Since we have this thread going on with newspapers, what are some of the most famous, iconic magazine covers you can think of? (more than one cover for the same magazine is okay)
First issue of Life: picture of a dam. National Geographic: Afghani refugee. Time: Hitler’s face with an “X” over it. Time: Ellen Degeneres: “Yep, I’m gay.” New Yorker: Saul Steinberg’s “View of New York from Fifth Avenue.” New Yorker: Black cover with a faint image of the World Trade Center. Entertainment Weekly: Dixie Chicks naked with controversial words on their bodies. National Lampoon: “If you don’t buy this magazine, we’ll kill this dog.”
Ah, yes, I forgot that one. Some of the ones I came up with myself, a few others, I went to the American Society of Magazine Editors’s list of top 40 magazine covers. The Moore one was one from that list I forgot to put on mine.
While we’re at it, there’s always the image of Eustace Tilly The New Yorker puts on its cover once a year- February?
Another Rolling Stone that people seem to remember is one with Jim Morrison and the headline, “He’s Hot, He’s Sexy, and He’s Dead.” I remember it was the first issue I got when I subscribed as a young teen…somewhere around 1980, I think. Wish I had kept it.
I’m not sure if photos I remember were photos or magazine covers. I most remember a naked little girl running from a napalm attack, and a Kent State college student crying next to a body on the ground. Covers?
Pro sports games across the U.S. were cancelled or postponed in the immediate aftermath of the 9-11 attacks.
IIRC, several magazines - Newsweek among them - had covers showing the famous Iwo Jima-esque photo of three firemen raising the American flag at Ground Zero. It was later made into a U.S. postage stamp.
Not a magazine, but the New York tabloid with the headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” in the 1970s was notorious in its day.
