Magazine Data File

Magazine Data Page 70
Magazine Issues

Boy's Adventure Magazine

Total Issues: 3

Lead adventure novel by Robert Byrne plus two short stories each issue; also comics and jokes.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1936 – Nov-1936:

Publishers:   Layne Publishing Corporation, 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


Issue Checklist

Boys' Adventure Stories [1946]

Total Issues: 4?

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1946 – 1947:

Story Paper Index

(missing #4)

Publishers: Art & Educational
Pagecounts: 48pp

Boys' Alert Library

Total Issues: 54

Issues & Index Sources: 1905? – 1915?:

Dime Novel Bibliography

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   M.A. Donohue & Co., 407-429 Dearborn Street, Chicago
Formats:   7 x 4 3/4"
Pagecounts:   273
Sources:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Boys and Girls [1886]

Religious paper. Entitled Boys' and Girls' Almanac from 1887.

Issues & Index Sources: 1886 – 1933

(?)

Publishers:   Pickering & Inglis, Glasgow
Prices:   ½d
Frequency:   monthly (published 1st of month)

Boys and Girls [1887]

Total Issues: 17

Issues & Index Sources

30-Jul-1887 – 19-Nov-1887

#becomes Boys of the United Kingdom

Publishers

Guy Rayner

Frequency

weekly

Boys' and Girls' Almanac

see under Boys and Girls

Boys' and Girls' Companion for Leisure Hours

Total Issues: 18 + 38 = 56

Issues & Index Sources

4-Apr-1857 – 27-Feb-1858

1-Oct-1858 – 1-Dec-1861, as Companion for Youth

Publishers

W. Kent & Co.; Houlston & Wright

Frequency

1858 – 1861: monthly

Boys' and Girls' Magazine

Contains "High class illustrated pages for children, stories, short articles and illustrations."

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1902

Publishers:   73 Bothwell Street, Glasgow
Prices:   ½d
Frequency:   monthly (1st of month)

The Boys' and Girls' Magazine, and Fireside Companion

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1848 – Dec-1850

Jan-1851 – Dec-1857, as Forrester's Boys' and Girls' Magazine, and Fireside Companion

Jan-1858 – Dec-1866, as The Student and Schoolmate, and Forrester's Boys' and Girls' Magazine

Publishers

  Jan-1848 – Dec-1850: Bradbury & Guild, Boston
  1852: William Guild & Co., Boston (1852)
  1853 – 1856: F. and G.C. Rand, Boston
  1857: Binney & Allen, Boston (1857
  Jan-1858 – Dec-1866: Joseph H. Allen : Boston

Editors

  Jan-1848 – Dec-1852: Mark Forrester
  Jan-1853 – Dec-1856: Francis Forrester, Esq.
  1857: "Father Forrester"
  Jan-1858 – Dec-1866: Oliver Optic

Frequency

monthly

Boys and Girls of America

Total Issues: 13

Ran mystery, pirate and sf stories. Authors include George Waldo Browne, Carl Buffin, Frank Roswell.

Issues & Index Sources

14-Mar-1896 – 16-May-1896

23-May-1896 – 6-Jun-1896, as Boys of America

Publishers

Al Miller, Chicago

Formats

tabloid story-paper

Prices

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly

Sources: Dime Novel Bibliography

Boys' and Girls' Penny Magazine [1832]

Total Issues: 34

The first weekly juvenile paper to cater to the general public. "The front cover was at least three-quarters taken up by a black and white illustration depicting some incident from the main story. This was usually a fairy-tale, but written for older children in probably the eight to twelve age group. The rest of the contents were short pieces of interest. Some issues I have show a further illustration on the back cover of one of the modern steam ships in that period, whilst others have advertisements of a supllement giving the full procession of the Lord Mayor's Show in colour for the sum of only twopence." (W.O.G. Lofts, "The Start of Boys' Papers")

The paper was hugely successful, and announced sales of their Christmas number of 835,000 copies sold in one week.

Issues & Index Sources: 11-Sep-1832 – 31-Mar-1833

Publishers:   W. Howden, 194 Strand; C. Penny, 110 Chancery Lane (from #19)
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   weekly