# Omni Magazines **URL:** \ **Category:** Marketplace\ **Created:** [May 30, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omni-magazines/689643 "2014-05-30T17:00:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omni-magazines/689643/1 "2014-05-30T17:00:40Z")
Issues of Omni ranging in condition from fair to mint. Two or three are still in the original paper mailer. Here’s what I have: 1979: Jan Feb Mar(2) May July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1980: Jan Feb Mar Apr May June Nov Dec 1981: Complete Year 1982: Jan Feb Sept Oct Nov 1983: Jan Feb Mar My understanding is that some issues are more collectible than others, primarily for the artwork. I don’t have time to become an eBay entrepreneur, or an expert on Omni magazine but I don’t want to recycle them if someone actually wants them. I’m happy to send any or all of them (though probably in small batches) for the true cost of mailing them. ---
**Author:** ![Kazo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@Kazo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kazo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omni-magazines/689643/2 "2014-06-01T02:32:02Z")
This magazine looks interesting. I’ll take all of them! I will be PMing you now to set things up. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omni-magazines/689643/3 "2014-06-01T15:25:57Z")
I dumped an entire run, in rough to VF condition, when we moved. Just couldn’t justify hauling it around any more. ---
**Author:** ![markie1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@markie1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markie1)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omni-magazines/689643/4 "2014-06-01T19:08:46Z")
interested in this. going to pm you ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omni-magazines/689643/5 "2014-06-01T21:30:03Z")
I like to think of _OMNI_ as a proto-_Wired_, dressed in an overabundance of gold and silver. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omni-magazines/689643/6 "2014-06-01T21:33:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I like to think of _OMNI_ as a proto-_Wired_, dressed in an overabundance of gold and silver. And, unfortunately, after the first three years of stellar content… bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omni-magazines/689643/7 "2014-06-01T23:05:15Z")
Omni was great. They printed an article from G. Gordon Liddy about how terrorist could have really f\*cked up the US with very little effort that scared the crap out of me. Haven’t been able to find it since. I found a box full of magazines at a Goodwill store near my house one time and it had a few Omnis in it. Had to dump the box when I got a mouse infestation in my garage. They apparently were more interested in nesting in the magazines than reading them….😉 ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omni-magazines/689643/8 "2014-06-01T23:07:55Z")
> [@](#): > > They printed an article from G. Gordon Liddy about how terrorist could have really f\*cked up the US with very little effort that scared the crap out of me. Haven’t been able to find it since. Sounds a great deal more like _Penthouse_ of the era, which ran ultra-literate articles and really hard-hitting investigative stuff. Didn’t last long. I glanced at an issue around 1990 and if there was a written item in it past third grade level, I missed it. ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omni-magazines/689643/9 "2014-06-01T23:10:36Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Sounds a great deal more like _Penthouse_ of the era, which ran ultra-literate articles and really hard-hitting investigative stuff. Didn’t last long. I glanced at an issue around 1990 and if there was a written item in it past third grade level, I missed it. Same company as Penthouse. It was run by Guccione’s wife, in fact. It’s shame that well-written articles from the past are better the 95% of the crap today and we have better access to information. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omni-magazines/689643/10 "2014-06-02T14:17:40Z")
> [@nevadaexile](#): > > Omni was great. > > They printed an article from G. Gordon Liddy about how terrorist could have really f\*cked up the US with very little effort that scared the crap out of me. Haven’t been able to find it since. The whole run of the magazine is available (text only) on the Internet Archive [Omni - January 1989](http://archive.org/stream/omni-magazine-1989-01/OMNI_1989_01_djvu.txt)