Wow!!!! Thank you so much for this! This is my childhood/teen-hood. I too only bought from the newsstand. That was part of the experience, just like picking up issues of Famous Monsters. Those magazines kept me dreaming.... 💫

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Great point, Jonathan! Those magazines really did inspire my creativity and helped keep the dreamer in me alive.

I STILL miss Starlog to this day. There's never been anything like it since.

Starlog and Fangoria were my goto magazines in their day.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I was an occasional reader of Fangoria as well...but Starlog and TV Guide were the two magazines I really couldn't live without!

@CaesiusX

4 жыл бұрын

I still have an issue of _Famous Monsters_ with Darth Vader on the cover. Even though I've become quite the minimalist in my later years, I can't seem to get rid of it. Every time I see it, open it, smell the pages. . . It's like I'm 10 again.

@AC-gb7do

4 жыл бұрын

Thomas Kelly Yes..that feeling exactly. That’s why books/magazines will never go the way of the dodo.

@BMichaelGalloway

4 жыл бұрын

Same here, bro! 🤘

@robertgarrison5478

Жыл бұрын

Their was another one

Starlog Magazine#1 was important for fans watching Star Trek reruns. That issue had the Star Trek episode guide. Once you figured out the rerun schedule on your local tv station, you could figure out the day you needed to watch in order to catch any episodes you missed.

My first issue was number 7 when I was 15. It's the Star Wars issue back in 1977.

@CaesiusX

4 жыл бұрын

I find it interesting that even though I was an avid fan of _Star Trek, Space: 1999,_ and virtually any other sci fi that came my way before 1977, once _Star Wars_ came out, I started to devour all of the genre magazines I could find. It might have been the age I was when it hit (10). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I always wanted that warriors jacket.

@murrellsummers1987

4 жыл бұрын

I got two. One was a green color and the other was brown like on the show. Still have them in storage. Loved BSG.

Dude I swear there must have been a herd of us separated at birth that loved all of the exact same things. That magazine along with TV Guide was my internet. Great video! Thanks

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I know there were a herd of us! I'm glad you enjoyed the video, Capester!

@patricktwist6616

4 жыл бұрын

Great video... I have the full run of starlog in a box in the garage..... Oh I did get and still have the warrior jacket.

@YolandaAnneBrown95726

2 жыл бұрын

Who was jacked up for TV Guide's Fall Preview?

@matthewfarmer6830

2 жыл бұрын

@@patricktwist6616 if you still have them in the garage please let me have them, I'm a collector of magazines of all kinds. For real, I'll give you my address and name so you can send the collection to were I live.

@patricktwist6616

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewfarmer6830 I can get you pics ... It's a big heavy box ...get me price and we can talk

Really strange -- I found your channel randomly yesterday while searching for Hawk from Buck Rogers. And now this: I'm proud to own the copy of Starlog with Hawk on the cover. 😁 That magazine was great!

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoyed the video, SWE!

@hankmessaros1835

4 жыл бұрын

Hawk was the best, you are going to like this channel

@HeyyyEverybody

4 жыл бұрын

@@jdsundstrom Hell yes -- I love this channel! Thank you!

As a teen I received 🌟 log , Rolling Stone , Cream & Sports Illustrated. 🌟 log had really good writers. Was not just a pictorial " geek " mag !

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Great articles...along with great pics!

@sonic31century1

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Sci-Fi Channel had its own magazine.

@sonic31century1

4 жыл бұрын

Sci-Fi Channel had its own bimonthly magazine called Sci-Fi Entertainment. I don't know how long it lasted but I have 8 issues from 1994. It was a well done magazine with articles that focused on the shows they were airing. It also had a program guide.

@davidellis5141

4 жыл бұрын

@John Bold They actually had better writers , not pretentious , but fans. Boy Howdy !

I remember Starlog

While I never knew of Starlog magazine, I visited the Starlog Store around the corner from where I worked, at the Garden State Plaza, Paramus, NJ, a bunch of times. What an awesome store!! Entering you went up 2 shallow perforated metal steps that stretched across the entire storefront and then you stopped in your tracks. While not quite the bridge of the Enterprise, the sounds, especially the sounds, and the design style made you feel you were really, really there!!! On the Bridge of the Enterprise!!! The merchandise selection was vast for the store's size. Comics galore, figurines, masks, toys and everything else Sci-Fi. Picture all the merch at a Comic Con jammed into 1000 square feet!!!! It was there for a few years then it quietly disappeared, just as it had appeared. Here's a description of the store from it's manager I just found before writing this. Scroll down to commenter 4, Jordan, and enjoy!!! forum.rebelscum.com/showthread.php?t=893018

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff! Thanks for sharing, JeffFrmJoisey!

