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Magazine Issues

The Boys' Own Story Teller

Total Issues: 9

Issues & Index Sources

23-Dec-1875 – 17-Feb-1876

#superseded by Our Boys

Publishers

Norman L. Munro

Formats

octavo booklet

Pagecounts

64pp

Frequency

fortnightly, then weekly

Boys' Own Times and News of the World

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources: 1-Jan-1859 – 1-Dec-1859

Publishers: T. Nelson
Frequency: monthly

Boys' Peep Show

Total Issues: 26

Issues & Index Sources

25-Sep-1901 – 19-Mar-1902

#incorporated into Boys' Star

Publishers

Charles Strong, 167 Strand, London W.C.

Prices

Frequency

weekly (every Saturday)

Boys' Penny Magazine

Total Issues: 36

Annual volumes were bound as The Boys' Yearly Book.

Issues & Index Sources

1-Jan-1863 – 1-Nov-1863

1-Dec-1863 – 1-Dec-1866, as Boys' Monthly Magazine

Publishers

Ward Lock

Editors

John Tillotson

Prices

started at 1d but rose to 2d in 1864

Frequency

monthly

The Boys' Penny Monthly

Advertised in the final issue of Boys' Miscellany as "ready" although no known copies appear to exist.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1864?

Publishers:   162 Fleet Street (Maddick)
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   Monthly

Boys' Penny Novelist

Issues & Index Sources: 1848 – ?

Boys' Pictorial

Total Issues: 24

Issues & Index Sources

15-Oct-1921 – 25-Mar-1922

#becomes Sports Pictorial

Publishers

Odhams Press

Formats

tabloid

Pagecounts

12pp

Frequency

weekly

Boys' Pocket Library

Total Issues: 24

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1931 – Sep-1932

Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.
Pagecounts:   68pp
Frequency:   3 per month

Boys' Popular Weekly

Total Issues: 41

Issues & Index Sources

21-Apr-1888 – 19-Jan-1889

#becomes Boys of the Isles

Publishers

Popular Publishing Co. (Guy Rayner)

Frequency

weekly

The Boys' Realm

Total Issues: 721+432+80+2=1235

Popular boys' story paper companion to The Boys' Friend and The Boys' Herald with many of the same authors. Had a companion Boys' Realm Football (and Sports) Library from 1909 - 1915 (299 issues).

Incorporates: Pluck from 25-Mar-1916 (Gifford)

Issues & Index Sources

14-Jun-1902 – 25-Mar-1916

5-Apr-1919 – 16-Jul-1927

23-Jul-1927 – 26-Jan-1929, as Boys' Realm of Sport and Adventure

2-Feb-1929 – 9-Feb-1929, as Boys' Realm of Fun and Fiction

(became The Realm of Fun and Fiction)

#becomes Realm of Fun and Fiction

Publishers

Harmsworth; Amalgamated Press

Editors

  1902 – 1912: Hamilton Edwards (Editor-in-Chief)
  1912 – 1916: William H. Back (Editor-in-Chief)
  c. 1902: Gilbert Floyd
  c. 1910 – 1911: Rex Haydon
  c. 1915: Thomas Burke
  1919 – 1922: John Nix Pentalow
  1922 – 1924: W. George Wright
  1922 – 1924: G. Cecil Graveley (assistant)
  ?: Stan Boddington (assistant)
  ?: R.C. Hewitt (assistant)
  ?: Maurice Nutbrown (assistant)
  1922 – 1923: Cecil Adamson (junior editor)

Formats

tabloid

Pagecounts

14-Jun-1902 – 25-Mar-1916: 16pp
23-Jul-1927 – 9-Feb-1929: 28pp

Frequency

weekly

Boys' Realm Football Library

Total Issues: 299

Announced in #299 that from the following week it would be replaced by the Nelson Lee Library. Entitled Boys' Realm Football Library, 1-79; Boys' Realm Sports Library, 80-131; Sports Library, 132-299. Incorporates: Empire Library

Issues & Index Sources

18-Sep-1909 – 5-Jun-1915

#becomes Nelson Lee Library (Original Series)

Publishers

Amalgamated Press, Fleetway House

Editors

John Nix Pentalow

Prices

1d/

Pagecounts

20pp

Frequency

weekly

Boys' Realm of Fun and Fiction

see under The Boys' Realm

Boys' Realm of Sport and Adventure

see under The Boys' Realm

Boys' Realm Sports Library

see under Boys' Realm Football Library

Boys' S.O.S. Library

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Publishers: Thomas Publications
Pagecounts: 44pp

The Boys' Standard

Total Issues: 288+580=868

All stories anonymous; authors include E. Harcourt Burrage. Incorporates: Boys' Champion Journal

Issues & Index Sources

6-Nov-1975 – 7-May-1881

14-May-1881 – 18-Jun-1892

Publishers

Lucas; Charles Fox

Editors

Charles Fox

Formats

large tabloid (folio)

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly

Boys' Star

Total Issues: 24

Incorporates: Boys' Peep Show from 26-Mar-1902

Issues & Index Sources

3-Feb-1902 – 15-Jul-1902

#becomes Boys' Star Library

Publishers

Charles Strong, 167 Strand, London W.C.

Formats

tabloid

Prices

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly

The Boys' Star Library [1887]

Total Issues: 378

Issues & Index Sources: 11-Jun-1887 – 9-Oct-1896

Publishers:   Frank Tousey
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   weekly

Boys' Star Library [1891]

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources: 1891

Publishers: Best for Boys
Frequency: monthly