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Monthly magazines published in the United States

  • GQ8 minAmerican monthly men's fashion magazine
  • Wired (magazine)11 minAmerican technology magazine
  • Game Informer8 minAmerican monthly video game magazine (1991–)
  • Harper's Bazaar9 minHarper's Bazaar first appeared on newsstands on the 2nd of November 1867, making it the oldest fashion magazine still operating anywhere in the world. It began not as a glossy luxury object but as a folio tabloid, published weekly with the…
  • GamePro7 minAmerican video game magazine
  • Electronic Gaming Monthly6 minAmerican video game magazine
  • Next Generation (magazine)6 minDefunct video game magazine
  • Wide Awake (magazine)6 minWide Awake promised its readers no stories in the "run-away-to-sea" style for boys, or the "elope-and-be-happy" incentive for girls. Those were complaints, the magazine said, that parents of the era voiced often. The magazine ran out of…
  • Vogue (magazine)9 minVogue 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 it stood Arthur Baldwin Turnure, an American businessman who wanted to capture what…
  • Discover (magazine)7 minDiscover is an American science magazine that exists because a magazine editor kept noticing a pattern in his sales figures. Leon Jaroff worked at Time, and he saw that issues sold better whenever the cover featured a science story. He…
  • Playthings (magazine)6 minPlaythings covered the American toy and game industry for more than a century, launching in 1902 and disappearing as an independent title in 2010. In January 1903, editor-in-chief Robert McCready opened its first issue with a declaration…
  • Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine5 minVideo game magazine
  • Rolling Stone10 minRolling 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 the War. The cover price was 25 cents. Jann Wenner, its founder, had borrowed…
  • Esquire (magazine)9 minEsquire 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 quarterly run of a hundred thousand copies. Within months, demand had outstripped every…
  • Fortune (magazine)7 minFortune 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 publication he called "the Ideal Super-Class Magazine," a "distinguished and de…
  • PlayStation: The Official Magazine4 minPlayStation: The Official Magazine began its life under a different name and a fiercely independent identity. Launched in September 1997 with Final Fantasy VII on the cover, the publication known then as PSM: 100% Independent PlayStation…
  • Mix (magazine)3 minMix magazine launched in 1977 not as the glossy professional publication it would become, but as a tabloid-style directory of recording services. The founders, David Schwartz, Penny Riker-Jacob, and Bill Laski, were operating out of San…
  • India Currents2 minIndia 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 the United States. That kind of title invites a question. How does a magazine earn…
  • PC Gamer8 minPC Gamer arrived in the United Kingdom in November 1993, at a moment when personal computing was still something of an enthusiast's pursuit. Within a few years, both its British and American editions had become the best-selling PC games…
  • Animerica4 minA 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 market. The magazine officially began its run with the March 1993 issue. Seiji…
  • Computer (magazine)3 minComputer 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. It speaks to practitioners: people who build, research, and teach computing for…
  • GameFan10 minFormer video game magazine
  • Popular Mechanics8 minPopular 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 spelled out plainly: explain "the way the world works" in plain language, with photos…
  • The Nation14 minThe 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. Just months earlier, the Thirteenth Amendment had abolished slavery, and the abolitionist…
  • Scientific American8 minScientific 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 whether the telegraph would ever work. Nearly two centuries later, that same…
  • Ebony (magazine)8 minEbony magazine published its very first issue on the 1st of November 1945, with a press run of 25,000 copies that sold out completely. That debut carried a declaration from the editors that read, in part: "We like to look at the zesty side…
  • The Atlantic9 minThe 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 Parker House Hotel. He sat down with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,…
  • Dragon (magazine)14 minDragon 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 wargaming hobby. The last print copies reached readers in mid-August 2007, yet…
  • Dungeon (magazine)8 minDungeon magazine arrived in 1986 with a simple promise: every page would contain an adventure. No reviews, no editorials, no letters section crowding the table of contents. Just modules, scenario after scenario, written by amateur and…
  • The Comic Reader8 minThe 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. But when it debuted in October 1961, it solved a problem that had no solution. Comics fans in…
  • Smithsonian (magazine)7 minSmithsonian magazine arrived in 1970 with a mandate unlike any other publication of its era. S. Dillon Ripley, then-Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, wanted a magazine about things the Institution "is interested, might be…
  • Play Meter5 minPlay 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 monthly trade publication around the coin-op amusement business, the world of…
  • Astronomy (magazine)5 minAstronomy magazine was born in August 1973 from a college class project. Stephen A. Walther, a journalism graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, had drawn up a business plan for an amateur astronomy magazine as a senior…
  • Comics Buyer's Guide8 minComics Buyer's Guide holds the record as the longest-running English-language periodical ever devoted to the American comic book industry. Alan Light founded it in February 1971 under the name The Buyer's Guide for Comic Fandom. Light was…
  • Pizzazz (magazine)3 minPizzazz 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 in 1979. On the surface it looked like any other teen pop magazine: celebrity…
  • Physics Today3 minPhysics 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 its reach stretches across ten affiliated physics societies, including the…
  • Vanity Fair (magazine)11 minVanity Fair magazine began not as the polished cultural institution it would become, but as a men's fashion magazine called Dress. Condé Montrose Nast bought it in 1913, renamed it, and built something that would outlast the Gilded Age,…
  • PC World5 minPC World landed on newsstands in March 1983, just months after being announced at the COMDEX trade show in November 1982. For readers in the early days of the personal computer revolution, it was one of the few places to get honest,…
  • IEEE Spectrum2 minIEEE Spectrum arrived in January 1964, replacing a publication called Electrical Engineering and bringing with it a new ambition: to be the voice of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for a broad technical audience. The…
  • National Geographic11 minNational Geographic began its life on the 22nd of September 1888 as a modest scholarly journal sent to 165 charter members. No one reading that first issue could have imagined what it would become: a magazine whose June 1985 cover portrait…
  • Byte (magazine)10 minByte magazine arrived in September 1975 with an initial yearly subscription price of $10, just months after the Altair 8800 sparked a wave of intense interest in personal computing. The listener encountering Byte for the first time might…
  • Life (magazine)12 minLife magazine arrived on newsstands on the 23rd of November, 1936, and within four months it was selling more than one million copies a week. Henry Luce had purchased the name from an 1883 humour magazine for $92,000, not because he wanted…
  • The Christian Century7 minThe Christian Century was not always called that. In 1884, it launched in Des Moines, Iowa, as The Christian Oracle, a denominational publication of the Disciples of Christ. By 1900, its editor was pushing for a name change. The proposed…
  • Goldmine (magazine)2 minIn September 1974, Brian Bukantis founded Goldmine in Fraser, Michigan. The magazine focused on the collectors' market for records, tapes, CDs, and music-related memorabilia. That narrow focus opened onto a surprisingly wide world.…
  • Monthly Review11 minMonthly Review, the independent socialist magazine founded in New York City in 1949, traces its origins to a quiet conversation on a New Hampshire farm. Two former Harvard colleagues had supported Henry A. Wallace's failed presidential…

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