Roger Harris Presents
MODERN BOY – NEW SERIES
ISSUES 1 TO 87
A tribute to “MODERN BOY” Magazine, (for the “new series” the
word “THE” was dropped!)
Each issue of the “new series” contained work by W. E. Johns, either “Biggles” stories or his column
“Let’s Look Around”. See information
below each issue for full details.
Just click on the
individual magazine cover below to enlarge it and see it in more detail
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Issue
1 (24
pages) 19th February 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles on the
Treasure Trail (Biggles Flies South) Part 1 of 8 True Tales of
Treasure – £30,000,000
Secret Lets Look
Around (untitled) |
Issue 2 (24 pages) 26th February 1938
W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles on the
Treasure Trail (Biggles Flies South) Part 2 of 8 True Tales of
Treasure – Island of
Creeping Terror Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue 3 (24 pages) 5th
March 1938
W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles on the
Treasure Trail (Biggles Flies South) Part 3 of 8 True Tales of Treasure
– Calico Jack’s
Haul Lets Look Around (untitled) |
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Issue 4 (24 pages) 12th March 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles on the
Treasure Trail (Biggles Flies South) Part 4 of 8 True Tales of
Treasure – The Lake of Gold Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue
5 (24
pages) 19th March
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles on the
Treasure Trail (Biggles Flies South) Part 5 of 8 True Tales of
Treasure – The Ship With
the Golden Keel Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue
6 (24
pages) 26th March
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles on the
Treasure Trail (Biggles Flies South) Part 6 of 8 True Tales of
Treasure – The Black
Emperor’s Hoard Lets Look Around (untitled) |
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Issue
7 (24
pages) 2nd April
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles on the
Treasure Trail (Biggles Flies South) Part 7 of 8 True Tales of
Treasure – The World’s
Greatest Hidden Wealth Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue
8 (20
pages) 9th April
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles on the
Treasure Trail (Biggles Flies South) Part 8 of 8 True Tales of
Treasure – The Two
Million Pound Explosion Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue
9 (20
pages) 16th April 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue True Tales of
Treasure – Spoils of the
Civil War Lets Look Around (untitled) |
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Issue
10 (20 pages) 23rd April
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue True Tales of
Treasure – Where is the
Lutine Gold? Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue
11 (20 pages) 30th April
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue
12 (20 pages) 7th May 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look Around (untitled) |
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Issue
13 (20 pages) 14th May 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue
14 (20 pages) 21st May 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue 15 (20 pages) 28th May 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Champion of
the Main Part 1 of 9 Lets Look
Around (untitled) |
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Issue
16 (20 pages) 4th June 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Champion of
the Main Part 2 of 9 Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue
17 (20 pages) 11th June
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Champion of
the Main Part 3 of 9 Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue
18 (20 pages) 18th June
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Champion of the
Main Part 4 of 9 Lets Look Around (untitled) |
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Issue
19 (20 pages) 25th June
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Champion of
the Main Part 5 of 9 Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue
20 (20 pages) 2nd July 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Champion of
the Main Part 6 of 9 Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue
21 (20 pages) 9th July 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Champion of
the Main Part 7 of 9 Lets Look Around (untitled) |
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Issue
22 (20 pages) 16th July
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Champion of
the Main Part 8 of 9 Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue
23 (20 pages) 23rd July
