For many years until the near-collapse of the British children's comics market, an annual would be published each year for each of the comic titles published by Thomson and IPC/Fleetway, featuring extra adventures of the comic's current and former characters, plus additional material in the form of puzzles, text articles, etc. Annuals were often even published for comics which had themselves ceased publication or been absorbed into other titles; for example, "Scorcher" annuals were still being published 10 years after the comic itself had been absorbed into "Tiger". Today, this section of the market has been reduced to just a couple of surviving titles.