Thank you, Dave, for bringing back some more good memories! I subscribed to STARLOG and FUTURE magazines, and was a member of the Science Fiction Book Club for a while. I can still remember checking the mail box for the latest issues of STARLOG and FUTURE and being so excited when they arrived. As I recall, STARLOG was the science-fiction/fantasy-based magazine while FUTURE was the science-fact-based publication that was somehow associated with the publishers of STARLOG. I think I also had some kind of subscription to receive outer space artwork in cardboard tubes that was somehow related to FUTURE magazine, though my memory of the specifics fails me at the moment. The artwork may have simply been a side benefit of subscribing to FUTURE. I also remember somehow getting on the mailing list for a catalog of science fiction and fantasy products that was published in the format of something like a small newspaper. I can't recall the name of the catalog. Videos of Gene Roddenberry's TV shows and movies were available (Star Trek, Spectre, The Questor Tapes, etc.), the SEARCH TV show episodes (starring Hugh O'Brian), Kung Fu (with David Carradine), obscure science fiction and fantasy movies, and so much more. I enjoyed the way a synopsis for each episode of a TV series was usually listed with just enough detail that I could use it as a sort of abbreviated episode guide. Ah, I miss the good, old days of youthful innocence, excitement, and enthusiasm!

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

You're right. Future was science fact. And yes, I know what you're talking about...youthful innocence and enthusiasm is something that is truly hard to maintain and/or recapture.

Hi Dave! Starlog was a great magazine and covered all areas of Sci-fi and was a must read for sci-fi fans. I loved the early issues of the late 70’s and 80’s and still have all my original copies. I also loved the Starlog specials like the book on Robots. From Star Wars, Alien, Battlestar Galatica to Buck Rodgers, Starlog covered it all!

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. I loved those special issues as well. One of my favorites was one that they had on superheroes. Do you remember that one?

Boy I do remember STAR Log.! That was the good old days 👍👍

Who else went to Starlog.com after watching?

I'm a few years older than you and in my late teens/early adult years I worked in a grocery store that had a fairly large magazine & paperback section so I was able to build a large collection of 150+ of the old Starlog mags and, especially, Star Trek paperbacks. Sadly I had to sell them at a garage sale my Wife and I did around 1995. There was this one guy that came in and saw them. His eyes lit up and asked "How much for it all?!?" I was relieved and thrilled to find a fellow fan and sold them all to him for $10 if I remember. He was like a kid who had just scored the Christmas Jack Pot! I know he enjoyed them as much as I did....but that's what it's all about. We share the things we love with others that love them just as much. Thank you SO MUCH for these videos you share with US! (BTW, Starlog was where we went BITD to find out all the dope on what was coming...today we have YT! AND you are DEAD ON! At first it WAS the Revenge Of Kahn!)

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks for sharing your memories with us, Beast 1624. I'm pretty sure some fairly nifty karma had to have come your way after your act of kindness at that garage sale.

I still have that "Wrath of Khan" issue. Have good memories of it.

More than ever, we need that kind of magazine today. Thanks for letting us all know that older issues remain available today. Loved that magazine as it told me of movies to come that I didn't know were in production.

Yeah lord of fond memories of starlog! It’s cool that you can read the back issues. These days there are some similar magazines namely “SFX” magazine. But somehow the style of Star log articles and cover art was just better!

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I think Starlog was better because we were reading it with the eyes of youth!

First discovered Starlog when issue 18 came out. Was hooked instantly. Only magazine I ever read cover to cover. Got a subscription immediately and kept it going for many years. At some point, life got too busy for me to have time to read it anymore and I let my sub run out. I still have fond memories of it. As a gay kid who got picked on a lot, I loved to escape into the world of Sci Fi. Decades later I learned the publisher of Starlog was a gay man.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your memories, David!

Thanks for this trip down memory lane. I started reading Starlog when I was in middle school around sixth or seventh grade. I loved the coverage it gave tp the various Star Trek movies and TV shows (I was a reader when The Next Generation was starting out). I still remembered the tenth anniversary issue which they covered films like Short Circuit, Aliens, Big Trouble In Little China, The Fly, heck even Space Camp. I still kept reading it up until it ceased publication in 2009 (anout the time my mother died.) Those were two things I mourned that year. I also belong to a fan group on Facebook that talks about Starlog and the various articles that appeared in it.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video, rstyeast73!

