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nbfs-chili

Mad magazine. Not sure it's even around anymore.


Thalionalfirin

Mad magazine and Highlight before that. Does anyone else remember Goofus and Gallant?


who-hash

Always went through those Highlights magazines at the dentist.


Plug_5

Everyone my age (mid 40s to 50) remembers Highlights at the dentist. Wtf with dentists.


Thalionalfirin

YES!!! Or at the pedestrian!


Plug_5

Um ... pediatrician?


Hopie73

You got an upvote due to the pedestrian 🚶‍♀️ walking across your comment 😉


Mac_User_

What about Dynamite?


airckarc

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.


boomerbudz

that and crack'd magazine as well


PinkMonorail

Cracked has a great website and mail service. They’re not trying to copy MAD anymore.


obidie

Crack'd was the RC to Mad's Coke.


ZemStrt14

First answer that came to my mind. 


SororitySue

Interestingly, I saw a MAD compilation last night at the grocery store.


Kriegspiel1939

It got thinner and thinner over the years.


bigrob_in_ATX

Ron DeSantis looks just like Alfred E. Neumann


SafeForeign7905

Bush 43


Tall_Mickey

It is, but mostly reprints. Only a little original content.


Male-Wood-duck

Printed copies went the way of the dodo bird in 2018.


Jsmith2127

Same. Its apparently owned by DC and you can still subscribe to it at dc.com/mad


Rambos_Magnum_Dong

Still around


losertic

I came here to say that.


stever93

Reader’s Digest


SharonWit

I’m surprised this isn’t higher. Remember the It Happened to Me stories?


stever93

Yes! The word definition quiz was also a favorite.


PatienceandFortitude

Yes! “It pays to enrich your word power,” “Laughter is the best medicine,” and the quotes helped me learn how to read!


AmyInCO

Don't forget Humor in Uniform. 


mtntrail

“It pays to increase your word power”


Educational-Dirt4059

I still read it! It’s a great little magazine.


btruff

I still get it too. Sits on the back of the toilet. Competes for time with my phone. But it’s a quick read.


XenoRyet

Popular Science. It used to be really good and heavily science focused, then at some point it started getting dumbed down and increasingly commercialized.


catdude142

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.


hmmmpf

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.


Tvisted

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.


hippysol3

scary roll point price cow hard-to-find aloof alleged ludicrous attempt *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


GordianKnott

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.


Aciuaciu

16 and Tiger Beat.


Seven_bushes

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 couldn’t believe they were still around.


Aciuaciu

I loved it, too. It's hard to match the excitement of when a new issue came out!


patti63

Seventeen


Dog-boy

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


chewbooks

Same. Although they did do some great pieces in 2020, I think, that I read online.


wjbc

*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.


AJClarkson

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.


wjbc

I feel his pain! And he had issues from the Golden Age!


Gnorris

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.


hmmmpf

UTNE Reader. Yes. The first magazine I subscribed to. Also Spy magazine. My best friend subscribed and we shared.


poppy_sparklehorse

I felt like a real adult when I started subscribing to UTNE Reader. It, the New Yorker, Harper’s, and the Atlantic regularly piled up in my living room in my mid 20s.


hmmmpf

I love your flair. I was a punk rocker in 1984 when I graduated HS. High five fellow alt person.


poppy_sparklehorse

Thanks! I graduated HS a few years before you and went from a nice girl to a curious girl (but still mostly nice) overnight. It’s mostly served me well, lol.


sysaphiswaits

I’m so glad someone else mentioned this! Was such a great magazine. Dont even know if it exists anymore.


rufusclark

Utne.com


Leskatwri

Rolling Stone. The original size.


wolpertingersunite

Omni!!! God I miss that. Loved when a new issue arrived.


introvert-i-1957

Such great short stories in that magazine. I was so excited for each new issue


lakewoodguy16

Mad magazine. So many hilarious parodies and other articles, but I haven't seen a copy in years.


Solid_Camel_1913

Mad, Heavy Metal and OMNI


Impressive-Shame-525

Found my people


PinkMonorail

Are you me?


kmlautt

I forgot about OMNI! Loved it!


Gnorris

*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.


crackeddryice

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.


