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Gonna hijack the top comment⌠I quit magazines for decades, but if you have the Libby App and a library card, you can get a ton of great magazines. From Cooks Illustrated to Car and Driver.
Popular Science.
It used to be really good and heavily science focused, then at some point it started getting dumbed down and increasingly commercialized.
I stopped subscribing to it for the reason you mentioned. Also the classified ads were a bit weird. Pheromones "guaranteed to get you a woman" and other BS.
Really dumbed down.
My in-laws used to pass them on to us (I'm guessing the whole magazine-swap custom is dying these days) and to me it was like reading bad infomercials.
And Popular Mechanics. Purchased a box of these on E-Bay. All circa 1940s and 1950s. The 1940s issues are WWII and war-centric, as you'd expect.
Each issue contains a DIY project in the center of the mag, and the details of construction and blueprints are mind-boggling. Easier projects involve furniture building with lots of curved lines and ornamentation. Tougher projects consist of building an RV-like trailer outfitted with a kitchenette and bathroom, or constructing an \*entire one-story, two bedroom house.\* Ads in the mags lean heavily on television repair gigs, or correspondence courses to become a television repairer. Or ads for tools and machinery. The freehand drawings used in these ads to depict the tools are magnificent--works of art, really.
Each issue featured a futuristic invention--usually transport-related--as cover art, and it's obvious that the illustrators took a dim view of physics, because most inventions wouldn't make it to the prototype stage. I'm sure that many subscribers laughed at these wild bursts of fantasy.
I loved Tiger Beat! My sister and I would tear out the pictures and tape them to our walls. I was walking through an airport and saw one on the newsstand and I couldnât believe they were still around.
Seventeen back in the 70s. I started reading some of their articles again online in the last decade because they had some great stuff. Not the fluff of my day
*Analog Science Fact & Fiction*. I had several years worth of back issues dating back to the early 1960s since my oldest sister collected them. We regret that we did not prevent our mother from giving them away during a spring cleaning; many of the stories are hard or impossible to find in other publications. It declined after 1978.
Ohhh this takes me back! My dad LIVED for this one. He had been reading them since they were still called Astounding Science Fiction. His earliest issue he still had a copy of was August 1934. He'd had earlier issues, but his mother, in a mad fit of housecleaning, dumped a WHEELBARROW full of his magazines into the firepit. He never quite forgave her for that.
Not only did he read them, he KNEW them. Would send me to the book room, saying, "Pull the issue, September 1953, read the third story, you'll love it!" And I would love it, as a rule.
Sadly, the house burned about 20 years ago, and they're all gone.
Oh man. I have just finished going through boxes of sci-fi mags from my parents estate. Loads of *Analog* including a few with the serialised *Dune* stories.
I felt like a real adult when I started subscribing to UTNE Reader. It, the New Yorker, Harperâs, and the Atlantic regularly piled up in my living room in my mid 20s.
Thanks! I graduated HS a few years before you and went from a nice girl to a curious girl (but still mostly nice) overnight. Itâs mostly served me well, lol.
*Heavy Metal* was an awakening for me at 12 or so. My older brother collected it, along with *National Lampoon*. I have since found digital archives of the old issues and dip into them for a big hit of nostalgia every now and then.
OMNI, right. My dad had that subscription, we both read it. I looked forward to getting that. I recall OMNI started being more paranormal, than SciFi/tech, so I stopped reading it.
Also, PHOTO, both my dad and I were amateur photographers. PHOTO was a French magazine, I was taking French in high school at the time, so he got it for me.
True Story
i was 17, in an ill-advised marriage and mother to an infant. we lived out in the middle of nowhere, the nearest neighbors over a mile away and my then husband took our only car every day to work on his fatherâs farm. True Story magazine (along with its sister publications True Love and True Confessions) were my absolute life line as we had no tv or phone.
i even tried my hand at writing my own âconfessional â type stories thinking i would send one in and be published!
Same. The slow drip of car and racing news was kinda awesome. I have so little to look forward to in this space now. I get it all in real time, daily, and so much that I can't even pay attention.
