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Issue 1 October 2012

They’re Coming to Get You!

Boom!No Girls Allowed!

Inside Boys Only Online Magazine this month!

Get your first

‘Dangerous Badge’ inside today!

Will the Colonel solve his latest case? Find out how the case begins in the first part of our new comic ‘Mystery Solved’!

Your guide to Ghosts, Ghouls and movies that go bump in the night

iPhone 5 pre-orders hit 2 million in just 24 hoursThe iPhone 5 has been available to pre-order since Friday and requests for the handset have already doubled those of the iPhone 4.The new piece of tech is slimmer and has a larger screen than the old iPhones.The demand has been so high that some customers in the US will now have to wait until October to get their hands on one, even though they officially go on sale on 21 September.

Soyuz space capsule returns to Earth after 123 daysA Russian Soyuz capsule has returned to Earth after 123 days at the International Space Station.The three astronauts, Gennady Padalka, Sergei Revin, and Joe Acaba have landed safely in central Kazakhstan.The crew carried out repair work on the space station, launched a small science satellite and installed meteoroid shields.The capsule landed at 8.53am local time (2.53pm BST). After exiting the craft the crew rested in special chairs.

Ed Sheeran album '+' most illegally downloaded in UKSinger Ed Sheeran's '+' was illegally downloaded more than any other music album in the first half of 2012.His 2011 album was closely followed by tracks from Rizzle Kicks and Rihanna according to a new study into music piracy.It was illegally downloaded an average of 55,512 times each month.The report from Musicmetric says UK users illegally shared more than 40 million albums and singles between January and June 2012..

Protests against an American-made anti-Islam film have spread.The trouble started in Egypt on Tuesday when a group of protesters attacked a US building.They were angry at the film which they say is insulting to the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.Since then protests have spread to other mainly Muslim countries including Yemen, Morocco, Sudan, Iraq, Iran and Tunisia. Ban Ki-moon, the head of the United Nations, has spoken out against the protests: "The hateful film appears to have been deliberately designed to sow bigotry and bloodshed."

And Finally...

It's official, Zeus the 3 year-old Great Dane is the tallest dog ever. The humongous hound is 111.8cm and weighs in at 70.3 kg. This and the other pics here are from the new Guinness World Records 2013 book.

Entertainment NewsChris Moyles says goodbye to Radio 1 breakfast showThe DJ has been presenting flagship radio show for eight years.

He said: "I'm very proud of everyone on the show, our team have been brilliant, our audience have been brilliant. Thank you to everyone who has listened and supported us."Nick Grimshaw will be taking over the breakfast slot later this month.

Victoria Pendleton and Louis Smith join Strictly Come DancingThe sports stars will join Girls

Aloud singer Kimberley Walsh, Tracy Beaker actress Dani Harmer and Westlife's Nicky Byrne. British cyclist Pendleton, who won one gold and one silver medal at London 2012, has now retired from the sport.Gymnast Louis Smith won a silver medal in the pommel horse event.

Just off the north-west coast of the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola (now divided into the two countries of Haiti and The Dominican Republic), lies a small rocky island which, from a distance, looks like a giant tortoise rising above the surface of the sea. The Spaniards in fact, named this island, ‘Tortuga’, which means, ‘Tortoise’.During the summer of 1713, five notorious pirate captains met on the island to make an agreement never to attack each other. As a gesture of good faith, each took with them a bag of personal treasure to be buried on the island. If any of the five were to be killed, their treasure was to be divided between those who remained.Each buried his treasure in an individual plot and a map was drawn, showing the locations. There were just five copies of the map, of which each captain had one. Within two years of the meeting, all five pirates were dead! Either killed in action or taken by the authorities and executed.There were many rumours about the meeting on Tortuga, but no one knew the whereabouts of the treasure or who held any of the maps. The story was consigned to myth and legend.Then one day, in June, 1926, a young boy, the son of a merchant seaman, found an old leather wallet on the beach near where he lived in Cornwall. Upon opening the wallet, he discovered two pieces of parchment. One of them carried a roughly drawn map and the other, some strange instructions.He took the package to his father, who soon recognized the map as being that of Tortuga. He had of course heard the old legend of the