Do you want to hear a story that will break your Hearts? I had all 374 issues of Starlog when our house was For closed on. Some of them were autographed by Mark Hamill Adam West Armin Shimermin and George Takei ,but because we had to move, my brother had a garage sale and sold the whole collection for$2.00! If I knew at the time, that wouldn't ever have happened.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

My heart is truly broken, Jeffrey!

Dave, you rock! This was absolutely my favorite magazine growing up, never missed an issue!

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kevin!

Just after I got my first after school job as a teenager, I remember walking home one evening and stopping in a small convenience store to get a soda and found myself browsing their newsstand and ended up coming away with a couple of comic books and a copy of Starlog. And for the next several years this became a regular thing for me. I remember a lot of those articles, personal interviews with the cast and crews of the various shows and movies that I loved, pieces about upcoming shows and movies and retrospectives of older ones. In particular I remember a particular commemorative issue celebrating Star Wars' 15th anniversary, and reading and rereading an article within telling the history of original Star Wars comic series by Marvel and summaries pictures from some of it's best issues, most of which I'd never known about, and it inspired me to eventually seek out those books to read for myself. Eventually though, as they spun off their Star Trek coverage into a separate magazine all to itself, and Star Wars got their own fan club magizine, and there were less and less of the nostalgia pieces I enjoyed, I stopped reading some time in the 90s. Starlog seemed to disappear from most newsstands by the dawn of the 21st century, and I'm actually surprised to hear that it survived until the mid-2000s. Ah, well.

I remember the ad for the Battlestar GALACTICA Warrior jackets. I really, really wanted one but never got one . . . until decades later. I'd seen them in person prior to getting mine and knew they weren't exactly like the ones worn by Starbuck, Apollo, Boomer and the rest but the seven year old in me still really, really wanted one. After getting it, a medium when a large would have fit better, I was disappointed and ended up reselling it. Seeing the licensed and fan made screen accurate jackets turned me off to the old school one. I suppose if I ever come across another one I'll go ahead and get it and appreciate it for what it is.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your memories, JKJA!

I was a big fan of Starlog and subscribed to it so as not to miss an issue. I bought many of the books they sold and several of the caps that the Thinking Cap Co, sold. I wore that Alien hat nearly to death. It was literally falling apart. I also bought all the Star Trek novels, I think they were numbered 1 to 12. I still have them somewhere.

I remember paying 50 cents for TV Guide. I could sit for hours reading every single entry. Wow. Great memories. I bought some back issues of Starlog for their episode guides. Still have them in my closet and I know I'll rummage through those later. Of course now I'm also thinking about Modern Screen, Rona Barrett's Hollywood Magazine, Photoplay magazine, etc. Back when 75 cents bought you a nice sized chock full of stories and photos from the real golden age magazine . Thanks for reminding me of the wonderful youth I had.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I still have a couple of issues of Rona Barrett's Hollywood magazine. When I crack those things open, it's like stepping into a time machine!

thank you for sharing your memories. i really loved the first few years of starlog. i remember seeing it for the first time at our local IGA grocery store. i read it on the 'newstand'. it was the summer of 1976. that issue seemed to hang around forever. it seemed like many months before the next issue arrived. i was 14 at the time. the summer of 1976 was a great one for me. it was filled with sandlot sports, eating watermelon nearly every day, many, many comic books, will eisner's the spirit from warren, the shadow in paperback, happy days on tv, much talk of girls, bike races. for whatever reason i also remember that my friends and i all wore plain white t-shirts that summer. i liked the white t-shirts because they reminded me of the shirts spin and marty wore on the repeats of the mickey mouse club! i could go on and on. it was also the summer i discovered nectarines! lol any way, i loved starlog and especially those year in review extra pages issues. oddly, i don't recall future magazine, but i do recall fangoria debuting in the summer of 1979.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your memories, John!

I always loved it when I had the money to get an issue. I was always on a tight budget so I’d carefully appraise the content before purchasing. In college a friend got an internship at Starlog/Fangoria. I was one of her few friends who knew what they were. Thanks for the video!

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, clavius65. If it only seems like there were a couple of good articles, I would try to read them at the store. But when an issue was jam-packed with good stuff, I would break out my wallet!

