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Boys' Weekly

Country: UK
Total Issues: 20

Issues & Index Sources:  3-May-1919 – 13-Sep-1919

Publishers:   James Henderson, Red Lion Court, London E.C.
Formats:   tabloid
Prices:   1½d
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   weekly (every Tuesday)

Boys' Weekly Magazine

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: 23-Nov-1867

Publishers: 13 Paternoster Road

The Boys' Weekly Novelette

Country: UK
Total Issues: 169

Issues & Index Sources:  28-Jun-1892 – 14-Sep-1895

Publishers:   Charles Fox
Formats:   small tabloid (quarto)
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly

The Boys' Weekly Reader

see under The Boys' Sunday Reader

Boys' Weekly Reader Novelette

Country: UK
Total Issues: 676

Ran an original and complete story ever week; may be a continuation of The Boys' Weekly Reader.

Issues & Index Sources: 28-Nov-1853 – 1-Apr-1884

Publishers:   Charles Fox
Formats:   large digest (octavo)
Pagecounts:   24pp
Frequency:   weekly

Boys' Weekly Revue

see under The Boys' Sunday Reader

Boy's Welcome

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

"Aldine's poor attempt to start a new paper had one complete story entitled "Gwenneth's Choice", a very dull, dreary story. Only one issue appeared. Issued at the same time as Our Boys which also ran for one issue." (W.O.G. Lofts)

Issues & Index Sources: 21-Jul-1897:

Story Paper Index

Publishers: Aldine Publishing Co.

Boys' Wonder Book

Country: UK
Total Issues: 6

Reissued in bound form as Boys' Wonder Book: An Illustrated Magazine of Wonder and Amusement (1867).

Issues & Index Sources: 1865 – 1866

Publishers:   Charles Griffin & Co. (Gifford gives Griffiths)
Editors:   Dr. Primrose
Formats:   demy octavo
Pagecounts:   80pp
Frequency:   monthly?

Boys' Wonder Library

Country: UK
Total Issues: 26

A short-lived pocket library series from Amalgamated Press, Boys' Wonder Library reprinted serials primarily from Chums, but included three stirring adventure serials by George E. Rochester from Boys Own Paper. Other authors include Draycot M. Dell (the last editor of Chums) under his pseudonyms Piers Anson and Rodney Holland, Leslie Beresford, John Hunter and John Wheway. All titles were abridged from their original appearances, some quite considerably.

Issues & Index Sources: 30-Jul-1932 – Jul-1933:

Story Paper Index

Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Editors:   Ernest L. McKeag
Formats:   6½" x 4½"
Prices:   2d
Pagecounts:   64pp+
Frequency:   2 per month
Mentioned in:   ,

The Boys' World [1879]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 404

Circulation reached 50,000 copies per week in 1882. Incorporates: (Gifford: Champion Journal for Boys from 1880?); Our Boys' Paper from 7-Feb-1883

Issues & Index Sources: 12-Apr-1879 – 27-Dec-1886

Publishers:   Ralph Rollington
Editors:   Ralph Rollington (W. Allingham).
Pagecounts:   16pp; larger size from around issue 100
Frequency:   weekly

The Boys' World [1885]

Country: US
Total Issues: 18

A boys' magazine run almost entirely by White; he sold the title to Munsey and it was absorbed into The Golden Argosy.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1885 – May-1887

Publishers:   Boys' World
Editors:   Matthew White, Jr.
Formats:   tabloid
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   8pp (rising to 16pp)
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Boys' World [1905]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 41

Issues & Index Sources

30-May-1905 – 6-Mar-1906

#becomes New Boys' World

Publishers

Cassells

Formats

tabloid (large quarto)

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly

The Boys' World [1940s]

Country: US

American religious comic featuring the "Tullus" strip. Merged into Sunday Pix in May 1949.

Issues & Index Sources: 5-Apr-1902 – 24-Apr-1949

Publishers: David C. Cook Publishing, Elgin, Illinois USA

Boys' World [1950]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 17

Hansom Books was run by a gentleman who signed himself Reg. Sheath (Greyhound Owner). Incorporated: Boys' Life from 13 (Note: Was a phantom title 'incorporated' to safeguard copyright)

Issues & Index Sources: 2-Mar-1950 – 12-Oct-1950

Publishers:   Sport-in-Print Ltd., 132 Fleet Street, E.C.4; Hansom Books from 7 (?or 8)
Editors:   Basil Storey
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   Fortnightly (every other Thursday)

Boys' World [1963]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 89

Merged with Eagle to form Eagle and Boys' World.

Issues & Index Sources

26-Jan-1963 – 3-Oct-1964:

Story Paper Index

Publishers

26-Jan-1963 – 16-Mar-1963: Longacre Press
23-Mar-1963 – 3-Oct-1964: Odhams Press

Editors

Jim Kenner; Robert Bartholomew

Prices

Pagecounts

20-28pp

Frequency

weekly

Boys' World Pocket Library

Country: UK
Total Issues: 25

First novella entitled "Peter Slim" (30 Aug-1880).

Issues & Index Sources: 30-Aug-1880 – 22-Feb-1881

Publishers:   Allingham (Note: Lofts gives Ralph Rollington)
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   weekly

Bradley, His Book

Country: US
Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1896 – Jan-1897

Publishers:   Will H. Bradley, Springfield, Massachusetts
Editors:   Will H. Bradley

Brady's Champion Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 21

Issues & Index Sources:  1869 – 1870: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Frederick A. Brady, 26 Ann Street, New York
Formats:   6 x 4½"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   100
Frequency:   semi-monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography