Series Name | Years in Print | Issues (Printings) |
1001 Laffs {Comic Books} | 1970 - ? | 11 |
87th Precinct {Comic Books} | 1962 | 2 |
Action Double Double Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Four remaindered DC (and occasionally Marvel) comics with a UK cover. For more info see http://themagicrobot.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/thorpe-and-porter-double-double-comics/ or http://www.crikeyuk.co.uk/fea11DoubleDouble.html
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1967 - 1973 | 4 |
Adventure Double Double Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Four remaindered DC (and occasionally Marvel) comics with a UK cover. For more info see http://themagicrobot.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/thorpe-and-porter-double-double-comics/ or http://www.crikeyuk.co.uk/fea11DoubleDouble.html
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1967 - 1973 | 3 |
Adventures into Weird Worlds {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may exist.
|
1952 - 1952 | 2 |
Adventures of Biggles {Comic Books}
Note: Issues of this series are undated, but later than the mid-1950s Australian reprints. This series has nine issues -- higher numbered issues are likely to be the Australian original which had some UK price variants.
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1955 - 1959 | 15 |
Airboy Comics {Comic Books} | 1953 | 5 |
American Eagle Western {Comic Books} | 1955 | 1 |
Archie Comics {Comic Books} | 1953 - ? | 1 |
The Avengers {Comic Books} | 1966 | 1 |
Batman Annual {Comic Books} | 1970 - 1970 | 1 |
Batman Bumper Book {Comic Books} | 1979 | 1 |
Batman Double Double Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Four remaindered DC (and occasionally Marvel) comics with a UK cover. For more info see http://themagicrobot.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/thorpe-and-porter-double-double-comics/ or http://www.crikeyuk.co.uk/fea11DoubleDouble.html
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1967 - 1973 | 3 |
Benjy All Colour Paperback {Comic Books} | 1973 | 1 |
Benjy and His Friends {Comic Books} | 1971 - 1972 | 30 |
The Bible Illustrated [The New Testament] {Comic Books} | 1960 - ? | 4 |
The Bible Illustrated [The Old Testament] {Comic Books} | 1960 - 1960 | 5 |
Blackhawk {Comic Books} | 1956 - 1958 | 37 |
Blackhawk Album {Trade Paperbacks} | 1957 - 1957 | 1 |
Blackhawk Annual {Comic Books} | 1959 - 1959 | 1 |
Bonanza [Western Classics] {Comic Books} | 1970 - 1972 | 15 |
Boy Detective Comics {Comic Books} | 1952 | 1 |
The Brave and the Bold Annual {Hardcovers}
Note: Rebound edition of six remaindered comics with a new cover.
One copy contains Our Fighting Forces #97, Batman #191, Superboy #132, Action Comics #350, Adventure Comics #356 and Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #99. Other contents may vary.
|
1967 | 1 |
Bugs Bunny {Comic Books}
Note: More issues probably exist.
|
1972 - 1973 | 1 |
Bugs Bunny Comics {Comic Books}
Note: #4 and #6 have an indicia title of "Bugs Bunny Comics", yet plain "Bugs Bunny" on the cover. #1's indicia and cover titles are currently unknown.
|
1953 | 2 |
Cain's Hundred {Comic Books} | 1962 - 1962 | 1 |
Calimero {Comic Books}
Note: There are 12 known issues in the UK. In Sweden, 12 issues were published.
|
1973 - 1974 | 12 |
Candida the Marchesa {Comic Books} | 1974 | 3 |
Casper the Friendly Ghost {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may exist.
|
1973 - 1974 | 24 |
Challengers of the Unknown {Comic Books} | 1960 - ? | 4 |
Charles Rand {Comic Books} | 1966 | 1 |
Charlie Chaplin {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
|
1973 - 1974 | 6 |
The Classics Companion of Great Indian Stories {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 1 |
Classics Illustrated {Comic Books}
Note: Most issues are reprints from the US Classics Illustrated series from Gilberton. However, some issues appeared in the British series before they did in the American. After the American series was cancelled several new titles appeared in the British and European series.
When reprinting issues, some issues were dropped, resulting in multiple issues, such as two versions of #152.
|
1951 - 1963 | 181 (227) |
Classics Illustrated Deluxe Edition {Hardcovers} | 1950 - 1953 | 5 |
Classics Illustrated Junior {Comic Books} | 1953 - 1954 | 16 |
Classics Illustrated Special Issue {Comic Books} | 1957 - 1970 | 8 (9) |
Comic Collection {Comic Books} | 1980 - ? | 2 |
Comics to Hold You Spellbound {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may exist.
|
1953 - ? | 2 |
Daffy Duck {Comic Books} | 1972 - ? | 4 |
Danger Man {Comic Books} | 1966 | 1 |
Dead-Eye Western Comic {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may exist.
