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8 July 2019

Biggles & Co. - the WE Johns quarterly

On occasion I've picked up back issues of these lovely A5 magazines dedicated to all things to do with the writer WE Johns, he famously created Biggles but, as these magazines show, his work covered much more than just Biggles. 

Anyway, time to make some room on the shelves here so these items are for sale on ebay now but I've also recorded the contents here for posterity.

Issue 1
For sale here - 32 pages (excluding covers), colour front & back cover, the rest black & white.
Contents include articles on the first edition of Mossyface, the story Biggles in France, Oxford first editions, Biggles in the comics and 'The fledglings' by WE Johns.


Issue 3
For sale here
- 40 pages (excluding covers), colour front & back cover, the rest black & white.
Contents include an article by comics writer Jack Adrian on 'Mossyface', 'The missing page' by WE Johns, Biggles ephemera, Popular Flying magazine


Issue 5
For sale here
- 40 pages (excluding covers), colour front & back cover, the rest black & white.
Contents include articles on the 50th anniversary of Worrals, Popular Flying magazine, more by comcis wroter Jack Adrian, The Missing page (by WE Johns) and more Biggles ephemera.


Issue 6
For sale here - 40 pages (excluding covers), colour front & back cover, the rest black & white.
Contents include articles on Popular Flying, Hampton Library editions, 'Worrals works it out' by WE Johns, the annual meeting and even more on ephemera.



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