# What magazines do you miss? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931 "2014-06-03T15:34:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/41 "2014-06-04T02:04:00Z")
My kids really enjoyed **Nickelodean Magazine** , but it’s no longer published and they got older! Computer magazines **Byte** , **PC Magazine** and **Computer Shopper** I really miss **Brill’s Content Magazine**. It was kind of a pre-Daily Show take on news and personalities. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/42 "2014-06-04T02:29:31Z")
Life. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/43 "2014-06-04T03:09:15Z")
Another vote for FMOF (Famous Monsters of Filmland) I think I might have a copy buried deep in the archives someplace. I miss the early Rolling Stone and National Lampoons. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/44 "2014-06-04T03:32:24Z")
George. Sort of trashy but with politicos. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/45 "2014-06-04T06:43:42Z")
Another vote for **Omni** and **National Lampoon**. Also, **Desert** , a magazine about, well, deserts, mainly in California and Arizona. A fine architecture magazine was **Progressive Architecture**. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/46 "2014-06-04T07:03:37Z")
Another vote for _National Lampoon_. It was in its pages that I read the original “Vacation '58,” and they had great covers. “Rah-Rah-Raw” indeed! I also miss the print version of _Cracked_. I do enjoy the online version, but the print version was a lot of fun. I also miss _Weekend Magazine_ (a Canadian version of _Parade_, that came with the weekend paper). It was perfect for a lazy Saturday or Sunday afternoon: interesting, but without anything too challenging or thought-provoking. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/47 "2014-06-04T07:34:31Z")
It seems to me that most all magazines are just no longer economical to produce. So, in a way, this thread could be a lot like asking, “what is your favorite brand of buggy whip”? It may be sad, but there is just no reason to produce buggy whips anymore. It would seem that in a few years you simply won’t see any magazines anymore. So, an interesting question might be, “which magazine do you think will be the last to go?” I would guess it would be some magazine about TV or about The Internet. ---
**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/48 "2014-06-04T08:45:23Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > As a kid and teenager I loved pouring over TV Guides each week. The articles. The Cheers and Jeers and planning what shows I would watch. I would often check the schedules of the movie channels for any late night “To Be Announced” entries because they would often be premieres of movies months before they were supposed to air (it was often near the end of the year so I assume they did it for tax purposes). I got a couple of 1985 TV Guides from an Iowa antique store a time back; they’re coming apart very badly, but they are very much representative of what TV Guide was like when I was a boy. The current one pales in comparison to what those were like. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/49 "2014-06-04T09:22:11Z")
I really liked GIANT, in its first incarnation. It was a sort of pop-culture magazine for nerds. Films, TV, video games, collectables, etc. Then it turned into some sort of GQ bling magazine. Then it went _poof_… ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/50 "2014-06-04T09:43:36Z")
**Film Threat** and **The Comics Journal** (although both still exist as websites). Although **Penthouse** is still nominally in print, it’s hardly the glorious thing I remember from the late 70s. It died in three stages: Guccione went insane, Guccione lost editorial control of the magazine, and Guccione died. **Playboy** has only (partially) suffered the second stage of this process, though I have a hard time proving it was ever as great as I seem to remember it being. **National Lampoon** also died in stages: When the founding editors sold their stake to the publisher in 1975, when all the old staff except Ed Subitzky drifted away by 1985, when they were acquired via a hostile takeover in 1989 by Tim Matheson and in 1991 by the company that made those DORF videos, and in 1998 when it ceased to exist as anything but a logo on crappy, direct-to-video movies. Not sure why print satire is such a hard sell these days, but it is. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/51 "2014-06-04T10:09:30Z")
In addition to the oft aforementioned Spy magazine, I miss [Option](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_%28music_magazine%29) magazine, a good resource in the days when it wasn’t nearly as easy to find new music. ---
**Author:** ![toast\_pakora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@toast\_pakora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toast_pakora)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/52 "2014-06-04T13:50:10Z")
SPY! I was packing up my apt to go on a long trip and threw out my old issues. By the time I got back, they’d been sued and ceased publication. It was educational: Logrolling in Our Time was my introduction to PR hacks. It was influential. It was literate. I still laugh when I see “short-fingered vulgarian” in print. The other one is **Domino**. I had _just_ discovered it when it went belly up. I am holding onto my two issues though. Now it’s been revived as a quarterly… ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/53 "2014-06-04T14:12:38Z")
