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The Boy's Home Weekly

Total Issues: 40

Mostly school stories and adventure yarns. Emphasis on Horatio Alger, Jr., and Oliver Optic.

Issues & Index Sources: 17-May-1911 – 14-Feb-1912

Publishers:   Westbrook, NY
Formats:   octavo story-paper
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   weekly
Sources:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Boys' Illustrated Magazine

Issues & Index Sources: 1865

Publishers: Simpkin

Boys' Illustrated News

Total Issues: 61

Issues & Index Sources

6-Apr-1881 – 31-May-1882

#incorporated into The Boys' Newspaper

Publishers

Illustrated London News (Cassells); Fox

Editors

Mayne Reid

Formats

tabloid; smaller format from #40

Pagecounts

8pp; 16pp from #40

Frequency

weekly

The Boys' Journal [1863]

Total Issues: 98

Authors include Percy B. St. John, Mayne Reid, W. Stephen Hayward.

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1863 – Feb-1871:

Story Paper Index

(sample issue only)

#merges with The Youth's Play Hour

Publishers

Henry Vickers, London

Editors

Charles Brown

Prices

in 1863: 3d
1864 – 1871: 6d

Frequency

monthly

The Boys' Journal [1913]

Total Issues: 72

Really a relaunch of Boy's Herald.

Issues & Index Sources

20-Sep-1913 – 30-Jan-1915

#incorporated into Dreadnought

Publishers

Amalgamated Press, London

Editors

  ?: W.H. Back (Editor-in-Chief)
  1913 – 1915: Horace Phillips
  c. 1915: Lewis Carlton

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly

Boys' Jubilee Journal

Total Issues: 61

Issues & Index Sources

16-Apr-1887 – 9-Jun-1888

#becomes Young Briton's Journal

Publishers

Guy Rayner

Frequency

weekly

The Boys' Leader [1878]

Total Issues: 33

Mostly school stories and westerns.

Issues & Index Sources

17-Nov-1878 – 29-Jun-1879:

Dime Novel Bibliography

#merges with Boys of New York

Publishers

Frank Tousey, NY

Formats

tabloid boys' story paper

Frequency

weekly

Sources: Dime Novel Bibliography

Boys' Leader [1880]

Total Issues: 52+229=281

Reprints stories from USA.

Issues & Index Sources

1-May-1880 – 1882

11-Sep-1895 – 14-Feb-1900

#incorporated into Boys of London and Boys of New York

Publishers

Henry Wells Jackson, 2 Red Lion Court

Formats

11¼" x 8½"

Prices

½d

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly

Boys' Leader [1903]

Total Issues: 101

Boys' story-paper companion to Big Budget. Includes Funny Pips supplement (a comic) for first 15 issues.

Issues & Index Sources

18-Sep-1903 – 12-Aug-1905

#incorporated into Big Budget

Publishers

C. Arthur Pearson, 17 Henrietta Street, London W.C.

Editors

Arthur Brooke (Arthur C. Marshall); John R. Wade (assistant)

Prices

Frequency

weekly (every Tuesday)



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The Boys' Leisure Hour

Total Issues: 379

A supplement edition of Boys' Half-Holiday was given away in 1887. Incorporates: Boys' Half Holiday.

Issues & Index Sources

23-Aug-1884 – 28-Nov-1891:

Story Paper Index

(Missing: all after 15-Aug-1885)

#merges with The Boys' Standard

Publishers

Charles Fox, London

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly

Boys' Library of Adventure and Romance

Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources: 1890

Publishers: Perry Mason & Co.
Sources: Dime Novel Bibliography

Boys' Library (UK)

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources: 28-Feb-1879 – 16-May-1879

Publishers: E.J. Brett
Frequency: weekly

Boys' Library (US)

Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources: 4-Sep-1915 – 6-Nov-1915:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers: Wilton F. Philips, 705 E. Church St., Elmira, NY
Sources: Dime Novel Bibliography

Boys' Life (UK)

Total Issues: 26

Issues & Index Sources

20-Apr-1907 – 12-Oct-1907

#incorporated into The Captain

Publishers

Newnes

Editors

R.S. Warren Bell

Formats

tabloid from 19

Pagecounts

24pp; 16pp

Frequency

weekly

Boys' Life (US)

Boy scout magazine. Norman Rockwell was art editor around 1911; featured several sf stories in the 1950s, 1960s & 1970s including those by Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert A. Heinlein.

Issues & Index Sources

1-Jan-1911

1-Mar-1911 – Dec-1969:

FictionMags Index

(Missing: Jan-1912; Jan-1913 - Dec-1913; Jan-1941)

Jan-1970 – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

G.S. Barton, Boston

Editors

Robert Hood (1967 - 1976 at least)

Prices

  in 1967: 25c
  in 1970: 40c
  in 1972: 50c
  in 1975: 60c

Frequency

monthly (first 3 issues semi-monthly)

Website: www.boyslife.org



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The Boys' Magazine [1886]

Total Issues: 901

Religious monthly featuring "illustrated articles of interest to boys, sports, hobbies, topical subjects." Incorporates: Our Boys' Magazine

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1886 – Aug-1961

Publishers:   The Scripture Union Ltd
Editors:   'Clarence H.M. Foster (c. 1926 - 1934); A. Morgan Derham (c. 1948)
Formats:   enlarged paper size from 1931.
Prices:   1d; 2d
Pagecounts:   20pp
Frequency:   monthly (20th of month)



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