Dandy - A Spin Round the Sixties {Comic Books} 2005 - 1
The Beano and The Dandy - Around the World in 60 Years {Comic Books} 1998 - 1
The Beano and The Dandy - Favourites from the Forties {Comic Books} 2003 - 1
The Beano and The Dandy - Focus on the Fifties {Comic Books} 2004 - 1
The Beano and The Dandy - History of Fun {Comic Books} 2001 - 1
The Beano and The Dandy - Side by Side for 60 Years {Comic Books} 1999 - 1
The Beano and The Dandy Mini Comic {Comic Books} 2000 - 1
The Beano Annual {Hardcovers} 2002 - ? 23
The Beano Book {Hardcovers} 1939 - 2001 63
Beano Christmas Special {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
2007 - ? 14
The Beano Comic {Comic Books} 1938 - 1950 412
Beano Comic Library {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
1982 - ? 368
Beano Comic Library Special {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
1985 - 1993 68
The Beano DFDS Special Edition {Comic Books} 2016 - 1
Beano Max {Comic Books} 2007 - 2013 79
Beano Presents: Bananaman {Comic Books} 2024 - 1
Beano Presents: Minnie the Minx {Comic Books} 2024 - 1
Beano Presents: The Bash Street Kids {Comic Books} 2024 - 1
Beano Summer Activity Special {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Previously known as the 'Beano Summer Special' until 2005.
2014 - ? 11
Beano Summer Special {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
1963 - 2005 42
The Beano Super Stars {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Beano Super Stars on cover in logo. Logo is a pointed star up until issue #73 and then a shooting star from #74 until the end. Beano Superstars (one word) in text on inside of comic. Comic started off rotating Dennis the Menace, the Bash Street Kids, Minnie the Minx and Roger the Dodger. The Bash Street Kids were dropped after issue #22 for a double dose of Dennis. The last issue starring Roger was #76 and the last Minnie was #78 after which it was all Dennis.
1992 - 2002 121
The Beezer {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Issues from 1079 to 1163 are in the series The Beezer and Cracker (https://www.comics.org/series/63718/). Issues from 1207 to 1314? (exact issue to be confirmed) are in the series The Beezer and Plug (https://www.comics.org/series/63751/). The features from The Beezer merged with those from Topper to create a new series The Beezer and Topper (D.C. Thomson, 1990 series).
1956 - 1990 1764
The Beezer and Cracker {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The centre four pages were printed in landscape format and designed to be pulled out, folded in half and cut across the top to make an eight page half-tabloid comic with its own "Best of Cracker" masthead with publisher details at the bottom of the back cover.
1976 - 1979 128
The Beezer and Plug {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The centre four pages were printed in landscape format and designed to be pulled out, folded in half and cut across the top to make an eight page half-tabloid comic with its own "Best of Plug" masthead with publisher details at the bottom of the back cover.
1979 - 1981 108
The Beezer and Topper {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Continued from The Beezer and Plug (D.C. Thomson, 1979 series) when Topper (D.C. Thomson, 1953 series) merged in, with the numbering restarted at #1.
1990 - 1993 153
The Beezer Annual {Comic Books} 2002 - 2
The Beezer Book {Hardcovers} Disclose
Note: First years (1958-1965) were not dated on cover.
1958 - 2001 46
Beezer Holiday Fun Special {Comic Books} 2000 - ? 0
Beezer Summer Special {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
1973 - 2002 30
Beryl the Peril Annual {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Biannual 1959-1977, irregular afterwards.
1959 - 1988 14
The Best of the Beezer {Comic Books} 1988 - 1996 31
The Best of the Topper {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Is there a 31st issue?
1988 - 1996 31
Bimbo {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Bimbo was cancelled in 1972 and replaced with the similarly targeted Little Star.
1961 - 1972 567
The Bimbo Book {Comic Books} 1963 - 1986 24
Black Bob The Dandy Wonder Dog {Comic Books} 1950 - 1965 8
Blue Jeans {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Mixture of magazine-style articles and photo-stories.
1977 - 1991 250
Blue Jeans Photo Novel x {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
1977 - 1990 495
Blue Jeans Photo Novel {Comic Books} 1980 - ? 507
Blue Rosette Romances {Comic Books} 1958 - 1960 79
Boys' Adventure & War Comics {Comic Books} 1978 - 1981 0
The Broons {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Collects the The Broons Sunday pages from The Sunday Post. No issues for 1944 and 1946 due to wartime paper shortage?