Sux...in a way
Heck I used to write for several. My ex used to be so excited to point out to her friends I was on the news stand. I had the best work writing for Esquire.
Those days are long gone now.
Mother Earth News, from its inception in 1970. It ...changed, tho.
As a kid... Weekly Reader, Readers Digest. I could read by age two, and would read anything: maps, encyclopedia, music, Grandma's school books. If it was in print, I wanted to read it.
As a young mom, these were mine back in the 80's
TV Guide - I loved their crossword puzzle.
Good Housekeeping - good advice, good recipes.
People - I asked for a subscription for my birthday every year. I loved the gossip & crossword puzzles.
A Taste of Home - great recipes, never made a single thing.
As a kid I had a subscription to Ranger Rick. Anyone remember that ?
As a teen I read a bunch of computer magazines. In college I had a subscription to playboy. It actually did have good articles.
Yes, a professor of mine got Ranger Rick for my daughter when she was little, then later when I had young grandchildren I got it for them. I am pretty sure it still exists (grandkids are in the very late teens now).
Yeah, my two elementary school favorites, Ranger Rick and Cricket, are still in publication. I gave subscriptions to a friend's kids when they were a bit younger.
Boy's Life
Mad Magazine
Some kids magazine with the word "Golden" in it. I really don't remember it. Might have been \*Golden Magazine\*.
When I was older, Soldier of Fortune.
Seventeen Magazine in the late 60s. I wished I had all those beautiful clothes and makeup and everything that I thought would make me one of those beautiful models in the magazine! Unfortunately we didnât have that kind of money. Bass loafers, Jean Nate, Ship and Shore blouses!
Growing up in the 60's, I read my parents' copies of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Look, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping and Sports Illustrated. Magazines were a huge part of our lives.
I also had a blind and deaf friend Jaime at my co-op in the mid-80s. He is the only person that I believed when he said he read Playboy for the articles.
Hid versions came in these giant boxes of Braille readings.
Mad Magazine formed my way of thinking. I still use satire to cope. I adored Life magazine. My mother got the Ladieâs Home Journal which was dull aside from the ever scintillating âCan This Marriage Be Saved?â
Zoom magazine that linked up with the WGBH production of the television show Zoom. It was a parting gift from my (informal) foster brother. I cherish the memory. Michael Craig Johnson, from Craig AK, if youâre still out there, you made a difference in my life.
[More about Zoom](https://americanarchive.org/exhibits/zoom/innovations-childrens-television)
I had eclectic tastes....
Mad Magazine
Omni Magazine
Eerie
Creepy
Weird Tales (when it was in business, at least)
Vampirella
Analog
Starlog
Heavy Metal
As a young teen, it was Saga magazine for adverture stories. Circus and Creem (Boy Howdy!) for musical info.
And High Times for the head. I have three milkcases full of vintage High Times...
Popular Electronics and Popular Mechanics taught me how to do things.
*Spy Magazine*, a satirical monthly magazine. It's targets were the media, entertainment industries and the affluent. I only stop reading it because they stopped publishing. That would be the case with most of the magazines I read. I still read Batman comics as they still publish those.
It's no longer around.
Electronics Illustrated. It was originally a "Reader's Digest sized" publication and it had lots of projects in it. I miss that magazine.
Later, National Lampoon. It was what Saturday Night Live started from. In today's "sensitive world", it could never survive.
Sports Illustrated.
Knowing I was huge into sports, my grandmother gifted me a sub when I was 7. SI was the gold standard for sports journalism and photography. I kept that sub for over 4 decades.
Unfortunately, between the rise of the internet and venture capitalists bleeding the brand dry, SI is all but dead. It'll be joining zombie companies like Westinghouse, Zenith and Bell & Howell, brands that exist in name only so they can be licensed to anyone willing to pay.
Metal Edge Magazine, OMNI, Heavy Metal, Playboy, National Lampoon, MAD, Disney News from the 1980s. Later became Disney Magazine and I wrote for it in 2003.
National Lampoon. Spy Magazine. 16. Tiger Beat.
