CREATOR

Name: D.C. Thomson & Company Limited. (Scottish comic book corporation).
Personal dates: Founded 1905 in Scotland by David Coupar Thomson (1861-1954). Ongoing.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Thomson in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation never use a logo regularly on their comic book front covers.

 

 

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 1940*. Ongoing.

This is a biennial magazine (it is published in even years and alternates with Oor Wullie that emerges in odd years) primarily featuring the Scottish working class family named Broon consisting of 11 members. The stories are mostly 1-pagers describing the family members' daily, domestic lives.

* The series started as a newspaper strip in 1936.

 

 

MAIN CHARACTERS


The Broons

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 6 random issues)

1940
1962
1980

1992
2004
2014

 

 

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