British Juvenile Story Papers
and Pocket Libraries Index

Magazines, Listed by Title

The Union Jack (continued)

• * ___ #76 v2, June 9, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #77 v2, June 16, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #78 v2, June 23, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #79 v2, June 30, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #80 v2, July 7, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #81 v2, July 14, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #82 v2, July 21, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #83 v2, July 28, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #84 v2, August 4, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #85 v2, August 11, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #86 v2, August 18, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #87 v2, August 25, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #88 v2, September 1, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #89 v2, September 8, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #90 v2, September 15, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #91 v2, September 22, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #92 v2, September 29, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #93 v3, October 6, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #94 v3, October 13, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #95 v3, October 20, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #96 v3, October 27, 1881 (1d, 16pp, cover by Horace Petherick) (Contents)
• * ___ #97 v3, November 3, 1881 (1d, 16pp, cover by John Jellicoe) (Contents)
• * ___ #98 v3, November 10, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #99 v3, November 17, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #100 v3, November 24, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #101 v3, December 1, 1881 (1d, 16pp, cover by Horace Petherick) (Contents)
• * ___ #102 v3, December 8, 1881 (1d, 16pp, cover by John Jellicoe) (Contents)
• * ___ #103 v3, December 15, 1881 (1d, 16pp, cover by R. A. Cheffins) (Contents)
• * ___ #104 v3, December 22, 1881 (1d, 16pp, cover by R. A. Cheffins) (Contents)
• * ___ #105 v3, December 29, 1881 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #106 v3, January 5, 1882 (1d, 16pp, cover by R. A. Cheffins) (Contents)
• * ___ #107 v3, January 12, 1882 (1d, 16pp, cover by R. A. Cheffins) (Contents)
• * ___ #108 v3, January 19, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #109 v3, January 26, 1882 (1d, 16pp, cover by H. Petherick) (Contents)
• * ___ #110 v3, February 2, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #111 v3, February 9, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #112 v3, February 16, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #113 v3, February 23, 1882 (1d, 16pp, cover by John Jellicoe) (Contents)
• * ___ #114 v3, March 2, 1882 (1d, 16pp, cover by John Jellicoe) (Contents)
• * ___ #115 v3, March 9, 1882 (1d, 16pp, cover by John Jellicoe) (Contents)
• * ___ #116 v3, March 16, 1882 (1d, 16pp, cover by John Jellicoe) (Contents)
• * ___ #117 v3, March 23, 1882 (1d, 16pp, cover by H. Petherick) (Contents)
• * ___ #118 v3, March 30, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #119 v3, April 6, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #120 v3, April 13, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #121 v3, April 20, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #122 v3, April 27, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #123 v3, May 4, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #124 v3, May 11, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #125 v3, May 18, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #126 v3, May 25, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #127 v3, June 1, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #128 v3, June 8, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #129 v3, June 15, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #130 v3, June 22, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #131 v3, June 29, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #132 v3, July 6, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #133 v3, July 13, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #134 v3, July 20, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #135 v3, July 27, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #136 v3, August 3, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #137 v3, August 10, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #138 v3, August 17, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #139 v3, August 24, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #140 v3, August 31, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #141 v3, September 7, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #142 v3, September 14, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #143 v3, September 21, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #144 v3, September 28, 1882 (1d, 16pp) (Contents)

Union Jack Library

• * ___ features
• * ___ # 1, April 27, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ # 2, May 4, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #3, May 11, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #4, May 18, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #5, May 25, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #6, June 1, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #7, June 8, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #8, June 15, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #9, June 22, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #10, June 29, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #11, July 6, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #12, July 13, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #13, July 20, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #14, July 27, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #15 v1, August 3, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #16 v1, August 10, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #17 v1, August 17, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #18 v1, August 24, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #19 v1, August 31, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #20 v1, September 7, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #21 v1, September 14, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #22 v1, September 21, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #23 v1, September 28, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #24 v1, October 5, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #25 v1, October 12, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #26 v1, October 19, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #27 v2, October 26, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #28 v2, November 2, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #29 v2, November 9, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #30 v2, November 16, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #31 v2, November 24, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #32 v2, December 1, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #33 v2, December 8, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #34 v2, December 15, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #35 v2, December 22, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #36 v2, December 29, 1894 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #37 v2, January 5, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #38 v2, January 12, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #39 v2, January 19, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #40 v2, January 26, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #41 v2, February 2, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #42 v2, February 9, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #43 v2, February 16, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #44 v2, February 23, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #45 v2, March 2, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #46 v2, March 9, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #47 v2, March 16, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #48 v2, March 23, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #49 v2, March 30, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #50 v2, April 6, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #51 v2, April 13, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #52 v2, April 20, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #53 v3, April 27, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #54 v3, May 4, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #55 v3, May 11, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #56 v3, May 18, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #57 v3, May 25, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #58 v3, June 1, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #59 v3, June 8, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #60 v3, June 15, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #61 v3, June 22, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #62 v3, June 29, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #63 v3, July 6, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #64 v3, July 13, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #65 v3, July 20, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #66 v3, July 27, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #67 v3, August 3, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #68 v3, August 10, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #69 v3, August 17, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #70 v3, August 24, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #71 v3, August 31, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #72 v3, September 7, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)
• * ___ #73 v3, September 14, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #74 v3, September 21, 1895 (½d, 16pp) Contents not known.
• * ___ #75 v3, September 28, 1895 (½d, 16pp) (Contents)

