This weekly comedy/horror-themed comic from IPC Magazines began publication on 14 June 1975 and ran for just 73 issues before merging with Buster on 1…
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Ms. magazine first appeared in 1972. Edited by noted feminist Gloria Steinem, it was radically different from publications such as Good Housekeeping. Steinem said Ms. would not tell you…
From humble beginnings in 1952 when publisher Maurice Kinn bought the title The Musical Express & Accordion Weekly for £1000 and re-branded it as New Musical Express, the NME…
Published by DC Thomson, Nutty was an attempt to create a livelier, more chaotic comic than many on sale at the time. 292 issues were…
The alternative/underground magazine Oz started in Australia in 1963 and, almost by chance, came to London in 1967. The 16-page debut issue – published on…
Has anybody on the planet ever collected a full set of these collections which went on forever . . . AND they made you buy a…
Penguin paperbacks date back to 1935, but really reached their height of popularity in the 50s and 60s. Under the guidance of Germano Facetti, Penguin…
This long-running daily British comic strip was first printed in the Daily Mirror on 19 October 1959. The stories were about a group of neighbourhood children…
This British magazine/comic hybrid for teenage girls was published weekly by IPC from 1973 to 1980, with a total of 377 issues. It featured a…
Advertised as “The coloured picture weekly for the very young viewer”, Pippin was published between 1966 and 1986 and featured characters from British pre-school television programmes.…
“Where man once stood supreme, now rule the apes!” Published by Marvel (under their Curtis Comics imprint) from 1974 to 1977, this was the first…
Playboy magazine was founded in 1953 by Hugh Marston Hefner (b.1926). To raise money for the venture he mortgaged his furniture at two different banks…
Fleetway published this weekly comic for younger children between 16 October 1954 and 15 August 1987. Over the course of 1700 issues, it absorbed the…
This weekly comic from DC Thomson starring Plug from The Bash Street Kids ran from 1977 to 1979 when it was cancelled and turned into…
The weekly British pop magazine Popswop was first published in October 1972, primarily aimed at the teenage girl market. In addition to full-colour posters of…
Australian Anthony O’Grady was a dedicated music fan and had written occasional record reviews for Go-Set and its early rival Soundblast. Ironically, the first encounter he…
Launched two years after the NME, and founded by former Weekly Sporting Review editor Isidore Green, Record Mirror never attained the circulation of its rival, though…
For any kid attending a British comprehensive school between 1971 and 1977, Richard Allen’s Skinhead books were required reading. ‘Richard Allen’ was actually a pseudonym used by…
Inspired by the punk fanzines that were popping up in the UK in 1976 and 1977, this monthly Australian rock music magazine was founded in…
This nursery comic was produced between 28 March 1953 and January 1969. Regular strips included: Andy Pandy Harriet and Smith Johnny Bull Flower Pot Men…