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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)

Boys' Friend Library

Total Issues: 764

Mostly reprinted (often revised) serials from various Amalgamated story papers but also contained occasional 80,000 word original novels.

Further Reading: Origins of the Boys' Friend Library by W.O.G. Lofts & Derek Adley (Privately published, 1987).

Entitled Jack, Sam and Pete Library, 1-2; Boys' Friend Library, 3-764.

Issues & Index Sources

Sep-1906 – 4-May-1925

#becomes Boys' Friend Library (New Series)

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Editors

  1906 – 1922: William H. Back
  1922 – 1925: John L. Garbutt
  c. 1915: William Gibbons (assistant editor)
  ?: Balfour Ritchie

Prices

3d; 4d from 409

Pagecounts

148pp

Frequency

2 per month; 3 per month 27-38; 4 per month 39-54; 2 per month 55-66; 3 per month 67-348; 4 per month 349-420; 2 per month 421-430; 3 per month 431-445; 4 per month 446-569; 5 per month 570-644; 4 per month 645-764 (1st of month; 1st Friday of month)



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Boys' Friend Library (New Series)

Total Issues: 724

Entitled Boys' Friend Library, 1-700; then alternates between Bullseye Library, 701 (and all odd numbers to 723) and Knockout Library, 702 (and all even numbers to 724).

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1925 – Jun-1940

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Editors

1925 – ?: John L. Garbutt
? – 1940: Percy A. Clarke

Prices

Pagecounts

64pp; 96pp from 325

Frequency

4 per month

Boys' Fun

Total Issues: 25

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1952 – Dec-1954:

Story Paper Index

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Pagecounts:   36pp
Frequency:   monthly

Boys' Graphic [1890]

Total Issues: 52+?=52+

Incorporates: Boyhood

Issues & Index Sources

8-Mar-1890 – ?

Publishers

8-Mar-1890 – 28-Feb-1891: Popular Publishing Co. (Guy Rayner)
7-Mar-1891 – ?: Hope Publishing Co.

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly; monthly

Boys' Graphic [1902]

Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources: 11-Oct-1902 – 13-Dec-1902

Publishers: Charles Strong
Frequency: weekly