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Stories appearing Serialized in a Boys'/Youths' Magazine

In the 19th Century, many Jules Verne stories appeared, even before their book form, as a weekly serialization.

Collected here, is the information of those Serializations.

Many of these stories are appearing in English for the first time, and thus are 1st Editions in their own right, preceding the Book 1st Edition by months!

View Newspaper Serializations HERE

Publication and publication details

Verne Story Details

Amazing Stories is listed lower down

because it is a LOT newer!!

"Vickers" Boys' Journal

Journey to the Centre of the Earth
In: Boys Journal
12 monthly installments
1870
Henry Vickers
London

Boys Own Paper / Annual

Boys Own Paper/Annual has its own webpage here

Published by the "Religious Tract Society", 56 Paternoster Row, London

Boys Own Annual
Vol.	Year	Title	Common Title
2	1879-1880	Boy Captain or Adventures on Land and Sea viewable / readable here at Hathitrust	A Captain at Fifteen
3	1880-1881	The Giant Raft or Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon, Part I viewable / readable here at Hathitrust Starts: No 118, Vol III, pg 465, Sat Apr 16, 1881	The Giant Raft
4	1881-1882	The Cryptogram or Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon, (Part II) viewable / readable here at Hathitrust Starts: No 142, Vol IV, pg 13, Sat Oct 1, 1881	The Giant Raft
5	1882-1883	Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery viewable / readable here at Hathitrust	Godfrey Morgan: A California Mystery
7	1884-1885	Star of the Settlement or A Tale of the Diamond Fields	Star of the South
9	1886-1887	The Clipper of the Clouds viewable / readable here at Hathitrust	Robur the Conqueror
11	1888-1889	Adrift in the Pacific or, The Strange Adventures of a Schoolboy Crew viewable / readable here at Hathitrust	Two Years' Vacation
12	1889-1890	Barbicane and Co. or, The Purchase of the Pole viewable / readable here at Hathitrust	Upside Down
15	1892-1893	Rodolphe de Gortz or The Castle of the Carpathians viewable / readable here at Hathitrust	The Castle in the Carpathians
16	1893-1894	Claudius Bombarnac A Story of Adventure and Mystery viewable / readable here at Hathitrust	Claudius Bombarnac
17	1894-1895	Captain Antifer or His Excellency's Millions A Story of Buried Treasure viewable / readable here at Hathitrust	Captain Antifer
20	1897-1898	Simon Hart A Strange Story of Science and the Sea	Facing the Flag
21	1898-1899	Captain Len Guy or An Antarctic Mystery	The Sphinx of the Icefields
22	1899-1900	William J Hypperbone or The Will of An Eccentric	The Eccentric's Last Will
36	1913-1914	The Master of the World	Master of the World
37	1914-1915	Kongre the Wrecker or Lighthouse at the End of the World	The Lighthouse at the End of the World

Boys' Stories of Adventure and Daring

Only 44 issues were published from March 27, 1898 to January 23, 1899.

Above issue No 18 ............and an issue with Chapter 8!

An Antarctic Mystery
In: Boys' Stories of Adventure and Daring
1898 (starting July 24, No. 18)
W. Lucas,
26 Dean Street, Fetter Lane
London

Serial starting (?) Issue No. 18, July 24, 1898

Printers: Sully & Ford

Price: one halfpenny

Ed: It is not known how many "numbers" the story appeared in.

Chimney Corner

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth; A Story of Wonderful Adventure
In: Chimney Corner
1873 (May 3 to Nov 15)
Frank Leslie
New York

Every Boy's Magazine / Every Boy's Annual

Every Boy's Magazine/Annual has its own webpage here

Every Boy's Annual
Year	Title	Common Title
1874	The English at the North Pole (NOT SEEN)	Adventures of Captain Hatteras
1875	The Field of Ice - Part 2 - Chapters I to XXVI - with illustrations	Adventures of Captain Hatteras
1876	A Voyage Round the World: South America - part 1	The Children of Captain Grant
1877	A Voyage Round the World: Australia - part 2	The Children of Captain Grant
1878	A Voyage Round the World: New Zealand - part 3	The Children of Captain Grant
1885	Keraban the Inflexible or, Adventures in the Euxine, Part 1 - Chapters I to XVII	Keraban the Terrible
1886	Keraban the Inflexible or, Adventures in the Euxine, Part 2 - Chapters I to XVI	Keraban the Terrible

"New York" Fireside Companion

500 Millions of the Begum
In: New York Fireside Companion
1879
George Munro
New York

New York Fireside Companion #s 619 - 632
Published September 1879 to December 1879 in a weekly format

Fireside Monthly

The Begum's Fortune
In: Fireside Monthly
1879
Leslie and Co.
New York

Fireside Monthly Vol III #6, to Volume IV #3 (?)
Published September to December 1879 in a monthly format

The Leisure Hour

The Begum's Fortune
In: The Leisure Hour
1879 (July to November)
R K Burt
London

serial published in 17 parts
starting July 19 and concluding November 8, 1879

The Troubles of a Chinaman
In: The Leisure Hour
1880 (January to xxx)
R K Burt
London

serial published in xx parts
Starting January 24 and concluding ?

The 1st chapter with 2 illustrations can be seen here

Chapter 1 continas an interesting footnote by the Editor, in response to the text in the 3rd paragraph:
TEXT, Paragraph 3: "Then be philosophers, be philosophers, and take life as it comes; to-day you run the risk of being choked, tomorrow discomfort departs as easily as this wine. Such is life!"
FOOTNOTE for that paragraph: "The author not only gives accurate sketches of life and manners in the Celestial Empire, bur presents the salient points of the mingles Confucian and sceptical philosophy too prevelant among those who have thrown off ancient superstition. The more we know of China the more evident is the need for the same Divine truth which in the first Christian centuries transformed the pagan world. - Ed. L. H."

London Society

Michael Strogoff
The Courier of the Czar
IN: London Society
An Illustrated Magazine
of Light and Amusing Literature
for The Hours of Relaxation
1876 (March)
Volume XXIX (29), XXX (30), XXXI (31)
London

Story starts on page 14 of Volume 29, and ends on Page 572 of Volume 31

Illustrated

In The York Herald - Tuesday March 7, 1876
Column: March Magazines: London Society ... and a new story by Jules Verne, entitled Michael Strogoff, the Russian Courier

In Magazine "London Society", starting March 1876, as announced in a Sampson Low ad in "Daily News", April 6, 1876.

Old and Young

The Floating Island, The Paradise of the Pacific
In: Old and Young - The Variety Journal, A high-class magazine for all readers
1896 (Jan) - starting Vol 48 No. 1300
London (?)

Scribner's Monthly
Illustrated Magazine for the People
conducted by Josiah Gilbert Holland

Published periodically from November 1870 to April 1881.
When established, it absorbed "Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art."
After change of owndership in 1881,
it was relaunched as "The Century Magazine"
Note: Scribner's Monthly, is different from Scribner's Magazine (Jan 1887 to May 1939

- Wikipedia

above Vol IX, Dec 1874, No 2

above, beginning of "Chapter First"

The Mysterious Island - condensed from Jules Verne
In: Scribner's Monthly
Nov 1873 to April 1876
Scribner & Co.
New York

