BOYS' LIFE
"THE GOLD BUG"
BOYS' LIFE, the publication of the Boy Scouts of America, was first published in March 1911. Their first "Comics" section debuted in July 1940, with reprints of then-popular newspaper strips, including "Bringing Up Father", "Felix", "Tippy and Cap Stubbs", "Krazy Kat" and "Popeye". Although other features appeared from time to time, including the long-running "Scouts In Action" (which made its debut in January 1947) and many comics-style advertisements, it was only with the September 1952 issue that a COLOR comics section made its debut, the work of the Johnstone & Cushing advertising agency. Among the long-running color features were "Space Conquerors!", which ran for 20 years, and "Stories From The Bible", which has been running, apart from a couple of interruptions, for 62 years!
In 1954, other regular comics features included "Heroes Of Legend", "How To Make It", "Frontier Tales / Kam Of The Ancient Ones", "Pee Wee Harris", "Rocky Stoneaxe", "Scouts In Action", "Story of The Month", "Tip Calaman", "The Tracy Twins", and "Wilderness Ways". In addition to these, miscellaneous other features cropped up from time to time.
One of these was "THE GOLD BUG". The magazine ran a series of "Bank Street Classics" which adapted classic novels into an absurdly-truncated 16 pages each during the period from February 1990 to November 2001, but this was 36 years before that. While the Gilberton / CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED adaptation had been cover-featured and run 12 pages, this one was only 2 !!! I'm reminded of a comment made by George Harrison in an interview, when he said, "Sometimes it takes 6 minutes to tell a story, and then someone will say, that's good, now, can you tell it in 2 ?"
BOYS' LIFE
cover by ?? (Boy Scouts Of America / July 1954)
Adaptation & Art by HENRY SHARP / Page 28
Scans of BOYS' LIFE from the Boys' Life / Wayback Machine website
Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa
For more:
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at The Poe Museum site.
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at the Biography site.
Read about Boys' Life magazine at the Scouting Magazine site.
Read about Henry Enoch Sharp at Comic Vine.
Read about THE GOLD BUG at the Bookriot site.
Read the complete story at the Poe Stories site.
See the GOLD BUG Gallery of Illustrations.
Audio:
Hear the Vincent Price recording!
Hear the FAMILY THEATER episode!
Comics:
Read the Amadio GOLD BUG adaptation! (coming soon)
Read the Joseph Wirt Tillotson GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Alex A. Blum GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Henry Sharp GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Fernando Bento GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Editorial Sea/Novaro GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Mick Anglo GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Alexis-Thomas Hinsberger GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Dino Battaglia GOLD BUG adaptation! (coming soon)
Read the Antonio Calmerio Tomas GOLD BUG adaptation!
(Coming soon:)
Read the Alfonso Font GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Guido Del Carpio Rivera GOLD BUG illustrated story!
Read the Arturo Arnau GOLD BUG illustrated story!
Read the Pablo Marcos GOLD BUG illustrated story!
Read the Novedades Editores GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Silvio Camboni GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Jorge Hardmeier GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Niesa Editores GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Jean-Louis Thouard GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the Miguel Serratosa GOLD BUG adaptation!
Read the NBM / Papercutz GOLD BUG adaptation!
Misc BOYS' LIFE features:
Read the entire 20-year run of SPACE CONQUERORS from the beginning!
Read 60 years' worth of STORIES FROM THE BIBLE from the beginning!
Read Old Time Tales of KIT CARSON / FRONTIER TALES!
Read MOG-AN-AH, The Mound Builder!
Read JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1995)!
Read 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1996)!
See the CHRONOLOGICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
See the ALPHABETICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
(Continued in Poe 1955, Pt. 1)
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