Whatever Happened to STARLOG Magazine?
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My Dad had visitation rights. He would pick me up and we'd go to White Hen Pantry. He would get me a Star Log, a Matchbox car and a frozen Coke. That was so long ago. I miss him.
It seems like you really loved him and he loved you. Cherish those special memories my friend. In this day and age those simple yet precious moments are far and few between thanks to the double edged sword called a smartphone. I bet you remember just about every matchbox car he bought you and the wonderful smell of white hen!
@@staffy73 and I remember the row of "magazines" that were mostly hidden.
Sounds like a great dad and sorry for you loss of him...
I guess you know that Terry Carter (Col. Tighe on the original Battlestar Galactica) just passed away. He was 95.
I hadn’t heard about that…95 is a nice long life, but still sad to lose one of the BSG Family😢 condolences to Terry Carters family…RIP COLONEL
I saw the newsflash. Sad to hear about it
Yeah that was sad news may he rest in internal peace.
R.I.P. 😞
I liked him. Good balance to Adama.
Starlog. Cinefantastique. Fangoria. Heavy Metal. Fantasy & Science Fiction. These were a constant source of entertainment in my youth. I still have a few Starlogs preserved in plastic and I have all of my favorites in PDF format.
What does it say about me that I still have a complete collection of "Starlog," and it's companion "Future" in archival boxes. And all the specials. I'm staring at them as I type...
I even got a few letters published in it, one commented on by David Gerrold.
I first read about the light saber duel between Ben and Vader on the lava planet in Starlog, then had to wait decades to see it.
"Famous Monsters of Filmland and the Sears Wishbook," that brings back memories. Mad Magazine and Weird also provided reading material back in the day.
As a 53 year old Starlog was the interweb for us it gave info on film tv misc loved going to magazine stand a in the late 70s and 80s to pick up a copy
Starlog was to Sci-Fi as Rolling Stone was to music.
I was really into Space 1999 and my favorite issue included fold out blueprints of the Eagle.
I remember that :-) great show I'm planning an episode on that in the next month or so :-)
@MoviesMusicMonsters
Hello. I really like 1999. It was my favourite programme in 1976. It was incredible. The theme tune and opening were great. The episodes had mostly great stories and high production values. Lots of horror stories. Dragons Domain frightened the life out of me.
Please differentiate Series 1 from Series 2 which was far inferior to its predecessor. Almost like a totally different show using the same cast and models.
Starlog is what fandom had before the Internet.
I used to get Starlog in England. My first issue was no.17 with Battlestar Galactica on the front in 1978, aged 12 yo. I still have many of them still. I h ad a pen pal for a few years in California through the magazine, and ordered a Darh Vader helmet by Don Post Studios, ordered from Fantasy Classics in LA in December 78.
Starlog gave me information that was not avaliable elsewhere.
Great days indeed.
Thanks for posting.
Not overboard, That 'Starlog'/'Sears catalog' kidbuzz was truly mindblowing at times lol.
Don't forget the full page Ad in the magazine selling the
Battlestar Galactica Colonial Viper Pilot Jacket.
I used to love this magazine! At one point, there was a Starlog store in one of my local malls (Fox Valley mall in Aurora, IL) There were many celebrity signings there, including David Prowse. Was crushed when the magazine ceased it's run. The store eventually closed as well. Thanks for the memories!
Starlog was a stable of my early middle school years. My parents, seeing that I read it from cover to cover, bought me a subscription for a few years.
Oh yeah, FIRST!
I was 18 in 1976. A friend and I found two copies of issue one at a local mom and pop grocery store. We each bought one. I then subscribed. Still have all my issues, still in very good condition.
I advertised in Starlog, for my mail order sci-fi business. I miss those days.
Starlog, Fangoria, Creem, Games, National Lampoon, MAD, Cracked...These were the magazines of my youth.
Cinafantastique as well?
Circus, Crawdaddy...
