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Boys' and Girls' Penny Magazine [1832]

Total Issues: 34

The first weekly juvenile paper to cater to the general public. "The front cover was at least three-quarters taken up by a black and white illustration depicting some incident from the main story. This was usually a fairy-tale, but written for older children in probably the eight to twelve age group. The rest of the contents were short pieces of interest. Some issues I have show a further illustration on the back cover of one of the modern steam ships in that period, whilst others have advertisements of a supllement giving the full procession of the Lord Mayor's Show in colour for the sum of only twopence." (W.O.G. Lofts, "The Start of Boys' Papers")

The paper was hugely successful, and announced sales of their Christmas number of 835,000 copies sold in one week.

Issues & Index Sources:  11-Sep-1832 – 31-Mar-1833
Publishers:   W. Howden, 194 Strand; C. Penny, 110 Chancery Lane (from #19)
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   weekly

The Boys' and Girls' Penny Magazine [1835]

Serials by Valentine Durrant, Compton Reade, J.J.G. Bradley et al

Issues & Index Sources:  1835 – 1838

Boys' and Girls' Picture Gallery

Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources:  21-Sep-1872 – 23-Nov-1872
Frequency:   weekly

Boys' and Girls' Picture Newspaper

Total Issues: 1+63=64

Issues & Index Sources

  21-Apr-1923 (Special Trial Issue)
  28-Apr-1923 – 5-Jul-1924

Publishers

  Cassell

Formats

  tabloid

Pagecounts

  12pp

Frequency

  weekly

Boys and Girls Weekly

see under Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly

Boys' Arrow

see under Arrow Schoolboy Series

Boys' Athenaeum

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  1-Jan-1875 – 1-Feb-1875
Publishers:   Ward Lock & Tyler
Frequency:   monthly

Boys' Best Story Paper

Total Issues: 38

Incorporates New Story Paper

Issues & Index Sources:  7-Oct-1911 – 22-Jun-1912
Publishers:   Newnes
Editors:   Cecil H. Bullivant
Formats:   tabloid
Frequency:   weekly
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The Boys' Best Weekly

Total Issues: 58

Primarily school, sport and adventure stories about Jack Standfast in an imitation of the Frank Merriwell series.

Issues & Index Sources:  15-Jan-1909 – 24-Jun-1910
Publishers:   Arthur Westbrook
Prices:   5c

The Boys Book of Romance

Total Issues: 24

Issues & Index Sources:  20-Apr-1868 – 28-Sep-1868
Publishers:   Charles Stevens
Editors:   Charles Stevens
Frequency:   weekly

Boys' Broadcast

Total Issues: 36

Issues & Index Sources

  27-Oct-1934 – 29-Jun-1935

#incorporated into Boy's Cinema

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  John L. Bott; Walter Holton (assistant)

Formats

  tabloid

Pagecounts

  20pp

Frequency

  weekly

The Boys' Champion Journal

Total Issues: 144

Story-paper; contents mostly reprints from The Boys' Standard.

Issues & Index Sources

  1-Apr-1889 – 28-Dec-1891

#incorporated into The Boys' Standard

Publishers

  Charles Fox

Pagecounts

  16pp

Frequency

  weekly

Boys' Champion Paper

Total Issues: 51

Issues & Index Sources

  26-Sep-1885 – 11-Sep-1886

#becomes Comrades

Publishers

  Shurey (acording to Gifford, Lofts gives Guy Rayner)

Frequency

  weekly

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

  2d

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


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