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The Boys' Weekly Reader

see under The Boys' Sunday Reader

Boys' Weekly Reader Novelette

Total Issues: 676

Ran an original and complete story ever week; may be a continuation of The Boys' Weekly Reader.

Issues & Index Sources:  28-Nov-1853 – 1-Apr-1884
Publishers:   Charles Fox
Formats:   large digest (octavo)
Pagecounts:   24pp
Frequency:   weekly

Boys' Weekly Revue

see under The Boys' Sunday Reader

Boys' Welcome

Total Issues: 1

"Aldine's poor attempt to start a new paper had one complete story entitled "Gwenneth's Choice", a very dull, dreary story. Only one issue appeared. Issued at the same time as Our Boys which also ran for one issue." (W.O.G. Lofts)

Issues & Index Sources:  21-Jul-1897: Story Paper Index
Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.

Boys' Wonder Book

Total Issues: 6

Reissued in bound form as Boys' Wonder Book: An Illustrated Magazine of Wonder and Amusement (1867).

Issues & Index Sources:  1865 – 1866
Publishers:   Charles Griffin & Co. (Gifford gives Griffiths)
Editors:   Dr. Primrose
Formats:   demy octavo
Pagecounts:   80pp
Frequency:   monthly?

Boys' Wonder Library

Total Issues: 26

Issues & Index Sources:  30-Jul-1932 – Jul-1933: Story Paper Index
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Editors:   Ernest L. McKeag
Formats:   6½" x 4½"
Prices:   2d
Pagecounts:   64pp+
Frequency:   2 per month

The Boys' World [1879]

Total Issues: 404

Circulation reached 50,000 copies per week in 1882. Incorporates: (Gifford: Champion Journal for Boys from 1880?); Our Boys' Paper from 7-Feb-1883

Issues & Index Sources:  12-Apr-1879 – 27-Dec-1886
Publishers:   Ralph Rollington
Editors:   Ralph Rollington (W. Allingham).
Pagecounts:   16pp; larger size from around issue 100
Frequency:   weekly

The Boys' World [1885]

Total Issues: 18

A boys' magazine run almost entirely by White; he sold the title to Munsey and it was absorbed into The Golden Argosy.

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1885 – May-1887
Publishers:   Boys' World
Editors:   Matthew White, Jr.
Formats:   tabloid
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   8pp (rising to 16pp)
Frequency:   monthly

Boys' World [1905]

Total Issues: 41

Issues & Index Sources

  30-May-1905 – 6-Mar-1906

#becomes New Boys' World

Publishers

  Cassells

Formats

  tabloid (large quarto)

Pagecounts

  16pp

Frequency

  weekly

Boys' World [1950]

Total Issues: 17

Hansom Books was run by a gentleman who signed himself Reg. Sheath (Greyhound Owner). Incorporated: Boys' Life from 13 (Note: Was a phantom title 'incorporated' to safeguard copyright)

Issues & Index Sources:  2-Mar-1950 – 12-Oct-1950
Publishers:   Sport-in-Print Ltd., 132 Fleet Street, E.C.4; Hansom Books from 7 (?or 8)
Editors:   Basil Storey
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   Fortnightly (every other Thursday)

Boys' World Pocket Library

Total Issues: 25

First novella entitled "Peter Slim" (30 Aug-1880).

Issues & Index Sources:  30-Aug-1880 – 22-Feb-1881
Publishers:   Allingham (Note: Lofts gives Ralph Rollington)
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   weekly

Braille Monitor

see under All Story Braille Magazine

Brandur Magazine

Total Issues: 4

A 'periodical of fiction and thought'. Published O. Henry.

Issues & Index Sources:  20-Sep-1902 – 11-Oct-1902
Editors:   Orlando Jay Smith
Frequency:   weekly

Brave

Issues & Index Sources

  Feb-1957? – ?
  May-1959 – Sep-1959, as Savage Adventures for Men

Publishers

  Cape Magazine

Sources

  MansWorld

Brave and Bold (Weekly)

Total Issues: 429

Issues & Index Sources:  27-Dec-1902 – 11-Mar-1911
Publishers:   Street & Smith
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   weekly
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Brave and True

Total Issues: 38

"Described as a paper for the sons and daughters of the Church. On the back cover of No.38, it had printed in a square "With this number the issue of Brave and True is ended." " (W.O.G. Lofts)

Issues & Index Sources:  7-Oct-1893 – 23-Jun-1894
Publishers:   Bemrose
Frequency:   weekly

Brave Lads and True

Total Issues: 12

Religious paper.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1900 – Dec-1900
Publishers:   Protestant Union
Frequency:   monthly

Breezy Science Stories

"This title may not exist. It does occur in the occasional magazine checklist but exhaustive research and inquiries have turned up absolutely no information on it.

"The earliest reference to it is in a Bradford Day checklist of the early 1950's. Day lists the title as being British. He felt that there were at least two issues dated November 1935 and January 1936. He goes on to say however that he has no data on either issue.

"Copies do not exist in either the British Library or Oxford's Bodleian Library. This may not be controlling however as many fan publications were not sent to either library and it is possible that, if Breezy Science Stories exists, it is an early fanzine.

"At the same time no collector or researcher that we contacted had a copy of Breezy or had ever seen one. It is therefore possible that this title is apocryphal. It is likely that indexers after Day simply picked up his reference and incorporated it into their own work." (Miller/Contento)

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1935 (possibly phantom)
Sources:   SFFWF

Breezy Stories

Total Issues: 360?

Another of the slightly saucy magazines, this one noted, if for nothing else, for publishing the first stories by Erle Stanley Gardner (1921).

Issues & Index Sources

  Sep-1915 – Sep-1933: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  Oct-1933 – Jul-1935, as Breezy Stories and Young's Magazine: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  Aug-1935 – Sep-1949, as Breezy Stories: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Sep-1915 – Jun-1939: C.H. Young
  Jan-1941 – Sep-1949: Phil Painter Publications

Editors

  Sep-1915 – Mar-1934: Cashel St.John Pomeroy
  Apr-1934 – ?: Phil Painter

Formats

  pulp (in 1927)

Prices

  Sep-1915 – Oct-1918: 15c
  Nov-1918 – ?: 20c

Pagecounts

  ?: 112pp
  in 1919: 128pp

Frequency

  monthly; semi-monthly in mid-1920s

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, Uncovered
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