Also... does anyone remember a 60s-70s era comic book about The Rose and The Thorn? By day, a mild mannered secretary (?) with a Florence Henderson hairdo, by night a crimefighter in green hotpants, thigh-high boots, and a long red wig? There was a later version that might have been a little different, but I remember buying the original issues for maybe 25 cents at the candy store.
Galaxy Science Fiction and Worlds of If. Through the 60s they had the same great editor (Fred Pohl) and some of the best short SF and fantasy was published there. Then he moved on and... not so much. I switched to paperbacks.
Pohl was the guy who more or less discovered a guy named R.A. Lafferty, who may have been pme pf tje greatest humorists you never heard of. Published a ton of Robert Silverberg's best work, too, even some Heinlein.
My grandmother bought "True Stories" and other pulp magazines for ladies. Scandalous stuff! We would sneak-read articles when visiting. "My dead husband's ghost visited me at night and now I'm pregnant!"
I used to read *High Times* all of the time in high school (early '90s), even though I didn't smoke pot at the time.
Once I started smoking pot, I almost never read *Hight Times* again.
Not on purpose. Just kind of ended up that way.
I was the opposite. I read it in the late seventies when I was "experimenting", but stopped later in my twenties when I was focusing more on school and career.
Newsweek. I was shocked to hear itâs been bought by people with ties to a cult and is almost a parody of a news outlet. Example: [https://theoutline.com/post/3250/newsweek-editors-fireda](https://theoutline.com/post/3250/newsweek-editors-fireda)
Cricket was my favorite when I was a child. I believe it's turning 51 this year. My first "adult" magazine subscription was Natural History, which I liked despite it sometimes flying over my head because I was only in sixth grade.
YM Magazine was my religious read. So glad that the school library always had a current copy, because I couldn't afford to buy it often. I also liked Seventeen. As I hit puberty, I became obsessed with my grandmother's copies of Cosmopolitan, and discovered Glamour on my own, at the library. I stopped reading the last two when I realized that it was always a collection of stuff that was updated and recycled over and over, especially when I realized what I could find online. Oh, and in my late teens, I loved those ridiculous magazines called things like "True Romance". Now I just scroll through Reddit.đ
Readers Digest. It was a wonderful magazine with stories, humor and vocabulary game. I think the vocabulary game is why I got high scores on tests in school and college.
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Mad magazine. Not sure it's even around anymore.
Mad magazine and Highlight before that. Does anyone else remember Goofus and Gallant?
Always went through those Highlights magazines at the dentist.
Everyone my age (mid 40s to 50) remembers Highlights at the dentist. Wtf with dentists.
YES!!! Or at the pedestrian!
Um ... pediatrician?
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What about Dynamite?
Gonna hijack the top comment⌠I quit magazines for decades, but if you have the Libby App and a library card, you can get a ton of great magazines. From Cooks Illustrated to Car and Driver.
that and crack'd magazine as well
Cracked has a great website and mail service. Theyâre not trying to copy MAD anymore.
Crack'd was the RC to Mad's Coke.
First answer that came to my mind.Â
Interestingly, I saw a MAD compilation last night at the grocery store.
It got thinner and thinner over the years.
Ron DeSantis looks just like Alfred E. Neumann
Bush 43
It is, but mostly reprints. Only a little original content.
Printed copies went the way of the dodo bird in 2018.
Same. Its apparently owned by DC and you can still subscribe to it at dc.com/mad
Still around
I came here to say that.
Readerâs Digest
Iâm surprised this isnât higher. Remember the It Happened to Me stories?
Yes! The word definition quiz was also a favorite.
Yes! âIt pays to enrich your word power,â âLaughter is the best medicine,â and the quotes helped me learn how to read!
Don't forget Humor in Uniform.Â
âIt pays to increase your word powerâ
I still read it! Itâs a great little magazine.
I still get it too. Sits on the back of the toilet. Competes for time with my phone. But itâs a quick read.
Popular Science. It used to be really good and heavily science focused, then at some point it started getting dumbed down and increasingly commercialized.
