{"id":45823,"date":"2021-03-11T05:44:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T02:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=45823"},"modified":"2021-03-11T05:44:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T02:44:30","slug":"dear-to-the-small-boys-of-other-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/dear-to-the-small-boys-of-other-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230; dear to the small boys of other generations&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now online, a complete run of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friardale.co.uk\/Ephemera\/Story%20Paper%20Collector\/Story%20Paper%20Collector.htm\">The Story Paper Collector<\/a><\/em> (1941-66). This was a British title for collectors of the pre-comic-strip era of boys&#8217; story magazines. As such it has some crossover into heroic historical-adventure and even some proto science-fiction, though it looks like interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/newcriterion.com\/issues\/2021\/3\/the-morality-of-the-fat-owl\"><em>Billy Bunter<\/em> type public-school stories<\/a> predominate. The final issue has a short obituary for Lovecraft correspondent Arthur Harris and reveals he had contributed a number of articles. The website also has runs of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friardale.co.uk\/Ephemera\/Epherema.htm\">several other titles<\/a> in the same line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/coll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/coll.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"523\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45827\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent book has been published on the topic, <em>Edwardian Comic Papers<\/em> (2021) by expert collector Alan Clark, lavishly illustrated with colour plates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/edwardiancomicpapers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/edwardiancomicpapers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45844\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now online, a complete run of The Story Paper Collector (1941-66). This was a British title for collectors of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/dear-to-the-small-boys-of-other-generations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}