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

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. 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 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 Frank Bellamy. Writers included Harry Harrison, Sydney Jordan 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 '' Breakfast in the Ruins'' (1972). The headquarters of ''Boys' World'' was in

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Boys' World interest page on 26Pigs
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