# Have Any Defunct magazines been Revived (Successfully)?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 31, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-defunct-magazines-been-revived-successfully/576681 "2011-03-31T20:30:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2011, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-defunct-magazines-been-revived-successfully/576681/41 "2011-04-03T07:27:32Z")

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> [@gaffa](#):
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> …along with other beloved characters Abe “I’m Writing As Bad As I Can” Rosenthal and “Bosomy Dirty Book Writer” Shirley Lord. Trump was also referred to as Donald “Stinky” Trump, reportedly a play on British slang for farting.
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> I miss that magazine. They had great reporting, their report on the Church of Scientology was one of the first to publish the Xenu story, and they named George H.W. Bush’s mistress Jennifer Fitzgerald.

Oh the memories. I did love that rag.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-defunct-magazines-been-revived-successfully/576681/42 "2011-04-25T16:19:52Z")

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> [@gaffa](#):
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> …along with other beloved characters Abe “I’m Writing As Bad As I Can” Rosenthal and “Bosomy Dirty Book Writer” Shirley Lord. Trump was also referred to as Donald “Stinky” Trump, reportedly a play on British slang for farting…

I remember now: _Spy_ also invariably referred to CBS chief Laurence Tisch, since deceased, as a “churlish dwarf billionaire.”

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**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-defunct-magazines-been-revived-successfully/576681/43 "2011-04-28T01:06:19Z")

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EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly) went defunct in Jan 2009, came back in April 2010. Sadly, my outstanding subscriptions (somehow I had wound up with two) didn’t get revived along with it.

As far as I know, the revived version is still going, but I don’t really go magazine shopping/browsing much anymore.

And if you want to extend it from just magazines to periodicals in general, you could fill a tome with the number of comic books that have gone defunct and later revived.

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**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-defunct-magazines-been-revived-successfully/576681/44 "2011-04-28T16:31:13Z")

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> [@joebuck20](#):
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> This is the one I came in here to say. A weekly magazine, it went defunct in 1972, and was revived as a monthly in 1978. It went defunct again in 2000, but came back as a Parade-like Sunday newspaper supplement in 2004 (though it ceased publication again three years later).

Anyone else notice how ironic that a magazine called “Life” would come and go so often?

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