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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 80^th Anniversary of the creation of Biggles!