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles Flies
North Part 1 of 9 Champion of
the Main Part 9 of 9 Lets Look Around (untitled) |
Issue
24 (20 pages) 30th July
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles Flies
North Part 2 of 9 Lets Look Around (untitled) |
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Issue
25 (24 pages) 6th August 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles Flies
North Part 3 of 9 They Flew the
Jolly Roger Part 1 of 8 Lets Look
Around – 13,000 Miles
by Toy Balloon |
Issue
26 (24 pages) 13th August 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles Flies
North Part 4 of 9 They Flew the
Jolly Roger Part 2 of 8 Lets Look
Around – Where Man
Never Trod |
Issue
27 (24 pages) 20th August
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles Flies
North Part 5 of 9 They Flew the
Jolly Roger Part 3 of 8 Lets Look
Around – The Cause of
Our Power |
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Issue
28 (24 pages) 27th August
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles Flies
North Part 6 of 9 They Flew the
Jolly Roger Part 4 of 8 Lets Look
Around – Shall We Fly
at 600 MPH? |
Issue
29 (24 pages) 3rd September
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles Flies
North Part 7 of 9 They Flew the
Jolly Roger Part 5 of 8 Lets Look
Around – Biggles on the
Films? |
Issue
30 (24 pages) 10th
September 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles Flies North Part 8 of 9 They Flew the
Jolly Roger Part 6 of 8 Lets Look
Around – Who’s
Strongest in the Air? |
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Issue
31 (24 pages) 17th
September 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles Flies
North Part 9 of 9 They Flew the
Jolly Roger Part 7 of 8 Lets Look
Around – A Load of Clay
by Air |
Issue
32 (24 pages) 24th
September 1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue They Flew the
Jolly Roger Part 8 of 8 Lets Look
Around – The Worst
Voyage |
Issue
33 (24 pages) 1st October
1938 W. E. Johns content
includes Biggles in Biggles’
Rescue Flight (The Rescue Flight) Part 1 of 10 Winged
Wanderer by “Bill” (believed to be by Johns) Lets Look
Around – Seen On My
Holiday |
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Issue
34 (24 pages) 8th October
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles’ Rescue
Flight (The Rescue Flight) Part 2 of 10 Winged
Wanderer by “Bill” (believed to be by Johns) Lets Look
Around – When Fountain
Pens Fly |
Issue
35 (24 pages) 15th October
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles’ Rescue
Flight (The Rescue Flight) Part 3 of 10 Winged
Wanderer by “Bill” (believed to be by Johns) Lets Look
Around – These Boys
Were Tough |
Issue
36 (24 pages) 22nd October
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles’ Rescue
Flight (The Rescue Flight) Part 4 of 10 Winged
Wanderer by “Bill” (believed to be by Johns) Lets Look
Around – Smuggling
Doesn’t Pay |
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Issue
37 (24 pages) 29th October
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles’
Rescue Flight (The Rescue Flight) Part 5 of 10 Winged Wanderer
by “Bill” (believed to be by Johns) Lets Look
Around – Plane Flies
for an Hour – Pilot Asleep |
Issue
38 (24 pages) 5th November
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles’
Rescue Flight (The Rescue Flight) Part 6 of 10 Winged Wanderer
by “Bill” (believed to be by Johns) Lets Look
Around – I Was Seven
Hours in a Gasmask |
Issue
39 (24 pages) 12th November
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles’
Rescue Flight (The Rescue Flight) Part 7 of 10 Winged
Wanderer by “Bill” (believed to be by Johns) Lets Look
Around – Fireworks I
shan’t Forget |
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Issue
40 (28 pages) 19th November
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles’
Rescue Flight (The Rescue Flight) Part 8 of 10 Winged Wanderer
by “Bill” (believed to be by Johns) Lets Look
Around – My 2000 Air
Books |
Issue
41 (28 pages) 26th November
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles’
Rescue Flight (The Rescue Flight) Part 9 of 10 Winged Wanderer
by “Bill” (believed to be by Johns) Lets Look
Around – I Flew in the
Emigu |
Issue
42 (28 pages) 3rd December
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles’
Rescue Flight (The Rescue Flight) Part 10 of 10 Winged
Wanderer by “Bill” (believed to be by Johns) Lets Look
Around – I was a
Christmas Ghost |
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Issue
43 (36 pages) 10th December
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Winged
Wanderer by “Bill” (believed to be by Johns) Lets Look
Around – I Wanted to by
a Conjurer |
Issue
44 (24 pages) 17th December