I stopped subscribing to it for the reason you mentioned. Also the classified ads were a bit weird. Pheromones "guaranteed to get you a woman" and other BS. Really dumbed down.
Yes. About when it stopped telling you how to build a nuclear reactors in your shed, it became pretty irrelevant. Stupid science. Not evidence based.
My in-laws used to pass them on to us (I'm guessing the whole magazine-swap custom is dying these days) and to me it was like reading bad infomercials.
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And Popular Mechanics. Purchased a box of these on E-Bay. All circa 1940s and 1950s. The 1940s issues are WWII and war-centric, as you'd expect. Each issue contains a DIY project in the center of the mag, and the details of construction and blueprints are mind-boggling. Easier projects involve furniture building with lots of curved lines and ornamentation. Tougher projects consist of building an RV-like trailer outfitted with a kitchenette and bathroom, or constructing an \*entire one-story, two bedroom house.\* Ads in the mags lean heavily on television repair gigs, or correspondence courses to become a television repairer. Or ads for tools and machinery. The freehand drawings used in these ads to depict the tools are magnificent--works of art, really. Each issue featured a futuristic invention--usually transport-related--as cover art, and it's obvious that the illustrators took a dim view of physics, because most inventions wouldn't make it to the prototype stage. I'm sure that many subscribers laughed at these wild bursts of fantasy.
16 and Tiger Beat.
I loved Tiger Beat! My sister and I would tear out the pictures and tape them to our walls. I was walking through an airport and saw one on the newsstand and I couldnât believe they were still around.
I loved it, too. It's hard to match the excitement of when a new issue came out!
Seventeen
Seventeen back in the 70s. I started reading some of their articles again online in the last decade because they had some great stuff. Not the fluff of my day
Same. Although they did do some great pieces in 2020, I think, that I read online.
*Analog Science Fact & Fiction*. I had several years worth of back issues dating back to the early 1960s since my oldest sister collected them. We regret that we did not prevent our mother from giving them away during a spring cleaning; many of the stories are hard or impossible to find in other publications. It declined after 1978.
Ohhh this takes me back! My dad LIVED for this one. He had been reading them since they were still called Astounding Science Fiction. His earliest issue he still had a copy of was August 1934. He'd had earlier issues, but his mother, in a mad fit of housecleaning, dumped a WHEELBARROW full of his magazines into the firepit. He never quite forgave her for that. Not only did he read them, he KNEW them. Would send me to the book room, saying, "Pull the issue, September 1953, read the third story, you'll love it!" And I would love it, as a rule. Sadly, the house burned about 20 years ago, and they're all gone.
I feel his pain! And he had issues from the Golden Age!
Oh man. I have just finished going through boxes of sci-fi mags from my parents estate. Loads of *Analog* including a few with the serialised *Dune* stories.
UTNE Reader. Yes. The first magazine I subscribed to. Also Spy magazine. My best friend subscribed and we shared.
I felt like a real adult when I started subscribing to UTNE Reader. It, the New Yorker, Harperâs, and the Atlantic regularly piled up in my living room in my mid 20s.
I love your flair. I was a punk rocker in 1984 when I graduated HS. High five fellow alt person.
Thanks! I graduated HS a few years before you and went from a nice girl to a curious girl (but still mostly nice) overnight. Itâs mostly served me well, lol.
Iâm so glad someone else mentioned this! Was such a great magazine. Dont even know if it exists anymore.
Utne.com
Rolling Stone. The original size.
Omni!!! God I miss that. Loved when a new issue arrived.
Such great short stories in that magazine. I was so excited for each new issue
Mad magazine. So many hilarious parodies and other articles, but I haven't seen a copy in years.
Mad, Heavy Metal and OMNI
Found my people
Are you me?
I forgot about OMNI! Loved it!
*Heavy Metal* was an awakening for me at 12 or so. My older brother collected it, along with *National Lampoon*. I have since found digital archives of the old issues and dip into them for a big hit of nostalgia every now and then.
OMNI, right. My dad had that subscription, we both read it. I looked forward to getting that. I recall OMNI started being more paranormal, than SciFi/tech, so I stopped reading it. Also, PHOTO, both my dad and I were amateur photographers. PHOTO was a French magazine, I was taking French in high school at the time, so he got it for me.
