A fan magazine is a commercially written and published magazine intended for the amusement of fans of the popular culture subject matter that it covers. It is distinguished from a scholarly, literary or trade magazine on the one hand, by the target audience of its contents, and from a fanzine on the other, by the commercial and for-profit nature of its production and distribution. Scholarly works on popular culture and fandoms do not always make this terminological distinction clear. In some relevant works, fanzines are called "fan magazines", possibly because the term "fanzine" is seen as slang .
7-633: The Beatles Book (also known as Beatles Monthly ) was a fan magazine dedicated to the English rock band the Beatles , founded in 1963. It was first published in August 1963 and continued for 77 editions until it stopped publication after the December 1969 edition. It was revived in 1976, and ceased publication in 2003. In early 1963 a music writer and publisher, Sean O’Mahony , (who already published
14-574: A certain way, and in exchange for this control, the studios would purchase plentiful advertisements. Well known gossip columnists like Hedda Hopper, Walter Winchell, and Louella Parsons, among others, were published in various fan magazines. Readers of the fan magazines enjoyed reading about their favorite celebrities in "candid" articles supposedly penned by the stars themselves, even though they were most likely written by press agents and usually served to defend recent behavior or deflect rumors. The reporting on stars in this period by Photoplay and others
21-471: A magazine about the music scene called Beat Instrumental ) heard Please Please Me and asked Brian Epstein if he could publish a magazine devoted to the Beatles . Epstein and the group agreed and the title launched in August 1963 with a print run of 80,000. By the end of the year circulation had grown to 330,000 copies per month. O’Mahony edited the magazine under the name of Johnny Dean. The magazine's photographer, Leslie Bryce, had unrivalled access to
28-416: The group throughout the 1960s, travelling the world and taking thousands of photographs. In addition, Beatles roadies Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans wrote many of the articles, and artist Bob Gibson created numerous cartoons and caricatures of the fab four on a regular basis. (He eventually did the cartoons for the Beatles' 1967 Magical Mystery Tour EP-set/US-album booklet.) In May 1976 O’Mahony revived
35-830: The publication and republished all 77 original issues surrounded by eight (later sixteen) pages of new Beatles news and articles. The reissue programme was completed in September 1982, coincidentally at a time when interest in the band was high due to the impending twentieth anniversary of " Love Me Do ". Consequently, the decision was taken to continue the magazine with all new content. Publication continued until January 2003 (issue 321) when it once again ceased. Sean O'Mahony retired from publishing in 2002 and died in 2020. Fan magazine American examples include Photoplay , Motion Picture Magazine , Modern Screen , Sports Illustrated and Cinefantastique . The film fan magazines focused on promoting films and movie stars in
42-480: Was often positive due to the studios' influence over the publications. Photoplay was one of the first American film fan magazines. Founded in Chicago in 1911 by Macfadden Publications, Photoplay was founded the same year as Stuart Blackton's Motion Picture Story , a similar publication. Photoplay , as one of the first and most popular fan magazines, is credited as the originator of celebrity media. Photoplay
49-417: Was published from 1911 until 1980, at several points merging with other publications. Other fan magazines include Modern Screen and Cinefantastique . Confidential was founded in 1952 by Robert Harrison and published until 1978. More of a tabloid than a fan magazines because of its salacious content and irreverent celebrity gossip. Unlike other fan magazines, Confidential did not cooperate with
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