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Winged
Wanderer by “Bill” (believed to be by Johns) Lets Look
Around – 600 MPH Planes
are Coming |
Issue
45 (24 pages) 24th December
1938 W. E. Johns content
includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – When I had a
Passion for Pets |
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Issue
46 (24 pages) 31st December
1938 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – You’re Taller
in the Morning |
Issue
47 (24 pages) 7th January
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Biggles’
Fledging (Uncollected
for many years until published in a special edition of only 300 books in Biggles – Air
Ace) Lets Look
Around – No Resolutions
for Me |
Issue
48 (24 pages) 14th January
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – Rustlers are
Motorised Now |
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Issue
49 (24 pages) 21st January
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Wings Over
Spain (Biggles in Spain) Part 1 of 11 Lets Look
Around – They Girdle the
World |
Issue
50 (24 pages) 28th January
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Wings Over
Spain (Biggles in Spain) Part 2 of 11 Lets Look
Around – If You Want To
Fly |
Issue
51 (24 pages) 4th February
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Wings Over
Spain (Biggles in Spain) Part 3 of 11 Lets Look
Around – Prison Reduced
My Weight |
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Issue
52 (24 pages) 11th February
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Wings Over
Spain (Biggles in Spain) Part 4 of 11 Lets Look Around – A Secret I
Mustn’t Tell |
Issue
53 (24 pages) 18th February
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Wings Over
Spain (Biggles in Spain) Part 5 of 11 Lets Look
Around – All Because We
Went Birds’ Nesting |
Issue
54 (24 pages) 25th February
1939 W. E. Johns content
includes Biggles in Wings Over
Spain (Biggles in Spain) Part 6 of 11 Lets Look
Around – Alone He Did
It! |
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Issue
55 (24 pages) 4th March
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Wings Over
Spain (Biggles in Spain) Part 7 of 11 Lets Look
Around – Cut Out Those Family
Squabbles |
Issue
56 (24 pages) 11th March
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Wings Over
Spain (Biggles in Spain) Part 8 of 11 Lets Look
Around – When I Prayed
for a Penknife |
Issue
57 (24 pages) 18th March
1939 W. E. Johns content
includes Biggles in Wings Over
Spain (Biggles in Spain) Part 9 of 11 Lets Look
Around – Cats That Fish
for a Living |
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Issue
58 (24 pages) 25th March
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Wings Over Spain
(Biggles in Spain) Part 10 of 11 Lets Look
Around – Digging Up the
Doubloons! |
Issue
59 (24 pages) 1st April
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Wings Over
Spain (Biggles in Spain) Part 11 of 11 Lets Look
Around – When all
London was ill |
Issue
60 (24 pages) 8th April
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – The Outcast of
the Jungle |
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Issue
61 (24 pages) 15th April
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look Around
– I Climbed Up
Here! |
Issue
62 (24 pages) 22nd April
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – Pom-Pom’s for
Luck! |
Issue
63 (24 pages) 29th April
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in this
issue Lets Look
Around – Next Stop –
Where? |
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Issue
64 (24 pages) 6th May 1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look Around – The Flying
Goldfish |
Issue
65 (24 pages) 13th May 1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – The Deadliest
Liquid Ever |
Issue
66 (24 pages) 20th May 1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – Where You Can
Be Alone! |
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Issue
67 (24 pages) 27th May 1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – Time Marches
On! |
Issue
68 (24 pages) 3rd June 1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – Tall Stories |
Issue
69 (24 pages) 10th June
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – The Greatest
Fight Ever |
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Issue
70 (24 pages) 17th June
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – Panda-monium! |
Issue
71 (24 pages) 24th June
1939 W. E. Johns content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – All These
Names |
Issue
72 (24 pages) 1st July 1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – Those Evil
Eyes |