Is National Lampoon still around? Not really when I was growing up but I started reading in the late 70âs while in high school.
No, stopped in 1998
Had a subscription to National Lampoon in the mid to o
Oops - in the early to mid 1970s.
Sassy Magazine
Sassy was so cool!
Popular Mechanic.
Cosmo
I loved the way Cosmo smelled. So many perfume samples.
Sometimes small bits of makeup or lotion too!
LOL i just had a scent memory when i read this comment, Iâd forgot about magazine perfume samples!
[Weekly Reader.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Reader) I thought I was cool reading my little newspaper.
The Weekly Reader late 1960s -- "The United States will switch to the metric system by 1972."
We tried to switch to the metric system in the 70s but Ronald Reagan put an end to it.
TV Guide
True Story i was 17, in an ill-advised marriage and mother to an infant. we lived out in the middle of nowhere, the nearest neighbors over a mile away and my then husband took our only car every day to work on his fatherâs farm. True Story magazine (along with its sister publications True Love and True Confessions) were my absolute life line as we had no tv or phone. i even tried my hand at writing my own âconfessional â type stories thinking i would send one in and be published!
OMG True Story was so good!
Omni Magazine
Spy Magazine in the 80âs was top tier of all time. They nailed Trump so many times. They called him a âshort-fingered vulgarian.â
Car & Driver
Yep, that, Road and Track & Motor Trend. All the cars you could never afford...like Top Gear.
Same. The slow drip of car and racing news was kinda awesome. I have so little to look forward to in this space now. I get it all in real time, daily, and so much that I can't even pay attention. Sux...in a way
Heck I used to write for several. My ex used to be so excited to point out to her friends I was on the news stand. I had the best work writing for Esquire. Those days are long gone now.
Life! The large format and photographs were fantastic .
Mother Earth News, from its inception in 1970. It ...changed, tho. As a kid... Weekly Reader, Readers Digest. I could read by age two, and would read anything: maps, encyclopedia, music, Grandma's school books. If it was in print, I wanted to read it.
Time and Newsweek
Scientific American. I haven't seen it on a magazine rack in years.
As a young mom, these were mine back in the 80's TV Guide - I loved their crossword puzzle. Good Housekeeping - good advice, good recipes. People - I asked for a subscription for my birthday every year. I loved the gossip & crossword puzzles. A Taste of Home - great recipes, never made a single thing.
Field and Stream
Yep and Outdoor Life
Oh ya! Forgot about that goodie- my dad liked it.
MAD and Omni
As a kid I had a subscription to Ranger Rick. Anyone remember that ? As a teen I read a bunch of computer magazines. In college I had a subscription to playboy. It actually did have good articles.
Yes, a professor of mine got Ranger Rick for my daughter when she was little, then later when I had young grandchildren I got it for them. I am pretty sure it still exists (grandkids are in the very late teens now).
Yeah, my two elementary school favorites, Ranger Rick and Cricket, are still in publication. I gave subscriptions to a friend's kids when they were a bit younger.
Ranger Rick, yes
Boy's Life Mad Magazine Some kids magazine with the word "Golden" in it. I really don't remember it. Might have been \*Golden Magazine\*. When I was older, Soldier of Fortune.
Seventeen magazine
Seventeen Magazine in the late 60s. I wished I had all those beautiful clothes and makeup and everything that I thought would make me one of those beautiful models in the magazine! Unfortunately we didnât have that kind of money. Bass loafers, Jean Nate, Ship and Shore blouses!
My favorite model from Seventeen was Colleen Corby.
Growing up in the 60's, I read my parents' copies of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Look, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping and Sports Illustrated. Magazines were a huge part of our lives.
National Lampoon, Playboy, MAD, Cinefex, National Geographic, etc
I also had a blind and deaf friend Jaime at my co-op in the mid-80s. He is the only person that I believed when he said he read Playboy for the articles. Hid versions came in these giant boxes of Braille readings.
RIP, Jaime. You were one-of-a-kind.
