# What magazine have you stuck with the longest? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937 "2022-04-17T00:50:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/81 "2022-04-21T15:56:47Z")
_Nat Geo_ for me currently. And _White Dwarf_ when I can find it locally. And I don’t even _play_ Warhammer. I used to get the NME for the longest time - 80s to 2000s, but gave up on it a few years after it became more of a magazine format. > [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > the world has changed a lot since NatGeo sponsored explorers and expeditions They still sponsor them. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/82 "2022-04-21T19:17:38Z")
I spend very little time these days looking at maps. But when I was young I was fascinated by them, especially in an new-but-old replica edition of an encyclopedia (printed for its 200th anniversary). Vast tracts of… land were declared “Parts Unknown”, places shrouded in mystery. This was also where lesser WWE wrestlers (without a theme song on entry) hailed from. Sure, Nat Geo still sponsors trips. We don’t know everything about the sea or sky. But it hardly has the sane romance as yesteryear. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/83 "2022-04-21T19:31:08Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > > [@DesertDog](#): > > > > A tie, _Fantasy & Science Fiction_ and _Analog_ , 1972, with _Scientific American_ close behind, 1975. > > > [@RealityChuck](#): > > > > _Fantasy and Science Fiction_ . I’ve subscribed since the mid-70s. > > > [@silenus](#): > > > > _Analog_ since the mid-70s. > > Beat you all. F&SF since 1967, Analog since 1968. Man, you guys are good. I’ve had a continuous subscription to _Analog_ since I first got it as a gift for my 13th birthday back in 1981. So “only” 40+ years for me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/84 "2022-04-21T20:37:13Z")
I’ve subscribed to Scientific American since 1965 and my wife has subscribed to New Yorker since 1962. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/85 "2022-04-22T03:25:40Z")
Analog since 1968, although I now get the digital edition. I also have almost every issue of Military Modeller from about the third or fourth one in 1971 to when they ceased publication in 2018, but I never subscribed, as it was an excuse to visit my local hobby shop at least once a month (which opened the year I was born and is still in business). An excellent modelling reference which is sadly missed. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/86 "2022-04-22T07:15:06Z")
> [@robby](#): > > I’ve had a continuous subscription to _Analog_ since I first got it as a gift for my 13th birthday back in 1981. So “only” 40+ years for me But you’ll be subscribing after I’m gone. Actually, I should set up something in my will to have issues delivered to my burial site. I’ve looked at the circulation numbers, and they can use all the subscribers they can get. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/87 "2022-04-22T08:42:34Z")
> [@batsto](#): > > I’ve had a subscription to Mad since 1987. I started reading my older siblings’ 50s era Mad Magazine, pocketbooks, and hardcover as a young child. I subscribed to the magazine in the 60s-80s. It’s no doubt Mad influenced me more than any other publication. I started [a thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mad-magazine-change-our-world/751631) about it a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/88 "2022-04-24T00:42:40Z")
> [@Tibby](#): > > I started reading my older siblings’ 50s era Mad Magazine, pocketbooks, and hardcover as a young child. I subscribed to the magazine in the 60s-80s. It’s no doubt Mad influenced me more than any other publication. I started [a thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mad-magazine-change-our-world/751631) about it a few years ago. I had a subscription to Mad when I lived in the Congo 1961-1962. But I dumped it by the time I was in high school. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/89 "2022-04-24T01:03:08Z")
Consumer Reports National Geographic My subscription to Consumer Reports lasted 30 years. Nat Geo had incredible photography. That took me around the world. The web sites aren’t the same experience. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/90 "2022-04-24T01:28:08Z")
