Collecting Vintage Movie Magazines

[C. Dianne Zweig Editor's Desk]

Collecting Vintage Movie Magazines

There's something about carefully flipping through old movie magazines - the dungy smell, the fragility of the paper, the crazy advertisements, the pedestal on which classic movies stars were placed upon - a bygone age that can be seen on black and white and often sepia tone pages between vivid color covers.

I used to collect clippings on my favorite stars and movies because that was what was available, but found that intact mint condition magazines are much more valuable. It seems that dealers that sell know this too. Collecting magazines as a hobby is more fun with the advent of the internet, and nothing is more thrilling than opening the mail to see a new "old" magazine.  Before you throw away that old Screen Album magazine in your grandmother's closet -- probably her version of a teen magazine - you might want to keep it. Cover stories on the "scandalous" affairs of yesterday's stars are equivalent to today's National Enquirer.

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