We all remember fan magazines, those teen aimed journals heavy on pictures and photos. Who actually bought them, and which ones? And how seriously did you take them? I remember buying every couple of months the urban aimed ones like Fresh! and Word Up! in my teenage years. In those days (early nineties) it was still hard to find info on R&B and rap acts outside of the big cities; so even though I was already wary of the actual articles I was happy for anything I could find.
Nobody wants to cop huh? In my pre-teen teenybopper years I used to read Tiger Beat and a few others I can’t remember.
Fanzines are a different entity than fan magazines. If you’re talking about fanzines I subscribed to various Kate Bush fanzines like Breakthrough, For the Love of Kate and Homeground. I subscribed to the Tori Amos fanzine Really Deep Thoughts, and the Happy Rhodes fanzine Terra Incognita. That’s about it.
I’m 53.
While my mother sat - getting lacquered and teased by Miss Virginia, I devoured the early 1970s movie fan magazines. Each week, I could hardly wait to find out if Andy Williams was going to marry Ethel Kennedy, or whether Richard Burton would steal her away while Ari Onassis bagged Liz.
So yeah.
And I did read Tiger Beat at the 7-11 until they’d run me out 
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I read Circus and Hit Parade in the 90s to get my Alternateen pics. My science binder had clear covers into which you could slide paper, so my favorite posters went in there.