AND Fangoria! Thanks for the wonderful memories Dave ❤️

@lerm2866

4 жыл бұрын

I purchased dozens of Fangoria mags in the 80's and 90's, still have most of them.

Another Starlog fan here. Did you know Starlog also had retail stores? There was one at the King of Prussia Mall just outside of Philadelphia. It was a sci-fi geeks dream. It closed right before the magazine ended it's run.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I had no idea that there were retail stores! How cool is that?!!?

Gosh, I still remember the first Starlog television commercial with Robby the robot. The era of this magazine and the launch of Fangoria, both made growing up in the 80s so much more fun.

sadly, i discovered this on wikipedia : "Warehouse fire On December 5, 2007, a warehouse operated by Kable News, in Oregon, Illinois, which contained all back issues of Starlog and Fangoria magazines, was destroyed by fire. As back issues of Starlog are not re-printed, the only remaining back issues are now housed in private collections or those available on the secondary market.[13]"

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. The fire made existing back issues much more valuable.

I loved Starlog! Amazed they didn't have the foresight to go digital. Even if you can find everything on the internet, I miss the days of unexpectedly discovering things in magazines and books and knowing the right stores to look.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I believe there were plans to go digiital. Of course, "plans" and actually doing it are two different things!

I can't remember what issue was my first purchase, but I took advantage of their 'back issues'. I ordered all the issues before my first purchase, and also ordered the other books and magazines. Spaceships, Aliens, Weapons, etc...I also subscribed to Future, Cinemagic, Fangoria as the sister publications as I was making Super 8 SF movies. I think I was 11 at the time. Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I still have all the books and magazines.

@jdsundstrom

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome...and thank you for sharing your memories, Jurgen!

LOVED Starlog magazine. Didn't start buying it until after issue #7 (first Star Wars issue), but I bought and read it for many, many years. Still have a bunch of them that I saved.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I've read most of the digitally archived version of Starlog #7. That was a great issue!

OOOOOH SNAP!....I have a big stack of starlogs... I loved that mag...as well as DYNAMITE..PIZAZZ.. and WIZARD...love this un dave..way ta go👍

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Wizard magazine was another great publication!

@oddsbodkins9153

4 жыл бұрын

@@jdsundstrom wizard rocked...have 80+issues and all the extras such as cards etc preserved in pages..even the christmas gift tags..loved that amoung all other pubs...dynamite and the log came in a close second...and I forgot to mention the mags wierd woukd and famous monsters

@oddsbodkins9153

4 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Appleton oh yeah and fangora

@oddsbodkins9153

4 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Appleton not mint...but I'd call them read and fair

@oddsbodkins9153

4 жыл бұрын

Seems like the first issue of starling that I bought had a blue print poster of the draconian from buck rogers..I think it was anyway...

Loved Starlog as well as Cinefantasique growing up. My best friend in high school actually bought the BSG jacket and it was well worth every penny he paid for it.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you had a pretty cool friend, Bruce!

Star log was named for star treks captins log voice over. In a few episodes it was said as star log.

I run a few fansites for retro shows and I love using Starlog Magazine for in-depth content! Been scouring back issues for nearly 20 years. I know I've bought a few in my teens and early 20's. (90s to 2001) They also made Epi-log which was so cool for episode guides and show info. And Comics Scene.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. Magazines like Starlog and Comics Scene provide tons of great ideas for content.

I read that magazine from 1976 to 1985. Whenever someone reminisces about Starlog Magazine I like to remind everyone about the ads for Starlog's exclusive "1941" tie-in merchandise that ran for months and months, which I don't think they could ever sell on account of the film being a notorious bomb. Starlog would promote anything sci-fi/fantasy or Lucas/Spielberg genre-related regardless of quality. It was a way to keep abreast of what was coming up, but after awhile I stopped caring about what the latest thing from Amblin would be.

@jdsundstrom

2 жыл бұрын

I saw 1941 in the theater at least 3 times. I loved it.

I loved Starlog, and still have my old copies. Thank you!!

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Eric!

I remember seeing Starlog, Fangoria, Mad Magazine, Monsters Unleashed and others that all had comics on those awesome, ubiquitous comic spinner racks for so long that one would think that these treasures would always just be around a newstand very near you. :)

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I loved those old-timey spinner racks...especially when they were filled with comics!

I discovered Starlog in the early 90s and picked up several copies throughout 98-2001. It’s the one magazine I truly miss.

