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The Modern Boy’s Annual 1937 [1936] (Amalgamated Press, 192pp, hc, cover by ?) 3 • Policemen of the Desert • Flying Officer W. E. Johns • ar 7 • Under the Sea by Train • Anon. • ar 12 • They Run on Caterpillars • Anon. • ar 18 • Thrills on the Water • Anon. • ar 19 • This Power Station Runs Itself • Anon. • ar 23 • First Solo • Captain J. E. Gurdon • ss 25 • Under the Black flag • Anon. • ar 30 • Building a Road across the World • Anon. • ar 32 • Vanished Flyers • Flying Officer W. E. Johns • ar 35 • First in the News in Pictures • Anon. • ar 40 • The Phantom Racer • Alfred Edgar • ss 49 • Balloonatics • Anon. • ar 53 • When Floating Cities Race • Anon. • ar 59 • Do You Believe in Sea Serpants • Anon. • ar 62 • Roundabout Railways • Anon. • ar 67 • Press the Button Hurricanes • Anon. • ar 71 • Five Years to Make a Lens • Anon. • ar 73 • Biggles Exciting Night [Biggles] • Flying Officer W. E. Johns • ss 81 • The Bridge to Nowhere • Anon. • ar 84 • Film Stars you will never see • Anon. • ar 87 • Filming the Future • Anon. • ar 91 • Stings in their Tails • Anon. • ar 93 • By Railway to the Clouds • Anon. • ar 97 • Half a Mile below the Sea • Anon. • ar 102 • When the Crowds Gasp • Barré Lyndon • ar 107 • Putting a River to Work • Anon. • ar 109 • The Tiger of Tai Lung • Murray Roberts • ss 117 • Planes that Fly Themselves • Anon. • ar 120 • Which is Britains Rail speed Champion • Anon. • ar 126 • Furies of the Fleet • Anon. • ar 132 • Round the World By Radio • Anon. • ar 136 • Puffing Billies • Anon. • ar 139 • Planes I have Crashed • Flying Officer W. E. Johns • ar 143 • Breaking Records on Salt • Anon. • ar 149 • Round Up • Anon. • ar 152 • Boys who sail Windjammers • Anon. • ar 156 • Men who never Speak • Anon. • ar 157 • Catapaults that Shoot Planes • Anon. • ar 160 • Fighting Shadows • Major George Fielding Elliot • ss 167 • Curiouser & Curiouser • Anon. • ar 171 • They Flew before there were Aeroplanes • Anon. • ar 175 • Drinking the Thames Dry • Anon. • ar 178 • 1,000 mph • Anon. • ar 179 • Climbing the Roof of the World • Anon. • ar 185 • Writing on the Sky • Anon. • ar 187 • The Station that Never Stops • Anon. • ar 188 • Yachts of the Skys • Anon. • ar 189 • Ware Bergs • Anon. • ar
The Modern Boy’s Annual 1938 [1937] (Amalgamated Press, 192pp, hc, cover by ?) • Frontispiece • Radcliffe Wilson • il 3 • Planes of Tomorrow • Anon. • ar 7 • Too Fast to be Loose • Anon. • ar 11 • The Suicide Squad! • Anon. • ar 17 • Four-footed Film Stars • Anon. • ar 22 • Shall we come to This? • Anon. • ar 28 • 300 Miles Dead Straight! • Anon. • ar 29 • They’re Paid to Catch Cold! • Anon. • ar 32 • Putting Pudmarsh on the Map! • Geo. E. Rochester • ss 40 • You Can’t Upset this Car! • Anon. • ar 41 • Burning up the Rails! • Anon. • ar 46 • Death through the Ether! • Anon. • ss 49 • Derelicts • Anon. • ar 53 • Speedmen Dare Not Ride Them! • Anon. • ar 56 • Three Bridges in One! • Anon. • ar 62 • Tigers of the Sea • Anon. • ar 63 • Danger on the Line! • Anon. • ar 67 • Seeing Round Corners! • Anon. • ar 71 • The Last Link! • Anon. • ar 77 • Machines That Play Games! • Anon. • ar 80 • Marked Speedman • Clifford Cameron • ss 89 • Postage Stamps - to Eat! • Anon. • ar 93 • Crashes Couldn’t Stop Them! • Anon. • ar 97 • Getting a Move On • Anon. • ar 99 • Speeding up the Tides • Anon. • ar 102 • Motor Racing Money • Anon. • ar 107 • Striking a Bargain • Capt. J. E. Gurdon • ss 109 • Stars - By Accident • Anon. • ar 114 • Oil or Steam? • Anon. • ar 120 • If You Could Fly to Venus • Anon. • ar 124 • Biggles Takes the Bait! [Biggles] • Flying Officer W. E. Johns • ss 125 • Up, Up and Up! • Flying Officer W. E. Johns • ar 135 • Calling All Cars! • Anon. • ar 140 • Mountaineering by Motor • Anon. • ar 145 • Roads Write their Autographs! • Anon. • ar 146 • America Makes a Sea • Anon. • ar 151 • Taming the Pacific • Anon. • ar 156 • Fliers Underground! • Anon. • ar 157 • Clever - or Crazy? • Anon. • ar 162 • Captain Justice Surrenders! [Captain Justice] • Murray Roberts • ss 172 • Bullets on Wheels • Anon. • ar 177 • Breaking Records with a Phantom Liner! • Anon. • ar 181 • Reptiles Once Ruled the World • Anon. • ar 187 • No Admittance! • Anon. • ar 188 • Bringing Home the Gas • Anon. • ar; illus. Reginald Groves
The Modern Boy’s Annual 1939 [1938] (Amalgamated Press, 192pp, hc, cover by ?); (contents not known)
The Modern Boy’s Annual 1940 [1939] (Amalgamated Press, 192pp, hc, cover by ?) • Frontispiece • Roland Davies • il 3 • Flying Above the Weather • Anon. • ar 7 • Television Goes on Tour • Anon. • ar 12 • Two Planes in One • Anon. • ar 13 • Pocket Roadsters! • Anon. • ar 16 • Monachs of the Metals • Anon. • ar 21 • Trailing the Elephant Poachers • Anon. • ar 26 • The Desert Highway • Anon. • ar 29 • What’s the Hurry? • Anon. • ar 30 • Green Cannon • Gene Monroe • ss 38 • Round the Ring • Anon. • ms 39 • Secret Signals Win Races • Anon. • ar 40 • Heavyweights of the Railways • Anon. • ar 43 • Roll of Honour • Anon. • ar 49 • Unhappy Landings • Anon. • ar 53 • What is it? • Anon. • ms; illus. photo 54 • They Called Him a Jonah • Alfred Edgar • ss 65 • Speedman’s Log • Anon. • ss 70 • Making the Grade • Anon. • ar 71 • Aviation’s Last Frontier • Anon. • ar 75 • Hold that Puck • Anon. • ar 76 • Human Flies • Anon. • ar 81 • Beating the Clock • Anon. • ar 83 • Microscope Detectives • Anon. • ar 88 • Switch on the Sky • Anon. • ar 91 • Whalers in Speedboats • Anon. • ar 95 • Burst Tyres • Anon. • ar 97 • Two Circuits in One • Anon. • ms 98 • Bertie the Boob • Flying Officer W. E. Johns • ss 103 • Britain’s Pocket Race Track • Anon. • ms 104 • Underground Fortress • Anon. • ar 107 • They Call it Football • Anon. • ar 112 • How Cold is Cold? • Anon. • ar 113 • Searching for Speed • Anon. • ar 118 • The Plane on the Cover • Anon. • ar 119 • Challenging the Queen Elizabeth • Anon. • ar 123 • When Mountains Move • Anon. • ar 124 • Too Fast to Stunt • Anon. • ar 129 • Steel Can’t Take It! • Anon. • ar 132 • New Roads for Old • Anon. • ar 137 • In Quest of Neptune’s Treasure • Anon. • ar 142 • That’s a Bus That Was! • Anon. • ar; illus. photo 144 • The F-Plan • Anon. • ss 152 • The Floating Laboratory • Anon. • ar 155 • Racing Wings • Anon. • ar 159 • Farms Without Land • Anon. • ar 163 • Snow on the Line! • Anon. • ar 165 • Built Like a Bullet • Anon. • ar 166 • Change at North Pole • Anon. • ar 171 • Rails Without Joints • Anon. • ar 173 • Blizzards to Order • Anon. • ar 177 • Britain’s Foremost Fighter • Anon. • ar 180 • A Working Model Sand-grab • Anon. • ar 185 • A Loco Inspection Pit • Anon. • ar 187 • Make This Steam Tug • Anon. • ar
