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W.E. JOHNS IN THE BOYS OWN PAPER

A GUIDE TO THE WORK OF W. E. JOHNS INCLUDING ALL "BIGGLES" STORIES SERIALISED IN THE BOYS OWN PAPER

Just click on any cover to see it in more detail and click on the story title below the cover to see the internal illustrations from that particular W. E. Johns story

           

Volume 64 Issue 1

October 1941

Biggles - Charter Pilot

The Enchanted Island

 

 

 

 

Volume 64 Issue 2

November 1941

Biggles - Charter Pilot

The Horticultural Hermits

Volume 64 Issue 3

December 1941

Biggles - Charter Pilot

The Crocodile of Conga-Wonga

Volume 64 Issue 4

January 1942

Biggles - Charter Pilot

Bishimbi the Caveman

Volume 64 Issue 5

February 1942

Biggles - Charter Pilot

Grotto of Death

 

 

 

Volume 64 Issue 6

March 1942

Biggles - Charter Pilot

The Purple Plague

Volume 64 Issue 8

May 1942

Biggles - Charter Pilot

Mystery of the Golden Shirts

(Featuring Biggles on the cover)

Volume 64 Issue 9

June 1942

Biggles - Charter Pilot

Haunted!

Volume 64 Issue 10

July 1942

Biggles - Charter Pilot

Mexican Man-Hunt

 

 

 

 

Volume 64 Issue 11

August 1942

Biggles - Charter Pilot

Samson of Patagonia

Volume 64 Issue 12

September 1942

Biggles - Charter Pilot

Adventure with a Mammouth

Volume 65 Issue 11

August 1943

Biggles - Charter Pilot

The Luminous Lilly

Volume 66 Issue 4

January 1944

Biggles - Charter Pilot

Secret Weapon

 

 

 

Volume 66 Issue 5

February 1944

Biggles - Charter Pilot

The Lost Crusaders

Volume 66 Issue 6

March 1944

Biggles - Charter Pilot

"Biggles" and the Dodos

Volume 66 Issue 7

April 1944

Biggles - Charter Pilot

Desert Spectre

Volume 67 Issue 10

July 1945

Comrades in Arms

Seeds of Trouble - Part 1

A Gimlet Story

 

 

 

Volume 67 Issue 11

August 1945

Comrades in Arms

Seeds of Trouble - Part 2

A Gimlet Story

Volume 67 Issue 12

September 1945

Comrades in Arms

Seeds of Trouble - Part 3

A Gimlet Story

Volume 68 Issue 5

February 1946

Biggles' Second Case

Part 1

(Featuring Biggles on the cover)

 

Volume 68 Issue 6

March 1946

Biggles' Second Case

Part 2

 

 

 

Volume 68 Issue 7

April 1946

Biggles' Second Case

Part 3

Volume 68 Issue 8

May 1946

Biggles' Second Case

Part 4

Volume 68 Issue 9

June 1946

Biggles' Second Case

Part 5

Volume 68 Issue 10

July 1946

Biggles' Second Case

Part 6

 

 

 

Volume 68 Issue 11

August 1946

Biggles' Second Case

Part 7

Volume 68 Issue 12

September 1946

Biggles' Second Case

Part 8

Volume 73 Issue 1

October 1950

Biggles Goes to School

Titled Biggles at School

Part 1

Volume 73 Issue 2

November 1950

Biggles Goes to School

Titled Biggles at School

Part 2

 

 

 

Volume 73 Issue 3

December 1950

Biggles Goes to School

Titled Biggles at School

Part 3

Volume 73 Issue 4

January 1951

Biggles Goes to School

Titled Biggles at School

Part 4

Volume 73 Issue 5

February 1951

Biggles Goes to School

Titled Biggles at School

Part 5

Volume 73 Issue 6

March 1951

Biggles Goes to School

Titled Biggles at School

Part 6

 

 

 

Volume 73 Issue 7

April 1951

Biggles Works it Out

Part 1

Volume 73 Issue 8

May 1951

Biggles Works it Out

Part 2

Volume 73 Issue 9

June 1951

Biggles Works it Out

Part 3

Volume 73 Issue 10

July 1951

Biggles Works it Out

Part 4

 