Vol VII	Nov 1873 to April 1874	Part I The Mysterious Island, Chapter First, (pg 722) 1 illustration,"The Hurricane of 1865 -- Cries in the Air -- A Balloon Carried Away in a Water Spout -- Five Passengers -- What Took Place in a Balloon Car." 1 illustration, Ch. II (pg 726) 1 illustrations, Ch. III (pg 730) 1 illustration - 1 installment, page 722 Vol. VII viewabale / readable here at Hathitrust
Vol VIII	May 1874 to Oct 1874	Part I The Mysterious Island, Ch. IV (pg 49) 3 illustrations, Ch. V (pg 204) 3 illustrations, Ch. VI (pg 209), Ch. VII (pg 284) 4 illustrations, Ch. VIII (pg 290), Ch. IX (pg 412) 4 illustrations, Ch. X (pg 418), Ch. XI (p. 574) 2 illustrations, Ch. XII (pg 669) 2 illustrations - 6 installments, pages 49, 204, 284, 412, 574, 669 Vol VIII viewabale / readable here at Hathitrust
Vol IX	Nov 1874 to April 1875	Part I The Mysterious Island, Ch. XIII (pg 61) 2 illustrations, Ch. XIV (pg 67), Ch. XV (pg 158) 3 illustrations, Ch. XVI (pg 162), Ch. XVII (pg 342), Ch. (pg343) 1 illustration, Ch. XIX (pg 346), Ch. XX (pg 347) 1 illustration, Ch XXI (pg 349), Ch. XXII (pg 351) 1 illustration, Part II - Ch. I (pg 439) 1 illustration, Ch. II (pg 441) 2 illustrations, Ch III (pg 445) 2 illustrations, Ch. IV (pg 597), Ch. V (pg 599) 1 illustrations, Ch VI (pg 602) 3 illustrations, Ch. VII (pg 711) 1 illustration -6 installments, pages 61, 158, 342, 439, 597, 711 Vol IX, No 2 - Dec 1874 has Ch XV and XVI Vol IX viewabale / readable here at Hathitrust
Vol X	May 1875 to Oct 1875	Part II The Mysterious Island, Ch. VIII (pg 46) 2 illustrations, Ch. IX (pg 48), Ch. X (pg 50), Ch XI (pg 149) 1 illustration, Ch XII (pg 470) 1 illustration, Ch XIII (pg 552) 1 illustration, Ch. XIV (pg 770), Ch. XV (pg 772), Ch. XVI (pg 772), Ch. XVII (pg 773), Ch. XVIII (pg 774), Ch. XIX (pg 776), Ch XX (pg 776), End of Part II - 5 installments, pages 46, 149, 470, 552, 770 Vol X viewabale / readable here at Hathitrust
Vol XI	Nov 1875 to April 1876	*The Secret of the Island* (Part III) *The Mysterious Island, Ch I (pg 703) 1 illustration, Ch. II (pg 704) 1 illustration, Ch III (pg 706), Ch. IV (pg 788) 1 illustration, Ch V (pg 710) 1 illustration, Ch VI (pg 866), Ch. VII (pg 866), Ch. VIII (pg 867), Ch. IX (pg 868), Ch. X (pg 868), Ch. XI (pg 869), Ch XII (pg 871), The End* - 2 installments, pages 703, 866 Vol XI viewable / readable here in Google Books: or view at Hathitrust

St James Magazine
and United Empire Review

Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa
In: St James' Magazine and United Empire Review
April 1872 (April to September and more!)
Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle,
Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street, E.C.
London (Edinburgh and Dublin)

Volume 9 New Series, April 1872 to September 1872
contains chapter 1, starting page 281 to Chapter 9 ending on page 659

Note: The magazine does not mention the authors name, Jules Verne, anywhere!?

From the Earth to the Moon
In: St. James' Magazine and United Empire Review
1873 (April to September and the following volume)
Sampson Low,Marston, Low, & Searle,
Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street, E.C.
London

Volume 11, April to September 1873
contains chapter 1, starting page 67 to Chapter

Note: The magazine does not mention the authors name, Jules Verne, anywhere!?

The Mysterious Island
In: St James' Magazine and United Empire Review
1874 (March) -1875
Messrs. Sampson Low and CO.
188, Fleet-street
London

Volume 12, October (73) to March 1874, has chapter 1 (March 1874)
Volume 13, April to September 1874, has Chapter IV (4) on Page 65 (illustration opposite),
and finshes with Chapter XVII (17) ending page 558, with an illustration opposite.

The Union Jack

The 1st issue appeared under the editorship of W H G Kingston, on Jan 1, 1880. After Kingston, G A Henty was the editor starting May 1880
It was published by Griffith & Farran (1880-81), Cecil Brooks (1881) and Sampson Low (1881-83)

Only 4 volumes were created, 1880 to 1883
A new, unrelated "Union Jack" was created in 1894 by Alfred Harmsworth

More information here in a paper by Minna Vuohelainen

The Steam House
In: The Union Jack
Volume II
7th October 1880 to 29th September 1881
Weekly Parts from 41 to 92
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
London

The Youths' Play-Hour

1870-1871, After February 1871 absorbed "The Boys' Journal"

Monthly, Price Sixpence
The Youths' Play-Hour
(New Series)
An Illustrated Magazine, containing Well-written, Useful, Instructive, and Amusing Matter, and Two seperate whole-page Illustrations printed in Tints
A Large number of PRIZES are awarded by the Editor to the Readers who successfully compete for them, and SUPPLEMENTS are frequently given.
The Press and the Public are unanimous in describing this as one of the best and most wholesome of all the Magazines issued for Youths.