The Modern Boy’s Annual 1941 [1940] (Amalgamated Press, 192pp, hc, cover by ?) 3 • Motor Racing from Within • Prince Chula, of Thailand • ar 7 • Alarums Aloft • Capt. J. E. [DFC] Gurdon • ar 12 • The Magician of the Light Rays • Anon. • ar 17 • Camouflage • Anon. • ar 21 • Beheaded! • Anon. • ar 23 • Mammoths of the Metals • Anon. • ar 29 • Gold for the Getting • Anon. • ar 33 • Tuned to Suit the Weather • Anon. • ar 34 • Toto’s Treasure • Charles Hamilton • ss 42 • Yachts of the Jungle • Anon. • ar 45 • So You Think You’d Like It? • Anon. • ar 49 • By Rocket to the Moon • Anon. • ar 54 • Under the Big Top • Anon. • ar 59 • Why the Crowd Roared • Anon. • ar; illus. Roland Davies 62 • Station That Never Sleeps • Anon. • ar 65 • Films You’ll Never See • Anon. • ar 68 • Biggles on the Trail [Biggles] • Capt. W. E. Johns • ss 74 • Where the Speed Kings Battle - Le Mans • Anon. • ms 75 • America Blows Away • Anon. • ar 79 • Five Pounds a Thrill • Anon. • ar 81 • Funny, but Fast • Gordon Brettell • ar 86 • First Time Out (Sidelights on speed) • Anon. • ms 87 • Too Many Diamonds • Anon. • ar 91 • I Tame a Hurricane • Anon. • ar 93 • On Time with the News • Anon. • ar 97 • Close-up of the Stars • Anon. • ar 101 • Flying with your Head in a Bag • Anon. • ar 102 • Where the Speed Kings Battle - Tripoli • Anon. • ms 103 • Speed Marches On! • Anon. • ar 104 • Bluebird X-rayed • Anon. • ar 108 • Green Arrows • Anon. • ar 109 • New Skies on the Map • Anon. • ar 113 • Crazy Challenge! • Stanley Hope • ss 120 • Over the Top • Anon. • ar 121 • Gallants of the Rockies • Anon. • ar 128 • The King’s Navy • Anon. • ar 129 • Light Must Work • Anon. • ar 132 • Potted Facts • Anon. • ms 133 • A Car is Born • Anon. • ar 138 • Cracking Up in Mid-air • Anon. • ar 141 • Making Noises Without Sound • Anon. • ar 143 • Fireworks That Save Lives • Anon. • ar 145 • Model Planes With a Future • Anon. • ar 149 • The Stolen Mail • Alfred Edgar • ss 156 • Where the Speed Kings Battle - Donington • Anon. • ms 157 • They Lived to Tell the Tail • Anon. • ar 158 • Where the Speed Kings Battle - Monaco • Anon. • ms 159 • Plants That Eat Meat! • Anon. • ar 161 • Snow Cruiser • Anon. • ar 162 • Cars Made to Measure • Anon. • ms 163 • These Locos Have Gears • Anon. • ar 167 • Endurance! • Anon. • ar 170 • Our Cover Picture - Eyes of the Fleet • Anon. • ar 171 • China’s Back Door • Anon. • ar 176 • The Luck of the Game • Anon. • ar 176 • Where the Speed Kings Battle - Monza • Anon. • ms 177 • Animal Actors Supplied to Order • Anon. • ar; illus. Roland Davies 182 • (Make this) High Speed Electric Motor • Anon. • ar 187 • A Model Railway Station • Anon. • ar 198 • A Flashing Lighthouse • Anon. • ar
The Modern Boy’s Book of...