1940 - ? 42
The Broons and Oor Wullie - Mair Music Please! {Hardcovers} 2013 - 1
The Broons and Oor Wullie 60 Years in The Sunday Post {Comic Books} 1996 - 1
The Broons and Oor Wullie 70 Years Young 1936-2006 {Comic Books} 2005 - 1
The Broons and Oor Wullie A Nation's Favourites {Comic Books} 2000 - 1
The Broons and Oor Wullie A Rare Treat {Comic Books} 2001 - 1
The Broons and Oor Wullie at War {Comic Books} 1997 - 1
The Broons and Oor Wullie Fire Safety Special {Comic Books} 2003 - 2004 2
The Broons and Oor Wullie Golden Age Classic Fun {Comic Books} 2010 - 1
The Broons and Oor Wullie More Classics from the Fifties {Comic Books} 2003 - 1
The Broons and Oor Wullie Rare Vintage Comic Strips {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Came with a glued-in CD of The Broons "tunes" and an Oor Wullie calendar.
2011 - 1
The Broons and Oor Wullie The 1960s Revisited {Comic Books} 2004 - 1
The Broons and Oor Wullie The Early Years {Comic Books} 2006 - 1
The Broons and Oor Wullie The Glory Years 1956-1969 {Hardcovers} 2009 - 1
The Broons and Oor Wullie The Roaring Forties {Comic Books} 2002 - 1
The Broons and Oor Wullie The Sensational Sixties {Comic Books} 1999 - 1
Broons Summer Fun Special {Comic Books} 1982 - 1982 1
Buddy {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The series is notable for revivals of adventure strips from older D.C. Thomson comics. The title merged with The Victor (D.C. Thomson, 1961 series) starting with 13th August 1983.
1981 - 1983 130
Bullet {Comic Books} 1976 - 1978 147
Bullet Sport Special {Comic Books} 1977 - 1
Bunty {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Suzy (D.C. Thomson, 1982 series) was merged into Bunty in 1987. Cover title was "Bunty and Suzy" from #1536 to about #1543. Nikki for Girls (D.C. Thomson, 1985 series) was merged into Bunty in 1989. Cover title was "Bunty and Nikki" from about #1563 to #1567. Mandy & Judy [M & J] (D.C. Thomson, 1991 series) was merged into Bunty in 1997.
1958 - 2001 2249
Bunty for Girls {Hardcovers} 1960 - 2009 50
Bunty for Girls Summer Special {Comic Books} 1963 - 1973 11
Bunty Holiday Special {Comic Books} 1998 - 2004 7
Bunty Judy Bumper Library {Comic Books} 1977 - 1
Bunty Judy Summer Special {Comic Books} 1974 - 1980 7
Bunty Picture Story Library for Girls {Comic Books} 1963 - ? 455
Bunty Summer Special {Comic Books} 1981 - 1997 19
Buzz {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Merged into The Topper (D.C. Thomson, 1953 series).
1973 - 1975 103
Champ {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Merged with Spike (D.C. Thomson, 1983 series) in 1984 and was merged into The Victor (D.C. Thomson, 1961 series) in 1985.
1984 - 1985 87
Cherie {Comic Books} 1960 - 1963 160
Classics from the Comics {Comic Books} 1996 - 2010 175
Commando {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Bi-weekly (#1-24), tri-monthly (#25-30), weekly (#31-262), six times a month (#263-538), four issues every other week (#539 onwards), four every month, in one batch (2013). Current issues come out four at a time, every other week.
1961 - ? 5810 (5811)
Commando Annual {Comic Books} 1989 - 1990 2
Commando Presents: Braddock of Bomber Command! {Comic Books} 2024 - ? 1
Commando Presents: Codename Warlord {Comic Books} 2024 - ? 1
Commando Presents: Commandos vs. Zombies {Comic Books} 2023 - ? 1
Commando Presents: Ramsey's Raiders {Comic Books} 2018 - ? 2
Cracker {Comic Books} 1975 - 1976 87
The Crunch {Comic Books} 1979 - 1980 54
The Dandy {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Cover title: The Dandy and Nutty (circa mid 1985). Cover title: The Dandy and Hoot (late 1986 to early 1987).
1950 - 2007 2979
The Dandy {Comic Books} 2010 - 2012 103
The Dandy 80th Birthday Special! {Comic Books} 2017 - 1
Dandy and Beano - An Alphabet of Fun {Comic Books} 1996 - 1
The Dandy and The Beano Fifty Golden Years {Comic Books} 1987 - 1
The Dandy Annual {Hardcovers} 2002 - ? 23
The Dandy Book {Hardcovers} Disclose
Note: Cover title 1942 ? - 1952: The Dandy Monster Comic.
1939 - 2001 63

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