Avalon Hill’s _The General_. As a kid I loved some of AH’s board games, and it was cool finding errata or game variants for them in the magazine. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/54 "2014-06-04T14:21:52Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Before it [Cracked] went kaput they tried turning it into a Maxim clone. What the fuck were they thinking. I suspect they were thinking, “We survived four decades being the magazine ‘Mad’ fans bought when the newsstand ran out. Unfortunately, ‘Mad’ sales have dropped too much for that to be viable. Who’s hot right now that we can imitate and be the backup choice for?” And a tenth (or whatever) for ‘Spy.’ How can you not like a magazine that calls up freshmen Representatives and asks their opinions on the ethnic cleansing in Freedonia? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/55 "2014-06-04T15:54:00Z")
Whoa, many props for \*Spy \*in this thread! And may I also join in missing _Omni_ and _National Lampoon_ > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Some magazines I miss are still around, but they’ve changed so much, effectively “my” magazine is dead. Which in my case would apply to \*MAD \*(which I can’t be too mad about, after all Bill and the gang were not going to live forever and I would one day become middle aged) and to _Playboy_ (especially when you compare to its contents-rich 1960s-80s incarnation). ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/56 "2014-06-04T16:25:22Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Avalon Hill’s _The General_. That makes two of us. I miss the original _Punch_ - not to be confused with the _New Yorker_ wannabe that replaced it. Best story I remember: when Hunter Davies was in San Francisco (visiting his eldest daughter, who was spending a year at UC-Davis - apparently, she wanted to attend UC-Santa Cruz as she had heard that it offered a class in surfing, but got sent to Davis instead) just in time for a mid-5 magnitude earthquake. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/57 "2014-06-04T18:00:07Z")
Of course, \*Omni. \*In fact, I still have the first issue. I also miss \*Scientific American, Games \*and _Life._ ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/58 "2014-06-04T21:44:23Z")
_Premiere Magazine_. I was a subscriber for just about every issue of it’s entire 20-year run, only missing the first few (which I bought at the newsstand). I think it survived for a little while after ceasing to be a print magazine as an online-only one, but even that is no more, apparently. > [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > [Creem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creem). IMO, the best music magazine ever. Edited for a time by Lester Bangs, and even into the '80s the writing was funnier than anything in **National Lampoon** or **Spy**. I very fondly remember Creem as well during my formative years. If that wiki article is to be believed, Creem not only coined the term “punk rock” and “heavy metal”, but it did both in the very same issue. If that’s true, it’s pretty amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/59 "2014-06-05T01:06:37Z")
People have already mentioned _Spy_ and _Omni_, but let me add the following: _motive_: [http://www.bu.edu/cgcm/scm-usa-project/motive-magazine/](http://www.bu.edu/cgcm/scm-usa-project/motive-magazine/) _Lingua Franca_: > **[Lingua Franca (magazine)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Franca_(magazine))** > > Lingua Franca was an American magazine about intellectual and literary life in academia. > The magazine was founded in 1990 by Jeffrey Kittay, an editor and professor of French literature at Yale University. Kittay, as the New York Times reported, "saw a niche for vivid reporting about the academic world and especially about its many personal feuds and intellectual controversies." Kittay told the newspaper, "I was an academic who was very, very hungry for information about what made my profession ... _Maledicta_: > **[Maledicta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maledicta)** > > Maledicta, The International Journal of Verbal Aggression, was an academic journal dedicated to the study of offensive and negatively valued words and expressions, also known as maledictology. Its main areas of interest were the origin, etymology, meaning, use, and influence of vulgar, obscene, aggressive, abusive, and blasphemous language. It was published from 1977 until 2005. The publisher, founder, and editor-in-chief was Reinhold Aman (April 8, 1936 – March 2, 2019). > > This article about a ... _Movieline_: > **[Movieline](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movieline)** > > Movieline was a website, formerly a Los Angeles-based film and entertainment magazine, launched in 1985 as a local magazine, which went national in 1989. Known for its cult status and popularity among film critics, the magazine eventually was retooled and named Movieline's Hollywood Life. The magazine closed in 2009. > PMC bought Movieline in September 2008. Hollywood Life's website survived the closing of the magazine, and Movieline was relaunched as a website. Movieline's last new post was in 20... ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931/60 "2014-06-05T01:42:39Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > I credit Sassy with getting me through adolescence. Girls probably have plenty of similar stuff of the web now. But at the time, Sassy felt like being let in on a big, awesome secret. I loved Sassy. It had a very different tone to it than anything else available at the time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-miss/689931.md?page=4)