The Modern Boy’s Book of Adventure Stories 1936 [1935] (Amalgamated Press, 5/-, 224pp, hc, cover by ?); (contents not known)
The Modern Boy’s Book of Aircraft [1931] (Amalgamated Press, 7/6, 192pp, hc, cover by ?); (contents not known)
The Modern Boy’s Book of Engineering [1933] (Amalgamated Press, 7/6, 192pp, hc, cover by ?); (contents not known)
The Modern Boy’s Book of Fire Fighters [1939] (Amalgamated Press, 5/-, 160pp, hc, cover by ?); (contents not known)
The Modern Boy’s Book of Hobbies [1937] (Amalgamated Press, 6/-, 192pp, hc, cover by ?); (contents not known)
The Modern Boy’s Book of Motors, Ships & Engines [1932] (Amalgamated Press, 7/6, 192pp, hc, cover by ?); (contents not known)
The Modern Boy’s Book of Pirates [1939] (Amalgamated Press, 5/-, 160pp, hc, cover by ?); (contents not known)
The Modern Boy’s Book of Racing Cars [1938] (Amalgamated Press, 4/-, 160pp, hc, cover by ?); (contents not known)
The Modern Boy’s Book of True Adventure [1937] (Amalgamated Press, 6/-, 192pp, hc, cover by ?) • Frontispiece • Radcliffe Wilson • il 3 • They Captured Lawrence! • Anon. • ar 8 • On the Trail of the Dragons • Anon. • ar; illus. Gilbey 13 • Trapped in a Crocodile’s Laur • John R. Carstairs • ar 17 • Deep-Sea Duel! • Stuart Martin • ar 20 • The Ship That Wouldn’t Sink • Gerald Bowman • ar 25 • Crash to Order! • Anon. • ar 29 • Frozen Justice! • Anon. • ar 33 • Fight for Spain - Or Die! • Richard Stewart • ar 41 • They Sung Their Way to Safety • Anon. • ar 46 • Ants • Dennison Wright • ar 49 • Voyage into Space • Anon. • ar; illus. photos 55 • I Struck Revolution • Peter Bennett • ar 62 • Four Fathoms Deep • Anon. • ar 65 • Tornado • Anon. • ar 67 • The Fire Dog of Asu • Anon. • ar; illus. Gilbey 72 • I Was On a Cannibal Menu! • Rex Hardinge • ar; illus. Gilbey 77 • I Was Shot at Dawn! • Anon. • ar 81 • Locked in with Six Million Skulls • E. L. McKeag • ar 86 • Given Up for Dead! • Anon. • ar 94 • The Malevolent Mountain! • Anon. • ar 101 • He Pulled a Python’s Tail! • Anon. • ar 103 • Escape! • Lieutenant Hamilton Smith • ar 111 • Thunderbolt! • Anon. • ar 113 • The Tree That Eats Men • Grant Seymour • ar 117 • Marooned on a Burning Windjammer • Anon. • ar 123 • Prisoners on a Pirate Junk • Anon. • ar 129 • I Looked Down on Everest! • S. L. Bonnet • ar; illus. photos 135 • The Secret of the Elephants • Rex Hardinge • ar 139 • He Fought a Volcano - and Won! • Anon. • ar 144 • Spotted Fury • Anon. • ar 147 • 5,000 Miles with a 6d. Atlas • Anon. • ar; illus. photos 153 • The City Under the Sea • Anon. • ar 158 • He Crawled 100 Miles • Anon. • ar 161 • Human Caterpillar • Anon. • ar 165 • Legionnaire Lancey’s Bayonet • Anon. • ar 170 • The Phantom Forest • Anon. • ar 177 • The Liner That Vanished! • Anon. • ar 181 • The Man Who Splits Rocks with his Fist! • Anon. • ar 186 • The Valley of Lost Men • Captain X • ar
The Modern Boy’s New Book of Aircraft [1936] (Amalgamated Press, 6/-, 192pp, hc, cover by ?); (contents not known)
The Modern Boy’s New Book of Motors, Ships & Engines [1936] (Amalgamated Press, 6/-, 192pp, hc, cover by ?); (contents not known)
Modern Wonder ;

          (Modern Wonder, 1-133, Modern Wonders, 134-148)
          Publisher: Odhams Press.