- The Bookseller, Feb 1, 1871

Five Weeks in a Balloon
In: The Youths' Play-Hour & Boys' Journal
1871 (March)
The Graphotyping Company, Limited
7, Garrick Street, Covent Garden, W.C.
London

Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.,
Stationers' Hall Court
London

The Youths' Play-Hour & Boys' Journal:
... In the March Number is commenced a Serial Tale of Exploration and Discovery, entitled "Five Weeks in a Balloon," profusely illustrated by Riou.

- The Bookseller, March 1, 1871

Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories has its own webpage here
	Amazing Stories Vol. 1, No. 1, April 1926 *Verne Story: Off on a Comet, or Hector Servadac, Pt 1 of 2, Page ?*
	Amazing Stories Vol. 1, No. 2, May 1926 *Verne Story: Off on a Comet, or Hector Servadac, Pt 2 of 2, Page ?* *AND A Trip to the Center of the Earth, Pt 1 of 3, Page ?*
	Amazing Stories Vol. 1, No. 3, June 1926 *Verne Story: A Trip to the Center of the Earth, Pt 2 of 3, Page 196-231*
	Amazing Stories Vol. 1, No. 4, July 1926 *Verne Story: A Trip to the Center of the Earth, Pt 3 of 3, Page 360-375 + 384*
N/A	Amazing Stories Vol. 1, No. 5, Aug. 1926 *Verne Story: Dr Ox's Experiment, Complete in one part, Page ?*
	Amazing Stories Vol. 1, No. 6, Sept. 1926 *Verne Story: Purchase of the North Pole, Pt 1 of 2, Page ?*
	Amazing Stories Vol. 1, No. 7, Oct. 1926 *Verne Story: Purchase of the North Pole, Pt 2 of 2, Page ?*
	Amazing Stories Vol. 1, No. 8, Nov. 1926 *Verne Story: Drama in the Air (A), Complete in one part, Page ?*
	Amazing Stories Vol. 2, No. 9, Dec. 1926 *Verne Story: Robur the Conqueror, or the Clipper of the Air, Pt 1 of 2, Page ?* (see Note in next description)
	Amazing Stories Vol. 2, No. 10, January 1928 *Verne Story: Robur the Conqueror, or the Clipper of the Air, Pt 2 of 2, Page 972* *NOTE: The story in the magazine index, is subtitled Clipper of the Air, but when you go to the page where the story starts, it is subtitled Clipper of the Clouds.*
N/A	Amazing Stories Vol. 2, No. 11, February 1928 *Verne Story: Master of the World, Pt 1 of 2, Page ?*
	Amazing Stories Vol. 2, No. 12, March 1928 *Verne Story: Master of the World, Pt 2 of 2, Page ?*
	Amazing Stories Vol. 4, No. 2, May 1929 *Verne Story: The English at the North Pole, Pt 1 of 2, Page 104*
	Amazing Stories Vol. 4, No. 3, June 1929 *Verne Story: The English at the North Pole, Pt 2 of 2, Page ?* *AND The Desert of Ice, Pt 1 of 2*
	Amazing Stories Vol. 4, No. 4, July 1929 *Verne Story: The Desert of Ice, Pt 2 of 2, Page 334*
	Amazing Stories Vol. 8, No. 8, July 1933 *Verne Story: The Watch's Soul (Master Zacharius),* Complete in 1 part, Page 111
	Amazing Stories Amazing Stories Quarterly, Winter 1933 (January 1934) Verne Story: Winter Amid the Ice (A), or the Cruise of the Jeune-Hardie Complete in one part, Page ?
	Amazing Stories Vol. 9, No. 1, May 1934 *Verne Story: Measuring a Meridian, Pt 1 of 4, Page 107*
	Amazing Stories Vol. 9, No. 2, June 1934 *Verne Story: Measuring a Meridian, Pt 2 of 3, Page 103* (actually part 2 of 4)
	Amazing Stories Vol. 9, No. 3, July 1934 *Verne Story: Measuring a Meridian, Pt 3 of 3, Page 59* (actually part 3 of 4) also, on page 142, a letter from a Raymond A Palmer, Chairman of the Jules Verne Prize Club (?)
	Amazing Stories Vol. 9, No. 4, August 1934 *Verne Story: Measuring a Meridian, Pt 4 of 3(!!) - Conclusion, Page 42*