What was the first magazine you subscribed to?

[BurtWorm]

Mine was Take One, a Canadian film magazine. The price was unbeatable: $5 (US) for a 12 issues! This was 1975-7, when I was in high school, and that was a bargain even then. And it was a great magazine--irreverant, witty, intensely knowledgeable. It covered everything from silent films, Warner Brothers cartoons and Hitchcock to current releases, world cinema and avant garde filmmakers like Michael Snow. Unfortunately, it didn't last very long. But it was great while it lasted.

PS: Wow! I just did a Google search and found that someone resurrected Take One! I doubt it's as great as it was, but who knows?

[Edge]

1. Nintendo Power

about 11 years ago.

[Fenris]

2. Beat me to it

My first mag too.

[populistmom]

3. Ranger Rick

I had lots of cool animal posters on my wall.

Then, I grew breasts and temporarily lost my soul and subscribed to Seventeen. Actually, I don't subscribe to any right now, but our family gets Girl's Life and Scientific American.

[BurtWorm]

8. I had a subscription to Summer Weekly Readers, now that I think of it.

which actually only came out once a month, if I remember correctly. I didn't get those for myself. I loved them though. They were four-color, as opposed to the three-color ones we got during the year, and they were longer and had more interesting stuff in them.

[southerngirlwriter]

4. Writer's Digest

When I was 14.

[Amager]

5. Mad Magazine

[TrogL]

6. Popular Science

[BurtWorm]

22. Have you seen it lately?

The guy who publishes it now is a UFO freak. Or is that Popular Mechanics? Anyway, whichever, it's a little borderlandish.

[Blue-Jay]

7. Spiderman!

Does that count as a magazine?

[BurtWorm]

10. Did it come regularly, by subscription?

I would count it as a magazine if it did.

[Blue-Jay]

16. It certainly did!

I still have Amazing Spiderman #162 through #210. (the sea-monkeys were a big disapointment and the x-ray glasses sucked, too. i'm just glad I never ordered the hovercraft. take THAT, mr. "the man")

[Exultant Democracy]

9. Do you remember Omni magazine

I was an odd little kid and I got a 2 year subscription in third grade. The funniest part is that the mag ended production after the first year so they gave me a free subscription to Discover for 2 years.

[BurtWorm]

11. I remember Omni.

It was a Bob Guccione production, wasn't it? His first attempt to go non-porno.

[Exultant Democracy]

13. lol, I have no clue

it was just a random science rag. Then again as a 3rd grade some hard core porn would have probably set me up with a lot more interesting problems then I have today.

[Syrinx]

12. I loved Omni magazine

I never subscribed, but picked it up often. Cool magazine!

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. I loved OMNI! Great mag, subscribed for years

Now that I'm older and wiser, I doubt I would take to it as much, but even so, it did have a fair amount of legitimate science and reporting, and was pretty cool.

[WilliamPitt]

15. Ranger Rick

:)

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Boy's Life - but only cuz I was a scout. The first one I intentionally

subscribed to was a computer magazine, name I can't remember, but sadly it lasted but about two years. It was for the Atari 400/800 computer, and way back in the time when computer magazines would include entire programs - but as BASIC, and as programs we'd have to type in ourselves. Except that this magazine I subscribed to - actually included a 5 1/4 inch FLOPPY with the programs!

WOO HOO!!!!

[trof]

33. Yep. Boy's Life.

On Our February Cover
AFTER THE FIRE: When the flames from last fall's California wildfires finally subsided, the Boy Scouts were there to provide some relief. Photograph by Nadia Borowski Scott.
http://www.boyslife.org/hi/index.html

[NJCher]

18. Jack 'n Jill Magazine

It's been in business for over 50 years!



And I also got the Weekly Readers, too. I was also a subscriber to Children's Highlights and I see they now have a Web site. There are plenty of free samples for kids to play around with:

http://www.highlightskids.com/guestarea/h3gmagazine/h3gmagazinetop.asp


Cher

[BurtWorm]

20. I used to get Jack and Jill at the grocery store.

My daughter gets Highlights, National Geographic Kids and Ask (from Smithsonian and the people who put out Cricket).

[mitchum]

24. That was mine

[TheMightyFavog]

19. Ranger Rick, IIRC.

I barley remeber getting that mag.

My favorite magazine as a kid? Cricket, hands down. I still have thre or four stacks of old Crickets from the late 80s and early 90s in a shelf in my room somewhere.

[Lostmessage]

21. Mad and Cracked

I also subscribed to a horror magazine but I can't remember it's name.

:shrug:

[scarlet_owl]

23. National Geographic World magazine.

It was for kids. I don't know if they still publish it.

[izzie]

25. Seventeen and I do not think it is around any more.

It was for teens in the 50's, when I was a teen.It was the end of my days in any type "women's" mag. Once one was read they were dull to me, and all the same.

[solinvictus]

26. Boy's Life

The Cub Scout magazine, when I was 9 years old and my mom wouldn't let me join the Scouts.

[Awsi Dooger]

27. Sports Illustrated, via my allowance money

When I was eight years old. I saved many memorable issues per year, then my mom threw away the entire stack in a fit of boredom when I left for college. I cringe at the thought of how valuable and interesting they would be today.

[MinnFats]

28. "Boy's Life." Later, "Mad" magazine.

a worthwhile progression, I think.

the inside back page of Boys Life was always jokes submitted by readers.
I used to sit on a stool in the kitchen after school and read the jokes to my mom while she started to get dinner ready.

She was kind enough to laugh at the jokes, all of which were pretty bad.

thanks for the memory!

[Nile]

29. National Geographic

Had a complete forty year collection,

[Nay]

30. Highlights for Children. Great mag. My brother got Boys' Life, but

I was the one who read it. He hated to read.

[Spirochete]

31. Jack and Jill

when I was a little kid. Also Highlights.

[KG]

32. Playboy - for the articles and fiction, of course....

:)