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Post by thecolortechnic on May 27, 2014 11:42:54 GMT -5
In high school I'd found a website giving away free year long subscriptions to Maxim, Slam, & Kicks. Not much into that stuff these days but it was fun to be young and hormonal.
The only magazine I collect now is Lucky Peach. It's a quarterly food magazine, though Id probably consider it more of a journal. Rather than have recipes it's got art and essays and opinion pieces and interviews and all other kinds of interesting stuff all related to food. Each issue also has a theme. Issue 6 for instance is the Apocalypse issue teaching how to survive pre/post apocalypse (whether that means an over fished ocean or zombie takeover).
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on May 27, 2014 17:08:38 GMT -5
Penthouse.
...what, it's lonely 'round here.
(edit: oh, just noticed this was my 69th post; hur hur hur)
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2014 17:32:36 GMT -5
Other than subbing to SI, TSN & Baseball Digest, as a kid I bought probably just about every general sports mag I could lay my hands on via the newsstands; ditto for the various baseball & to a lesser extent basketball & to an even lesser extent football previews that came out annually. Those all went into a big fire in the backyard when I was maybe 16 (no such thing as recycling back then, of course, at least in the near-backwoods). Wish I'd kept, at least, the ones with ABA coverage.
Didn't realize until a couple of years ago, courtesy almost certainly of Mike Howlett's The Weird World of Eerie Publications, that one of my favorite newsstand sports mags back then, Countrywide Sports, was a product of Myron Fass' sleaze empire ...
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Post by thwhtguardian on May 27, 2014 17:35:20 GMT -5
I still get National Geographic and I have since I was about 10 and I occasionally pick up an issue of Smithsonian every once in a while if the featured article peaks my interest.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 27, 2014 17:59:39 GMT -5
I recall another magazine,late 60s or early 70s. I think it was called Beyond and maybe it was also part of Myron Fass' sleaze zine empire. Stories and alleged pictures of alien abductions and UFO sightings,ghosts and yeti's,mutated babies and witchcraft rituals.I believe I bought a few issues
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2014 20:46:47 GMT -5
I recall another magazine,late 60s or early 70s. I think it was called Beyond and maybe it was also part of Myron Fass' sleaze zine empire. Stories and alleged pictures of alien abductions and UFO sightings,ghosts and yeti's,mutated babies and witchcraft rituals.I believe I bought a few issues I bought 2 issues myself & every now & then, just for the heck of it, poke around eBay just to see if I can find one for cheap. No Fass connections that I know of.  This was the first one, cover-dated (according to the eBay listing I just came across) 12/69, which means I'd have bought it about the same time I bought my identically cover-dated first issue of Fate. I would've been about to turn, or have just turned, 10. (As I've noted before, I was an odd child. Goes nicely with being an odd adult, I guess.) |
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Post by MDG on May 28, 2014 11:46:26 GMT -5
When I was in college, my roommate and I would go to this bookstore that sold back issues and would buy up Fass' UFO mags. That was the first place I learned his name.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 28, 2014 19:06:21 GMT -5
In the mid-70s I bought National Lampoon, Rolling Stone, and a local RS-like paper called the Aquarian Weekly. In the 1990s I was a big fan of Science News,but as a weekly, it piled up too fast to keep up with. I think there are some that I still haven't read and I let my subscription expire a decade ago. I also liked Funny Times and may re-subscribe someday.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 28, 2014 20:31:05 GMT -5
Have subscribed to and generally read The New Yorker for nigh on 40 years now.
When I got to the Swap Shop at the dump, I bring home virtually all the National Geographics and Smithsonians I can find, then bring them back as I go through them.
Like Dan and Ish, I read every pulpy sports magazine I could find as a kid, especially SPORT: what a great magazine that was! Subscribed to SI for a million years as a kid and my brothers kept the sub going after I left home. And the monster mags: Famous Monsters, etc.
One I also used to love was American Heritage.
Of course the usual comics mags: remember Castle of Frankenstein and The Monster Times, for instance?