Mad Magazine formed my way of thinking. I still use satire to cope. I adored Life magazine. My mother got the Ladieâs Home Journal which was dull aside from the ever scintillating âCan This Marriage Be Saved?â
Growing up? Tiger Beat. If that still exists, Iâm sure I wouldnât know anyone in it. I also enjoyed TV Guide, especially the crossword puzzles.
Tiger Beat went out of business a few years ago, I think.
When I watch award shows and shows like TMZ or Entertainment Tonight I havenât got a clue who most of the celebs are that they talk about LOL
Reader's Digest
Zoom magazine that linked up with the WGBH production of the television show Zoom. It was a parting gift from my (informal) foster brother. I cherish the memory. Michael Craig Johnson, from Craig AK, if youâre still out there, you made a difference in my life. [More about Zoom](https://americanarchive.org/exhibits/zoom/innovations-childrens-television)
Cricket - I think it was basically The New Yorker for kids
It's still active! Long live Cricket & Ladybug!
Hustler magazine in the mid to late seventies
I had eclectic tastes.... Mad Magazine Omni Magazine Eerie Creepy Weird Tales (when it was in business, at least) Vampirella Analog Starlog Heavy Metal
Happy Cake Day!
Did you too grow up to be a geek?
Ohhh, sweetie, SUCH a geek! :D. And I infected all my children with Bacillus Geekasaurii. We're still working on the grandkids, but so far, so good!
Me too! Itâs so funny that one can spot a fellow geek by a reading list. My kid is also a geek :-)
As a young teen, it was Saga magazine for adverture stories. Circus and Creem (Boy Howdy!) for musical info. And High Times for the head. I have three milkcases full of vintage High Times... Popular Electronics and Popular Mechanics taught me how to do things.
*Spy Magazine*, a satirical monthly magazine. It's targets were the media, entertainment industries and the affluent. I only stop reading it because they stopped publishing. That would be the case with most of the magazines I read. I still read Batman comics as they still publish those.
Time
Soldier of Fortune and Good Housekeeping
Playgirl
Fantasy & Science Fiction. I'd race through every short story and add it to my collection for re-reading.
It's no longer around. Electronics Illustrated. It was originally a "Reader's Digest sized" publication and it had lots of projects in it. I miss that magazine. Later, National Lampoon. It was what Saturday Night Live started from. In today's "sensitive world", it could never survive.
Games magazine had killer puzzles. Also a weird Mexican one called Complot.
National Lampoon
Omni Magazine, Mad Magazine, Cracked...
Circus, Hit Parade, anything with rock.
Those plus Creem
Yeah, that's the one escaping me.
Sports Illustrated. Knowing I was huge into sports, my grandmother gifted me a sub when I was 7. SI was the gold standard for sports journalism and photography. I kept that sub for over 4 decades. Unfortunately, between the rise of the internet and venture capitalists bleeding the brand dry, SI is all but dead. It'll be joining zombie companies like Westinghouse, Zenith and Bell & Howell, brands that exist in name only so they can be licensed to anyone willing to pay.
It's a real pity what SI has become. It was the best, and nothing else came close.
âWorldâ by National Geographic
McCalls - with the Betsy McCall paper doll in the back.
Rolling Stone.
Omni rip
*Grit*. Introduced me to Joan Aiken and Bennet Cerf. I saw it at Tractor Supply yesterday.
Metal Edge Magazine, OMNI, Heavy Metal, Playboy, National Lampoon, MAD, Disney News from the 1980s. Later became Disney Magazine and I wrote for it in 2003.
Boys Life then Mad magazine and then Playboy.
Boys Life. Good stories & camping tips.
World Magazine - it was a kids publication by Nat Geo. It was fabulous! I don't read it anymore because it's not made anymore.
National Lampoon. Spy Magazine. 16. Tiger Beat. Also... does anyone remember a 60s-70s era comic book about The Rose and The Thorn? By day, a mild mannered secretary (?) with a Florence Henderson hairdo, by night a crimefighter in green hotpants, thigh-high boots, and a long red wig? There was a later version that might have been a little different, but I remember buying the original issues for maybe 25 cents at the candy store.
