Entertainment Weekly
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This launched in 1990, and ended publication in 2022 (keeping only the website active). The earliest issue I still have is from January 31, 1992. That's probably the first issue of my original subscription... I can see where I had peeled off the address label, but I suppose I can't say for sure it was my subscription. I believe the first time I ever saw or even heard of EW was in a box of magazines that... were probably in some classroom in my high school. I think. (But it could have been someplace else. I dunno.) Anyway... I must have taken some issues from the box and then started my own subscription. So maybe this is one from the box, but I doubt it. Anyway, I've subscribed to it almost every year since 1992, though there were maybe a few years at the start of the 2000s that I didn't subscribe, because I couldn't afford it at the time. But all in all, this is the magazine that has been a part of my life for the longest period of any magazine, ever. And I suppose it was my favorite magazine, for quite a few years, at least until I started collecing Anime Insider (and again after that magazine was defunct).

In the old days, I would hold onto issues for years. It all got to be taking up too much space, though. And at some point I made malgazines (amalgam magazines that I taped or pasted together) out of them... oh so many thick, juicy malgazines... and got rid of the rest. But now I have long since gotten rid of even the malgazines. And if I look at an archive of old covers online, I can get nostalgic and wish I still had certain issues. Maybe even every issue, whether I remember it specifically or not. Because nostalgia is a very powerful force. But anyway... I do still have several I've kept. As I said, I have one from 1992 (#103). I also have #987, and #1102, and #1266, and #1436/1437, and #1460/1461, and #1487/1488, and #1506/1507. Maybe some others, I'd have to check. (Maybe someday I'll scan the covers of the ones I still have.) And I cannot stress enough how much I wish I still had so many older issues (or at least old malgazines). Dammit.

In 2017, I picked up a standalone magazine EW put out, The Ultimate Guide to Wonder Woman. You can buy the WW issue on Amazon, but I wanted to provide links to EW.com for some of the articles in the magazine, because for some reason they don't seem to list them all together like I feel they should. (This is all I could find on EW.com, but there's lots more in the actual magazine. And a few of the links I originally had have apparently disappeared from EW's site.)
Team Themyscira (p. 38), The Wonder Years (p. 62), Who's Your Daddy? (p. 90).

Anyway... I've missed the magazine since it ended in 2022, and in fact I still occasionally have dreams where I get new issues (or have a bunch of old issues on my "to be read" pile).


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