My 12 year old son and I are building a new house. It will be a celebration to 60's , 70's, and 80's pop culture!!!! I have a framed copy of Starlog magazine featuring the "Six Million Dollar Man" and Bionic Woman! These shows shaped my childhood! Thank you so much for keeping my carefree childhood alive! Great episode!!!!
Thank you Dan for all your passion!!!! And that great voice!!
cool. once in a while i have a "70s Day" and only listen to 70s music, read 70s comics or books and watch 70s TV shows or movies for the whole day.
Starlog was the first time I heard of Star Wars,
when they published preliminary Ralph McQuarrie paintings. When I saw those, my jaw dropped.
Starlog was best science fiction magazine ever.
Dude…now you are hitting me direct in the feels…sooooo many good memories of being with my mom and dad at the grocery store and I picking up Starlog..and reading the hell outta it…I still have a majority of them :) and yes… “How cool is that!”
You know, that's the best part about this stuff. The amazing memories :-)
Dan Monroe...hitting my heart directly with the Sears Wish Book mention and photos.
I have a couple of them 1968 and 1971. They are amazing! I just love the prices. My favorites are the Ben Cooper Batman and Superman play suits, mini Tonkas, Corgi Batmobiles, James Bond car.
Gosh I miss my Starlogs. By no means did I have all of them, but I did have lots of them from the 70s - 90s. But sometime in the 90s my wife and I did a big magazine purge. Starlog was not the only magazine I collected, and my wife collected many mags too. We had magazines falling out of our closet! We wanted to avoid the whole "hoarder" situation, so we did a big purge. And I couldn't very well say "We're keeping my Starlogs" when she was giving up a lot of hers. Wouldn't be fair. So out they went. Gosh, i wish i still had them.
When I was a kid, a subscription to Starlog Magazine was my annual birthday present from my aunt. I used to love getting this magazine every month.
I remember the huge magazine stores. Sad they no longer exist.
Yup, Starlog was amazing. That was back in the day when being a science-fiction nerd really was like belonging to a special club. We were cool, just 20 years ahead of everyone else. Sadly, I had to let go most of my Starlogs (way too many collectibles) but kept the first 20 or so and a bunch of my favourite issues. Who else ordered the labelled Starlog magazine cases? :)
Pre internet era, this was my main source of scifi news and rumours.
Makes me mad I tossed all my old Starlog magazines. Probably had the first 5+ years. I'd need my own warehouse if I'd kept everything.
Still have it #2 Space:1999
Ahhhhh... Starlog, Fangoria, Sears catalog and going to Star Trek conventions... that was my 80's!!
Most of my childhood centered around conversations that sprang out of Starlog magazine. Several years ago I was thrilled to find issue #1 in a used bookstore.
I have many, many editions of Starlog including number 1 and the amazing number 7! I had to rebuy number 7 because I cut it to pieces to put the pictures all over my room. I still have Robbie dressed as Sherlock Holmes (from "Holmes and Walston", an unaired TV pilot) haging in my office! I gathered every scifi mag I could for many years! Thanks for this "behind the scenes" presentation. Your show is simply awesome, brother!
I had a subscription in the 1970s, still have a bunch of them
What happened? The same thing that happened to every magazine. The internet happened and everybody got stupid and abandoned print media. Great going, guys. (I was into Cinefantastique, myself.)
I personally hate the transition from paper magazines to digital.
I do have the 10th Anniversary for Star Wars signed by George Lucas. Starlog.
I had a stack of Starlog, Famous Monsters and Fangoria. And I remember having to order by mail copies of Cinemagic. Don't have a favorite edition but the behind the scene photos were the best. I ended up getting into industrial design and working in the toy industry. How cool is that?
I have that Star Wars issue sitting on my desk right now. I was also in Starlog #96, page 20 (for all my fans), dressed as a character from V. The picture was taken at a Boston Sci-Fi Convention, and Robert Englund was in the picture with us. How cool is that!!!!!