Here is my favorite story about 'Starlog' Magazine ^_^ I remember reading it when I was a kid, and I think I read it not long after Star Wars came out. A few years later I read about another science-fiction movie that was being made. It had something to do with the crew of a starship going out into space and encountering intelligent lifeforms. To me, it sounded something like a mix between Star Trek and Star Wars.....the best of both worlds. Too younng to have much of my own money to go to the movies myself, I asked an older sibling to take me to the movie, which she did. We got there a bit early, and my first clue that there was something unusual about this movie should have been when I saw a woman exit the theater before it was over, with this very upset look on her face....she must really not like Science-Fiction (as most of my family). Well, I soon learned why, as I saw for the first time the exciting adventures of the crew of the Starship Nostromo, and the lifeform they were trying to 'communicate' with....yes, the movie that I thought was going to be a Star Wars/Star Trek mash up was "Alien". I new nothing about "R" rated movies at the time, but I am certain my sister knew this was a horror movie, and was a bit of a cruel joke on her part (although I forgive her ^_^). That being said, there hasn't been a year since that I haven't had at least one nightmare about giving birth to or running away from H.R. Giger's creation. Also, I'm embarrassed to say, I've developed a certain thing for women who wear T-shirts and tiny, tiny undies (even though I don't have a thing for Miley Cyrus, that "Wrecking Ball" music video awakened some old memories ^_^). I still have issues mouldering away in my storage room, maybe I'll go back and dig some up soon and re-read them ^_^

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I am certain your sister knew as well! Still, it sounds like she was able to get you into a movie that I wasn't able to see until a couple of years later because my parents would never have taken me to an R rated film. So, if you look at it that way, she was pretty darn cool!

#9 is the most popular one. They are kewl.

I met the publisher Mr O'Quinn at a convention in Florida.

I still have my copies of Starlog to this day. I'm a geek from way back.

I should of kept my old Starlog mags thanks for sharing the memories

Excellent Trip, Thank you for taking us along...🤗👍👍👍

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it, CLCinflorida!

What are "anti-Adam Est Batman Days"? As a kid, I watched Batman the TV religiously in reruns, and took it seriously. I was shocked one day when one of my older friends told me it was a comedy.

Wow my favorite mag , I couldn't wait till came out. I would buy it right away. There was a page in the back that I called the big tease page, it had movies that were coming out per month then it had what was in development. That was the tease. It would say NAMOR TO XMEN but it took another 20yrs for comic movies to really hit it big. Thanks Dave for this little trip to happy reading...RIP STARLOG

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video, Hank!

I wanted that Battlestar Galactica jacket as well! Great Video, Thank You! I thought starlog would be around forever too!

@jdsundstrom

Ай бұрын

I'm so glad you enjoyed the video, Harvey. 🙂

Still have my copies of Starlog also have some Starlog trading cards. I take them out and read them now and then .

By now I think I may have given childhood me away as I spent a LOT of time making things. That Battlestar Galactica jacket I tried (oh man, did I try) to make one out of shaved leather and used the Shackley briefcase clasps to make the fasteners. Looking at pictures of me wearing it then I have to admit that it looked terrible, but I was still proud of it. I did get a couple of merit badges out of the project though. All because of Starlog magazine printed a great picture of it.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Well done, my friend! Regardless of the quality of the end product...you had a freakin' Battle Jacket!

My first issue of Starlog was #31. Mine was at an IGA store in my hometown, that had the best selection of magazines, and books. The feature was Disney's The Black Hole, but I bought it mostly because it had an article on The Empire Strikes Back. They had pictures from the set, and they listed some crazy rumors about the plot, one of which involved a space queen who would be played by Zsa Zsa Gabor. After that Starlog was a monthly habit until around 1988. Starlog was where I saw the first photo of Boba Fett from the set of Empire. It was where I learned about Doctor Who, Mad Max, and many other movies, including...Mega Force. I recently purchased the Mega Force blu ray, and I can tell you it's still a horrible movie, but it's fun to watch. Thanks for posting your videos Dave, they always take me on a nice trip down memory lane. I have a collection of the Dell Marvel books, both the reprints, and the original prose novels. I loved those books.