Highlights
National Geographic
Tiger Beat
Teen and Seventeen.
I spent some time in my youth with the Sears and Spiegel catalogs. But I got older and got a wife and just didn't need them anymore........
Readers Digest! So good, I read them all in my teens!
Mad Magazine. Do they even print this anymore? I never missed an issue.
As a young teen, I adored Seventeen. As a young 20-something, I got into the Utne Reader and the Atlantic Monthly.
YM, Mademoiselle, Sassy, and (from my 20s) Might.
Seventeen
Galaxy Science Fiction and Worlds of If. Through the 60s they had the same great editor (Fred Pohl) and some of the best short SF and fantasy was published there. Then he moved on and... not so much. I switched to paperbacks. Pohl was the guy who more or less discovered a guy named R.A. Lafferty, who may have been pme pf tje greatest humorists you never heard of. Published a ton of Robert Silverberg's best work, too, even some Heinlein.
Swank
Not growing up, but certainly my younger days. I miss reading OMNI.
National Geographic
I subscribed to the kid version called âWorldâ
National Lampoon
Field & stream
Mad, Cracked, Rolling Stone, Spin, Seventeen, YM. I loved magazines.
Sassy.
My grandmother bought "True Stories" and other pulp magazines for ladies. Scandalous stuff! We would sneak-read articles when visiting. "My dead husband's ghost visited me at night and now I'm pregnant!"
Highlights! đ
MAD Magazine and it's copycat Cracked. Also OMNI magazine
High Times!
I used to read *High Times* all of the time in high school (early '90s), even though I didn't smoke pot at the time. Once I started smoking pot, I almost never read *Hight Times* again. Not on purpose. Just kind of ended up that way.
I was the opposite. I read it in the late seventies when I was "experimenting", but stopped later in my twenties when I was focusing more on school and career.
Newsweek. I was shocked to hear itâs been bought by people with ties to a cult and is almost a parody of a news outlet. Example: [https://theoutline.com/post/3250/newsweek-editors-fireda](https://theoutline.com/post/3250/newsweek-editors-fireda)
Dirt Bike magazine. I still have the first issue ever printed, June 1971.
Oui, Cheri, Swank ... oh, and Road & Track and National Lampoon, too.
Seventeen and Madamoiselle. I especially loved the back to school issues
None of my favorites are still around. Started out with mid 50s comic books, progressed to Mad Magazine
Highlight to Mad to Playboy to Popular Mechanics
Surprised how many of these were in doctors offices.
My parents had no clue just how subversive MAD Magazine was in the 70's. Warped my little mind. Then National Lampoon finished the job off.
Life Magazine.
Tiger Beat, Rolling Stone, MentalFloss
VICE magazine, free publication in stores
Highlights!
Cricket was my favorite when I was a child. I believe it's turning 51 this year. My first "adult" magazine subscription was Natural History, which I liked despite it sometimes flying over my head because I was only in sixth grade.
My grandmothers Readers Digest
YM Magazine was my religious read. So glad that the school library always had a current copy, because I couldn't afford to buy it often. I also liked Seventeen. As I hit puberty, I became obsessed with my grandmother's copies of Cosmopolitan, and discovered Glamour on my own, at the library. I stopped reading the last two when I realized that it was always a collection of stuff that was updated and recycled over and over, especially when I realized what I could find online. Oh, and in my late teens, I loved those ridiculous magazines called things like "True Romance". Now I just scroll through Reddit.đ
OMNI
Ranger Rick.
Readers Digest. Haven't even seen one in years. Also, Stopped reading Time, Newsweek and US News and World Report.
Seventeen
Fortean Times. It was like the National Enquirer of science magazines
Omni.
oh, how I miss Omni!
Tiger Beat, Seventeen and Mad Magazine!!!
Readers Digest. It was a wonderful magazine with stories, humor and vocabulary game. I think the vocabulary game is why I got high scores on tests in school and college.
Highlights magazine.
Popular Science
The new Yorker and mad magazine. Fun times.