I recently acquired an extremely rare May 1921 issue of Boys Cinema that takes The Terror Island Film Script (which I have seen, read and studied at the Margaret Herrick Library) and adapts it to a story paper format.

Boys Cinema was a weekly story paper published by The Amalgamated Press based at Fleetway House in Farringdon Street, London. It ran from December 1919 to May 1940 for a total of 1063 issues.  As the title suggests, it was a boys comic centered on the Hollywood and British stars of the silver screen with related features and articles. Each issue consisted of film scripts adapted to a story paper format, sometimes serialized.The films featured were mostly ‘B’ pictures. Covers (as seen above) and throughout the comic showed stills of the films.

In future posts listed below, I plan to take you inside this edition of Boys Cinema and share the Terror Island Story that was adapted from the film script.

1. A Prisoner Among Salvages.
2. A Wonderful Submarine.
3. An Offer Refused and One accepted.
4. The Sham Fire.
5. A Life in the Balance.
6. Sent to a Watery Grave.
7. The Rescue.
8. On the Cannibal Island.

UPDATE: Content to be available in my 2024 book: Houdini Adaptations, The Grim Game and Terror Island Stories