The Vanguard Library

• * ___ features One of the most noted of Trapps Holmes titles, The Vanguard Library was published every Tuesday and ran to 152 issues in total between May 1907 and April 1910. In December 1909, the title changed format from a Magnet-sized weekly and announced in issue 137 that the following week the paper would become the Vanguard Library of Football, Sport and Adventure; however, the following issue remains untraced and may not have appeared. The following week’s issue — #139 — was published as normal and the new title continued to appear until issue 153 in a larger size. The editor, at least in the latter stages, was the writer Henry T. Johnson. The Vanguard Library has been one of the most intriguing to collectors as it contained a large number of Charles Hamilton stories during a period when he was heavily involved in the launch of both The Gem and The Magnet. Hamilton wrote of various schools, including Northcote, Norchester, Larkshall College, St. Kate’s, Redclyffe and various others; towards the end of the original run, between September and November 1909, Hamilton was responsible for the bulk of the contents under various pen-names, including Gillingham Jones, Ridley Redway, Robert Stanley and a number of anonymous yarns. In earlier issues he also wrote as Roland Rodway, Cecil Herbert, Eric Stanhope, Gordon Conway and contrinued his St. Kate’s yarns under the name Frank Drake. The most intriguing aspect of the Vanguard Library are the stories written by H. Philpott Wright featuring the boys of Blackminster school, and starring Taffy Llewellyn, although most of the attention to the series was because of a boy by the name of Billy Bunter. Whether this inspired Hamilton when he came to name the Fat Owl of the Remove of Greyfriars is unlikely to ever be known for sure; Hamilton later claimed he had used the Bunter name in a rejected story as far back as 1899, and had kept it in mind, to be revived when he started writing the Greyfriars yarns in 1908 (he certainly recycled names endlessly; most of the boys’ names were used time and time again, and even Greyfriars School had been used before in Smiles, another Trapps Holmes paper, in 1907). Taffy Llewellyn, meanwhile, left Blackminster school and teamed up with a detective during which phase one of his stories was credited to Captain Addison, who was concurrently writing another detective series starring Jubal Grail. Since Wright was the pen-name of J. Weedon Birch, who later started his own publishing ventures and became a shareholder of the Aldine Publishing Co., it may be possible that Addison was also his pen-name. For some unknown reason, Birch, by far the most prolific contributor, stopped writing for Vanguard in late 1909, and the mantle was picked up by Charles Hamilton, later handing over to Stephen H. Agnew.
• * ___ #1, May 4, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #2, May 11, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #3, May 18, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #4, May 25, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #5, June 1, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #6, June 8, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #7, June 15, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #8, June 22, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #9, June 29, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #10, July 6, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #11, July 13, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #12, July 20, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #13, July 27, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #14, August 3, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #15, August 10, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #16, August 17, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #17, August 24, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #18, August 31, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #19, September 7, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #20, September 14, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #21, September 21, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #22, September 28, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #23, October 5, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #24, October 12, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #25, October 19, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #26, October 26, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #27, November 2, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #28, November 9, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #29, November 16, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #30, November 23, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #31, November 30, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) Xmas Double No. (Contents)
• * ___ #32, December 7, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #33, December 14, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #34, December 21, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #35, December 28, 1907 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #36, January 4, 1908 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #37, January 11, 1908 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #38, January 18, 1908 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #39, January 25, 1908 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #40, February 1, 1908 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #41, February 8, 1908 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)
• * ___ #42, February 15, 1908 (Trapps Holmes, ½d, 20pp, octavo, cover by W. F. Coles) (Contents)