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Post by MDG on May 28, 2014 21:25:39 GMT -5
I had a long run of National Lampoon from around '74 to 80 or so, though I think I got rid of them.
I hung onto a NatLamp imitator called Apple Pie because it had lots of comics by underground folks like S Clay Wilson and Justin Green, and Jerry Lane who did some great work in the mid-70s, then apparently fell into a black hole.
Apple Pie was the first place I saw Terry Austin's signature.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 28, 2014 21:27:05 GMT -5
I sure do remember Monster Times and Castle of Frankenstein as well as The Rocket Blast Comic Collector,Witzend,the original Alter Ego and The Comic Reader. I also recall getting High Times magazine (and its still around)
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 28, 2014 21:37:20 GMT -5
The only magazine I ever remember buying regularly was a subscription to Nintendo Power for probably 10 plus years. Now though internet kind of renders gamer magazines useless. Plus I don't play as much as I use.
I got a year or two of Playboy when I moved out of my folks house. The internet did it better.
I have a half magazine size box if random magazines that featured something or someone that was interesting. A few music themed one for Prince. Some Femme Fatales, a Redbook and TV Guide for Gillian Anderson. And a few magazine specials for Jurassic Park, X-Files and dinosaurs in general. I think a few Fangoria and some anime related magazines back when I was first watching them.
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Post by hondobrode on May 29, 2014 22:00:47 GMT -5
Ranger Rick (our mailman got it for me and my brothers), National Geographic, Smithsonian (seeing that a lot here), Science, The Nation, Spy, Mad Magazine, Cracked, The Comics Journal, Comics Feature, Comics Scene, Amazing Heroes, Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, Squa Tront, Savage Sword of Conan, Epic Illustrated, The Week, Consumer Reports, The Bottom Line, Advertising Age, Business Week, Time, US News & World Reports, Forbes, Fortune, The Jack Kirby Collector, Alter Ego, Back Issue, Heavy Metal, National Lampoon, Our Iowa, Cowboys & Indians, Oklahoma Today, Wizard, Near Mint, Inquest, Nemo, Beverage World, Comics Interview, Newsweek, the Duelist, George, Foom, and Amazing World of DC Comics.
Seriously, I can't believe I've read all of these and either subscribed or bought them regularly.
Comics, magazines, books. That's pretty much my life.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 29, 2014 22:20:05 GMT -5
How could I have forgotten Boys Life? Loved that for a couple of years. Had a great color comic section.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2014 23:10:20 GMT -5
Like Dan and Ish, I read every pulpy sports magazine I could find as a kid, especially SPORT: what a great magazine that was! SPORT is very high on the list of mags I'd wish I'd kept my issues of. Lots of great writing. And I still remember the issue with the cover story from circa 1971 wondering which baseball player would be the first to make 200K a season ... talk about times changing. Oh, yes -- very much so. My first issue of CoF was #20, with the 2nd of what turned out to be 3 straight Harryhausen-centric covers. Waiting ... & waiting ... & waiting for each issue was, of course, utter agony, given the insanely irregular publishing schedule, though of course it was for all intents & purposes pretty much a fanzine, albeit one with newsstand distribution. Given that fact, I wonder how long it took for me & other readers to realize that #25 was the final issue? At any rate, maybe 5 or 6 years ago I sat down & acquired an almost-complete set (missing only, I believe, #3) via eBay. Memory tells me it was my 2nd-biggest mag purchase ever, totaling around $130, second only to Sgt. Fury #s 2-9 (or maybe -10) for about $30 more than that a couple of years earlier. TMT I first encountered around the same time as CoF, with #24 (Vincent Price Theatre of Blood cover), & in the same city, Texarkana. (CoF wound up being carried by one of the stores in my hometown; TMT never did). I've mentioned before that their "World's Worst" issue, #30, marked my initial exposure to the world-shattering notion that Brother Power the Geek was widely considered to be ... uh ... not among the greatest comics ever. Via eBay & occasional cheap issues obtained from Lone Star, I've managed to put together probably around half of TMT's run. |
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