five pirate captains and thought that these two old tattered documents might indeed be directions to the buried treasure!He took them to the appropriate authorities who verified the age and validity of the papers and an expedition was mounted to find the treasure!When they arrived in Tortuga, they found that the map led them to five stepping stones that had crossed a small river, long since dried up. The stepping stones however were still in place and upon lifting each one, there sure enough was an old leather satchel!There was some disappointment. Four of those rascally pirates had cheated! Only one contained anything of worth – a bag of gold doubloons!When valued, the doubloons were worth many thousands of pounds – the contents of the rest of the satchels were valueless.The boy who found the wallet on the beach and his father were well rewarded and the doubloons, plus the worthless treasure are now on display at their local museum.

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The evolution of the Wii begins... Welcome to the

brand new Wii U!

Nintendo announced the price and release date of its new Wii U game machine and unveiled television features for it. Thursday's announcement comes as a host of companies launch new gadgets ready for Christmas.

The Wii U will go on sale in America on November the 18th. A basic, white model will cost $300. A deluxe version, which comes in black and sports extra features, will cost $50 more.

Nintendo has been trying to drum up excitement for the Wii U, the first major gaming console to launch since 2006. The device has a touch-screen controller called the Wii U GamePad. That controller will work as a fancy remote control for a new "Nintendo TVii" service.

Nintendo's Bill Trinen demonstrates the Wii U GamePad

The place for all your gadget

news and needs!

A Pirate Tale

Pirates may have t h r o w n m e n overboard, but no o n e w a s e v e r known to have “ w a l k e d t h e plank”. This one is a H o l l y w o o d myth.

The dead are entering into a head to head battle this Autumn with the release of 3 new films featuring all manner of creepy characters! Will they be box office smashes or slip quietly into the grave of box office flops?!

Zombies Ghosts Witches

Scare Factor 9/10

Paranorman 3DThis 3D stop-motion animated movie is even scarier but much funnier than

the same production team's skilfully crafted Coraline in which a plucky little heroine escaped from her lonely mundane world into its horrific mirror image. Their new one has a plucky, misunderstood hero in the loner Norman, a horror movie fan, who discovers that "zombies are people – only dead ones" and exorcises a 300-year-old curse hanging over his New England township. Kids will be very frightened and then end up sympathetic to zombies.

Paranorman

There's nothing to be afraid

of!

LOTS

FrankenweenieA remake of his controversial first short made for Disney in 1984,

‘Frankenweenie’ is Tim Burton’s latest stop motion movie. The immaculate craftsmanship that went in to films like ‘Corpse Bride’ remains in this feature-length story about a young boy who discovers a way of bringing his dog, Sparky, back to life after he’s killed in a car accident. It’s not due to his cinemas until the end of 2012, but what we can deduce from the snippets we’ve seen so far is that it looks like it could be Burton’s best so far!

Hotel Transylvania Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort,

where monsters and their families can live it up, free from meddling from the human world. Over-protective of his teenage daughter, Mavis, Dracula fabricates tales of elaborate dangers to dissuade her adventurous spirit. As a haven for Mavis, he opens the Hotel Transylvania, where his daughter and some of the world's most famous monsters can kick back in safety and peace.– but his world could come crashing down when one ordinary guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis.

Frankenweenie Animal Monsters

Scare Factor 5/10

Vampires Werewolves Mummies Invisible Man

A Guide to knowing your Ghouls!

These new movies feature a host of ghoulish creatures... but which ones?

Scare Factor 8/10

I Did, He was chasing

my dog!

The End

In each issue of BOOM we will be looking a ‘The Dangerous Book for Boys’ The bestselling book for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is. In each issue we will discover something from the dangerous book and you can collect your ‘Dangerous badges’!

SECRET INKS.

Anything organic (animal based) that is

clear of almost clear can be used as a heat-

activated secret ink. Put simply, being organic

means it contains carbon and carbon things

will burn. Milk, lemon juice, egg white and, yes,

urine will work as a secret ink.

