''Boys' World'' was a boys' comic magazine published in the UK by

Longacre Press Longacre Press was a publisher based in Dunedin, New Zealand. The company was founded in 1995 by Barbara Larson, Paula Boock, and Lynsey Ferrari, three former workers at Dunedin's McIndoe Publishing.Cawley, N.,Publish and be praised", ''New Z ...

. It ran for 89 issues beginning on 26 January 1963, and in 1964 it merged with the ''

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''. ''Boys' World'' featured the mythological serial strip ''Wrath of the Gods'', painted in colour by

Ron Embleton Ronald Sydney Embleton (6 October 1930 – 13 February 1988) was a British illustrator who gained fame as a comics artist. In the 1950s and 1960s, Embleton also pursued a career as an oil painter, and he exhibited his works widely in Britain, Ger ...

and the earliest comic strip parody of

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: ''Dr What and His Time Clock''. Among the other artists who worked for the comic were Brian Lewis and

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. Writers included Harry Harrison,

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and

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. The regular ''Boys' World'' cover feature, 'What Would You Do?' - a series challenging readers to find the solution to perilous situations - inspired the similarly-titled sequence of impossible moral dilemmas posed in Moorcock's novel ''

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'' (1972). The headquarters of ''Boys' World'' was in

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Boys' World interest page on 26Pigs
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