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1953 - 1953 | 1 |
Detective Double Double Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Four remaindered DC (and occasionally Marvel) comics with a UK cover. For more info see http://themagicrobot.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/thorpe-and-porter-double-double-comics/ or http://www.crikeyuk.co.uk/fea11DoubleDouble.html
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1967 - 1973 | 3 |
Doctor Dolittle {Comic Books} | 1973 - 1974 | 2 |
Dracula {Comic Books} | 1962 | 1 |
Edgar Rice Burroughs Korak, Son of Tarzan {Comic Books}
Note: Title from cover. Indicia title might differ slightly.
|
1971 - 1976 | 71 |
Edgar Rice Burroughs Korak, Son of Tarzan [cent covers] {Comic Books} | 1971 - 1974 | 58 |
Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes [cent covers] {Comic Books}
Note: Published by Top Sellers / Williams Publishing in the UK and printed in Europe, these issues were intended for distribution in Australia (and possibly other countries such as New Zealand). While Australian issue #115 matches UK issue #30 and appears to have been published at about the same time, there is no simple one-to-one correspondence across the whole series.
In the mid-1960s, DC's distribution arm IND bought Thorpe & Porter. In 1967/68, National Periodical Publications (DC) was purchased by Kinney National Company, which merged in 1969 with Warner Bros.-Seven Arts and was renamed Warner Communications, Inc in 1972.
Around 1971/72, Thorpe & Porter's Top Sellers imprint was incorporated into Williams, which became DC’s European publishing division. This was composed of various local companies, such as Danish Williams Forlag, Germany Williams Verlag GmbH, and Williams Nederland B.V. The stylised "W" logo on the covers are a Warner Communications brand.
The Australian versions of Tarzan and Korak, despite the UK publisher, are linked to the series from Classics Nederland N.V. and subsequently Williams Nederland B.V. The Australian edition starts at #115, aligning with the Dutch issue #12115. The series numbering and contents then align with the Dutch version, despite similarities with the UK edition.
While there is no direct alignment with the UK-distributed editions, there are similar sequences of issues at times and a couple of later issues have the UK issue numbers on the bottom of the cover (as secondary numbering). Other Williams editions in Europe are similar, but only the Dutch version appears to match the order, numbering and cover colouring of the Australian distributed edition.
|
1971 - 1975 | 91 |
Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes [First Series] {Comic Books} | 1970 - 1971 | 7 |
Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes [Second Series] {Comic Books}
Note: Indicia publishers include Williams Publishing and Distributing Co. Ltd, and Top Sellers.
In the mid-1960s, DC's distribution arm IND bought Thorpe & Porter (and its Top Sellers imprint). National Periodical Publications (DC) was then purchased by Kinney National Company in 1967/68, which merged in 1969 with Warner Bros.-Seven Arts and was renamed Warner Communications Inc in 1972.
During this time, Thorpe & Porter and Top Sellers were incorporated into Williams, which became DC's European publishing division. From about 1973 to 1976, Top Sellers and Williams comics carried the Warner Communications stylised "W" logo. Warner sold the Williams group in 1976, although the name continued on some European publications until at least 1978.
It is reported at www.comicpriceguide.co.uk that the first issue of this series is actually remaindered (unsold) copies of #7 in the previous series with the addition of a sticker in the top left hand corner stating "No.1 Fortnightly".
Issues with numbers from #115 and cents pricing that are published by Top Sellers/Williams belong to separate, but similar-looking, Australian-distributed series: www.comics.org/series/95388.
|
1971 - 1975 | 116 (118) |
Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes Bumper Album {Comic Books} | 1972 | 1 |
Eerie {Comic Books}
Note: Typically consists of an issue of Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) and an issue of Strange Worlds (Avon, 1950 series).
Denis Gifford (in The Complete Catalogue of British Comics, 1985) has this series starting in October 1951.
|
1952 - ? | 3 |
Fantastic Tales {Comic Books} | 1963 | 21 |
Fargo Kid {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may exist.
|
1959 - ? | 3 |
First Love {Comic Books} | 1959 - 1961 | 18 |
The Flash {Comic Books} | 1960 - 1962 | 5 |
The Flash {Comic Books}
Note: British reprint of American (DC) series.
|
1962 | 4 |
Forbidden Worlds {Comic Books} | 1950 - 1951 | 145 |
Fotostrip {Comic Books} | 1970 - 1970 | 3 |
Fox and Crow {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may exist.
#17 was mistakenly titled "Flax", which is the Swedish and Norwegian version of the title.
|
1970 - ? | 31 |
Frankenstein {Comic Books} | 1963 | 1 |
Frogman Comics {Comic Books} | 1952 | 7 |
Funny Half Hour {Comic Books} | 1970 - 1979 | 171 |
Gene Autry Comics {Comic Books} | 1953 - 1954 | 36 (37) |
Giant Superman Album {Comic Books} | 1975 - 1975 | 1 |
Green Lantern Annual {Comic Books}
Note: This annual consists of six remaindered DC comics bound together in one volume, five dating from 1967, the sixth from 1966. While unpriced and without an overall indicia, its format is consistent with Thorpe & Porter's Double Double Comics which were published at around the same time as this.
