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Boy's Own Paper (or Boy's Own) was a magazine which published adventure stories.
In April 1914, John Smith bowled a ball at a boy reading a copy of Boy's Own, who used the rolled-up paper to knock it back. (PROSE: Human Nature [+]Loading...["Human Nature (novel)"])
Graham Greene once described Alan Turing's voice as being "husky with the excitement of a Boy's Own adventure." (PROSE: The Turing Test [+]Loading...["The Turing Test (novel)"])
Liz Shaw compared her adventure with the Third Doctor on Salutua to something out of Boy's Own a number of times. (PROSE: The Eye of the Giant [+]Loading...["The Eye of the Giant (novel)"])
Sarah Jane Smith thought that Harry Sullivan looked like the hero of a Boy's Own Paper adventure, reminding her of Biggles and Bulldog Drummond. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Giant Robot [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Giant Robot (novelisation)"]) She later thought of him as a Boy's Own fan who wanted to play at being James Bond. (PROSE: Hello Goodbye [+]Loading...["Hello Goodbye (short story)"])
The Brigadier thought that the Sixth Doctor's story sounded like it was straight out of a Boy's Own annual. (PROSE: The Shadow in the Glass [+]Loading...["The Shadow in the Glass (novel)"])