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STARLOG was also my favorite magazines until #55 and also the first 16 issues of FUTURE but something changes and they were not the same anymore. Less episode guides, too many articles and less big color photos, they wanted to cover too many topics.
I can't agree with your cutoff point. There was a lot of great material after #55, especially for looking back on vintage shows like LOST IN SPACE, LAND OF THE GIANTS, THE TIME TUNNEL, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, BATMAN, and THE GREEN HORNET.
And their coverage of STAR TREK TOS went on and on, with deep-dive interview subjects: guest stars, directors, writers, and even music composers from the series.
I will say, I was right there with you loving the episode guides and big photos. Before the Internet came along (and eventually filled up with content on every subject, which took years), STARLOG was incredibly valuable. And STARLOG as an online archive remains a stunningly rich and full storehouse of genre history.
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Jul 28, 2018 - 6:18 PM
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STARLOG was also my favorite magazines until #55 and also the first 16 issues of FUTURE but something changes and they were not the same anymore. Less episode guides, too many articles and less big color photos, they wanted to cover too many topics.
I can't agree with your cutoff point. There was a lot of great material after #55, especially for looking back on vintage shows like LOST IN SPACE, LAND OF THE GIANTS, THE TIME TUNNEL, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, BATMAN, and THE GREEN HORNET.
And their coverage of STAR TREK TOS went on and on, with deep-dive interview subjects: guest stars, directors, writers, and even music composers from the series.
I will say, I was right there with you loving the episode guides and big photos. Before the Internet came along (and eventually filled up with content on every subject, which took years), STARLOG was incredibly valuable. And STARLOG as an online archive remains a stunningly rich and full storehouse of genre history.
There were other very good issues after # 55, i have them , just like the one you mention, but there's not that many, only some few and the quality of pictures on some were sometimes very bad. All the first and second year issues have the same level of quality.
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Actually, I like the later years of Starlog. When it started, it was primarily a Star Trek love fest, Space:1999 hate group. Now, I love Star Trek more than the average nerd, but I also adore 1999. And Buck Rogers, and BSG and other much maligned SF shows. It wasn't until later that the coverage become more even handed. But then they finally crossed the line into simply being advertisements for contemporary stuff, but - as Zap pointed out - they kept covering the classics, usually in the back of the magazine. I wouldn't have discovered The Immortal and The Invaders without Starlog's later years.
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Aug 4, 2018 - 10:48 AM
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It does look good. And I definitely will be picking it up when it does pieces on Quark, Salvage 1, Fantastic Journey, and other short lived scifi series from the late seventies and early eighties.
Back when television was fun and innocent, and before it became what it is now. When you could actually like the characters. Sorry, I went monologuing there.
---jthree
What is fun is when the do an article on a tv show, they put photos of comics, toys, etc. that was produced at the time !
Why you say : other short lived scifi series , Dont you like others ?
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Aug 4, 2018 - 7:00 PM
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JThree
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It does look good. And I definitely will be picking it up when it does pieces on Quark, Salvage 1, Fantastic Journey, and other short lived scifi series from the late seventies and early eighties.
Back when television was fun and innocent, and before it became what it is now. When you could actually like the characters. Sorry, I went monologuing there.
---jthree
What is fun is when the do an article on a tv show, they put photos of comics, toys, etc. that was produced at the time !
Why you say : other short lived scifi series , Dont you like others ?
Star Trek always got the attention, and I felt sorry for the underdogs that didn't get all the attention. Orphans that needed some fans. And all the people who worked on those shows had mothers and fathers.
--jthree
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