Archive for Magazines
The Premier Issue of Snoopy Magazine!
The very first issue of Snoopy Magazine. Winter 1988. Apparently there is Spring and Fall 1988 issues also. I don’t know if there were any more. You can see the coloring on several pages, that’s what I get for having younger siblings. See if I ever do that again.
I used to really be into Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the whole Peanuts gang. I heard an interview with Charles Schultz and he said the syndicate gave the comic strip the name Peanuts. He would have named it Snoopy or Charlie Brown or something pretty plain. He said as the strip developed that Snoopy would have been the perfect name for it.
I really related to Charlie Brown, the loser. But I didn’t care for his shirt. I was once working on an article for publication where I tried to develop the Charlie Brown – Generation X connection. Feel free to steal that idea, or if it’s been done, please let me know ’cause I want to read it. Why doesn’t Amazon DVDs
have a complete collection all in one box?
have a complete collection all in one box?
Retro Dynamite Magazine Silly Sports Trading Cards
Dynamite magazine had some trading cards in one issue, and here they are! Trading cards don’t seem to be as popular among the kids like they were when I was a kid. In the 1970s there were several spoof type cards, some of which I will be posting soon, but there were all kinds of cards for all kinds of things. Today, the only trading cards seem to be directed toward adult collectors rather than children. Be sure to check out my posts on Dynamite magazine and Supermag. The Dynamite post even has a picture of the Dynamite Decoder!
SuperMag Kids Magazine from the 1970s
Like Dynamite Magazine, SuperMag was for kids in the late 1970s. It was much smaller, but on glossy paper. These are from my childhood, the first one looks like “What’s Happening” and some Kristy McNicol show, then “The Hardy Boys/ Nancy Drew Mysteries”, Fonzie and Pinkie from “Happy Days”, Cheryl Ladd from “Charlie’s Angels”, Shaun Cassidy, Linda Carter as Wonder Woman, and “Welcome Back Kotter.” The two without covers one is Charlie’s Angels (I probably tore off the cover and hung it on my wall) and I can’t tell what the other is, but I bet the it met the same fate. There really doesn’t seem to be much information about SuperMag out on the Web. Wikipedia doesn’t even have a stub! eBay has several though. UPDATE: I just found this site that has a compete listing of SuperMags.
Dynamite Magazine from the 1970s
Anyone remember Dynamite Magazine? Here are all the ones that I still own. The first picture is of a poster with the first 50 covers on it. Then we have Donny and Marie Osmond, the Bay City Rollers, Fonzie and Pinky, The Captain and Tennille, John Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino (as a side note, we just got the first season of Welcome Back Kotter from Netflix
and it is one funny show), Charlie Brown and Snoopy, What’s Happening TV show, Bob Hedges, who plays Juan Epstein on Welcome Back Kotter, Detroit Tigers’ pitcher Mark Fidrych, The Brady Bunch, Farah Fawcett Majors, The Hardy Boys TV show starring Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson, Sylvester Stallone as Rocky, Logan’s Run (which I wasn’t allowed to watch), a Wookie and Shaun Cassidy, Kristy McNichol, Kate Jackson of Charlie’s Angels, Mad Magazine, Shields and Yanell? Who?, Cheryl Ladd, my favorite of Charlie’s Angels (I had a life size poster of her that I loved), and the 50th issue. Finally there is the Dynamite Decoder. Perfect for sending secret messages in class. Then, if the teacher finds the note she can’t read it. See my related post on SuperMag!
Boys’ Life Magazine 75th Anniversary Issue
The 75th Anniversary of Boys’ Life Magazine included a “Cavalcade of Covers.” I really dig all the old covers, especially the illustrations/art work.
Boys’ Life is the magazine of the Boy Scouts of America. I think this issue is from my much younger brother. I was a cub scout, but we didn’t have a very good den leader so I ended up dropping out. The only thing I actually remember doing is paper mache, which is boring. But the Boys Scouts had some really cool stuff; knives, compasses, badges. They always had a big annual event where all the troops would show off what they had done and I always loved to go through and look, but our group never did anything.
