Do You Collect Old Magazines?
Here you will find tips on collecting old magazines woven directly into detailed original histories of select publications. As the site continues to grow (est. Sept. 2005) you can come to expect pages about collecting old magazines by theme, cover artists and art, vintage magazine ads and much more.
The links up top will get you around Collecting-Old-Magazines.com, or if you prefer detail the Sitemap includes all pages. Or if your visit involves something specific please enter your search term in the box below:
This site already features a detailed magazine grading guide, a resource page with links to various galleries of magazine cover images and checklists, and even a guide for both buyers and sellers telling how to best pack and ship your old magazines.
Everybody reads magazines and everybody has their own areas of interest. It's only natural that we would want to save back issues of copies that we especially enjoyed. Thankfully that's human nature and that's why there are so many old magazines available to us today. You may not consider yourself a collector, yet you may have a stack of back issues up on a shelf in your closet gathering dust. Guess what, you have yourself a collection.
Collections can creep up on you in many different ways.
My name is Cliff Aliperti
and this is my site. I've been a collector (some say pack rat!) my entire life, starting with baseball cards as a kid and later as a business which I somehow turned into an online movie collectibles site and store. Old magazines have always seemed to be an important peripheral of any hobby I touched. My two main areas of expertise especially lend themselves to the crossover, as what Mickey Mantle collection is complete without a run of Sport Magazine back issues from the 1950's and 60's? And how can you collect anything movie related without eventually bumping into an old copy of Photoplay, Movie Story, or another of the old movie magazines?
The main purpose of this site is to examine some of my favorite vintage magazines in detail. I will provide a history of some of the more collectible publications and compose checklists whenever it is both relevant to the collector and possible to do so.
And you can also look for these features:
I'm going to do my best to cover every area of collecting old magazines that I can think of...and then think of some more.
I consider myself a nostalgia hound. Since I've covered the movies as best I can, it's time to immerse myself in another collecting arena that I really love and that's vintage magazine back issues.
I hope to keep my tail wagging and learn a lot myself as we go along. I hope that you do too! Now let's collect some old magazines...
Magazine Grading Guide for collectors of vintage back issues
A guide to grading vintage magazines. This is a numerical grading guide based on a ten-point system which takes several points of condition into consideration.
Packing and Shipping for Magazines Bought and Sold on eBay
An often overlooked part of buying magazines on eBay is how the seller packs your magazines for shipment. Examples of bad magazine packing and shipping and how I pack and ship magazines.
Sitemap for Collecting-Old-Magazines.com
A sitemap for collecting-old-magazines.com listing all of the pages included on the site and their navigational structure.
Some Other Stuff
Thanks for visiting! I wanted to personalize this page a little more as I've come to realize that Collecting Old Magazines is quite possibly the most popular section of the site.
My name is Cliff Aliperti and these are my pages. In fact every word written here on magazines and magazine collecting was written by me. I've collected a wide variety of items since I was a little kid, and have been making money with collectibles in one form or another since the mid-1980's. You can read a bit more about me over on the main site. Or if you want to chat come follow me on twitter:
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Collecting Old Magazines was a standalone site begun in 2005, a sister site to what is now its main umbrella, things-and-other-stuff.com. Since my interests in collecting are pretty wide things-and-other-stuff.com was more of a general collectibles site when I started it (2002 - The name comes from my eBay ID). In time it developed into a site about classic film stars with an emphasis on movie collectibles. I removed other collectible references from the site and then started a separate site about magazine collecting when I wanted an outlet to talk about something other than movie stars.
I melded the two sites together in late 2006. I try to keep them separate to some degree through the site architecture, but they do share a blog and you'll find a separate but shared outlet for collectibles for sale in my eBay Store.
In 2007 I added a wiki to the things-and-other-stuff domain as well, an especially relevant wiki for magazine collectors titled the magawiki. Right now it's a non-traditional wiki in the sense that it's only open to me for editing, but once I've entered the information that I have I do hope to open it up for others. In the meantime it's live on the site for your use.
I also wanted to mention some important off-site features in this space. As the site has grown I've been lucky enough to be found for a couple of interviews. Both of these were conducted during 2008, so the information is still quite relevant:
Those were both fun to do, I just hope you come back after reading them. What I hope I've put together for you here is a site about collecting today. I've documented histories of several publications, but what I like sharing best are my buying and selling experiences. They're spread throughout the articles on the site.
Now, if you're looking to buy old magazines, of course I want to suggest you get them from me! Here are some places you can currently do that:
- Magazines
- magawiki
- Shopping
- Blog
- Movies
- Movie Stars
- Movie Collectibles
- More Movies