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Boys' Own Reader

 see under Boys' Companion and British Traveller

The Boys' Own Story Teller

 Country: US
Total Issues: 9

Issues & Index Sources

  1-Oct-1875 – 1-Feb-1876: Dime Novel Bibliography (incomplete)

#superseded by Our Boys

Publishers

  Norman L. Munro, 28 & 30 Beekman St., New York

Formats

  octavo booklet

Prices

  10c

Pagecounts

  64pp

Frequency

  fortnightly, then weekly

Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Boys' Own Times and News of the World

 Country: UK
Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources:  1-Jan-1859 – 1-Dec-1859
Publishers:   T. Nelson
Frequency:   monthly

Boys' Peep Show

 Country: UK
Total Issues: 26

Issues & Index Sources

  25-Sep-1901 – 19-Mar-1902

#incorporated into Boys' Star

Publishers

  Charles Strong, 167 Strand, London W.C.

Prices

  1d

Frequency

  weekly (every Saturday)

Boys' Penny Magazine

 Country: UK
Total Issues: 36

Annual volumes were bound as The Boys' Yearly Book.

Issues & Index Sources

  1-Jan-1863 – 1-Nov-1863
  1-Dec-1863 – 1-Dec-1866, as Boys' Monthly Magazine

Publishers

  Ward Lock

Editors

  John Tillotson

Prices

  started at 1d but rose to 2d in 1864

Frequency

  monthly

The Boys' Penny Monthly

 Country: UK

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

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1864?
Publishers:   162 Fleet Street (Maddick)
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   Monthly

Boys' Penny Novelist

 Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources:  1848 – ?

Boys' Pictorial

 Country: UK
Total Issues: 24

Issues & Index Sources

  15-Oct-1921 – 25-Mar-1922

#becomes Sports Pictorial

Publishers

  Odhams Press

Formats

  tabloid

Pagecounts

  12pp

Frequency

  weekly

Boys' Pocket Library

 Country: UK
Total Issues: 24

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1931 – Sep-1932
Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.
Pagecounts:   68pp
Frequency:   3 per month

Boys' Popular Weekly

 Country: UK
Total Issues: 41

Issues & Index Sources

  21-Apr-1888 – 19-Jan-1889

#becomes Boys of the Isles

Publishers

  Popular Publishing Co. (Guy Rayner)

Frequency

  weekly

The Boys' Realm

 Country: UK
Total Issues: 721+432+80+2=1235

Popular boys' story paper companion to The Boys' Friend and The Boys' Herald with many of the same authors. Had a companion Boys' Realm Football (and Sports) Library from 1909 - 1915 (299 issues).

Incorporates: Pluck from 25-Mar-1916 (Gifford)

Issues & Index Sources

  14-Jun-1902 – 1-Apr-1916
  5-Apr-1919 – ?: Story Paper Index (incomplete)
  ? – 3-Oct-1925, as The Boys' Realm of Sport and Adventure: Story Paper Index (incomplete)
  10-Oct-1925 – 16-Jul-1927, as The Boys' Realm of Sporting Stories: Story Paper Index (incomplete)
  23-Jul-1927 – 26-Jan-1929, as Boys' Realm of Sport and Adventure
  2-Feb-1929 – 9-Feb-1929, as Boys' Realm of Fun and Fiction

#becomes Realm of Fun and Fiction

Publishers

  Harmsworth; Amalgamated Press

Editors

  1902 – 1912: Hamilton Edwards (Editor-in-Chief)
  1912 – 1916: William H. Back (Editor-in-Chief)
  c. 1902: Gilbert Floyd
  c. 1910 – 1911: Rex Haydon
  c. 1915: Thomas Burke
  1919 – 1922: John Nix Pentalow
  1922 – 1924: W. George Wright
  1922 – 1924: G. Cecil Graveley (assistant)
  ?: Stan Boddington (assistant)
  ?: R.C. Hewitt (assistant)
  ?: Maurice Nutbrown (assistant)
  1922 – 1923: Cecil Adamson (junior editor)

Formats

  tabloid

Pagecounts

  14-Jun-1902 – 25-Mar-1916: 16pp
  23-Jul-1927 – 9-Feb-1929: 28pp

Frequency

  weekly
 

Boys' Realm Football Library

 Country: UK
Total Issues: 299

Announced in #299 that from the following week it would be replaced by the Nelson Lee Library. Entitled Boys' Realm Football Library, 1-79; Boys' Realm Sports Library, 80-131; Sports Library, 132-299. Incorporates: Empire Library

Issues & Index Sources

  18-Sep-1909 – 5-Jun-1915

#becomes Nelson Lee Library (Original Series)

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press, Fleetway House

Editors

  John Nix Pentalow

Prices

  1d/

Pagecounts

  20pp

Frequency

  weekly

Boys' Realm of Fun and Fiction

 see under The Boys' Realm

Boys' Realm of Sport and Adventure

 see under The Boys' Realm

Boys' Realm Sports Library

 see under Boys' Realm Football Library

Boys' S.O.S. Library

 Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s
Publishers:   Thomas Publications
Pagecounts:   44pp

The Boys' Standard

 Country: UK
Total Issues: 288+580=868

All stories anonymous; authors include E. Harcourt Burrage. Incorporates: Boys' Champion Journal

Issues & Index Sources

  6-Nov-1875 – 7-May-1881: Story Paper Index (sample issues only)
  14-May-1881 – 18-Jun-1892: Story Paper Index (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Lucas; Charles Fox

Editors

  Charles Fox

Formats

  large tabloid (folio)

Pagecounts

  16pp

Frequency

  weekly

Boys' Star

 Country: UK
Total Issues: 24

Incorporates: Boys' Peep Show from 26-Mar-1902

Issues & Index Sources

  3-Feb-1902 – 15-Jul-1902

#becomes Boys' Star Library

Publishers

  Charles Strong, 167 Strand, London W.C.

Formats

  tabloid

Prices

  1d

Pagecounts

  16pp

Frequency

  weekly

The Boys' Star Library [1887]

 Country: US
Total Issues: 379

Issues & Index Sources:  11-Jul-1887 – 22-May-1896: Dime Novel Bibliography
Publishers:   Frank Tousey, NY
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Boys' Star Library [1891]

 Country: UK
Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources:  1891
Publishers:   Best for Boys
Frequency:   monthly

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