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Issue
73 (24 pages) 8th July 1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – Baghdad’s
Getting Nearer! |
Issue
74 (24 pages) 15th July
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – Bad News for
Bathers! |
Issue
75 (24 pages) 22nd July
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue This Was
Adventure – Mutiny on the Hermione Lets Look
Around – Disappearing
Cities |
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Issue
76 (24 pages) 29th July
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look Around
– These Customs
Never Die |
Issue
77 (24 pages) 5th August
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes No Biggles in
this issue Lets Look
Around – How’s Biggles? |
Issue
78 (28 pages) 12th August
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Castle
Sinister (Biggles – Secret Agent) Part 1 of 10 Lets Look
Around – World’s Most
Expensive Diet |
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Issue
79 (28 pages) 19th August
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Castle
Sinister (Biggles – Secret Agent) Part 2 of 10 Lets Look
Around – Britain’s
Bravest King |
Issue
80 (28 pages) 26th August
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Castle
Sinister (Biggles – Secret Agent) Part 3 of 10 Lets Look
Around – Engines Built
to Go on Forever |
Issue
81 (28 pages) 2nd September
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Castle
Sinister (Biggles – Secret Agent) Part 4 of 10 Lets Look
Around – This Plane’s
Worked Hard |
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Issue
82 (28 pages) 9th September
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Castle
Sinister (Biggles – Secret Agent) Part 5 of 10 Lets Look
Around – Amazing Atlantic
Courage |
Issue
83 (28 pages) 16th
September 1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Castle
Sinister (Biggles – Secret Agent) Part 6 of 10 Lets Look
Around – Lion That
Didn’t Forget |
Issue
84 (28 pages) 23rd
September 1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Castle
Sinister (Biggles – Secret Agent) Part 7 of 10 Lets Look
Around – Canada Was Top
in Air Aces |
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THIS IS THE ONE ISSUE
THAT I AM MISSING FROM THIS SET OF 87 ISSUES. THIS IMAGE IS FOR
INFORMATION ONLY AND IS TEMPORARY UNTIL I AM ABLE TO PURCHASE A COPY. IF YOU HAVE A COPY OF THIS ISSUE THAT YOU WANT TO SELL TO ME
THEN PLEASE CONTACT ME. |
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Issue
85 30th
September 1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Castle
Sinister (Biggles – Secret Agent) Part 8 of 10 Lets Look
Around – Believe it or Not |
Issue
86 (28 pages) 7th October
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Castle
Sinister (Biggles – Secret Agent) Part 9 of 10 Lets Look
Around – Thrilling Spy
Adventures |
Issue
87 (28 pages) 14th October
1939 W. E. Johns
content includes Biggles in Castle
Sinister (Biggles – Secret Agent) Part 10 of 10 Lets Look
Around (untitled) |
And issue 87 was the last ever issue of
“Modern Boy” ………..
The outbreak of the Second World War had led to paper
shortages that would be the demise of many periodicals. Readers were told that Biggles stories would
continue with “Biggles’ South Sea Adventure” in “The Gem” next Wednesday,
October 11th 1939. This would be issue
1652 dated “week ending 14th October 1939” and “The Gem” itself
would only last until 30th December 1939 before it merged with “The
Triumph”.
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GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT MODERN BOY MAGAZINE
The Modern Boy Magazine was first published in February 1928 by
the Amalgamated Press
The copyright in the magazine is presumably held by the original
company or it’s successors although some 80 years have passed since first
publication
and some 70 years have passed since it ceased publication
All pictures are taken from my own collection of “The Modern Boy”
Magazine.
A few internal pictures have been used to illustrate the Biggles
content and other interesting articles and these are deemed to be fair use.
The
copyright in all of W.E. Johns work is owned by the estate of W.E. Johns as
represented by his literary agent, Ms Linda Shaughnessy of A. P. Watt.
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 collect and read The Modern Boy Magazine and particularly the works of William Earl Johns, one of the great authors of the 20th Century.
Don’t forget to visit Biggles.Com and W.
E. Johns.Com for information about W. E. Johns books
THIS
WEB SITE WAS BUILT DURING APRIL, MAY AND JUNE 2010 AND COMPLETED ON 21st
JUNE 2010 – THE 42nd ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF W.E. JOHNS