Starlog, fangoria, skateboarder magazine and thrashed magazine were my favorite. We would hangout in and out side the 7 eleven or Perry's drugstore all summer long. Top hats burgers then the arcades(after the advent of Atari we stopped going or doing anything) to complete the day. but I never knew they were still around at the turn of the century. I figured they went out of business in the mid to late 80's. Wow... my hormones had me so occupied with chasing skirts, I never realized till now, how early I turned my back on everything innocent. Thrasher has a KZread channel, Starlog should do the same.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea!

I purchased issue #1 as soon as I saw it on the newsstand and was hooked immediately. I subscribed when I could but more often than not, I had to wait for new issues to be released, meaning there were gaps in my collection. Over the years, I have been able to fill those gaps in and now my collection is complete (with a few duplicates here and there) mainly thanks to Ebay and Mile High Comics in Denver. It's fun to review those old issues and track the history of the Indiana Jones movies or the Alien series, not to mention Star Trek and Star Wars of course. I would like to think that Starlog could be revived somehow, not necessarily as print media, but in some sort of digital or streaming format.

@jdsundstrom

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your memories!

Starlog is where I first heard about forbidden planet , great magazine !

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I can't remember where I first read about Forbidden Planet...but it may have been Starlog as well!

Starlog was great. I remember the article about Burt Ward and how often he got injured on "Batman". Now if I want info about how a movie was made I usually read Cinefex. Check out those you-tube tutorials about the RED camera. MAD magazine has ended publication too. Herb Jefferson (on the cover of one of your issues) was a trusted pilot on "Battlestar Galactica" and he was also the hapless sailor who was victimized by "Falconetti" (William Smith) in "Rich Man Poor Man".

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I'm super sad about the demise of MAD magazine, waverly2468. The end of an era!

Dave, that was a phenomenal Tribute. You and I must've lived parallel lives. The only bit of info that I will add. I bought "Starlog" mainly for its coverage of "Star Trek"...but by 1986 I think "Cinefantastique"'s coverage of Trek had exceeded what "Starlog" was doing. Even today...all these years later, I'm having dreams of walking into Barnes & Nobles and seeing one of those big "Cinefantastique" double sized Trek Tribute issues.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video, Stephen!

I always enjoyed these kind of magazines my dad passed down his famous monsters magazines down to me cause I loved this so much I don't have any starlog magazines but it would be great to own some especially star trek love that show also love these classic magazines the good stuff as you say which is true i also own film fax magazines I think its what their called but yea love this stuff

They were sort of active on Facebook until mid 2015. Sister magazine Fangoria still seems to be around.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

There is still a fairly active Starlog group on Facebook. However, I don't think it is an official group. Just something created by fans.

For me, Starlog was some early self-nerd identification. Not something that a jock or popular kid would be caught with but we nerdy folk who were nerds before it became fashionable often had one at school!

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. Pre-internet, I took my copies of Starlog along with me to school...and everywhere else! They were a badge of honor!

I filled out the order from and got really excited over that jacket. My Mom had said I needed a new coat. So I thought perfect here's one. She looked at it and said no it'll never keep you warm enough. I remember showing her a picture of Starbuck and saying look at it begging. It didn't have a hood to cover my head and just wouldn't work to keep me warm in the winter. So not meeting Mom's standards I never got that jacket. I'm 53 now maybe I should get over it.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Mom was probably right, Joe! I'm looking at a similar Battlestar Galactica jacket on Amazon and thinking the exact same thing, will it be warm enough? Utah gets pretty cold in the wintertime!

I loved Starlog! When working a recycling route someone threw out the first 30 or so issues. I had fun reading them and kept them for decades before selling them. I didn't even know they stopped making them. Thanks for the update!

Megaforce has gotten the RiffTrax treatment!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

This video brought back a lot of fond memories. Throughout the 80's I always looked forward to the latest issue of Starlog. I would get them at my local candy store where I also bought my comic books. Then when the candy store went out of business, I would get it at Waldenbooks, where I also purchased a lot of my science fiction paperbacks. Damn, I miss the 80's

DUDE!!!! Star-Log was the shit! I was 13 when I subscribed to that magazine for years. I even collected the magazines for years. The articles were excellently written, and their sci-fi images could not be matched by any other publication. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Peace.

In the sixties my magazine of choice was Famous Monsters of Filmland. And in the pre-Starlog days, the only places I could find quality articles on sci-fi were the fanzines Cinefantastique and RBCC (Rockets Blast/Comic Collector).

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I remember Cinfantastique but I can't say I've ever heard of RBCC.

