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Post by berkley on May 29, 2014 23:15:39 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. I like the idea of the local RS-style paper - was it any good? I know what you mean about keeping up with a weekly. I subscribe to the New Scientist and I'm continually falling behind. I'm trying to get in the habit of just reading the articles I'm particularly interested in, but once I open an issue I feel compelled to read something at least on every page. I also have a subscription to Le Monde Diplomatique, which I try to read a bit from every night, in an effort to improve the level of my French reading. It's a monthly news journal with a pretty strong left-wing POV, which makes it a refreshing contrast to more conventional news sources for me. They publish editions in English and other languages as well. And the third subscription I have at the moment is one that I think a lot of people here would find very much to their taste: The Paperback Fanatic. It's really a fanzine, as the guy who runs it has a regular job and does this on the side because he's such an enthusiast. Its focus is on genre paperback books mainly from the 50s, 60s,& 70s, but will occasionally go beyond those decades in both directions. Mostly science fiction and horror, but also westerns, vintage sleaze, "men's adventure" series (e.g. The Executioner), and all kinds of other stuff. I have great fun with every issue - even the letters section is a great read. It's available only by subscription, through the website. |
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Post by Cei-U! on May 29, 2014 23:26:15 GMT -5
Geez, I forgot all about NatLamp... and I've got a short box full of them! I never got Famous Monsters, Monster Times or Castle of Frankenstein but I did used to buy Cracked's knock-off, For Monsters Only. I also had subscriptions to Boy' Life back in my not-exactly-beloved Scouting days, which is where I first encountered Neal Adams' art, and to Playboy in my immediate post-collegiate days for the articles (not that I minded the nekkid ladies, mind you). Oh, and I had a TV Guide subscription while I was in high school (1972-75), a companion gift to the portable TV my parents bought me after I was laid up with two broken legs and had to forgo summer camp between 9th and 10th grades.
Cei-U!
I choke on the nostalgia!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 29, 2014 23:29:55 GMT -5
I spaced Back Issue and Alter Ego, as well as Comic Book Artist. Probably because I tend to think of them as funnybooks.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2014 23:34:11 GMT -5
Same here, Slam; that's why I excluded The Comics Journal from my recollections. I subbed from probably '76 or so (starting with #6, when they were a newsprint adzine out of Lewisville, Texas, called The Nostalgia Journal) to probably at least '82.
For whatever reasons, I've been sticking to mags available on newsstands & magazine racks. Otherwise, I'd have included the alternative music zine The Big Takeover, to which I subbed for more than a decade, not to mention Maximum Rocknroll, of which I owned the first 240 or so issues before selling off all but a handful of issues via eBay a few years back, & the anarchopunk zine Profane Existence, which I bought for as long as it lasted (30 or so issues, maybe, though I think it might've been resurrected fairly recently).
Though of course as of a few years ago Big Takeover & MRR could be found among the mags at Books-a-Million. "Turning rebellion into money ..."
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2014 23:35:42 GMT -5
Should've included Twilight Zone Magazine. Bought it off the 'stands starting owith the first issue for at least 3 years, probably longer.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 29, 2014 23:40:43 GMT -5
Should've included Twilight Zone Magazine. Bought it off the 'stands starting owith the first issue for at least 3 years, probably longer. I think I only went with the first issue Gee-no one got Stan Lee's Monsters To Laugh With?  |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2014 23:43:11 GMT -5
Before my time, though I bought whatever the second incarnation was called*... #2, anyway. The first one I picked up as a back issue.
*Memory just kicked in -- Monster Madness.
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Post by hondobrode on May 29, 2014 23:43:37 GMT -5
I spaced Back Issue and Alter Ego, as well as Comic Book Artist. Probably because I tend to think of them as funnybooks. Thanks Slam. I forgot Comic Book Artist, one of the best ever.
Everything TwoMorrows rocks, though I don't get the Brick Journal.
Also Marvel Preview / Bizarre Adventures, Howard the Duck, Marvel Super Special, Tomb of Dracula, Master of Kung Fu.
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Post by berkley on May 29, 2014 23:44:44 GMT -5
Dan mentioned that Sport was one of the magazines he wishes he'd kept his issues of - that could be a whole thread of its own. For me, these early OMNI issues, the 80s Spy, the British Boxing News (or at least certain particular issues), and a lot of the move magazines I used to buy in the early 90s all come to mind.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 29, 2014 23:57:38 GMT -5
Dragon Magazine. I never subscribed but I bought almost every issue from late 82 or early 83 until I went to college in the Fall of '86. Plus the Annuals. And the first half dozen or so issues of Dungeon Magazine.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 29, 2014 23:59:56 GMT -5
... And the first half dozen or so issues of Dungeon Magazine. Sounds kinky |
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Post by Rob Allen on May 30, 2014 12:21:54 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. I like the idea of the local RS-style paper - was it any good? It was - in fact, I just discovered that it still exists - www.theaquarian.com/ . At the time, it was covering a part of the local scene that I was completely unfamiliar with. I have the first year or so of Omni in storage. I've never subscribed, but I always enjoy Reader's Digest whenever I find one. |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2014 13:47:55 GMT -5
I've never subscribed, but I always enjoy Reader's Digest whenever I find one. Same here; my mother subbed for years. I'm always pleased when I come across one in a doctor's waiting room. The only other things I remember her getting were The Plain Truth, the Herbert W. Armstrong outfit's free mag (with occasional Basil Wolverton art of scenes from the Bible, of course), & a far more mainstream little religious mag, Guideposts. I read those, too. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 30, 2014 13:51:26 GMT -5
I just want to say thank you to all the barber shops across America which gave me an opportunity to check out many magazines I would not have intentions of buying
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Post by Cei-U! on May 30, 2014 14:30:47 GMT -5
If we're talking fanzines/prozines, I used to have tons of Comics Journal, Amazing Heroes (the first hundred plus some), Comics Interview (the first 50 plus some), Comics Feature, Comic Book Marketplace and Comics Scene, not to mention stacks and stacks of the Buyers Guide. Alas, I recycled them all during one of my frequent moves of the late '80s/early '90s, which I now regret far more than the many comics I've parted with over the years. I also had about 2/3 of the FOOM title and a handful of Amazing World of DCs, which were included in a trade that netted me a passel of Silver Age DC comics.
Cei-U!
I summon the rueful hindsight!
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