Boys’ Life Archives
Scout Life magazine has partnered with Google Books to archive more than 100 years of Boys’ Life magazine. You can view nearly every issue from March 1911 to December 2012 at the following links:
- 1911-1919 issues
- 1920-1929 issues
- 1930-1939 issues
- 1940-1949 issues
- 1950-1959 issues
- 1960-1969 issues
- 1970-1979 issues
- 1980-1989 issues
- 1990-1999 issues
- 2000-2009 issues
- 2010-2012 issues
Once you find the issue you’d like to read, just click on the “Preview this magazine” link. You can also search within a particular issue or across all issues.
What About Issues Since 2012?
Many articles published since 2012 are available here on the Scout Life website. You can also find recent issues of the magazine on the Scout Life app.
Have boys life magazine are they worth anything 60s and 70s?
This unlocked so many memories from my youth days. THANK YOU so much for preserving and post the archives on google for free reading!
Yes, 50 cents a piece in a yard sale. They’ll give you 7 cents a pound at the recycling center
I’m glad this archive exists, but what’s with all the missing content? No Dink and Duff or Webelos Woody? Those were staples of the original Boys Life magazine, yet I can’t find a trace of either in the archived issues. Tom Eaton was such an incredible artist. It’d be a shame to see so much of his work lost.
I found them in the 1980s issues. I bookmarked all the ones I had when Iceas young and all the issues are complete.
Any chance we can get the First Edition publications archived as well? The one’s for Cub Scouts and Weblos Scouts?
Which of these Boy’s Life magazine issues had a comic with fictional apes or monkeys?
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This is awesome< But I can't seem to access anything but the foirst Year of every decade… Any tips?
Likewise, I’m only seeing the first year of each decade.
I’d really love to get my hands on digital versions of the issues when I was in Scouting, back in the ’70s….
I would like to sell some issues of Boys Life from the 50’s & 60’s
I may be too late in responding, but I noticed that you can scroll through the years by putting your thumb on the first issue and swiping left. You’ll see the subsequent years scroll by
I have a few 1940s magazines mostly 1951 1952 1953
I’m looking for an old sterno stove
I’m looking for a desk top flag pole plan that raises and lowers the flag if any one can help me find the plan I will be happy.
Can’t seem to get any issue to open to view contents. A bad sign. 0___0
Sure it wasn’t the distributor coil?
Glad the Wayback machine is up and running. I TOLD you it was the spark plugs!