Two W. E. Johns stories were published in this magazine. The Spy Flyers was published between 18th
March 1933 and 3rd June 1933 and Biggles’ South Sea Adventure was
published between 14th Oct 1939 and 9th Dec 1939. |
All six of W. E.
Johns “Steeley” stories were published in this
magazine between 8th August 1936 and 30th October 1937. |
W. E. Johns
published “Storm Troop of the Baltic Skies” (Biggles in the Baltic) in the
eleven issues of this magazine that were published between 9th
March 1940 and 18th May 1940.
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W. E. Johns wrote
for nine issues of this magazine. The
first three contained a serialisation of the first “Steeley”
story “Sky High” and then the next six issues contained seven short
stories. These were all published
between Jan 1936 and March 1940. |
W. E. Johns
published “Biggles in Arabia” (Another Job for Biggles) in seven monthly
issues of this magazine between February 1950 and August 1950. |
W. E. Johns had four
different Biggles books serialised in highly abridged versions in this
children’s newspaper. The books were
“Biggles Foreign Legionnaire”, “Biggles in Australia”, “No Rest for Biggles”
and “Biggles Takes Charge”. They were
all published between 1st September 1954 and 29th
February 1956. |
W. E. Johns wrote
ten articles for the first ten issues of this magazine which were re-writes
of stories from the 1962 book “The Biggles Book of Treasure Hunting”. Then the 1938 book “Champion of the Main”
was serialised in the next ten issues.
These first twenty issues were published between 18th Sept
1965 and 29th January 1966. |
W. E. Johns book
“Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns” was serialised in seven monthly issues of
this magazine between 10th August 1963 and 21st
September 1963. The book was
significantly abridged. There was also
an article about the author published in an earlier issue dated 2nd
March 1963. |
W. E. Johns
published two different Biggles books in serialised form in this
magazine. The books were “Biggles in
the Blue” and “Biggles in the Gobi”.
They were published from 20th March 1953 until 20th
Nov. 1953. |
W. E. Johns
published “Biggles Forms a Syndicate” in the first ten issues of this
magazine that were published between 30th January 1960 and 2nd
April 1960. |
W. E. Johns
published “Biggles Goes Home” in the ten issues of this magazine that were
published between 21st May 1960 and 23rd July
1960. There was then a Biggles Comic
strip that ran from issue 306 to issue 376. |
W. E. Johns had
numerous short stories (mainly Biggles) published in various annuals from the
1930s to the 1960s. Here you can see 40
annuals, which I believe is every single one …… |
This monthly
magazine originally ran between May 1929 and January 1957. I know W. E. Johns’ work appeared in at
least EIGHT issues in 1941 and 1942 and it may have also appeared in other
issues around that time. |
Between May and
November 1939 W. E. Johns wrote a monthly article in this magazine called
“What Men are Talking About”. Additionally,
the first two stories from “Dr. Vane Answers the Call”
were also published in this magazine before it closed down due to wartime
paper shortages in November 1939. |
This monthly
magazine originally ran between July 1922 and October 1940. W. E. Johns’ work appeared in nine issues,
mainly in 1940, from February 1940 to September 1940 (excluding June 1940 for
some strange reason). The 1940 issues
contained seven stories from “Dr Vane Answers the Call”. |
This magazine was
published every three months but only ran to four issues. W. E. Johns had work published in all four
issues. |
An article about W.
E. Johns appeared in one issue of this.
The January 1954 issue. |
An article about W.
E. Johns appeared in one issue of this.
The December 1957 issue. |
W. E. Johns wrote
an article entitled “How Biggles Was Born” which was published in the edition
dated 26th August 1949 |
W. E. Johns had the
story “The Badge” published in the January 1950 issue. I don’t yet know if he had anything else
published in this magazine. |
Click
the yellow title to see the cover and click here to see the article |
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the yellow title to see the cover and click here to see the article |
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the yellow title to see the cover and click here to see the article |
Click the
yellow title to see the cover and click here to see the article |
THE ADVENTURES OF BIGGLES AUSTRALIAN COMIC This was the
Australian Comic published in the 1950s.
It ran to at least 78 issues and may have been more |
This was the
‘British Edition’ of the Australian comic that only ran to NINE issues –
published in the 1950s. |
W. E. Johns wrote
two articles for this magazine. They
were published in the March 1936 and June 1936 issues. |
W.E. JOHNS’ ARTWORK FOR THE BOOKS OF
COVINGTON CLARKE Johns did the book
cover, frontispiece and internal illustrations for three books published by
John Hamilton Ltd by the American author Covington Clarke |
Web Page to follow when I have collected
relevant issues |
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Web Page coming soon! |
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