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King Cricket in the Boy's Realm

The Boys' Realm published the series King Cricket [254-278, 13.4.07-28.9.07] by Charles Hamilton, which recounted the events of a whole cricket season. It was very topical, as the stories included encounters with contemporary county sides, including the great players of the day. Alas, this also meant that the stories quickly dated, and, in contrast to Football Fortune, another Hamilton sports series, also published in the Boys' Realm, it was never reprinted.

Eric Fayne wrote an article on King Cricket in his 'Lets be controversial' column in Collectors Digest issue 273 from 1969. You can read it here.

Nandu and Michael have issues 255, 260, 261, 263-270 and 272-276. If anyone can supply digital photos, scans or photocopies of the missing issues  254, 256-259, 262, 277 and/or 278 then we would all be extremely grateful. If you can help then please contact me.

You can read the issues which have already been scanned below. They are available in two formats, original and black & white. The black white images are rather harsh for reading on line but better for printing.

King Cricket issue 255 Original    King Cricket issue 255 B&W

King Cricket issue 269 Original    King Cricket issue 269 B&W

King Cricket issue 271 Original    King Cricket issue 271 B&W

St Dolly's in the Boys Realm.

Part of a serial from St Dolly's school from the Boys' Realm issue 395 from December 25th 1909 Story

St Egbert's in the Boys Realm.

This issue introduces yet another of Hamilton's many schools. St Egbert's school's first (and last?) appearance in the Boys realm was in issue 245 from 19th Feb 1907. Story