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Boys of New York

Total Issues: 1000

Published many of Luis Senarens' Frank Reade Jr. stories. Mostly adventure and mystery stories. Authors inc. Harry Enton, Thomas Hanshew, E.H. Kellogg, Edward Ten Eyck.

Issues & Index Sources

23-Aug-1875 – 13-Oct-1894

20-Oct-1894 – 12-Sep-1924, as Happy Days:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers

23-Aug-1875 – 15-Jul-1878: Norman Munro
22-Jul-1878 – ?: Frank Tousey

Formats

large tabloid story paper

Pagecounts

23-Aug-1875 – 13-Oct-1894: 8pp
20-Oct-1894 – 12-Sep-1924: 16pp

Frequency

weekly



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Boys of Our Empire

see under Boys of the Empire

Boys of the British Empire

Issues & Index Sources: 9-May-1882 – 29-Apr-1884

(104pp)

Publishers:   E.J. Brett
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly

Boys of the Empire [1888]

Total Issues: 277+274+14=565

A boys' adventure paper with many illustrations in full colour (to issue #51, then b&w). Experimented with printing in blue.

Incorporates: Young Men of Great Britain from 4-Jun-1889

Issues & Index Sources

6-Feb-1888 – 22-May-1893

9-Oct-1900 – 18-Jun-1901

25-Jun-1901 – 15-Sep-1905, as Boys of the Empire: An Up-to-Date Boy's Journal

22-Sep-1906 – 22-Dec-1906, as Boys of England and the British Empire

Publishers

E.J. Brett

Editors

E.J. Brett?; Howard H. Spicer (1901 - ?)

Formats

tabloid (quarto)

Prices

1½d; ½d

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly

Boys of the Empire [1900]

Total Issues: 155

A boys' adventure paper established as a rival to the successful Brett title which was reissued at the same time.

Issues & Index Sources

27-Oct-1900 – 22-Jun-1901

29-Jun-1901 – 10-Oct-1903, as Boys of Our Empire

Publishers

Melrose, 6 Pilgrim Street, London E.C.

Formats

tabloid

Prices

1d

Pagecounts

24pp; 20pp from #2; 24pp from #86

Frequency

weekly (every Wednesday)

Boys of the Isles

Total Issues: 36

Issues & Index Sources

22-Jan-1889 – 28-Sep-1889

#becomes Bad Boy's Paper

Publishers

Popular (Guy Rayner)

Frequency

weekly

Boys of the Nation

Total Issues: 13

Ran reprints from other Fox titles.

Issues & Index Sources: 5-Sep-1895 – 28-Nov-1895

Publishers: Charles Fox
Frequency: weekly

Boys of the United Kingdom

Total Issues: 22

Issues & Index Sources

26-Nov-1887 – 21-Apr-1888

#incorporated into Boys' Popular Weekly

Publishers

J.S. Turner (according to Lofts; Gifford says Guy Rayner)

Frequency

weekly

Boys of the World [1869]

Total Issues: 62

Contains Boys of the World Weekly Storyteller (fiction supplement).

Issues & Index Sources

21-Sep-1869 – 16-Nov-1870

#incorporated into Boy's Favourite

Publishers

E.J. Brett

Pagecounts

8pp

Frequency

weekly

The Boys of the World [1875]

Total Issues: 79

Mostly adventure, westerns, school stories. Authors inc. Edward S. Ellis, Prentiss Ingraham, St. George Rathbone.

Issues & Index Sources: 21-Oct-1875 – 19-Apr-1877

Publishers:   Street & Smith, NY
Formats:   tabloid story paper
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   weekly

Boys of the World Weekly Storyteller

see under Boys of the World

The Boys' Own

Total Issues: 130

authors include Thomas Hanshew, Bracebridge Hemyng, Jules Verne.

Issues & Index Sources: 11-Oct-1873 – Mar-1876

Publishers:   C.F. Richards, Boston
Formats:   small tabloid story paper
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly

Boys' Own Journal [1883]

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources: 17-May-1883 – 4-Aug-1883

Publishers:   St. George's Publishing Office
Editors:   George Emmett
Frequency:   weekly

Boys' Own Journal

see also under Guy Rayner's Boys' Own Journal

Boys' Own Journal and Youths' Miscellany

Total Issues: 8

Issues & Index Sources

14-Jun-1856 – 20-Jan-1857

#merges with Boy's Own Magazine. An illustrated journal of Fact, Fiction, History and Adventure

Publishers

Clarke & Beeton

Editors

Samuel O. Beeton

Formats

large tabloid

Frequency

monthly

Boys' Own Library [1861]

Total Issues: 60

Issues & Index Sources: 1-May-1861 – 1-May-1866

Publishers: Beeton
Frequency: monthly

Boys' Own Library [1907]

Total Issues: 93

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1907 – Aug-1914

Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.
Editors:   Walter H. Light
Prices:   3d
Pagecounts:   132pp
Frequency:   monthly

Boys' Own Library (Second series)

Total Issues: 44

Issues & Index Sources

1920 – Aug-1922

#becomes Aldine Football Stories

Publishers

Aldine Publishing Co.

Editors

Walter H. Light

Frequency

monthly

Boy's Own Magazine. An illustrated journal of Fact, Fiction, History and Adventure

Total Issues: 116

The first of the genuine boys' magazines and forerunner of The Boy's Own Paper. Aimed at an audience above the "penny dreadful" and tried to be intelligent. Ran many typical exciting articles and stories, mostly historical fiction. Absorbed Boy's Own Journal from 27-Jan-1857. Authors include J.G. Edgar, W.H.G. Kingston, James Greenwood

Beeton's business was taken over by Ward, Lock & Tyler in 1866; Beeton himself left the company in December 1874 (cf. Adventure in Publishing, p46).

Incorporates: Boys' Own Journal from 27-Jan-1857

Issues & Index Sources

1-Jan-1855 – 1863:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

1863 – 1870, as Boys' Own Volume

1870 – 1874, as Boy's Own Magazine

1888 – 1890, as Beeton's Boy's Own Magazine

Publishers

1855 – 1866: Clarke & Beeton
1866 – 1890: Ward & Lock

Editors

1855 – 1874: Samuel O. Beeton
1888 – 1890: G.A. Henty

Formats

large tabloid

Prices

2d, up to 6d in 1863

Pagecounts

96pp in 1863

Frequency

  weekly
  in 1862: monthly
  1888 – 1890: weekly