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.
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.
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 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 :-)
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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 paused the video on the pharmacy magazine rack and noticed a copy of OMNI magazine. Anyone else remember that one?
Thinking-man's jazz-mag! ✌🥸
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.
Not overboard, That 'Starlog'/'Sears catalog' kidbuzz was truly mindblowing at times lol.
I advertised in Starlog, for my mail order sci-fi business. I miss those days.
Starlog was to Sci-Fi as Rolling Stone was to music.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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. ✌️❤️🙂
When I was a teenager, on a school trip from Canada, I visited the offices of Starlog in New York! I don't recall who I spoke too, but it seems it was David of Kerry. He related fun stories about movie stars and other stories. I was really thrilled, but was surprised how normal the offices were. lol
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.
Starlog WAS the "internet" before the internet! It was like going to a website today. My favorite time for Starlog was the issues before the wonderful Summer of (1982). The anticipation of seeing photos of Summer releases months before they hit the theaters, was just sublime.
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
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.
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.
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.
Thanks, Dan! I really* appreciate you highlighting this groundbreaking and trend setting publication. This takes me back to the late 1970s when I was an avid Starlog reader! This is what we had before the Internet. Such great memories. One of my best friends owned the first couple of issues that had been published in 1976, including issue one featuring Star Trek. The first issue I ever purchased was the Star Wars one in 1977 featuring the TIE fighter, and X wing fighter on the cover. Another issue that made a huge impression on me was the one in 1979 that featured Alien. The stills from that movie, including the incredible designs like the derelict ship just blew me away. I even sent a letter to the editor which was published! I got a lot of mail from my fellow fans in response to it. My interest started to wane in the early 80s when I moved on to other interests. But for a time this publication played a huge role in my growing up years. It’s such a shame that there are so few physical back issues available. I would love to track down some of my favorites.
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
Ahhh the Sears Wishbook. Whoever edited that was brilliant. Each page was filled with "I want that!" stuff.
I LOVED Starlog and Fantastic Films. We wore those pages out, reading them over and over. I truly miss physical magazines.
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!!!!!
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 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.
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.
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!
I've had Starlog #1 for decades now.
I remember taking it to high school class sometime back in 1977 or 1978.
As I remember, it was my English class.
So that put's it in either late 77/early 78.
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.
I had a subscription in the 1970s, still have a bunch of them
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!
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.
I'm 54 going on 55 this year. Such great nostalgia here, again. I loved this magazine. Got it, read it, at home in store on the magazine racks. Even then as a kid I was interested in film arts and behind the scenes. I'm an artist & musician for life and a living, so it makes sense. But I loved loved loved this magazine. GREAT nostalgia. Thank you for your excellent work, Dan. My favorite cover was the one with the film "Alien". My favorite issue, in fact. 🙂
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.
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.
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.
I personally hate the transition from paper magazines to digital.
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.
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.
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!
Boom.. great upload. Looking for the "cinefantastique" Video.
I started reading my older brother’s copies of Starlog when I was 5 in Australia. Lots of good memories of this mag!
I used to enjoy reading Starlog when I was younger.
Great Video! Thanks! I still have my original 1st issue (along with a bunch of the originals), that I got when they were first published.
I loved the fold out posters that some of the magazine had from time to time. My favorite was an ‘Alien’ foldout that I think i still have!
Thanks Dan, i would’ve forgotten that awesome magazine if not for this segment, ❤
I still have all my old issues. What a great topic you picked.
Starlog Magazine is without a doubt, the finest publication on anything Sci-fi. I have all 374 issues, preserved in plastic sleeves..Recently managed to scan & convert them all in pdf format for posterity, but I still can't discard the original copies.
I used to love Starlog, can't wait for your video on Fangoria!
I had that copy, with the Galactica on the cover! Also the spaceship guide book. Magazines, mail orders, and pinball machines ! Great times!
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).
Another great video Dan! I was at the convention in 1985. It impressed me so much that I wrote a letter to Starlog praising and thanking them for honoring Lost in Space. They actually published my letter and Mike Clark sent me a VHS of the event. To my amazement, there are 2 scenes in the video of my wife and I in the background. Thank you for all the work you do on your videos. They are truley the Starlogs of our digital age!
