Other Magazines

These are magazines that have at some point been of some interest to me, but not quite enough to bother giving them their own pages.


Animerica (Wikipedia)
This magazine ran from 1992-2005, in its original format. I have one issue of this, from 2000. It later got changed from a regular magazine into a smaller, free thing you could get at Best Buy (and apparently elsewhere). I have one of those from 2008, and I know I used to have at least a couple others, but I think I just have one, now.

BOP and Big Bopper (Wikipedia)
These were magazines that I was a little bit into when I was in my teens, say late 80s/early 90s. I'm sure I picked up the occasional issue, but I never subscribed. It's about stuff of interest to teens, articles about young musicians and actors or whatever. And there were pinups of girls I liked, I guess. Of course I got rid of all that many years ago.

Movieline (MovieMags.com; Wikipedia)
This became a national magazine in 1989, and ended in 2009. I had forgotten it existed, but I guess a couple of clippings I still have came out of it, including a photo of Ashley Judd, from 1994. I don't even remember how often I might have gotten the magazine. (Knowing my memory, I could have even had a subscription, but I doubt it.)

National Geographic (official website; TV Tropes; Wikipedia)
This launched in 1888 (like, wow), and it's still going. I used to look through old issues of it at my grandparents' house, and probably also in my high school library. And I must have a few issues of it somewhere. It's an interesting magazine with cool pictures and whatnot, but not something I've ever been super into.

Nickelodeon Magazine (Wikipedia)
I never actually got any regular issues of this, but I have two special "Nick Mag Presents" issues about Avatar: The Last Airbender, from 2006 and 2007. They are very cool, and maybe someday I'll say more about them specifically. (One thing I will say is that they have comics in them that were later reprinted in The Lost Adventures.)

Otaku USA (official website; Wikipedia)
This launched in 2007, and it's still going. It's a bimonthly magazine about anime and any other stuff otakus might be interested in. I have two issues, both from 2007. Each issue of the magazine came with a bonus DVD, until 2009. Um... anyway, I liked the issues I got well enough that I felt it was worth buying them, at the time, but I haven't felt like continuing to buy it.

Powerpuff Girls Powerzine
This is a magazine about The Powerpuff Girls. I have one issue (from 2000), and I don't think there were ever any more made. But it's really cool, so I thought I'd mention it in passing. Maybe someday I'll actually say some specific stuff about it. Or not.

Star Trek: The Magazine (Memory Alpha; Wikipedia)
This magazine ran from 1999-2003. I have three issues, from August 2000, March 2001, and April 2003. It's probably a magazine I would have liked to subscribe to, but couldn't really afford. At 8 bucks a pop, it was barely something I could afford to buy the occasional issue of, however cool it might have been.

Us Weekly (official website; MovieMags.com; Wikipedia)

This launched in 1977, and it's still going. I think I probably subscribed to it for a year or so, sometime in the 90s. Or something. Anyway, I've always thought of it as basically the same as People, but a bit less respectable. You know, still better than anything I'd call a tabloid. But... it's been a long time since I've had any real interest in it at all.

Vanity Fair (official website; Wikipedia)
This launched in 1983, and it's still going. It's something I think that for years I must have seen in stores and just ignored because I thought it was a fashion magazine. But... when I saw the January 2009 issue, I got interested in checking out the magazine, because Tina Fey was on the cover. I subscribed to it for that year, though I don't remember if I got that issue as part of the subscription, or had to buy it in a store, or ordered it online later. But I do have it. Anyway, the magazine is about more than fashion, it's about... all kinds of cultural and political stuff, I guess. I'm afraid I never really did read all the articles in the issues I got, and I didn't renew my subscription when it ran out. Now all I have is the January issue, and maybe a few random pages in a malgazine.

other other stuff, in chronological order:

I must have read Weekly Reader in grade school, in the early to mid 80s.
It's quite possible my sister and I got Zoobooks in the early to mid 80s, but I'm not sure.
It's quite possible I may have had at least one issue of Dynamite, sometime in the 80s.
I have an article about Louise Jameson, torn from an issue of Doctor Who Magazine, but I have no idea when the issue was from. (Could have been late 80s or early 90s.) Nor do I remember if I ever had more than one issue.
I have the Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special (from 1991).
I have issue 28 of "Superstar Facts & Pix" (The History of Star Trek), from 1993.
I guess I got huH for awhile in the 90s, but I no longer have that. (I have a couple of CDs that came with the magazine, though.)
I have an issue of "Science Fiction Age" (from July 1997), most likely for the Seinfeld/Deep Space Nine mashup.
It's quite possible I may have bought one or more issues of Blender at some point (in the 90s or 00s), but I no longer have that.
I have an issue of FHM (from 2003).
I have an issue of Dreamwatch (from 2004).
I have an issue of ToyFare (from 2004). It is very cool. (No wonder, if Rob Bricken worked on it.)
I bought at least a couple issues of GIANT (in 2004-05), which I no longer have, sadly.
I have three issues of "Now Playing" (from 2005-06).
I bought at least one issue of Complex (in 2007), which I no longer have.
I have an issue of New York (from February 25, 2008)
I have an issue of "SF Movieland" from 1985, which I bought, I think, at a comic shop sometime in the late 00s or early 2010s.
I bought at least one issue of Nylon (in 2011), which I no longer have.
I have a special issue of Life (from 2016), about Film Noir.

...And doubtless I'm forgetting a great many things I've read at various times in the past, whether things I personally owned, or read in a library, or at a friend or relative's house, or whatever. It's even possible I've completely forgotten about magazines I actually subscribed to, which seems... strange. You'd think if a thing was a part of my life for a year or more, I'd remember it at least vaguely, but my memory... sucks. So you never know. Of course, there's also the fact that I've flipped through many magazines in stores without buying them, and there have been plenty of things I would have liked to buy or subscribe to, if I could have afforded it. And years later, I might even think I did buy something that I actually didn't (and vice versa). And... um... yeah. I cannot stress enough how much it bugs me not to be sure of certain things, and to suspect there are some things I just don't remember at all, and... Well and then there are probably things I wouldn't mention even if I did remember them. So, whatevs. It's not like any of this is important, after all....


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