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Boys' Champion Story Paper

Total Issues: 119

Issues & Index Sources

18-Dec-1900 – 25-Apr-1903

#becomes Pocket Budget Stories of Short and Serial Stories

Publishers

James Henderson

Editors

Arthur J. Ireland

Formats

tabloid

Prices

½d; 1d from #47

Pagecounts

8pp; 16pp from #47

Frequency

weekly (every Saturday)

Boy's Cinema

Total Issues: 1063

Incorporates: Boys' Broadcast from 19-Jun-1935; Screen Stories from 24-Aug-1935; Modern Boy fom 24-Oct-1939

Issues & Index Sources

13-Dec-1919 – 18-May-1940:

Story Paper Index

(incomplete)

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Editors

?: Maurice Creswick
c. 1934: V. Edmund Grimley (assistant)

Prices

Frequency

weekly (every Wednesday)



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Boys' Coloured Pictorial

Total Issues: 26

Issues & Index Sources: 28-Feb-1903 – 6-Sep-1903

Publishers: E.J. Brett
Frequency: weekly

The Boy's Comic Journal

Total Issues: 788

From 23-Jun-1894 contains The Boy's Comic Novels (200 issues) as a free supplement.

Issues & Index Sources: 17-Mar-1883 – 16-Apr-1898

Publishers:   E.J. Brett
Formats:   large tabloid (folio)
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly

Boys' Comic Library

Total Issues: 14

Issues & Index Sources

22-Feb-1912 – 22-Jul-1912

#becomes The Comic Library

Publishers

Aldine Publishing Co.

Editors

Walter H. Light

The Boy's Comic Novels

see under The Boy's Comic Journal

Boys' Companion and British Traveller

Total Issues: 33+23=56

A miscellany with some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

13-May-1865 – 23-Dec-1865

30-Dec-1865 – 14-Apr-1866, as Boys' Own Reader and Companion

Publishers

Newsagents Publishing Company

Editors

30-Dec-1865 – 14-Apr-1866: Rev. G. D'Avey Irvine

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly

Boy's Favourite [1870]

Total Issues: 41

Incorporates: Boys of the World from 25-Nov-1870

Issues & Index Sources

11-Nov-1870 – 15-Sep-1871

#incorporated into Boys of England

Publishers

E.J. Brett

Frequency

weekly

Boys' Favourite [1879]

Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources: 24-May-1879 – 26-Jul-1879

Publishers: Ritchie
Frequency: weekly

Boys' Favourite [1929]

Total Issues: 43

Issues & Index Sources

4-May-1929 – 22-Feb-1930

#becomes Startler

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Pagecounts

28pp

Frequency

weekly

Boys' Favourite [1953]

Total Issues: 7

Reprints stories from Boys' Favourite Library.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1953 – Feb-1954

Publishers:   Comyns
Formats:   8o.
Pagecounts:   88pp
Frequency:   monthly

Boys' Favourite Library

Total Issues: 20

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1948 – 1950

Publishers:   Panmure Publications; Perry
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   monthly; irregular

Boys' Favourite Monthly

Issues & Index Sources: 1865

Boys' First Rate Pocket Library

Total Issues: 472

The first novella was entitled "Those Troublesome Brothers" (1890). Published in full-colour pictorial wrappers.

Issues & Index Sources: 1890 – 21-Oct-1905:

Story Paper Index

(incomplete)

Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co., London
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   32pp



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Boys' Football Favourite

Total Issues: 4

Numbering may continue from Football & Sports Library (see Football Favourite).

Issues & Index Sources

6-Apr-1929 – 27-Apr-1929

#becomes Boys' Favourite

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Boy's Friend [1864]

Total Issues: 38

Issues & Index Sources: 7-Jun-1864 – 7-Aug-1867

Publishers:   Henry Lea; Houlston & Wright from-Apr-1865; H.G. Clarke from 1865?
Prices:   3d
Frequency:   monthly

The Boys' Friend [1895]

Total Issues: 332+1385=1717

Popular boys story paper which ran many adventure stories and serials including Nelson Lee, Sexton Blake, Ferrers Lord. Authors include Sidney Drew, Maxwell Scott, S. Clarke Hook, T.C. Bridges, John Tregellis, Reginald Wray, Murray Graydon, John Hunter. Noted for many imaginative sf/lost world/invasion stories. Companions were Boys' Herald and Boys' Realm.

Incorporated: Dreadnought from 19-Jun-1915; The Penny Popular

Issues & Index Sources

29-Jan-1895 – 8-Jun-1901

15-Jun-1901 – 31-Dec-1927

#merges with The Triumph

Publishers

Harmsworth; Amalgamated Press

Editors

  1901 – 1912: Hamilton Edwards [latterly editor-in-chief]
  c. 1910: Arthur Marshall
  c. 1912: Lewis Carlton
  1913: Hugh Tuite
  c. 1914: Arnold Panting
  1915 – 1916: Herbert A. Hinton
  1919 – 1921: Herbert A. Hinton
  1916 – 1919: Reginald T. Eves
  1921 – 1922?: W.R. Home-Gall
  ? – 1925: C.M. Down
  1925 – 1927: William Pike

Formats

1895 – 1914: tabloid
1914 – 1927: smaller size

Prices

½d (Jan-1895 - 8-Jun-1901); 1d (15-Jun-1901 - Oct-1922); 2d (Nov-1922 - Dec-1927)

Pagecounts

  16pp
  12pp
  Jan-1918 – Jun-1919: 8pp
  Jun-1919 – Oct-1922: 12pp
  Nov-1922 – Dec-1927: enlarged

Frequency

weekly (every Wednesday)