Dan, thanks for this Starlog video! I didn't know about the magazine's origin! I was fortunate enough to provide many cartoons to Starlog for many years! I have always been happy to have been a small part of that great production crew! As I have said, and others, Starlog was the internet for geeks before the internet! Mike Fisher, Galacticfish Productions
Fortunately, I still have Starlog issues #1 through #37 in my collection. Great memories!
Such a great video! Gosh, Starlog took my allowance countless times - and I wish it was still being published.
Ah memories …
I used to love buying and seeing the cool stuff on sale in the USA wanted so much the Don Post Star Wars helmets and the Moonbase Alpha tech notebook such a cool magazine. Thanks yet again Dan
That name brings the OMNI magazine. I wonder what happened to that.
Founded by Bob Guccioni, Hustler magazine. 😸
@@sterling557Guccione was Penthouse. Larry Flynt was Hustler. 🙂 You're right though, Guccione did publish Omni.
I'm definitely looking forward to the Fangoria review. An old friend of mine, Steve Swires, not only submitted several articles to both Fangoria and Starlog, he was the magazine's Senior Correspondent. He introduced me to several celebrities that he interviewed like Caroline Munro, Beverly Garland and Ingrid Pitt. Thanks for the memories and the tip regarding the collectability of the back issues.
My favorite issue/cover was the one for Gerry Anderson's UFO, I think it was # 4 or 5.
Thrilled to see this one, Dan! I was also that kid waiting at the pharmacy for the next issue of Starlog. I have an issue on my desk right now. It's not in the best of shape because I read it about a million times. But Starlog was such a huge part of growing up in the 1980s for me and my friends. It's hard to describe. That magazine was the gateway for science fiction and fantasy books, film, music, comics and more that made its own kind of community. Just good stuff!
Another great video. It's like we lived the same childhood. There was no better time to be a sci fi fan than the late 70s - early 80s and Starlog was one of the best part of that time. First coverage of the early Star Trek tv project and then later the Motion Picture, Alien, Battlestar G and of course Empire. Unfortunately I had to give it up when I went off to college as I could barely afford to eat let alone buy a magazine. But the last issue I bought, #61, I brought with me and read it over and over again. I had no idea they were still publishing into the 2000s. Still have all my old issues tucked away somewhere. I'll have to dig them out someday.
Just a big thank you from one of your UK subscribers, because without you we would not have this fantastic show. Live long and prosper.
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!
Huh. Dan, you and I are about the same age and I thought that Starlog started off in the late 60s as a Trek fanzine. Thanks for being so educational!
LOVED it - this and their “comics scene” were essential for nerds my age
These Starlog magazines is what we had before the internet took off, to see the behind the scenes info and production of these great Sci Fi series. Loved reading them. I have a few issues.
I remember Starlog! I had many issues!
Does anybody else remember the magazine on how to produce special effects on a shoestring called Cinemagic?
This brings back so many memories! I had the STARLOG t-shirt and Robbie the Robot blueprints! I asked my folks for a subscription so was in nerd heaven for couple years I had it.
There was also a magazine called Cinefex that was all about special effects that came out in 1978. It went out of business back in 2020 or so.
Hi Dan, great show! I loved the 1964 movie, “First Men in the Moon.” I thought perhaps you could look into what happened to the Cavorite Sphere and Ray Harryhausen’s Selenites and giant caterpillar. Thanks!
Starlog, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and later Fangoria...were all my primary reading material during my younger years. You hit on all cylinders with this one. Thank you for presenting this!
Who else here would like Dan to cover 'Whatever Happened to *OMNI* Magazine?' ✋
One of my fave film nods to that sci-fi zine was the nerd bully's face on an OMNI poster in the fun college flick 'Real Genius.'
I agree with the "Omni" request. So many great articles and stories in one magazine.
I used to buy Starlog, Cinefantastique, Mad magazines and other such magazines. I even bought Starlog presents - Cinemagic, The Guide To Fantastic Filmmaking. I had bought large red binders with their name on it from them to contain their magazine issues. I didn't care much for Fangoria magazine though dedicated to horror flicks. I love Sci-fi, fantasy and horror movies, but mostly classic Sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV shows.
