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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2014 15:31:37 GMT -5
I stuck with Amazing and Fantastic because I liked the editor, Ted White. Ted did a great job with those mags. I subbed to Fantastic only, but I generally picked up Amazing when I saw it on the 'stands. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 3, 2014 16:06:40 GMT -5
One of the things I love about the internet is that now I'm on email lists with Ted White and Roy Thomas.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 3, 2014 17:45:39 GMT -5
I never bought any of the SF digests off the stands, but I've always bought them when I'd come across them at yard sales or used book stores.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 4, 2014 0:32:51 GMT -5
My first magazine subscription and maybe yours too was My Weekly Reader (I think it became Weekly Reader later on).Schools would force you to buy a subsription in the early grades and it would contain nice,safe,topical articles. I suspect schools got a kickback from the subs but thats my cynical side showing.The scam,er magazine started in 1929 and for all I know its still going  |
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Post by Jesse on Jun 29, 2014 23:36:30 GMT -5
Did anyone else read any of this 10 issue magazine run in the '90s? I remember buying this issue when it came out before I had discovered Bongo Comics and I really enjoyed it. It featured comic strips, news articles, fake ads and interviews. I think it was this issue that had an article that broke down how to draw the Simpsons.  |
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Post by MDG on Jun 30, 2014 10:41:39 GMT -5
Did anyone else read any of this 10 issue magazine run in the '90s? I remember buying this issue when it came out before I had discovered Bongo Comics and I really enjoyed it. It featured comic strips, news articles, fake ads and interviews. I think it was this issue that had an article that broke down how to draw the Simpsons. I'm pretty sure I bought my kids some issues of this. There was also a similar Superman and Batman magazine around the same time that had similar content. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 30, 2014 14:24:02 GMT -5
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Post by Jasoomian on Jul 1, 2014 3:51:14 GMT -5
My first magazine subscription and maybe yours too was My Weekly Reader (I think it became Weekly Reader later on).Schools would force you to buy a subsription in the early grades and it would contain nice,safe,topical articles. I suspect schools got a kickback from the subs but thats my cynical side showing. We had to read Scholastic News for school, a similar deal. I remember I was a finalist to be one of their kid reporters at the RNC/DNC conventions. The interviewers' faces dropped and they seemed to lose interest me when I told them I didn't think world government was wise idea. Scholastic also sent us home with book catalogs for books (not textbooks) our parents could order trhough the school. Did anyone else read any of this 10 issue magazine run in the '90s? I remember buying this issue when it came out before I had discovered Bongo Comics and I really enjoyed it. It featured comic strips, news articles, fake ads and interviews. I think it was this issue that had an article that broke down how to draw the Simpsons. I think I had a couple issues of Simpsons Illustrated. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2014 8:30:12 GMT -5
My Weekly Reader was probably my 2nd subscription (courtesy of my mother, of course), after Jack & Jill (ditto). Always a highlight of the week when it arrived in the mailbox during the summer months.[/b]
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 1, 2014 14:36:47 GMT -5
Scholastic now owns Weekly Reader and they've combined it with Scholastic News.
I remember the Scholastic book catalogs as well; I may still have some of the books I got from them.
We didn't get Jack & Jill but we did get Highlights, which is still being published.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 2, 2014 9:05:17 GMT -5
Jack & Jill is where I first encountered Tintin as a kid. Had no idea it wasn't an American comic back then!
Cei-U!
I summon the forgotten memory!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 19:21:50 GMT -5
I used to buy Street Rodder . Hot Rods and Trucks magazines when I was big time into building cars and trucks . But sold everything to fix up our first house and get married .
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 20:33:14 GMT -5
That post reminds me, I used to buy Mini-Truckin and later Lowrider.
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Post by berkley on Oct 13, 2014 22:40:48 GMT -5
I was just skimming through the earlier pages on the thread and saw that Readers Digest was mentioned. My mother used to subscribe to it too but I never liked it, for some reason. It always felt a little too bland and Disneyfied, for lack of a better word.
She also used to subscribe to a Canadian women's magazine called Chatelaine that, apart from the usual articles about fashion and various housekeeping whatnots, often contained some short but surprisingly insightful and well-written book and movie reviews and so on, as I remember it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2014 14:38:17 GMT -5
As a teenager I would buy any BRAVO (German teen, music magazine) that had KISS poster in it. Being an import they were extremely expensive, though. Still in circulation.  However, the best Magazine, hands down was ROCK 81/82/83 printed in a most peculiar format I've ever seen. It was narrow and tall. Also had a flip-side, titled STRIP 81/82/83 that published comic book stories in half of the publication. These Strip/Magazines were the prize of my collection. IIRC I had them all (around 100 issues) Unfortunately, I had to leave them all behind and any decent copy nowadays is fetching astronomical prices.-sigh- Although, ROCK with the STRIP part ended it's run in 83 the ROCK magazine lived on in various formats, as stand alone Magazine and sometimes like a newspaper.  |
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