I remember getting that first Star Wars issue and reading about this impossible movie coming out in a couple months. This was before any preview trailers or nationwide press. The concept art actually blew my mind. How were they going to realize anything like this on screen? What? I literally was the first to know in my neighborhood and went on endlessly about this amazing impossible science fiction movie that was coming out around my 12th birthday and we had to go see it. I remember us being excited as we took our seats, munching Red Vines that we’d bitten the ends off to make straws out of for our Cokes. Lights dim, the preview for the other big summer release, “The Deep” plays and then that orchestra hit into the fanfare and opening crawl. Then a ship flies over our head followed by the single most astounding sight I’d ever seen: A giant ship in pursuit. A GIANT ship in pursuit. The 5 of us let out an amazed “Whoa!” and told each during intermission we were staying in our seats to watch it again (theaters back then didn’t have such a problem with the kids hanging out as long as we bought more stuff from the concession stand). Saw it 28 times that summer; each time I paid my own way. Best summer of my life.
My local library had a huge collection of these when I was a kid in the 90s. Sadly, they all fell apart since and they no longer have them.
I’ve worked in publications for nearly 30 years. One interesting thing I noticed while going through various issues is that once Starlog decided on its template, it never changed it. It was laid out very simply.
Starlog and Fangoria was how I kept my friends and I in the loop on all the new Scifi and Horror releases!
I read it faithfully for about 10 years. Then at about 35, adulting caught caught up with me and the time for it disappeared. A baby can do that. I have to admit I have not bought a magazine since my subscription to the Economist expired in the early 2010s.
I use to by that magazine back in the day. Erin Gray from Buck Roger’s was on the cover melted me as a young kid. Wish that magazine was back
Dan, thank you for this! I loved STARLOG as a kid! You were right, that when we were kids STARLOG and FAMOUS MONSTERS were are only source of news before the internet. I first learned that Superman the movie was in production when I read the second issue!
My favorite cover is the Kirk/Spock cover from issue no. 1
I LOVED Starlog and Fantastic Films. We wore those pages out, reading them over and over. I truly miss physical magazines.
The very first Starlog issue I saw was #39 - the one that announced that Tom Baker was leaving Doctor Who. From then on, I was hooked. Ah memories…..
I used to love reading Starlog. My mom would pick them up and I would devour them. Star Trek, Star Wars, and it was the best way to get new Doctor Who information in those pre-internet days. My folks even got me a subscription to the TNG magazine. Such great memories. Thanks for this!
You mean to say it can't be "overstated," not "understated." If something cannot be understated, that would mean that mentioning it at all is giving it more attention than it deserves.
Still have my issues from 1 to 250. This was the only way to find stuff out here in Australia back before the internet. I use to get them from my local comic shop here in Brisbane the good old Daily Planet.
Way before the internet, there were no source for scifi content in the 70s so Starlog filled that niche, but the mag really exploded with the release of Star Wars and became the premiere source for scifi news.
Thank you for this homage to one of the joys of my childhood - reading Starlog Magazine. I wish I still had those early issues....
Oh my childhood. I don’t remember when I first discovered StarLog, but I associated it with being a teenager in the 80s. My mom would take me to a nearby mall and we we would go to Waldenbooks. I would see if there were any Sci-fi or fantasy novels that would catch my interest and StarLog was a must buy.
I was also subscribed to Xignals (their in-house newsletter on the genre. That was a fun time to be a sci-fi fan.
Ohhh.. the Sears wishbook. What memories.
I remember when Starlog magazine would come out standing in the magazine section while my mother would shop and I read the magazine in the supermarket until she finished shopping
I am a charter subscriber of Starlog! I LOVED this magazine as it gave us so much information about everything in the world of Science Fiction entertainment. Keep in mind that it came out BEFORE Star Wars, when there was very little going on with respect to science fiction in entertainment. The early to mid 1970's was a dead time in that regard. I was sad to see this end as Starlog was a good friend for a long time. I still have my entire collection though. :)
I got into Starlog and Fantastic Films as a veteran of Famous Monsters of filmland, Film Comment, American Film, Super 8 Filmmaker, and Cinematographer magazines. Superman and Alien with marginal interest in Star Wars and Close encounters were the headliners that got me going. Very dense and informative articles when people enjoyed reading.
