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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2014 14:40:28 GMT -5
For me it's Custom PC, Micro Mart, Cycle Active, Investors Chronicle.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 30, 2014 14:49:06 GMT -5
Here's a mag that really dates me.From the late 60s. On the newstands in New York City.
Not sure of the title but it was like a TV Guide but for FM radio.New stations were appearing left and roght or changing their formats as FM radio gained in poularity. Besides hourly listings like they had in TV guide,there were articles on popular DJs or stations. We had a FM progressive rock station here, WLIR on Long Island ,and each day they had an "Album Of The Day" and played a complete,uninterupted album. Of course I'd load up my reel-to-reel tape recorder and record it. This monthly FM radio mag let you know all the albums of the day a month in advance.Good times
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 30, 2014 14:53:31 GMT -5
I subscribe to Nature, Foreign Affairs and National Geographic. I'll get the odd Alter Ego issue once in a while, but love that mag as I do I can't find enough time to read everything (and I know that, lacking discipline, I'd just read Alter Ego and leave the more serious stuff gathering dust). Naturally if Kurt's in an issue, I must have it.
Way, way back when I also loved things like Starlog and Fantastic Films, and French magazines like Historia, Science & Vie and Geo. There was also something called Croc, which was a Quebecois National Lampoon; that went belly up a long time ago, which is really too bad. It was satire at its best.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 30, 2014 16:57:59 GMT -5
I summon the rueful hindsight! That's a good name for a band - The Rueful Hindsight. Also, on topic, I recently acquired a copy of Savage Henry Independent Times, a humor magazine out of Humboldt County CA. You can probably guess what a lot of the humor and the ads are about. savagehenrymagazine.com/ |
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Post by hondobrode on May 30, 2014 18:45:34 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! I forgot Comic Book Marketplace. Love those ! They were so well done.
I had about a 15 year run of Comic Buyer's Guide from my continual subscription. They were taking a lot of room in my garage and I conceded to my now ex-wife and tossed em. It wasn't unreasonable to ask.
How no one has reprinted those, or the best of, or God help us, the Alan Light issues, is beyond me. I'd love to read some of the interviews and see some of the big news and art from them.
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Post by MDG on May 30, 2014 22:14:31 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 got a charter subscription to it, and still have the years' worth I got, but I gotta admit that I wasn't very impressed with the fiction in it. |
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Post by hondobrode on May 30, 2014 23:06:12 GMT -5
Have you read the Twilight Zone comic that JMS is doing ?
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Post by Jasoomian on May 31, 2014 12:49:31 GMT -5
The best Fortean type mag out there these days is Paranoia.
I read a lot of MAD as a kid and had a subscription for a while. It's still a pretty good magazine, even if it's really an oversized comic book.
I used to spend a lot of time in newstands (or drug stores or book stores) up until the Internet finally won a decade back. Doing a lot of browsing, but also buying interesting magazines about science or sci-fi or UFOs or music or history or radicalism or whatever. (And of course, comics.)
I guess I did have a Boys' Life subscription, at least when I was in the Cub Scouts. Even younger, I think I had a Highlights subscription for a while.
I saved the FALL PREVIEW issues of TVGuide when I was a kid and for a time after that. I don't think those are around any more. My parents still subscribe.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 12:53:12 GMT -5
I summon the rueful hindsight! That's a good name for a band - The Rueful Hindsight. I'm pretty sure Rueful Hindsight used to play pro basketball. Same team as Harthorne Nathaniel Wingo, IIRC. |
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Post by benday-dot on May 31, 2014 17:37:20 GMT -5
No subscriptions for me anymore. I do regularly still buy Alter Ego, the Jack Kirby Collector and Comic Book Creator (if it features material I want to read (like last issue's beautiful Russ Heath number)
In non-comic mags, I no longer get but still have lots of older National Geographic, Wildlife Conservation and Time magazine.
I used to be a regular reader of Harpers and the New Yorker, but lost the time somehow to keep up and give the articles justice.
I still have an interest in politics (as a student not a participant) but was once a complete junkie and read regularly the Jerusalem Post, the Manchester Guardian, the Journal of Palestinian Studies and one or two others.
As I've gotten older though I've gotten stupider and more cynical and let my keener interest in a lot of subjects lapse and now I read mostly for more selfish pleasure... comic books, novels, short stories and some non-fiction.