In our first attempt we wrote a sentence

down the side of a letter. Unless you were

looking for it, it wasn’t easy to see. The letter

on top helped to disguise it. We let this dry and

and then placed the letter on a warm, sunny

windowsill (or on a radiator). As the invisible ink

is warmed by the sun the hidden words appear

as if by magic. The trouble with this is that the

cover letter needs to look real, but not so real

that your spy doesn’t look for the secret

message!

NATO Phonic Alphabet and Morse Code

The NATO Phonic Alphabet is actually

designed to make meaning clearer rather than

hide it. It’s a useful tool to use minimise

confusion when reading letters out loud,

especially on the telephone. ‘P’ and ‘B’ sound

very similar but ‘Papa’ and ‘Bravo’ do not.

Morse Code

Morse Code was thought up by an

American inventor called Samual F.B. Morse.

The marvellous thing about the code is that it

can be sent using light, with a torch; sound,

with a car horn or tapping; even with flags,

which is called semaphore. It’s a useful code to

learnCollect your ‘Dangerous’ badges This week your ‘Dangerous Badge’ is the ‘Code-breakers’ badge. Try the activities on this page to ear your badge. Collect the whole set if you can. To get your badge simply print this page and cut out the badge below. You can add you badges to the special ‘Dangerous Badge’ collector poster in the next issue.

Morse Code is made up of dots and dashes. A dot is a quick tap or flash of light, and a dash has a longer pause after it or a longer flash of light. The example everybody knows is SOS - the international distress signal which in morse code is . . . - - - . . .

(dit dit dit - dah dah dah - dit dit dit)

This Summer saw an amazing Olympic and Paralympic Games in London. This is a round up of the events, medals and stars of the games!

Olympic Medal CountGold Silver Bronze Total

United States of America 46 29 29 104People’s Republic of China 38 27 23 88 Great Britain 29 17 19 65Russian Federation 24 26 32 82

London 2012 Round-Up

Paralympic Medal CountGold Silver Bronze Total

People’s Republic of China 95 71 65 231Russian Federation 36 38 28 102 Great Britain 34 43 43 120Ukraine 32 24 28 84

Top SportsGold Silver Bronze Total

Athletics 11 7 11 29 Swimming 7 16 16 39Cycling (Track) 5 7 3 15Equestrian 5 5 1 11

Top SportsGold Silver Bronze Total

Cycling (Track) 7 1 1 9 Rowing 4 2 3 9Athletics 4 1 1 6Boxing 3 1 1 5

Olympic and Paralympic Stars of 2012Jessica Ennis

Mo Farah

Tom Daley

Jonnie Peacock

Ellie Simmonds

Josef Craig

World in Photos

KIDS PLAY IN A GIANT LAKE OF MUD AT THE 25TH ANNUAL 'MUD DAY' ON JULY 10, 2012 IN WESTLAND, MICHIGAN. THE EVENT, WHICH FEATURES A 75' BY 150' PIT FILLED WITH 20,000 GALLONS OF WATER AND 200 TONS OF TOPSOIL, DRAWS ABOUT A THOUSAND CHILDREN EACH YEAR.

PRINCE WILLIAM, DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE AND CATHERINE, DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE DANCE WITH THE LADIES AT THE VAIKU FALEKAUPULE FOR AN ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 IN TUVALU.

FRAN CALVO (L) AND MONICA FRAILE (R) CELEBRATE THEIR WEDDING IN A SEA LIFE AQUARIUM ON AUGUST 6, 2012 IN BENALMADENA, WHERE TWO COUPLES TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET INTO THE POOL TO GET MARRIED.

ZOO BASEL HAS RECENTLY WELCOMED THIS LITTLE BABY INDIAN RHINO. IT HAS BEEN NAMED JARI.

SINGERS LOUIS TOMLINSON, LIAM PAYNE, HARRY STYLES, ZAYN MALIK, AND NIALL HORAN OF ONE DIRECTION POSE WITH THEIR BEST POP VIDEO AND BEST NEW ARTIST AWARDS AT THE 2012 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS AT STAPLES CENTER ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

AERIALIST NIK WALLENDA TIGHROPES OVER THE NIAGARA FALLS ON JUNE 15, 2012 IN NIAGARA FALLS, CANADA. WALLENDA BECAME THE FIRST PERSON TO CROSS DIRECTLY OVER THE FALLS FROM THE U.S.