Archive for Magazines
Harvest Rock Syndicate 1991
Harvest Rock Syndicate, Volume 6 Issue 1, Jan/Feb 1991. Complete table of contents here. Two of my favorite bands on the cover, The Call and The Choir. The Choir is working on a new album after just releasing a great one called Burning like the Midnight Sun in 2010.
Harvest Rock Syndicate was a magazine for Christian Alternative music, but it was a bit broader than that also. Sacred Warrior listed across the top was heavy metal. If you think it was hard to get info on great Alternative music during the ’80s and early ’90s, just try to get info on Christian Alternative! There was another magazine that was even harder to get in my area called 7ball and there may have been others, but it wasn’t easy. It was fun and frustrating.
Continuing along to top, I’m not familiar with Recess, but the Newsboys are still going I think. It seems to me they were Australian. Chagall Guevera had a song on the Pump Up the Volume soundtrack, the movie starring Christian Slater. Funny thing about the movie when I watched it with my Dad, I didn’t care for it, but my Dad loved it!
Dynamite Magazine Charlie Brown 1977 – The Complete Issue!
Dynamite, #35, May 1977, Charlie Brown Superstar! In many ways I think Charlie Brown was an early Gen Xer. Adults aren’t around, when they are they are pretty irrelevant, he’s a loser, baby, he just can’t win… I have several Peanuts books, the earlier stuff is really good. Shultz didn’t quite have the same zing at the end and the comics were only amusing, not really funny. But the earlier stuff is very good, and the TV specials are superb.
Here we have the Dynamite Duo once again. I really like the artwork (and miniskirt) in this series.
I dont’ know if I’ve mentioned this before, but I was going to be a stuntman when I grew up. A stunt driver in particular, and stuff like this only fed my mania. Some day I’ll do a post on that. Then we have Nancy Drew, but not on the cover like the Hardy Boys.
Dynamite Magazine Brady Bunch August 1977
Dynamite, August 1977, Volume 1, Number 2. The Return of the Brady Bunch! With articles on Godzilla movies, old radio shows, and an NFL football preview!
Juice Simpson with the Buffalo Bills looks good, and the Baltimore Colts too. And the new AFC West team, the Seattle Seahawks. St. Louis Cardinals didn’t make the playoffs last year. The article mentions that the Denver Broncos will have to do better then 9-5 which was their best to that point. They went to the Superbowl against the Dallas Cowboys and lost. Not too bad considering the record they had. That was the first Superbowl I remember watching.
Dynamite #34 John Travolta 1977
Dynamite Magazine #34, TV 3592, April 1977. John Travolta: Barbarino and Beyond! Welcome Back, Kotter and the Sweathogs was the world’s introduction to Travolta.
Trading Card games? Isn’t that dangerous with such a valuable commodity? And an article on science fiction.
Dynamite – December 1976 Donny and Marie – Lots of scans
Can you guys read these? Would it be better to upload them directly to the site? Dynamite, Number 30, TV 3588, December 1976. I scanned quite a bit more of this one as it had more that interests me. Besides The Donny and Marie Show, “Psssst… Pass it on” talks about what is trending in the States. High platform shoes are out and painter pants are in, as are skirts below the knee.
“Good News Bad News” has cool art work, and since it’s Christmas time, “The World’s Most Expe$ive Gifts,” which includes one of those super-cool race car beds that I REALLY REALLY wanted for $299, and an Elton John pinball machine for $13,500, which I think my Grandmother had in her country store. She didn’t buy it, I’m sure. That article is followed by “Buck the Gift Buying System!” If you look at that picture, there’s a John Travolta 45 rpm record. I heard one of his one time. It was awful. Shaun Cassidy was much better.
Then we have something called “The Dynmaite Duo.” The Dynamite Duo was a superhero series that ran through several issues. Great art work, in my uninformed opinion. There was another series called Magic Wanda. She signed her stuff “Love, peace and magic.” How 70s.
Jay J. Armes! With Colonel Sanders! Riding a tiger! There was toy of this private eye who lost his hands.
“The Silly Spirit of ’76″ “Things We Don’t Need Any More Of: Bionic anythings, disaster movies, idiot jingles for everything from banks to burgers, Mr. Whipple, more ridiculous TV game shows, Monty Hall, Bicentennial Minutes, another Osmond brother, disco music…” Wait, 1976 and they were already tired of disco? Saturday Night Fever hadn’t even happened yet!
Dynamite Oct 1977 Hardy Boys Cover
Dynamite Magazine, October 1977, Volume 1, Number 4. Recently, I sold several of my Dynamite magazines from my childhood. Before I sent them off I scanned a bunch of pages. I thought about scanning them completely, but I didn’t have time before needing to get them in the mail. And, as per usual, when I think of a great idea, Retrospace beats me to the punch. As I was thinking about scanning, he posts complete Dynamite issues. That bum.
Besides stories on the Hardy Boys TV show with Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy, there’s a story on Star Wars. At this point in human history, not everyone had seen Star Wars. Hard to believe isn’t it? And the back cover with Dynamite Snapshots that you can cut out and put in your wallet. Frankenstein’s Monster, Wonder Woman, and Muhammad Ali.
