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Magazine launches & events 1990-92
Magazine first issues and launches listed by cover date with most recent at top. Also with alphabetic links to magazines on the right. Launches in other years Squib comedy magazine first issue |
Squib
'The magazine of comedy allsorts' |
 Bad Influence licensed title |
Bad Influence
Spring 1992. Europress and Yorkshire Television. £2.95; 198 pages. Ed: Steve White. Computer title licensed fron Yorkshire TV to publisher Europress. With free cassette See Computer magazines |
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In Touch (Italian
version) Spring 92. Redwood contract fashion magazine for ICI. Editor: Kathy Phillips Redwood Publishing profile Contract publishers Magazine industry structure |
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Focus (The World in)
December 92. Gruner + Jahr, £1.75, 100 pages. Editor: Mick Hurell (dep: Juliet Walker) Big subscription drive. Later bought by Nat Mags, who passed it on to Origin, which was then bought, and again sold, by BBC Magazines Gruner + Jahr profile Women's weeklies case study Celebrity mags price war |
 BBC Holidays launch issue with Paris guide cover gift |
BBC Holidays Redwood Publishing/a BBC Enterprises company. £1.40; 108
pp. Ed: Ramune Burns |
 The Oldie launched by former Private Eye editor Richard Ingrams |
The Oldie February 1992. £1.40; 52 pages. Editor: Richard Ingrams What Richard Ingrams did once he retired from Private Eye The Oldie |
 Sight and Sound launch issue from the BFI featuring serial killer films and The Silence of the Lambs |
Sight and Sound
May 1991. British Film Institute. £2; 76 pages. Editor: Philip Dodd Has all reviews, synopses and credits and features published since 1999 in online archive Sight & Sound website |
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Gardeners' World
April 91. £1.30. BBC Redwood. Cover gift: memo board. Pull-out gardeners’ manual BBC Magazines profile Redwood profile |
 Esquire - the only modern men's lifestyle monthly to launch with a woman on the cover! |
Esquire March 91. National Magazines, London. £2; 188 pages. Editor-in-chief: Lee Eisenberg; Editor: Alex Finer 'Man at his best' tagline and marketed as 'Premiere issue! Special collector's edition'. The only men's magazine of the early launches to show a woman on the cover, in this case a 1950s shot of French actress Brigitte Bardot Men's monthlies case study Nat Mags profile |
| Good Food
March 91. Redwood/BBC Enterprises; £1; 108 pages. Editor: Mitzie Wilson Good Food was developed by editor Joy Davies, who had worked as cookery editor at both Riva and Woman. However, she fell ill as the launch neared and the post was taken over by Mitzie Wilson. The magazine won the PPA's launch of the year award BBC Magazines profile Redwood profile |
 Mirabella - disappointing launch from Murdoch Magazines |
Mirabella Grace Mirabella, a former editor-in-chief of US Vogue was
identified as the namesake of the original US version of the magazine
and was the title’s
communications director. |
| Vox
Oct 90. IPC. 95p (£1.50). Editor: Roy Carr. With record Hunter, 32 pages for collectors IPC profile |
 Topical Books for people who enjoy reading |
Topical Books Autumn 1990. £8.50 a year subscription (4 issues). Editor Ian Mitchell. Published from the Isle of Islay on the west coast of Scotland (better known for its malt whisky than its publishing). 'A consumer magazine for people who enjoy reading ... not a "literary" mag on the London model,' said the editor. |
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