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)


 * 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)

Publishing history
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)
 * 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)

Don Ralpho
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)