Harper’s Games Both for as long as I can remember. At least 30 years each. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/91 "2022-04-24T04:33:43Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Started getting _Entertainment Weekly_ around 1995 or so and was a continuous subscriber until they finally stopped production this month. Getting the little paper card in the mail saying that they were ceasing production made me sad. I had literally just resubscribed after maybe 10 years thanks to an offer I couldn’t refuse, and after 3 issues I got that postcard. :: ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/92 "2022-04-24T04:55:04Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > We had a subscription for years and years of Entertainment Weekly, right from the very beginning. Gave it up sometime after the ‘Twilight’ people were on the cover every other issue. All of a sudden they began putting celebrities on the cover we had no idea in the world who they were. But it was, indeed, entertaining for decades EW seems to have become a tool for Netflix. It is now all online, from what I see. > [@pipperroo](#): > > Asimov’s Science Fiction I was a Charter subscriber, then Issac let someone else take over and started publishing mostly Spec-Fic etc, rather that the type of stories Asimov had promised. **The Week** seems to be a decent weekly news magazine, slightly left leaning bit pretty balanced. Dudes, I found that if you do NOT renew a sub for a lot of zines, they will send you increasing good deals. TV Guide keeps me on, even though I haven’t paid for a sub in a couple years. I just got a deal from Backpacker, for $12 for a year. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/93 "2022-04-24T16:57:43Z")
I forgot tv guide. My parents had a subscription for my entire childhood. They finally dropped it in the 1990’s. They got a big satellite and it required a schedule guide. I alternated between tv guide subscriptions and just buying a copy at the store. Most of my shows were on a regular schedule. I didn’t need a tv guide _every week_. I’d buy The Fall premeire and a new one as needed. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/94 "2022-04-24T18:01:42Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I was a Charter subscriber, then Issac let someone else take over and started publishing mostly Spec-Fic etc, rather that the type of stories Asimov had promised. Just a nitpick. Asimov lent his name to the magazine and wrote nonfiction for it, but he had nothing to do with running it. Joel Davis of the successor company to Ziff-Davis, which owned Amazing, started the magazine. George R. Scithers was the first editor and set the tone. He left to become editor of Amazing after that had been sold and needed a name. Davis had bought Analog in 1980 and may have decided he didn’t need two magazines catering to the same audience, but I don’t remember Scithers being fired. A bigger issue was that Asimov’s had a rep of being for kids and a more adult slant was wanted. Scithers and Asimov were exceedingly old school and both liked Analog-style fiction. The later editors pushed more sophisticated literary f&sf. They won zillions of awards but the circulation dropped after Scithers. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/95 "2022-04-24T18:53:59Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I was a Charter subscriber, then Issac let someone else take over and started publishing mostly Spec-Fic etc, rather that the type of stories Asimov had promised. Dr. A would have been pissed at you. I got him to autograph the cover of the Galaxy that contained “The Martian Way” with his name misspelled. He was still pissed at Gold over 20 years later. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/96 "2022-04-24T19:18:04Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Just a nitpick. Asimov lent his name to the magazine and wrote nonfiction for it, but he had nothing to do with running it. Asimov wrote a intro to the first edition, saying what type of stories he would have. Sure, I can accept Scithers was doing all the heavy lifting, but as you said, to start those were the kind of old-school stories the 'zine started with. > [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > The later editors pushed more sophisticated literary f&sf. I don’t consider those later stories to be “more sophisticated” or more literary. Just bad and boring. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/97 "2022-04-24T19:52:20Z")
Many people agreed with your opinion. Nevertheless, the stories were objectively more sophisticated literarily, regardless of their value. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/98 "2022-05-02T15:25:58Z")
I’ve subscribed to _The New Yorker_ since September, 1969 my freshman year in college. Can’t quit now! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/99 "2022-05-13T22:59:24Z")
What magazine have I stuck with the longest? 45 ACP from my Colt M1911… oh wait a sec… ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2022, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937/100 "2022-05-15T01:15:31Z")
Vintage Guitar. Don’t even play anymore but read VG cover to cover. I don’t know for sure when I subscribed but it was in VG’s early days. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazine-have-you-stuck-with-the-longest/962937.md?page=6)