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Treasury of British Comics

Parent company	Rebellion Developments
Founded	2016
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Key people	Keith Richardson Oliver Pickles
Publication types	Comic books Trade paperbacks
Official website	Treasury of British Comics

Treasury of British Comics is a line of comic book collections published by Rebellion Developments, collecting British comics stories from the libraries of Amalgamated Press/Fleetway Publications/IPC Magazines.

History

Rebellion Developments had purchased 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Megazine from Fleetway Publications in 2000. At the time, ownership of the library of material the later had published in its various incarnations was split, with characters who had appeared before 1 January 1970 sold to Danish publisher Egmont as part of TI Media (the latest incarnation of IPC Magazines, who made short-lived licensing deals for the characters with WildStorm (via Time Warner) and Titan Books in 2006. Dan Dare meanwhile was sold off separately to the Dan Dare Corporation, while the fact-based contents of Look and Learn and Ranger were purchased by Look and Learn Magazines Ltd. Fleetway meanwhile licensed occasional reprint collections of the post-1970 material they still owned, notably to small Irish publisher Hibernia Comics.

In 2016, Rebellion purchased the material still owned by Fleetway (then known as the Fleetway/IPC Youth Group), and announced they would be beginning reprints shortly afterwards. The Treasury of British Comics series began later that year, with the collection of "Monster" from the pages of Scream!. Due to the masters being lost, the comic had to be remastered from scans of original issues. Keith Richardson was editor for the range.

In 2018, Rebellion purchased the pre-1970 material from TI Media, and began adding it to the Treasury of British Comics reprint series. In 2019, the first of a series of books reprinting Hugo Pratt's British work was announced. The same year a Funny Pages special was produced for Free Comic Book Day.

In 2020, Rebellion editor Oliver Pickles described the "mission statement" of the imprint as "bringing these ignored masterpieces back to the forefront of the public’s consciousness" when referring to the company's schedule for the year, which included collections of strips including "Third World War", "Billy's Boots", "The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire" and "The Thirteenth Floor".

In May 2023 a revival of the traditional British annual with the Treasury of British Comics Annual, which included new material based on vintage properties such as the Spider, the Leopard from Lime Street and Black Beth, backed with reprints of classic material.

Collections

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2023)

Footnotes

1. Incorrectly accredited to Thunder on the front cover of the collection
2. ^ Exclusive to Rebellion's website.

References

1. Davison, Joshua (July 19, 2018). "Treasury of British Comics: Can a Forgotten Archive Teach Us About Comics in the 21st Century? [SDCC]". bleedingcool.com.
2. "Classic British Comics: Who Owns What?". downthetubes.net. October 4, 2018.
3. "Treasury of British Comics".
4. "2000AD publisher bags Roy of the Rovers and other classic British comics". Wired UK – via www.wired.co.uk.
5. Flood, Alison (January 8, 2016). "Alan Moore's early comic Monster to be republished". The Guardian.
6. McMillan, Graeme (August 15, 2017). "Alan Moore to Write Introduction to Collection of Classic British Comic Strip 'Faceache'". The Hollywood Reporter.
7. McMillan, Graeme (September 28, 2018). "'2000 AD' Publisher Acquires TI Media Comic Archive". The Hollywood Reporter.
8. McMillan, Graeme (November 14, 2019). "'Battle Stations' Rediscovers Lost Hugo Pratt Art After More Than 50 Years (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter.
9. "Treasury of British Comics to Produce Special FCBD Issue". 15 January 2019.
10. "Syndicated Comics". 20 January 2020.
11. "Rebellion Revive an Old UK Comics Tradition with the Treasury of British Comics Annual 2024 - Broken Frontier". 31 May 2023.
12. ^ Oliver, Andy (May 7, 2021). "The Spider's Syndicate of Crime – The 1960s King of Crooks Returns to Print in Stories by Ted Cowan, Jerry Siegel and Reg Bunn - Broken Frontier". www.brokenfrontier.com.

External links

• Treasury of British Comics

• Comic book collection books
• Fleetway and IPC Comics
• Rebellion Developments
• British comics