 

 

Volume 73 Issue 11

August 1951

Biggles Works it Out

Part 5

Volume 73 Issue 12

September 1951

Biggles Works it Out

Part 6

Volume 74 Issue 7

April 1952

Biggles Follows On

Part 1

Volume 74 Issue 8

May 1952

Biggles Follows On

Part 2

 

 

 

Volume 74 Issue 9

June 1952

Biggles Follows On

Part 3

Volume 74 Issue 10

July 1952

Biggles Follows On

Part 4

Volume 74 Issue 11

August 1952

Biggles Follows On

Part 5

Volume 74 Issue 12

September 1952

Biggles Follows On

Part 6

 

 

 

Volume 76 Issue 5

February 1954

Biggles and the Pirate Treasure

The Case of the Phone Box Murder

Volume 76 Issue 6

March 1954

Biggles and the Pirate Treasure

The Case of the Flying Clown

Volume 76 Issue 12

September 1954

Biggles' Chinese Puzzle

The Mystery of the Torn Parachute

Volume 77 Issue 1

October 1954

Biggles' Chinese Puzzle

Biggles' Chinese Puzzle

 

 

 

Volume 78 Issue 3

December 1955

Biggles - Air Ace

Simple Arithmetic

Volume 80 Issue 6

March 1958

Biggles Buries a Hatchet

Part 1

Volume 80 Issue 7

April 1958

Biggles Buries a Hatchet

Part 2

Volume 80 Issue 8

May 1958

Biggles Buries a Hatchet

Part 3

 

 

 

Volume 80 Issue 9

June 1958

Biggles Buries a Hatchet

Part 4

Volume 80 Issue 10

July 1958

Biggles Buries a Hatchet

Part 5

Volume 80 Issue 11

August 1958

Biggles Buries a Hatchet

Part 6

Volume 80 Issue 12

September 1958

Biggles Buries a Hatchet

Part 7

Volume 83 Issue 8

May 1961

Biggles Flies to Work

Biggles Learns Something

Volume 84 Issue 3

December 1961

Biggles Flies to Work

Routine Job

Volume 84 Issue 9

June 1962

Biggles Flies to Work

Dangerous Freight

 

      

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOY'S OWN PAPER

The Boys Own Paper was first published on 19th January 1879 - just 3 days before the Battle of Rorke's Drift in the Zulu War!

It was originally published by the Religious Tract Society but in 1939 publication was taken over by Lutterworths Press.  In 1963 the publishers became Purnell and Sons Ltd and in 1965 BPC Publishing Ltd.

The Magazine finally folded in 1967 after publishing some 2511 issues.  It had started off as a weekly publication during the School year (Autumn to Summer) but became a Monthly magazine in November 1913.

W. E. Johns had stories serialised in 60 issues.  57 issues carried Biggles stories and 3 issues carried a Gimlet story.   This site displays all the covers of the 60 W. E. Johns issues.

The magazine was edited from 1935 to 1942 by Robert Harding and from 1942 to 1946 by Leonard Halls.  Jack Cox was the editor from 1946 until the close of the magazine in 1967.

The magazine cost 6d in 1940 and this increased to 8d in March 1941 and 9d in October 1941 (no doubt due to wartime shortages of paper).  The price remained 9d for the next ten years, until September 1951.

The October 1951 issue saw a price rise to one shilling and this remained the price until September 1963.  In October 1963, the price increased to two shillings and this was the price until the final issue in February 1967.

 

 

The copyright in all of W.E. Johns work is owned by the estate of W.E. Johns as represented by W. E. Johns (Publications) Limited.

This private limited company have appointed literary agent Pat White of Rogers Coleridge White to represent the interests of the estate.  Their web site is here:  http://www.rcwlitagency.com/

This is a non profit making fan based web site purely for the information of fellow fans - no infringement of copyright is intended.

The intention of this web site is to encourage people to read the works of William Earl Johns, one of the great authors of the 20th Century

 

Don’t forget to visit Biggles.com   and  Girl’s Own.info   and     W. E. Johns.Com for information about W. E. Johns books

 

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This website was launched in April 2012 – the 80th Anniversary of the creation of Biggles!