Talk:The Boy's Own Paper

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"The paper initially attempted to appeal to boys of all classes, but by the 1890s began to concentrate on boys from wealthier backgrounds, for example by regularly featuring stories set in grammar schools."

I would have said that parents from wealthy backgrounds would send their children tp public schools and that grammar schools were for the middles classes Franny-K (talk) 16:17, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also the Gem and the Magnet featured boarding-school stories and were primarily read by children who couldn't dream of actually attending them. Still i have read some reminsces by people from the 60's who say they felt the Boys' Own was "old fashioned" and "boring", before turning back to thier Victor or Commando. So maybe it did have a sort of "middle class" polite feel to it. 82.153.230.140 (talk) 23:42, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Publishing history[edit]

I would have liked to have read something about why and how the BOP ceased to be published, and how it came to be that the annual continued to be published for several more years.

On another note, the BOP was extremely popular in grammar schools, many of which were of the boarding type, and attended by middle class, upper middle class, and occasionally even the offspring of minor aristocrats and landed gentry. The schools where I boarded in the 1950s were typical, and the BOP was a firm favourite.--Kudpung (talk) 02:36, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In the 60's-90's annuals of comics (or story papers!) would often continue for several years after the publication had closed, it was standard practice. Some annuals, such as Hurricane, outlived their parent paper by 10 years or more! 86.158.27.21 (talk) 17:07, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Don Ralpho[edit]

This author wrote several stories for the paper, but i can't find any background informations. Was he American? Is Don Ralpho a pseudonym? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.11.54.10 (talk) 19:51, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]