Rolling Stone-started buying them in 1969 thru the late 80s. Started saving them after a while and bought some early back issues too. Still have them. Memorable issues include the death oiisues of Hendrix,Joplin and Morrison.Also an issue that was important to the Watergate investigation. An issue about Karen Silkwood that was the basis of the movie with Meryl Streep. Of course the nude John Lennon issue
National Lampoon-Bought those from the beginning when I heard a radio commercial for it (an actual radio commercial for a new magazine..do they do that anymore?)Still have these,the first 10 years or so. Lots of comic related art as well from Neal Adams,Russ Heath,Vaughn Bode,Jeff Jones and many more. Lots of the early writers went on to write the early seasons of Saturday Night Live
Omni Magazine-never went for the SF digests but got the first year of this SF magazine
Playboy-Hey,I'm a child from the 60s so as soon as I was able to fool the news counterman,I bought some

I think my first magazine subscription as a child was to Boys' Life.  I remember really enjoying the comic strips in the back especially The Wacky Adventures of Pedro the burro.



Later I would receive subscriptions to both Cracked and MAD Magazine.  I remember MAD came in the mail wrapped in a brown paper covering.  The first one I received in the mail had this on the cover.



As a teenager I would mostly subscribe to skateboarding and music magazines. My longest running music magazine subscription was to Metal Edge which always came with all these great fold out posters. I still have a few of them in storage today.  I also would regularly read Big Brother skateboarding magazine, Thrasher Skateboard Magazine, Transworld Skateboarding. I remember sending my artwork on an envelop to Heckler Magazine.

In college I would subscribe to an underground hip hop magazine called Elemental Magazine where I would constantly discover new artists to listen to. I used to pick up Airbrush Action Magazine regularly from the Art Institute store and try to emulate the featured artists.  I also used to read Adbusters pretty regularly.

I get Doctor Who Magazine every month. I actually started buying it when Doctor Who was not on the air, and it was a way of reminding myself that my favourite show of all time was gone but not forgotten. It was actually quite an accomplishment for them to keep a magazine going for a show that had been off the air for more than a decade.

With Doctor Who's triumphant return to TV, the magazine enjoyed a resurgence. Although for a while, it seemed to be mostly catering to the new fans brought in by the new series, it gradually returned to an equilibrium, and acknowledged that there were plenty of us who had been fans for decades and had loved the show even when it wasn't cool (and, indeed, was the very opposite of cool).

It was cancelled about 5 years ago. Not aware of a relaunch, but I'll have to dig around; if that's indeed happened, I'm surprised not to have seen it noted on Baseball Think Factory ... though of course there's every good chance I missed it.

Otherwise, off the top of my head I subbed to Creem, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, F&SF, Fantastic Stories, Famous Monsters, Coin Magazine, The Nation, The Progressive, The Guardian, Z Magazine & Premier, for varying periods before, during & in a few cases (as is obvious with the mags that didn't exist way back when, like Premier & Z) after adolescence. Baseball Weekly I bought religiously off the 'stands through the late '90s.

These days I'm down to SI, Fate, Rue Morgue & Fangoria.

I was a longtime magazine addict and bought all kinds of things once I could afford them, but I've dropped almost everything over the years since the internet came around. I'm amazed that the whole industry hasn't collapsed altogether, but I'm probably internet

Circus was the pop music magazine my older brother used to get most consistently, and I would buy the odd issue myself later on. As I grew older, I soon realised that Creem, Rolling Stone, Crawdaddy - in fact just about everything - were much better written, but Circus still held its ground with nice colour pictures and short, snappy reviews and articles.

I also used to read a lot of hockey magazines. I can still almost see the cover of the first one I ever bought myself, though I can't recall the name of the mag. Not a glossy, though it did have a colour cover with pulp paper & black& white photos inside. Hockey was the only pro team sport I was really into as a kid in the 70s.

I always liked boxing, but didn't start buying boxing magazines until the 80s. The best boxing periodical I ever read, by far, was from the UK and called The Boxing News, I believe. It was a newsletter rather than a magazine: hardly any pictures and printed on standard newsprint. Comprehensive listings of all fight results right down to the most obscure, and the feature articles were often of a remarkably high standard.

I was also a regular reader of Spy Magazine in the 80s - lots of fun, and a trendsetter whose influence was widespread and lasting. Didn't understand all the American and local NYC references, but that was true of course of everything from MAD to Marvel comics to you-name-it.

I'll stop there, for now.

Magazines have become a rare luxury for me in the years since I left the 9-to-5 behind, I'm afraid. For a while there, though, I had a pull list at the little bookstore up the street from my office in Olympia. Among my regular purchases were Time, Smithsonian, American Heritage, National Geographic, Premiere, Film Comment (edited at the time by one of my old UW profs), The Utne Reader, The Wilson Quarterly, Skeptic, Skeptical Inquirer, Harper's, Vanity Fair and my favorite, The Atlantic Monthly. Of these, I still have some collectors' issues of Time (and Life) and my copies of the two skeptic mags. Everything else was sacrificed to the great recycling god ages ago.

Cei-U!
I summon the paper drive!