Hubby bought a Star Wars 500 piece jigsaw puzzle from a grocery store in 1977 or 78 that matched the picture from issue 7. He still has it.
My parents got me a subscription back in 1979. Loved it.
This is ALL we had kids. Starlog. Famous Monsters. Heavy Metal. Read em all. Over and over again.
Excellent show! I collected Starlog, by subscription,1999 until 2003. But bought it monthly starting at issue 9. I would get a quarter daily from an elderly woman next door, I honestly can't remember her name, to get her a pack of cigarettes from the corner store. That change got me my first issue. Along with a couple comic books. Ah, the memories! Lol. ✌️❤️🙂
I bought every issue from the first issue to 1985. That's when I began my studies to get into the industry to build real spacecraft in the aerospace industry myself. Did historic work in the industry. Even had one of my works appear in the opening montage of Star Trek Enterprise. The bubble nose on the submarine. Funny story about that. But that's a story for another time.
I do attribute some of my technical savvy to the technical information I was conditioned to receiving from the pages of Starlog. as well as my own natural interest, and inclinations.
Starlog and fangoria was a staple in the 80’s
For sure!
I had the premiere publication of this magazine, that I purchased in 1976. It finally came apart from me perusing it over and over. I also had a premiere edition of its sister magazine called Future.
Boom.. great upload. Looking for the "cinefantastique" Video.
I read my copy of the Starlog Spaceship issue to shreds. Every time I watch “When Worlds Collide” I think of it because the rocket in the cover is from the movie.
Came here to say the same thing. Such an iconic cover!
only place you could get news back then
Omg this was my childhood favorite magazine in the 70s & 80s so sad to see how it ended- Great Video i bought it for Wonder Woman they had great photos.
Kerry mentions me by name in his "From the Bridge" section at the very end of the 100th edition. I was totally shocked to see that and still have that issue. Thank you Kerry, and thank you Starlog magazine.
My favorite issue/cover was the one for Gerry Anderson's UFO, I think it was # 4 or 5.
'Sci fi and fantasy models' was my favourite.
It was through Starlog magazine that i first learned about a new science fiction movie coming out called "Star Wars." Seeing conceptual art drawings of the movie was so cool!
I loved that magazine, read every issue cover to cover. It was a very sad day when I found out they were gone. I still have a bunch of them saved (no, I’m not selling them).
Ah, my childhood and teen years right there. Here in the UK I did regular trips to my then nearest comic shop and would get Starlog, Starburst, Fangoria and Cinefantastique plus any other cool movie souvenir mags out at the time. Still have most of them. Good times. 😁
I was just wondering if this was a thing in the UK, it seems familiar and we obviously got Fangoria but this is the sort of thing I would have been all over!!!
@@shootmcrunfast Yep. Starlog and Fangoria would appear occasionally in ordinary local newsagents but for regular purchasing I had to go to the specialist comic shop. ☺
I had an article published in Starlog in the mid-90s, based on interviews I did with ST:TNG writers Ron Moore, Rene Echevarria, and Jeri Taylor. It was illustrated by cartoonist Tom Holtkamp. That was my first publication and I was so excited for it to be in a magazine I loved. It was so sad to see it die, like so many other good things, because of the emergence of the internet.
Ahhh the Sears Wishbook. Whoever edited that was brilliant. Each page was filled with "I want that!" stuff.
I loved “Starlog” and I have several issues, including number one!! Such an awesome magazine!! Same goes with “Famous Monsters”. One of my favorite covers was the one that featured “Saturn 3”, a very underrated sci-fi horror movie!
I still own all my old issues up until around September 1983. Sadly, I tossed out the later ones. I was such a nerd...that I NEVER met another living soul who ALSO read them! I have all the issues of the sister magazine "Future." Yes...I also have all the issues of "Fantastic Films." Mahalo for dispelling my notion that I was alone in my own tiny world. Aloha!