|
1967 - ? | 1 |
Gunsmoke {Comic Books} | 1970 - 1971 | 17 |
Hammer's Halls of Horror {Comic Books}
Note: The same company published British and American versions of the same title. This is the American series. Contents were text articles and comics stories in roughly equal percentages, excluding advertising.
|
1978 | 4 |
An Illustrated History of Great Indian Stories {Hardcovers} | 1950 - ? | 1 |
An Illustrated Library of Great Adventure Stories {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 1 |
An Illustrated Library of Great Indian Stories {Comic Books} | 1952 | 1 |
Jesse James Comics {Comic Books} | 1952 | 9 |
Jimmy Olsen Double Double Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Four remaindered coverless DC (and occasionally Marvel) comics with a UK cover. For more info see http://themagicrobot.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/thorpe-and-porter-double-double-comics/ or http://www.crikeyuk.co.uk/fea11DoubleDouble.html
One copy of this issue is known to contain:
Jimmy Olsen 97 and 98, Plastic Man 3 & Aquaman 28.
Another copy contains
Jimmy Olsen 97 and 102, Plastic Man 3 & Aquaman 28.
|
1967 | 1 |
Jughead {Comic Books}
Note: Dating uncertain. 1950s. More issues may exist.
|
1955 - 1955 | 1 |
Jumbo Comics {Comic Books} | 1952 | 1 |
Justice League Double Double Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Four remaindered DC (and occasionally Marvel) comics with a UK cover. For more info see http://themagicrobot.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/thorpe-and-porter-double-double-comics/ or http://www.crikeyuk.co.uk/fea11DoubleDouble.html
|
1968 - 1972 | 2 |
Justice Traps the Guilty {Comic Books}
Note: British black and white reprints of US comic, Justice Traps the Guilty (Prize, 1947 series).
There was a second series, in similar format from the same publisher; see: Justice Traps the Guilty (Thorpe & Porter, 1965 series).
|
1957 - 1958 | 15 |
Justice Traps the Guilty {Comic Books} | 1965 - 1965 | 13 |
Kaanga {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may exist.
|
1952 - ? | 1 |
Kid Colt Outlaw {Comic Books}
Note: It's possible that issue #1 may not exist, one has yet to surface. All issues are without publication dates, any dates attributed are speculative, unconfirmed.
|
1952 - 1960 | 58 |
Kid Colt Outlaw {Comic Books}
Note: Second UK series. First series was T&P/Strato, this series is T&P/Top Sellers.
|
1960 - 1961 | 7 |
Kid Colt, Outlaw Album {Comic Books}
Note: Reprints from various U.S.A. Marvel western stories, including stories from Kid Colt Outlaw (Marvel, 1949 series).
This edition is incorrectly listed in the 'Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide' (up to 2013 edition) as a U.S.A. Atlas/Marvel title.
|
1958 - 1958 | 1 |
Kid Slade Gunfighter {Comic Books} | 1957 - 1960 | 7 |
Kid Slade, Gunfighter {Comic Books}
Note: Series is a continuation of Matt Slade, Gunfighter: http://www.xowcomics.com/series_issues.htm?series_id=69209
|
1957 | 3 |
King Kong {Comic Books} | 1970 | 1 |
Kit Carson Comics {Comic Books} | 1952 - ? | 2 |
Korak Son of Tarzan Adventure Album {Comic Books} | 1971 | 1 |
Korak Son of Tarzan Bumper Album {Comic Books} | 1973 | 2 |
Larry Harmon's Laurel & Hardy {Comic Books} | 1969 - 1974 | 143 |
Larry Harmon's Laurel and Hardy a Special Yuletide Album {Comic Books} | 1972 | 1 |
Laurel & Hardy Bumper Book {Comic Books} | 1970 | 1 |
Laurel and Hardy Extra {Comic Books} | 1969 - 1972 | 8 |
Lois Lane Double Double Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Four coverless remaindered DC (and occasionally Marvel) comics with a UK cover. For more info see http://themagicrobot.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/thorpe-and-porter-double-double-comics/ or http://www.crikeyuk.co.uk/fea11DoubleDouble.html
One example is known to contain:
Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane 66, 67, 73 & Metamorpho 10
Another contains
Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane 69, 71, 73 & Metamorpho 9.
|
1968 - 1972 | 1 |
Lone Ranger {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may exist.
|
1970 - 1971 | 15 |
Mad {Comic Books}
Note: Reprinted U.S. editions with original covers. Repackaged from 48 page eight times a year in the U.S. to 32 page monthly in the U.K.
|
1959 - 1994 | 290 |
Marked for Murder {Comic Books}
Note: No book name in indicia. See Hemmelig brigade (1965 series)(NO) and Geheime Brigade (1965 series) (NL).
|
1965 - ? | 8 |
Matt Slade Gunfighter {Comic Books} | 1957 | 5 |
Merry Tales {Comic Books} | 1970 | 4 |
Metal Men Annual {Hardcovers} | 1967 | 1 |
Mike Shayne Private Eye {Comic Books} | 1962 - ? | 3 |