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My favorite magazines growing up were Mad and Compute! The thing I liked about Compute! were the programs you could type in and run. Today Popgadget shares a bunch of archived magazines courtesy of Atari Magazines including Compute!
Oh yeah! All these exclamation marks make me wonder if Compute originally inspired Yahoo?
I don’t have any of the Compute! magazines any more but I fondly remember reading, typing and playing around with the programs from those magazines on both the Vic-20 and Commodore 64 computers (my first computers). I also enjoyed reading the Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four and Iron Man comics. I’m looking forward to seeing the Iron Man movie.
What were your favorite magazines or comic books when you were younger?
In the early ’60’s I read D.C. superheroes The Flash, Superman, Batman, and The Green Lantern. In the Marvel universe I read anything with Stan Lee’s name on it–The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Four, Thor, The X-Men, Iron Man, and of course, Spiderman. In the late ’60’s I got into The Silver Surfer (I liked him because he was so philosophical, and he had the Power Cosmic, man).
In the early ’70’s I favored underground comix. R. Crumb was my favorite cartoonist.
But I was never more than a dilettante, unlike some of my friends, who amassed collections of thousands, with complete series of some of the big names.
I still like the ’80’s D.C. concept of ‘re-booting’ the whole universe. Maybe that’s what the Mayans were talking about with their cycles of worlds.
Comment by Vince Williams — December 14, 2006 @ 8:04 pm PST
I wasn’t much of a collector either, Vince, and wistfully look back now at how I basically gave away a lot of the magazines and comics I enjoyed as a kid. Not sure what I’d do with some of the comics and other things if I had them today, but I have a feeling most of what I basically gave away ended up in the trash.
Comment by TDavid — December 14, 2006 @ 8:15 pm PST
I know what you mean. I had a mint copy of the Beatles’ single, ‘Ain’t She Sweet’, with John singing lead and Pete Best playing drums on the title track. On the B side, the Beatles played backup to Tony Sheridan singing ‘Nobody’s Child’. It was recorded in 1961 at Hamburg, but wasn’t released in the U.S till 1964, after the Beatles had become famous this side of the pond.
It later went up in flames, along with my serious (well, for a kid) vinyl collection of ‘60′ rock. I had some pretty esoteric stuff, like Captain Beefheart, early Mothers of Invention, and the earliest Pink Floyd. At least the stuff I’d left behind when I moved out was spared the indignity of the garbage can–it was all carbonized.
Comment by Vince Williams — December 15, 2006 @ 3:50 pm PST
My husband was really into Compute! too. I’d mail you his old magazines if you wanted them..
Comment by Lisa — March 6, 2008 @ 1:19 pm PST