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Today I came across this collection of magazines from 1930s France called Police Magazine. We have quite a number of them for sale on the site, happily with images to peruse. From what I can tell, the publication ran from 1931 until 1937. I’ve found little information about it, but I think the magazine was [...]

We love Amazing Stories Magazine and were sad to learn of its demise in 2006. Fortunately, with some fresh blood, new passion and a revitalized approach, it looks like it may just have been a long hiatus. And it sounds mysterious and potentially exciting: “To make a long story short and to simultaneously avoid having [...]

The Awl has published a list of New Yorker Magazine retractions and corrections. The long-running literary magazine is famously infamous for its rigorous, meticulous and prestigious fact-checking department, but since it is run by humans, the very occasional error does make it through. I especially enjoyed the corrective correspondence from Groucho Marx in February, 1929. [...]