YABS

YABS (Yet Another Biggles Site) is one of many sites for James Bigglesworth, the intrepid pilot hero of Capt W.E. Johns.

YABS' aims are:

• to allow readers to review, rate, and thus rank, all the Biggles adventures
• to provide a complete reference for all characters and craft mentioned in those adventures
• to provide an accessible and modifiable bibliography

As a result, this is most definitely a reader's site. And that's because I'm sure, like me, most of us are readers first, collectors second.

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		Biggles Defies the Swastika
		Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter
		Biggles Takes Charge
		The Black Peril
		Biggles and Co
		Biggles Flies East
		Biggles in the Baltic
		Biggles and the Leopards of Zinn
		Biggles Flies South
		Biggles of the Camel Squadron

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From Steve (Nov 2002):

Whilst this gets a good few votes just for not having Ginger in it, it doesn't really get any votes for anything else. Again it is the mixed races where evil comes from, and whilst the smuggling method is novel, the way it is uncovered and finally ended is not quite so engaging.

Can you guess what title is being described?

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You might find this link amusing. It's Camel vs. Fokker as a card game. Take to the cockpit of a Sopwith Camel and duel away against your colleague the Fokker. Not technically a Biggles item, hence not listed elsewhere on the site. Still looks like something worth a trawl on eBay for.

Update: Mentioned this game at the Biggles yahoo group and it turned up some additional details on the game. The collector's guide in particular shows nearly 20 different variants and editions for was obviously a pretty popular way to pass the time.

Added details for Canadian publications (in English) as gleaned from Collecting Books and Magazines. To see what's listed, do an edition search for country = Canada.

If at first you cannot find an edition you're after, just add another set of editions to be searching for. That's my current motto, so today updated YABS to list all the Australian editions identified at Collecting Books and Magazines. And that's only because the list was surprisingly short: only 11 editions; although I've already increased that number since I appear to have a couple of 2nd editions, and because I came across The Silver Jacket magazine (from Australia) when reviewing serials.

Not that you probably noticed, but until today the list of updates shown on the Home page did not include details of any new images added to the database. That's now been rectified; any new artwork added in the past month is now included in the update count. Now all that's excluded are any updates within the miscellanea section. Will get back to you on that one....

Just broke my (recent) cardinal rule of starting to collect new Biggles's "genres". Unfortunately a couple of Boy's Own Papers were too tempting so have been added to the collection. They're great, not just for the Biggles content, but also for the other articles, advertisements and the like they contain. Fascinating stuff!

With the help of Daniel Tangri I've now added a miscellany topic for serials/magazines to start recording details of them all. And to provide a public demonstration of how far I've got to go for the set!

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