@michaeltuz8256

4 жыл бұрын

@@jdsundstromOriginally, RBCC was primarily a comic book fanzine. Then when James Van Hise took over he began including more and more articles on science fiction movies and television. This was a high quality fanzine in the late sixties and early seventies; one of the best in those days.

I remember buying the very first issue in May of 76

@jdsundstrom

2 жыл бұрын

That one is definitely a collector's item!

I miss that magazine. ❤

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, Jimmy!

I still keep a few starlog I miss printed magazines

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I miss printed magazines as well. I guess I could do more to help the survival of those magazines that are still around in printed form. I think I will head over to Amazon and subscribe to a couple of good ones.

i loved starlog. i got my convention lnfo. from starlog.

I always wondered what Persis Khambatta looked like with hair, but not enough to sit through MEGAFORCE.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

You're right, Jack. The price to pay is too steep!

Yes STARLOG 💫 ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️‼️Some of mine are in protective plastic bags ❣️‼️😅😂🤣 (Well it was said Jedi don’t take revenge apparently )bummer ‼️Thanks Dave for the stroll 🚶‍♀️ down memory lane‼️You and yours have a great one❣️❣️❣️‼️ I heard STARLOG Building burned down⁉️

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

You're right, Thelma. The building that warehoused all of the back issues of Starlog (and some other publications) was destroyed by fire. As a result, some issues of Starlog are now very difficult to obtain!

Gaaahhhh!! Too much in the video that I want to address! 😁 Like you, Dave, I spent many hours in a department store. My father worked for Woolco. I too was an avid _Starlog_ reader as well. I was so disappointed when it stopped being published. I don't think I would have followed them online. It's just not the same. Having said that, ironically I downloaded all those archived _Starlogs_ because I was afraid that they might go one day. I too really wanted one of those Battlestar Galactica jackets. In my memory, there was an ad for them in every single issue ─ taunting me.😂 And I know what you mean about Battlestar Galactica vs Star Wars at the time. As I'm sure you'll agree, it wasn't a competition. We were just thrilled to get more great sci-fi. The one scene that really got me excited which was on the television ads (and I'm almost positive there was a still of it in Starlog) was when they were in the depths of the planet _Carillon._ Starbuck, Apollo and company were traversing a bridge in the caves, blasting away at the _Ovions_ chasing them. I quite liked the way Battlestar Galactica got away from having to paint laser bolts on film each week. A flash from the muzzle of the blaster, then suddenly - what they're aiming at goes _BOOM!_ Another great video Dave! Thanks! When I saw _Starlog Magazine_ in the thumbnail, it was all I could do to stop myself from commenting before I even watched the video! 😄 Oh, and I forgot to mention (or maybe I didn't 🤔) but Gil Gerard appears in the beginning of one of those Star Trek New Voyages episodes I mentioned. He can be seen in episode 4x08 _"Kitumba."_

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Great comments, Thomas! I need to archive the digital copies as well. Most everything does eventually go "poof".

THOUGHT THAT STAR TREK WAS A DOCUMENTARY 😊 Weed Me

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Ha! Oh well, I hope you enjoyed the video anyway!

@weedme4932

4 жыл бұрын

@@jdsundstrom Mr. D HAVE A GOOD NIGHT

My god I Loved StarLog!!!! It was my favorite of them all. The high brow OMNI. Fantastic Films the British StarBurst. I could not get enough. My great love was Star Trek and Classic movies. I remeber an issue with Timothy Dolton on the cover i could have cared less in the pages of this purple covered tome. Lay the photos and names of the cast of Star Trek the Next Generation!!! Led by my most adored Patrick Stewart. Whom I fell in love with in John Boormans Excalibur. I even sat thriugh the Garbage that was Lifeforce and Dune just to get a glimps of him. I loved Starlog. Hey i havexa BSG warriors jacket. Ill be in touch if the size fits ill send it to you man.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I had completely forgotten about OMNI magazine. You better hang on to the jacket, my friend. That thing will pay for your retirement someday!

A substantial number of Starlog mags are available for free download at archive.org. They might even have the full print run. (Entered before hearing the end of commentary.)

Lucas felt that Jedi who followed the Light side of the Force don't take revenge and that is why He changed it from Revenge to Return.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I seem to recall hearing something like that as well.

I actually did get the Battlestar Gallactica jacket and still have it. I also still have a couple of early magazines including the one with the cover of Space 1999 and one with the Six million dollar man and Bionic woman. I also got the technical manual that they produced for Space 1999, along with their Aliens, robots and weapons books. They were great.