It's funny that you brought up the Sears catalog because I tell young people all the time that when I was a kid our version of surfing the internet was flipping through the Sears catalog one page at a time.
I remember being in junior high and being given a huge stack of these by a fellow student.
Sadly when i Graduated from high school and moved to Florida i had to get rid of all my magazines and comics.
One the saddest days of my life.
And i also collected Omni magazine.
You should do a video on fangoria magazine
I have a complete digital collection I bought off a guy on eBay a few years ago.....also got a complete collection of Famous Monsters and Castle of Frankenstein
I read Starlog a lot from the mid-90s through the early 2000s. It was a magazine that I thought would last forever. I miss it to this day.
Heartbreaking. I had the very first Starlog magazine and had collected quite a large number of issues. Unfortunately, along with many other items I had stored in boxes in the garage, the roof had collapsed and everything destroyed by a lot of water due to heavy rains. So I can feel the pain of that warehouse burning down and losing all those magazines, utterly destroyed. Watching this brings back a lot of fond memories.
Man bummer mine have always stayed inside in my drawers of this cabinet and still survive...
LOVED STARLOG!! Have almost all my copies still. Introduced me to, along with many movies and tv series, a great by mail company called the Intergalactic Trading Company. Miss them both.
So cool! I was also one of the nerds who collected Starlog. In fact, I collected Starlog, Heavy Metal & OMNI magazines well into the 80s. No Farah Fawcett poster on my bedroom wall. Nope it was Star Trek. And I had the Enterprise, Klingon D-7 and Romulan Bird of Prey models hanging from my ceiling positioned in an epic space battle! I was such a geek. LOL
Yep, Heavy Metal Magazine, man I used to love seeing the latest issue show up in the magazine rack at the newsstand in town.
It's a shame all those hardcopy magazines have seen their day, there was nothing else like them, the smell, being able to actually touch the pages you were reading and the pictures you were looking at, when you held them in your hands they had weight, they were real compared to something that's an electronic copy.
Bought my olive green Battlestar Galactica warrior's jacket from that magazine. Was expecting a brown one like everyone else.
I used to want one but never got it. I remember seeing somebody wearing one in a shopping mall and was shocked by the strange color. Still looked good, I was just thrown off by the color.
Fortunately, I still have Starlog issues #1 through #37 in my collection. Great memories!
DID you ever read Cinefantique(?)? Along with Starlog and Famous Monsters they had a great mag too! I have EVERY issue from number 1 to at lease number 200 and I am not sure how many more. I kind of stopped buying when they would no longer appear in the book store I went to. Being a film maker Cinemagic was also another mag I collected.
I had that copy, with the Galactica on the cover! Also the spaceship guide book. Magazines, mail orders, and pinball machines ! Great times!
RIP Starlog and RIP Cinefex
Got the Emperor Ming cover signed by Max Von Sydow! Magazine went to monthly publication in late-1977. I had a subscription for YEARS!!
Oh wow that is super cool. Do you still have it?
My neighbor, Mrs Waznuk was his sister. I told her ivwant to take a trip for a summer in Europe in the late seventies. She said she would talk to him and ask if I could spend a few days at his castle. Never went to Europe, alas.
Very cool!
Favorite issue was Battle of the Bonds in 1983. Sean Connery and Roger Moore together on the cover was amazing!
Your channel is better than ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT!
LOVED it - this and their “comics scene” were essential for nerds my age
I was addicted to Starlog and Fangoria back in the day. Great magazines.
Same here
I started reading my older brother’s copies of Starlog when I was 5 in Australia. Lots of good memories of this mag!
I wish I kept all my Famous Monsters mags from the 60’s and 70’s. I had hundreds!!
Well if they were in good shape they would be worth a lot of money today :-) I still wish I had mine too
I used to love Starlog, can't wait for your video on Fangoria!
Still got a shite load of starlog magazines in boxes 😊
Mine are in the custom logo storage cases, 16 of them, one each year.