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Magazines listed by cover date with most recent at top. Also with alphabetic links to magazines on the right. 
.Net magazine first issue cover .Net
December. Future, Bath; £2.95; 116 pages. Editor: Matt Bielby. 
Aimed to make sense of the information superhighway: email, netsurfing; gophering; the world wide web
Future profile
Wh@t Net
Winter. WV Publications, London; £2.95; 100 pages. Editor: Steve May. 
Came with cover disc: internet starter kit with Demon internet service provider 
Audio Visuality
November. Media Communication & Publishing, London; £2.95; 116 pages. Editor: Karen Foulis. 
Digital sight and sound
PC Pro
November. Dennis, London. £2.25. Double gatefold cover. 406 pages with CD-Rom. Editor: Barry Plows 
Dennis profile
Four Four Two magazine launch issue cover Four Four Two
September. Haymarket. £2.10. 132 pages. Editor: Paul Simpson
Sophisticated approach to football
 Haymarket profile
 
Eva magazine launch issue cover Eva
September 14. IPC. 20p trial issue.  
Take a Break clone
IPC profile 
Women's weeklies case study
Women's magazines covers
Zest magazine launch issue cover Zest
Autumn. National Magazines, London. £1.75; 176 pages (included 8-page uncoated paper section and fold-out). Editors: Vanessa Raphaely and Eve Cameron. 
"Health and beauty for a new generation"; a Cosmopolitan publication
Nat Mags profile
Women's monthlies profiled
Women's magazines covers
 
Perspectives on Architecture
April. Wordsearch and Perfect Harmony in association with the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture, London. £2.50;102 pages (including bound-in subscriptions card). Editor: Dan Cruikshank 
The heir to the throne followed up on his interest in architecture with this magazine and his own institute. Had famously called a proposed extension to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square 'a carbuncle'. Closed in 1998
Deadpan
April. DMC Publishing, London; £1.95; 68pages. Editor: David Davies. 
Claimed to be "Britain's first national comedy magazine"
24 Seven
April. Kandoo, London; £1.40; 84 pages; Editor: Marian Buckley. 
Club listings, music and fashion
Multimedia & CD-Rom Now 
April. Europress, Macclesfield; £4.95; 116 pages. Editor: Duncan Evans. Plus CD-Rom. 
In card/plastic wrapper
Loaded magazine launch issue cover Loaded 
May. IPC magazines; £95p (£2); 122 pages. Editor: James Brown. "For men who should know better"
Men's magazines
IPC profile
Attitude
May. Northern & Shell, London; £2.95, 132 pages. Editor: Tim Nicholson
Coronation Street first issue cover 1994 Coronation Street first issue cover of the official magazine in 1994 Coronation Street

January. Newsstand Publications, Oldham OL9 6QS; Granada Television. 36pp. £1.75. Eds: Brian Clarke & Daran Little
Official magazine launched after the series had celebrated 33 years of broadcasting (in the previous December). Introduction by Carolyn Reynolds, executive producer. One of the editors, Daran Little, went on to become a writer on 'Corrie' (2000-06). The main feature is about the wedding of ‘Reg’ and ‘Maureen’ (Ken Morley and Sherrie Hewson), which Reynolds says was watched by 22m people (more than a third of the UK population). Also included history of the corner shop and the people who had run it.
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