Great magazine I think I may still have a copy somewhere in my office. Keep up the good work.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the encouragement Marvelman 1K!

I too wanted that Battlestar Galactica jacket so bad, but alas, could never afford it...I hadn't realized Starlog had ceased publication :( but thankfully I still have my old collection of Batman, Star Trek and Back to the Future issues somewhere in my storage area gathering dust

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

That's where most of my magazines are as well. Collecting dust. I really need to pull them out of storage and spend some time reading them again.

There was also Korvette's and Federal's.

Star Log. Amazing. I remember it well. Dave. To me Star Trek the original was and still is my favorite TV series of all time. Star Log was the best info, before youtube and the internet, for back stories of your favorite Sci Fi TV and movie entertainment. Thanks so much for the upload. By the way, just followed you on twitter. 😉

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Great comment, Larry! And, thank you for following me on Twitter!

I loved Starlog!

I still have my collection of James Blish's books as wee as all the Photo Novels put out by Bantam Books ❤

@jdsundstrom

2 жыл бұрын

I don't have as many as I used to. It's weird how some of them disappeared and others didn't.

CONGRATULATIONS! This is the first you tube posting that I have ever seen get no dislikes. I still have that Starlog Revenge of the Jedi issue.

My one and only copy of Starlog was about The Empire Strikes Back and had Yoda on the cover and had a prediction of E.T. 2!

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I remember that issue!

Which then led me to Creepy, Eerie, and the adventures of Peter Hypnos !

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

I don't remember Peter Hypnos!

WOW this really brought back memories. This was the first magazine I ever subscribed to. And YES, I wanted that Battlestar jacket too! :-)

I also recall purchasing Starlog at whichever store had it. I don't recall ever considering to subscribe to it though but in hindsight I definitely should have.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Yah. Me too. Subscribing would have definitely saved me a little money.

My older brother bought Starlog magazines, but only for articles relating to Star Wars & Indiana Jones. Sadly, those magazines were lost to rodent damage back in the 90's.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Dang! Because of a warehouse fire where hundreds of thousands of back issues were stored, it is getting more difficult to find good clean copies of Starlog back issues.

I got the star trek magazines at an local auction for $10.00 there were 30 magazines, it was in near mint condition these magazines from someone private collection. They were the first to introduce you to Star Wars now that crazy. Thanks for sharing the story on starlog magazines.👍👍😎 The magazine went out in April of 2009. So there only in the internet to see about them if you like to check them out.

I saw my then future wife in issue 140. Love Starlog.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Vance - C'mon man! You've got to share the rest of the story!

@astrofist

4 жыл бұрын

@@jdsundstrom I read Starlog in high school. I saw her in the magazine standing next to actor Patrick Cullington (from Starman). I briefly though...well, she's cute :) A few years later, I met a girl who looked a whole lot like her. I got her number and we started dating. One night at supper we were talking about TV shows. She'd mentioned that she had been involved with a group to bring the Starman TV series back to ABC TV. She then revealed that she was the head of the TN division of said group (Blu Lights). When I took her back home. She showed me all of this cool memorabilia revolving around Starman...and lo and behold, she had a collection of Starlog mags. I started digging..."Is that you?" "Yep" :)

I'm 66 and a TOS guy like no other. But, I've never heard of or seen, in all my travel since those days long ago, of Starlog Magazine. I lived in the grocery store magazine/book section and never saw it. Dave, you said you only had one store in your town that was complete enough to carry it. I guess it was the various stores option not to carry it if it wouldn't sell.

Still have a few back issues along with Creepy and Eerie!!

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Great magazines!

Starlog has remained a highlight of my literary life! . . . Fortunately I still own all my original issues #7 - #69 and I enjoy looking through and re-reading them. They're like pleasant sci culture time capsules! Never get tired of them. . . Do you also remember Marvel's Pizzazz Magazine? Maybe you can do a segment on those??

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. I definitely remember Pizzazz, Sean! I talked a little bit about it in one of my other videos...maybe the Dynamite magazine one. I can't remember at the moment...but, it was a great magazine as well!

@seantaylor1191

4 жыл бұрын

@@jdsundstrom Yes! It was your Dynamite episode! I just saw it afterward. I still own all my original Dynamites as well! Thanks for remembering all the fun!

I still have my Battlestar Galactica Viper pilot jacket.

@jdsundstrom

4 жыл бұрын

You are a very lucky person, mcgarrett91!