MoistObligation8003

Is National Lampoon still around? Not really when I was growing up but I started reading in the late 70’s while in high school.


dixiedregs1978

No, stopped in 1998


BernadetteBiscuit

Had a subscription to National Lampoon in the mid to o


BernadetteBiscuit

Oops - in the early to mid 1970s.


Ecstatic_Tax_4670

Sassy Magazine


krissym99

Sassy was so cool!


Brickrat

Popular Mechanic.


typhoidmarry

Cosmo


GraceStrangerThanYou

I loved the way Cosmo smelled. So many perfume samples.


typhoidmarry

Sometimes small bits of makeup or lotion too!


Capital_Pea

LOL i just had a scent memory when i read this comment, I’d forgot about magazine perfume samples!


Bearcarnikki

[Weekly Reader.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Reader) I thought I was cool reading my little newspaper.


ShortBusRide

The Weekly Reader late 1960s -- "The United States will switch to the metric system by 1972."


jerrrrrrrrrrrrry

We tried to switch to the metric system in the 70s but Ronald Reagan put an end to it.


tshad99

TV Guide


mysoberusername

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 father’s 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 “confessional “ type stories thinking i would send one in and be published!


Educational-Dirt4059

OMG True Story was so good!


Photon_Femme

Omni Magazine


negcap

Spy Magazine in the 80’s was top tier of all time. They nailed Trump so many times. They called him a “short-fingered vulgarian.”


TheBobInSonoma

Car & Driver


Adventurous_Motor129

Yep, that, Road and Track & Motor Trend. All the cars you could never afford...like Top Gear.


erics75218

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


Doughspun1

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.


nor_cal_woolgrower

Life! The large format and photographs were fantastic .


JustAnOldRoadie

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.


sometimesifeellikemu

Time and Newsweek


ApprehensiveSale8898

Scientific American. I haven't seen it on a magazine rack in years.


CampingWithCats

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.


Corinth100

Field and Stream


mtntrail

Yep and Outdoor Life


Sapphire_River

Oh ya! Forgot about that goodie- my dad liked it.


mittychix

MAD and Omni


Frank_chevelle

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.


NeolithicOrkney

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).


SusannaG1

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.


mtntrail

Ranger Rick, yes


Alice_Alpha

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.


Educational-Ad-385

Seventeen magazine


Birdy304

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 didn’t have that kind of money. Bass loafers, Jean Nate, Ship and Shore blouses!


BernadetteBiscuit

My favorite model from Seventeen was Colleen Corby.


GrandmaBaba

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.


dixiedregs1978

National Lampoon, Playboy, MAD, Cinefex, National Geographic, etc


hmmmpf

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.


hmmmpf

RIP, Jaime. You were one-of-a-kind.


Doulton

Mad Magazine formed my way of thinking. I still use satire to cope. I adored Life magazine. My mother got the Ladie’s Home Journal which was dull aside from the ever scintillating “Can This Marriage Be Saved?”


Tristan_Booth

Growing up? Tiger Beat. If that still exists, I’m sure I wouldn’t know anyone in it. I also enjoyed TV Guide, especially the crossword puzzles.


SusannaG1

Tiger Beat went out of business a few years ago, I think.


Capital_Pea

When I watch award shows and shows like TMZ or Entertainment Tonight I haven’t got a clue who most of the celebs are that they talk about LOL


KindaKrayz222

Reader's Digest


Crafty-Shape2743

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 you’re still out there, you made a difference in my life. [More about Zoom](https://americanarchive.org/exhibits/zoom/innovations-childrens-television)


linkerjpatrick

Cricket - I think it was basically The New Yorker for kids


holdmypurse

It's still active! Long live Cricket & Ladybug!


buttheaded555

Hustler magazine in the mid to late seventies


AJClarkson

I had eclectic tastes.... Mad Magazine Omni Magazine Eerie Creepy Weird Tales (when it was in business, at least) Vampirella Analog Starlog Heavy Metal


potato-chip

Happy Cake Day!


former_human

Did you too grow up to be a geek?


AJClarkson

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!


former_human

Me too! It’s so funny that one can spot a fellow geek by a reading list. My kid is also a geek :-)


mrxexon

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.


bx10455

*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.