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Post by berkley on May 31, 2014 22:11:40 GMT -5
No subscriptions for me anymore. I do regularly still buy Alter Ego, the Jack Kirby Collector and Comic Book Creator (if it features material I want to read (like last issue's beautiful Russ Heath number) In non-comic mags, I no longer get but still have lots of older National Geographic, Wildlife Conservation and Time magazine. I used to be a regular reader of Harpers and the New Yorker, but lost the time somehow to keep up and give the articles justice. I still have an interest in politics (as a student not a participant) but was once a complete junkie and read regularly the Jerusalem Post, the Manchester Guardian, the Journal of Palestinian Studies and one or two others. As I've gotten older though I've gotten stupider and more cynical and let my keener interest in a lot of subjects lapse and now I read mostly for more selfish pleasure... comic books, novels, short stories and some non-fiction. ooh, I must look for that Russ heath issue. I was a pretty regular reader of Harper's as well back in the 90s. The New Yorker less so, but would pick up the occasional issue. I do look at the Guardian online almost every day, especially the Books and other Culture sections. I've also become addicted to their Cryptic Crossword over the last year or so. I'd like to get back into reading book journals like the New York Review of Books or the London but just don't seem to have the time. There are so many actual books I want to read that I'm reluctant to take time from that to read review articles. The down side of that is that I'm really not very well-informed about the contemporary literary scene, though I'm making an effort to read more current or at least recent fiction, though so far that's been limited to stuff from the 80s that I missed at the time. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2014 12:14:06 GMT -5
No subscriptions for me either. Doctor Who Magazine is the only thing I buy regularly, but I haven't picked up the most recent. I buy a couple baseball previews and if I'm at Bedrock City I may pick up an issue of Alter Ego, but that's about it for magazines these days. I used to read Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News and a bunch of rap magazines. ego trip was my favorite magazine before it stopped. It was hard to find living in a small town, but any time me or a buddy found a copy I'd read it cover-to-cover multiple times.
Oh, and I'd probably pick up Maximum Rock & Roll if I could find it locally.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 1, 2014 19:43:21 GMT -5
Started out with Ranger Rick, as my grandmother thought it would be fun for me to get something in the mail every month; after that, graduated to Sports Illustrated on a subscription and picked up Baseball Digest and Hockey Digest at the newsstand. Got Mad for a couple of years in junior high school after buying some old ones at a flea market for $1 each at some point in the mid-eighties.
In college, I would pick up random issues of Rolling Stone if there were at least two articles that seemed interesting, and, before the internet, the occasional nudie mag. Read Wizard at the beginning, as I was working in a comic book store at the time, and Inquest, which was for collectible trading card games (primarily Magic: The Gathering).
Nothing these days, although my wife does get Better Homes and Gardens and Cooking Light, which I read for the recipes. |
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Post by allensmith on Jun 2, 2014 20:05:57 GMT -5
Lets hear about other non-comic magazines that you read or collected and remember fondly (or not).Maybe a bit of background about the magazine,did you save them,memorable issues,does it still exist,why'd you like it opposed to similar ones,when were you reading them etc.
Also: Please note if you still get TV Guide
I'll start with Baseball Digest. It started up in 1942. I began buying them as I became a fan in the mid-60s. I bought them regularly for many many years but never saved them. Maybe thats because I marked them up doing the baseball crossword puzzle and other quizes. It was a monthly digest,collecting newspaper articles from across the US and original articles as well. It had some regular features like The Game I'll Never Forget,You Be The Umpire and more. It was the only monthly mag devoted exclusively to baseball.I'd read it cover-to-cover and was pretty regular in buying it thru the 70s. Off and on in the 80s. From what I understand it got three strikes against it starting in 1995. The first being the long baseball strike.Also USA Today started publishing the newspaper Baseball Weekly.Finally came the internet
Baseball Digest went to 8 issues a year,then in 2009 bi-monthly.I no longer noticed it any longer on the newstands but haven't bought it this century.I read its been relaunched and now in full color. Still haven't seen it yet
I stopped getting TV Guide when it became magazine sized I read Baseball Digest for a while years back. It was a nice handy magazine to have. Now I read general science magazines, like Astronomy, Discover, and occasionally Archeology. I also read the science fiction digests when I can, like Asimov's, Analog, and Fantasy and Science Fiction. That's what I read the most by way of magazines, although I very occasionally get something else. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jun 3, 2014 15:23:22 GMT -5
Forgot about the sf digests - for a while in the 70s I bought Analog, F&SF, Galaxy, Worlds of If, Amazing SF and Fantastic Stories off the stands every month. Worlds of If was cancelled, and I still couldn't keep up, so I stopped buying the first three but I stuck with Amazing and Fantastic because I liked the editor, Ted White. I bought the first issue of Asimov's but that was just before I left fandom completely and stopped buying everything.
Marvel tried a digest fiction magazine - Haunt of Horror, two issues. It was interesting, I would have kept buying it if they'd published more.
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