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Boys’ Life [May 1948] (Boy Scouts of America, large) Partial contents from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [May 1949] (Boy Scouts of America, large) Partial contents from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [October 1950] (Boy Scouts of America, large, cover by Gene Klebe) Partial contents from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [December 1951] (Boy Scouts of America, large) Partial contents from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [June 1953] (25¢, large) [eBay auction]

Boys’ Life [July 1953] (25¢, large) [eBay auction]

Boys’ Life [v43 #10, October 1953] ed. Harry A. Harchar (Boy Scouts of America, 25¢, 88pp, large, cover by William Heaslip) [STM/WGC:20030]

Boys’ Life [August 1954] (Boy Scouts of America, large) Partial contents from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [April 1955] (25¢, large) [eBay auction]

Boys’ Life [June 1955] (25¢, large) [eBay auction]

Boys’ Life [v46 # 2, February 1956] ed. Harry A. Harchar (Boy Scouts of America, 25¢, 88pp, 10¼" x 13½", cover by Norman Rockwell) [STM]

Boys’ Life [v46 # 4, April 1956] (Boy Scouts of America, 25¢, 88pp, large, cover by Taylor Oughton) [ST]

Boys’ Life [v46 #12, December 1956] ed. Harry A. Harchar (Boy Scouts of America, 25¢, 100pp, 10¼" x 13½", cover by Carol Johnson) [STM]

Boys’ Life [March 1957] (25¢, large) [eBay auction]

Boys’ Life [v47 # 4, April 1957] ed. Harry A. Harchar (Boy Scouts of America, 25¢, 88pp, 10¼" x 13½", cover by Ozzie Sweet) [STM]

Boys’ Life [May 1957] (Boy Scouts of America, large) Information from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [July 1957] (25¢, large) [eBay auction]

Boys’ Life [August 1957] (25¢, large) [eBay auction]

Boys’ Life [v47 # 1, November 1957] ed. Harry A. Harchar (Boy Scouts of America, 25¢, 108pp, 10¼" x 13½", cover by Carol Johnson) [STM]

Boys’ Life [v48 # 4, April 1958] ed. Harry A. Harchar (Boy Scouts of America, 25¢, 80pp, 10¼" x 13½", cover by Lowell Hess) [STM]

Boys’ Life [v48 # 5, May 1958] ed. Harry A. Harchar (The Boy Scouts of America, 25¢, 80pp, 10½" x 13¾", cover by Nicholas Glass) [STM]

Boys’ Life [July 1958] (25¢, large) [eBay auction]

Boys’ Life [v48 #11, November 1958] ed. Harry A. Harchar (The Boy Scouts of America, 25¢, 92pp, 10½" x 13¾", cover by Harold Eldridge) [STM]

Boys’ Life [January 1959] (25¢, large) [eBay auction]

Boys’ Life [February 1959] (25¢, large) [eBay auction]

Boys’ Life [March 1959] (25¢, large) [eBay auction]

Boys’ Life [May 1959] (25¢, large) [eBay auction]

Boys’ Life [v49 # 6, June 1959] ed. Harry A. Harchar (Boy Scouts of America, 25¢, 88pp, 10¼" x 13½", cover by Creig Flessel) [STM]

Boys’ Life [October 1959] (25¢, large) [eBay auction]

Boys’ Life [December 1959] (25¢, large) [eBay auction]

Boys’ Life [May 1960] (13" x 10") Information from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [April 1961] (25¢, 80pp, 13" x 10", cover by John Hamberger) [STM]

Boys’ Life [April 1963] (Boy Scouts of America, large) Information from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [May 1963] (Boy Scouts of America, large) Information from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [June 1963] (Boy Scouts of America, large) Information from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [March 1964] (25¢, 82pp, 13 x 10) ToC also lists three “Articles” (one by Phil Rizzuto about then-Yankee-second-baseman Bob Richardson; one on Scouts boat-racing through the Panama Canal; and one on medicine as a career) and thirteen “Short Features,” mostly on topics involving the outdoors, handicrafts, or popular science. There is also a “Color Section” containing ten one-page comic strips, including “Pee Wee Harris” (whose origins can be traced to a boys’ book series of decades earlier), “Rocky Stoneaxe” (a frontiersman, not a caveman), “The Tracy Twins” (by Dik Browne, today best-known for Hagar the Horrible and for Hi and Lois), “Tono” (South Sea islander), “Space Conquerors!” and miscellaneous strips on American history, the Bible, and “The Romance of Chess” (!). Regular features include “Hitchin’ Rack” (letters to the alleged editor, a burro named Pedro, who specializes in snappy comebacks); “On the Screens” (brief movie reviews), “Boys’ Life Bookshelf,” “Think and Grin,” etc. Interior art is a mixture of black and white and color; ads include greeting card sales, boats, Bell Telephone, cameras, shoes, Coke, model car kits, pimple medication, cars, another “sell greeting cards and win prizes” scam, a “sell seeds and win prizes” scam, a “Sell GRIT and win prizes” scam, etc. There’s also a three-page classified ads section given over almost entirely to stamps and coins, summer camps, and junior military academies. Reading level seems appropriate for what would have been expected of average to intelligent high school students at the time. [DKL:15929]

Boys’ Life [v55 #4, April 1965] (25¢, 68pp, 13 x 10, cover by Austin Briggs) [STM]

Boys’ Life [June 1965] (13 x 10) [PDF:7373]

Boys’ Life [v56 #5, May 1966] (Boy Scouts of America, 25¢, 74pp, 10½" x 13½") fiction only. [DKL]

Boys’ Life [v56 #6, June 1966] (Boy Scouts of America, 25¢, 78pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by Ozzie Sweet) [MO]

Boys’ Life [May 1967] ed. Robert E. Hood (Boy Scouts of America, 25¢, 72pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by Stanley Rosenthall) [PSP]

Boys’ Life [June 1967] ed. Robert E. Hood (Boy Scouts of America, 25¢, 72pp, 10½" x 13½") Information from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [April 1968] (Boy Scouts of America, large) Information from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [June 1968] (Boy Scouts of America, large) Information from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [June 1969] (Boy Scouts of America, large) Information from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [April 1970] (Boy Scouts of America, large) Information from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [May 1970] (Boy Scouts of America, large) Information from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [June 1970] (Boy Scouts of America, large) Information from EBAY auction.

Boys’ Life [August 1970] ed. Robert E. Hood (Boy Scouts of America, 40¢, 76pp, 10" x 13", cover by Flip Schulke) [PSP]

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