Magazine History: A Collector's Blog

In Memorium Michael Jackson 1958-2009 Michael's first solo national magazine cover. Text of article below. Rolling Stone' s Article ...

After the phenomenal success of Hugh Hefner's Playboy , started in 1953, dozens of clones appeared. Most were low class ripoffs with lit...

Sporting magazines in America began in September 1829 with American Turf Register , published in Baltimore. Here's a very rare offshoot...

Here's a few more great items from my collection: I showed the Ball Player's Chronicle earlier but only the masthead. Here's th...

As with virtually every other aspect of popular culture, the history of baseball can be traced in magazines. While there are a number of ill...

I started collecting magazines thirty seven years ago, just after I entered medical school in Chicago. In those days it was fun to go from c...

President Obama is directly responsible for this post, by virtue of the comments he made yesterday iat the National Press Club about the imp...

Over the years I have been exceedingly fortunate to be able to put together a complete run, with all the engravings and maps, of Thomas Pain...

The most interesting and important American magazine of the second decade of the 19th century was The Analectic .(as was Joseph Dennie's...

My daughter, Whitney, is visiting from St. Louis and reminded me that today is Earth Day. To commemorate this event, we looked for an approp...