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#merges with The Boy's Own Magazine (UK)

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Issues & Index Sources:  1-May-1861 – 1-May-1866

Publishers:   Beeton
Frequency:   monthly

Issues & Index Sources:  1870 – 1871

Publishers:   Haney
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

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#becomes Aldine Football Stories

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The first of the genuine boys' magazines and forerunner of The Boy's Own Paper. Aimed at an audience above the "penny dreadful" and tried to be intelligent. Ran many typical exciting articles and stories, mostly historical fiction. Absorbed Boy's Own Journal from 27-Jan-1857. Authors include J.G. Edgar, W.H.G. Kingston, James Greenwood

Beeton's business was taken over by Ward, Lock & Tyler in 1866; Beeton himself left the company in December 1874 (cf. Adventure in Publishing, p46).

Subtitled "An illustrated journal of Fact, Fiction, History and Adventure".

Incorporates: Boys' Own Journal from 27-Jan-1857.

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Successor to The Boys' Magazine.

Announced in the final issue of Young Englishman, The Boys' Own Novelette was to consist of a complete novel every week, with the first two numbers announced as 'Tom Gaily: His First Term at School' and 'Tom the Midshipman'. Only the first issue is recorded at the British Library.

Issues & Index Sources:  1914

Publishers:   E. Hulton
Frequency:   monthly

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1870s:

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Publishers:   Norman L. Munro, 28 & 30 Beekman St., New York
Formats:   6 x 4"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   100
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

A morally uplifting boys' story paper concentrating on adventure, sport and public school life, it remains a byword to this day and ranks (along with Punch, The Strand Magazine and very little else) as one of the great British institutions of periodical publishing. Authors include W.H.G. Kingston, R.M. Ballantyne, Jules Verne, Talbot Baines Reed, Gordon Stables, G.A. Henty, etc, etc.

Serials indexed in "Through the Years with the B.O.P." by Brian Doyle (Collector's Digest Annual, 1962). Further Reading: Take a Cold Tub, Sir!: The Story of the Boy's Own Paper by Jack Cox (Guildford, Surrey, Lutterworth Press, 1982), not an index but a history.

Weekly issues were bound as monthly issues, and the monthly issues were bound as annuals. In addition to the main issues there were 46 Christmas or Summer issues.

Incorporates: Every Boy's Magazine from 8-Sep-1888; Boys from 20-Oct-1894; Every Boys' Monthly.

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Believed by Lofts to be the largest boys' publication ever published. "This shortlived paper failed I think because of its promises and dreadful mistakes in printing. They gave away free sketches each week, and the main story featured "Fred Blake of the Queen's Lancers". In No.8 they announced that next week's tremendous story would be "Blake attacks the Spanish Armada", yet in No.9 the main story featured Sir Francis Drake attacking it. Also in No.9 it announced a tremendous free gift for next week, but in No.10 they announced that it was not ready yet, also that they were changing their publisher. No.11 never did appear." (W.O.G. Lofts)

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#superseded by Our Boys

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Issues & Index Sources:  1-Jan-1859 – 1-Dec-1859

Publishers:   T. Nelson
Frequency:   monthly

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#incorporated into Boys' Star

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Annual volumes were bound as The Boys' Yearly Book.

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Advertised in the final issue of Boys' Miscellany as "ready" although no known copies appear to exist.