Back in the day I as buying Starlog, Future, Cinefantasique, Fantastic Films and of course Cinefex. I still have all the Cinefex issues.
I bought the first issue when I was thirteen years old. I didn’t realize at the time it would become such an icon. I continued to buy issues over the years and it always was fun and informative. My usual routine was to walk down to the newsstand next to 5he bus station in my quaint little home town and see if the new issue was out yet. Fantastic Films, Cinefantastique, and Future magazine were all staples (or stapled if you prefer). I also had a bunch of the Star Wars foldout mags that were also posters you could display on the wall. Great memories and fun times. I feel so fortunate to have been at the PERFECT age during that era. It felt like those films were made for me. Thank you!
I was addicted to Starlog and Fangoria back in the day. Great magazines.
Same here
'Sci fi and fantasy models' was my favourite.
As a Gen-X’er who grew up in the 70’s and 80’s (born in 1970), I can tell you that Starlog Magazine truly was a lifeline for us hardcore fans. Especially for those of us who grew up in the Midwest burbs. Along with Bantha Tracks, Cinefantastique, Star Wars Monthly Poster and a host of other publications. If it had Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Indy, Blade Runner, etc on the cover, it was like gold!
only place you could get news back then
Oh yeah! this was my go to magazine! when i went to Walden Book store, or Readmore Store! one of my favorite issues was the Star Trek the Motion Picture issue! like others i still have every issue i ever bought! great video!.
Those magazines were my internet when I was a kid.
I was an SF nerd/geek as a young adult. Living out here in the desolation of rural Nebraska. The equivalent of Siberia. Starlog was my lifeline to a world that seemed another universe, to the one I was living in. Still have all my Starlogs (from issue #1 onwards), including Future Life and even some Famous Monsters mags.
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...
Your channel is better than ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT!
This brings back a lot of great memories . I am fortunate to still have all of my issues. Can't wait till the pieces you do on Fangoria and Famous Monsters.
Starlog was My Bible growing in the 80's to when it stopped! I religiously every month went down to my local bookstore/Mag/Newspaper stand to get it!
This brings back memories. I was always checking the news stands for the next one. I was a teenager then.
Are you unaware of the Starlog stores that existed in the 1990s?
In Fox Valley mall outside of Chicago.
There was a nationwide chain, and they had all kinds of wonderful sci-fi merchandise.
I bought Issue No.01 of Starlog in a newsagent here in Australia in 1977. In those days it took months for such magazines to reach our shores. You could put it on order, but then it wouldn't get delivered to the Newsagents some months. So I started subscribing; and some months it just didn't turn up. Lost in the post. then you'd have to go searching the various "speciality sci-fi bookshops" in the city too find it; or back order another copy. Between 1977 and 2008/9 I managed to collect them all. Most of the specials, and the spin off "Future Life". Then in 2009 it stopped coming in the post. A very sad time. Thanks a lot GFC.
Great video. There will never be anything like Starlog especially in this digital age. Really enjoyed this video.
Wow. Just hearing the name Starlog brings back memories. Starlog, Omni and CineFX devoured a large percentage of my allowance.
RIP Starlog and RIP Cinefex
As someone born in 1966, Starlog, Fangoria and a 3rd title I can't remember but dealt with props, creature creations, special effects, etc., were my leisure reads in the late 70s and early 80s.
Now I can watch 20 different YT channels ( and then some) to get the same sort of info. Sooner. But there are trade-offs.
EDIT: CineMagic! That was the 3rd one I was thinking about.
I don't know what it is about your clips. But you are very easy to watch informative. And you do a great job in-depth. Being a big lost in space fan ever since I was a kid now at the age of 59 Still highly respect the show. It's great to see you. Bring it up from time to time and keep up the great work
I have a TON of back issues that I would love to unload. If anyone has an interest, please let me know.
I Met one of the Writers of Star Log He invited me to tour the office and gave me books that you use to have to order from the inside of the magazine. His name was Bill Clayton ..Thank you Bill for helping to fuel that 16 year old kid's love for SIFI.. An experience I will never forget. This video got me Choked up
I used to collect Starlog and Fangoria magazines.