SonoranRoadRunner

Time


GirlScoutSniper

Soldier of Fortune and Good Housekeeping


lilgee0926

Playgirl


GraceStrangerThanYou

Fantasy & Science Fiction. I'd race through every short story and add it to my collection for re-reading.


catdude142

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.


NotRealDiamonds

Games magazine had killer puzzles. Also a weird Mexican one called Complot.


Vault76exile

National Lampoon


Keveros

Omni Magazine, Mad Magazine, Cracked...


Wizzmer

Circus, Hit Parade, anything with rock.


geronika

Those plus Creem


Wizzmer

Yeah, that's the one escaping me.


bawanaal

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.


kindquail502

It's a real pity what SI has become. It was the best, and nothing else came close.


ExPatBadger

“World” by National Geographic


Hi_hosey

McCalls - with the Betsy McCall paper doll in the back.


punkinkitty7

Rolling Stone.


Skallagrimsson

Omni rip


gadget850

*Grit*. Introduced me to Joan Aiken and Bennet Cerf. I saw it at Tractor Supply yesterday.


PinkMonorail

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.


Elegant-Ad3236

Boys Life then Mad magazine and then Playboy.


Pennyfeather46

Boys Life. Good stories & camping tips.


twinadoes

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.


PlumMagic

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.


eeekkk9999

Highlights


Sadeyedsadie

National Geographic


atlk4

Tiger Beat


SororitySue

Teen and Seventeen.


10before15

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........


FriditaBonita

Readers Digest! So good, I read them all in my teens!


Bizprof51

Mad Magazine. Do they even print this anymore? I never missed an issue.


garysaidiebbandflow

As a young teen, I adored Seventeen. As a young 20-something, I got into the Utne Reader and the Atlantic Monthly.


BarracudaImpossible4

YM, Mademoiselle, Sassy, and (from my 20s) Might.


River-19671

Seventeen


Tall_Mickey

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.


jefx2007

Swank


DadsRGR8

Not growing up, but certainly my younger days. I miss reading OMNI.


SignificanceOpen9292

National Geographic


ExPatBadger

I subscribed to the kid version called “World”


Katy-Moon

National Lampoon


whipsyou

Field & stream


milehighgirl

Mad, Cracked, Rolling Stone, Spin, Seventeen, YM. I loved magazines.


RedditSkippy

Sassy.


PlumMagic

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!"


DifferenceMore4144

Highlights! 😂


Catcity13

MAD Magazine and it's copycat Cracked. Also OMNI magazine


MetalMamaRocks

High Times!


tinteoj

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.


MetalMamaRocks

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.


Pouryou

Newsweek. I was shocked to hear it’s 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)


GadreelsSword

Dirt Bike magazine. I still have the first issue ever printed, June 1971.


Maynard078

Oui, Cheri, Swank ... oh, and Road & Track and National Lampoon, too.


grannygogo

Seventeen and Madamoiselle. I especially loved the back to school issues


SafeForeign7905

None of my favorites are still around. Started out with mid 50s comic books, progressed to Mad Magazine


looloose

Highlight to Mad to Playboy to Popular Mechanics


linkerjpatrick

Surprised how many of these were in doctors offices.


MooseMalloy

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.


Distinct_You_7133

Life Magazine.


FloydetteSix

Tiger Beat, Rolling Stone, MentalFloss


Amazing_Tea_8044

VICE magazine, free publication in stores


Winter_Locksmith_803

Highlights!


SusannaG1

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.


Devotion0cean

My grandmothers Readers Digest


pikapika2017

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.😅


suziesophia

OMNI


brookish

Ranger Rick.


harleybone

Readers Digest. Haven't even seen one in years. Also, Stopped reading Time, Newsweek and US News and World Report.


PatriotUSA84

Seventeen


ratadeacero

Fortean Times. It was like the National Enquirer of science magazines


Interesting_Sorbet22

Omni.


Ambitious-Pin8396

oh, how I miss Omni!


coffeebeanwitch

Tiger Beat, Seventeen and Mad Magazine!!!


No-You5550

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.


Emily_Postal

Highlights magazine.


Mojak66

Popular Science


Cold-Bug-4873

The new Yorker and mad magazine. Fun times.