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Monthly magazines published in the United States

  • GQGQ began not as the glossy men's bible it would become, but as a trade publication called Apparel Arts, launched in 1931 in New York City for the clothing…
  • Wired (magazine)Wired magazine launched on the 6th of January 1993, handed out by its founders at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Two American expatriates, Louis Rossetto…
  • Game InformerGame Informer debuted in August 1991 not as a magazine but as an in-house newsletter, the kind of thing a retail chain prints to move merchandise.
  • Harper's BazaarHarper's Bazaar first appeared on newsstands on the 2nd of November 1867, making it the oldest fashion magazine still operating anywhere in the world.
  • GameProGamePro magazine launched in 1989 with a cover painted by game illustrator Marc Ericksen, and within a few years it was reaching 300,000 readers every month.
  • Electronic Gaming MonthlyElectronic Gaming Monthly hit newsstands in 1988, born under the banner of U.S. National Video Game Team's Electronic Gaming Monthly, published by Sendai…
  • Next Generation (magazine)Next Generation launched in January 1995 with a premise that set it apart from every other gaming magazine on American newsstands: it would cover the video…
  • Wide Awake (magazine)Wide Awake promised its readers no stories in the "run-away-to-sea" style for boys, or the "elope-and-be-happy" incentive for girls.
  • Vogue (magazine)Vogue published its first issue on the 17th of December 1892, with a cover price of 10 cents. That debut featured a debutante at her coming-out, and behind…
  • Discover (magazine)Discover is an American science magazine that exists because a magazine editor kept noticing a pattern in his sales figures.
  • Playthings (magazine)Playthings covered the American toy and game industry for more than a century, launching in 1902 and disappearing as an independent title in 2010.
  • Official U.S. PlayStation MagazineOfficial U.S. PlayStation Magazine arrived on newsstands on the 23rd of September 1997, with a cover date of October 1997.
  • Rolling StoneRolling Stone launched on the 9th of November, 1967, with a cover photo of John Lennon dressed for battle in a Brodie helmet, fresh from the set of How I Won…
  • Esquire (magazine)Esquire magazine hit newsstands in October 1933, in the middle of the Great Depression, priced at fifty cents a copy. It was supposed to be a modest…
  • Fortune (magazine)Fortune magazine was founded in 1929 by Henry Luce, the same man who had already built Time into a household name. Luce envisioned something entirely new: a…
  • PlayStation: The Official MagazinePlayStation: The Official Magazine began its life under a different name and a fiercely independent identity. Launched in September 1997 with Final Fantasy…
  • Mix (magazine)Mix magazine launched in 1977 not as the glossy professional publication it would become, but as a tabloid-style directory of recording services.
  • India CurrentsIndia Currents carries a description from the San Jose Mercury News. The paper calls it the oldest and largest Indian-American magazine on the West Coast of…
  • PC GamerPC Gamer arrived in the United Kingdom in November 1993, at a moment when personal computing was still something of an enthusiast's pursuit.
  • AnimericaA single copy of Animerica issue number zero appeared in November 1992. This preview edition carried no official launch date and served as a test for the…
  • Computer (magazine)Computer is the flagship magazine of the IEEE Computer Society, sent free of charge to every member of the organization. It does not chase a general audience.
  • GameFanGameFan was born in September 1992 from an unlikely starting point: an advertising supplement meant to sell imported Japanese video games.
  • Popular MechanicsPopular Mechanics hit newsstands for the first time on the 11th of January 1902, a weekly publication out of Chicago with a mission Henry Haven Windsor…
  • The NationThe Nation was born on the 6th of July, 1865, at a building on Nassau Street in Manhattan known as Newspaper Row. The timing was not accidental.
  • Scientific AmericanScientific American hit newsstands on the 28th of August, 1845, as a four-page weekly newspaper. It cost a few cents and arrived in a country still debating…
  • Ebony (magazine)Ebony magazine published its very first issue on the 1st of November 1945, with a press run of 25,000 copies that sold out completely.
  • The AtlanticThe Atlantic was born at a dinner party. In the autumn of 1857, a Boston publisher named Moses Dresser Phillips gathered a remarkable group of men at the…
  • Dragon (magazine)Dragon shipped its final printed issue, number 359, in September 2007. That closed a run that started three decades earlier, when the magazine backed a young…
  • Dungeon (magazine)Dungeon magazine arrived in 1986 with a simple promise: every page would contain an adventure. No reviews, no editorials, no letters section crowding the…
  • The Comic ReaderThe Comic Reader was many things over its twenty-three-year run: a single-page news-sheet, a teen-edited fanzine, a digest-sized industry bible.
  • Smithsonian (magazine)Smithsonian magazine arrived in 1970 with a mandate unlike any other publication of its era. S. Dillon Ripley, then-Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution…
  • Play MeterPlay Meter began in December 1974, launched as Coin Industry Play Meter by its founder, Ralph C. Lally II. Lally was also an arcade operator, and he built a…
  • Astronomy (magazine)Astronomy magazine was born in August 1973 from a college class project. Stephen A. Walther, a journalism graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens…
  • Comics Buyer's GuideAlan Light was seventeen years old when he launched The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom in February 1971. He operated the publication from his home in the…
  • Pizzazz (magazine)Pizzazz magazine hit newsstands in 1977, published by Marvel Comics and aimed squarely at the youth culture of the era. It ran for 16 issues before folding…
  • Physics TodayPhysics Today has been landing on the desks of physicists every month since May 1948. It is the membership magazine of the American Institute of Physics, and…
  • Vanity Fair (magazine)Vanity Fair magazine began not as the polished cultural institution it would become, but as a men's fashion magazine called Dress.
  • PC WorldPC World landed on newsstands in March 1983, just months after being announced at the COMDEX trade show in November 1982.
  • IEEE SpectrumIEEE Spectrum arrived in January 1964, replacing a publication called Electrical Engineering and bringing with it a new ambition: to be the voice of the…
  • National GeographicNational Geographic began its life on the 22nd of September 1888 as a modest scholarly journal sent to 165 charter members.
  • Byte (magazine)Byte magazine arrived in September 1975 with an initial yearly subscription price of $10, just months after the Altair 8800 sparked a wave of intense…
  • Life (magazine)Life magazine arrived on newsstands on the 23rd of November, 1936, and within four months it was selling more than one million copies a week.
  • The Christian CenturyThe Christian Century began its life in 1884 as The Christian Oracle within the Disciples of Christ denomination. This publication started in Des Moines…
  • Goldmine (magazine)Brian Bukantis launched Goldmine from a small office in Fraser, Michigan during September 1974. The first issues appeared on newsprint as a black-and-white…
  • Monthly ReviewMonthly Review, the independent socialist magazine founded in New York City in 1949, traces its origins to a quiet conversation on a New Hampshire farm.