          Run: 22 May 1937-16 Mar 1940 (148 issues).
          Becomes: Modern World.
          Frequency: Weekly.
          Price: 2d.
          Format: 16pp tabloid / smaller tabloid.
          Editor: H.T. Cauldwell.
          Young-adult adventure magazine.
          Only fiction listed.
Modern Wonder [v 1 # 1, May 22, 1937] (2d, 16pp, foolscap, cover by ?) 2 • Faced Death at Five Miles a Minute • Anon. • ar 3 • Conqueror of the Rockies [Part 1 of 2] • W. Stanton Hope • sl; illus. Saville Lumley 5 • Moon Only 24 Miles Away! • Anon. • ar 6 • Polar Submarine that Bores Through Ice! • Anon. • ar 7 • The Flying Bomb • Gerald Bowman • ss 8 • Across the World in a Flying Liner • Anon. • ia 11 • Two Million Horse-Power • Anon. • ar 12 • Half a Mile Under the Sea • Dr. William Beebe • ar 13 • The Space Machine [Part 1 of 10] • John Beynon • sl; abridged from “Stowaway to Mars”, Passing Show, 1936.; illus. Chester 15 • Modern Wonder League of Science • Anon. • ar 16 • Floating Aerodromes that Follow the Fleet • Anon. • ar
Modern Wonder [v 1 # 2, May 29, 1937] (2d, 16pp, foolscap, cover by ?) 2 • Millions Motor Under a River • Anon. • ar 3 • Mechanical Triumph No.1 • Charles W. A. Scott • ar 4 • Flames Below • E. J. Stanton • ss; illus. Sinclair Calow 6 • A 200 H.P. Dart • Anon. • ar 7 • The Space Machine: Non-Stop to Mars [Part 2 of 10] • John Beynon • sl; abridged from “Stowaway to Mars”, Passing Show, 1936.; illus. Chester 8 • Across the Channel by Train • Anon. • ia 11 • Giant Voice Heard All Over the World • Keith Rogers • ar 12 • Faking Screen Thrillers • Anon. • ar 13 • Conqueror of the Rockies: The Last Spike [Part 2 of 2] • W. Stanton Hope • sl; illus. Savile Lumley 15 • Science is News • Anon. • cl 16 • Modern Fire-Fighters • Anon. • ia
Modern Wonder [v 1 # 3, June 5, 1937] (2d, 16pp, foolscap, cover by ?) 2 • Battle of the Speed Aces • Anon. • ar 3 • The Yellow Streak • Gordon Randall • ss; illus. John Woods 5 • Looking Back a Thousand Years • Carl Olsson • ar 6 • Mighty Steel Road Across the Sea • Anon. • ar 8 • Crack British Loco. Cock o’ the North • Anon. • ia 10 • Giant Ocean Greyhound to Rule Atlantic Waves • Anon. • ar 11 • The Space Machine: Martians on Earth [Part 3 of 10] • John Beynon • sl; abridged from “Stowaway to Mars”, Passing Show, 1936.; illus. Chester 13 • To New York in an Afternoon! • Ritchie Calder • ar 14 • Trapped by Wireless • Gerald Bowman • ss 15 • Science is News • Anon. • cl 16 • A “Dawn Patrol” to Discover Tomorrow’s Weather • Anon. • ia
Modern Wonder [v 1 # 4, June 12, 1937] (2d, 16pp, foolscap, cover by ?) 2 • Flying on a Beam of Sound • Gordon Randall • ar 3 • Our Fighting Navy • Anon. • ss; adapted from the movie based on the story by Bartimeous. 6 • Trains of the Future • Edwin H. Judd • ar 7 • The Space Machine: First Men on Mars [Part 4 of 10] • John Beynon • sl; abridged from “Stowaway to Mars”, Passing Show, 1936.; illus. Chester 8 • Britain’s Air Might • Anon. • ia 11 • Miracle Out of Space • Anon. • ar 12 • Round the World in 80 Seconds • Keith Rogers • ar 13 • First to the Top! • Gerald Bowman • ss; illus. Bryan de Grineau 15 • Science is News • Anon. • cl 16 • The Marsh Buggy - New Amphibian Marvel • Anon. • ia

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