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There are now over 200 publications on the market aimed at 12-to-17-year-old, adding names like YM, TWIST e JUMP. Established magazines such as PEOPLE e COSMOPOLITAN have spawned TEEN PEOPLE e COSMO GIRL. Teen publications may be the only other group of magazines able to make stars – only for a …

In the early sixties the fan mags moved over and made room for the teeny bopper publications, magazines specifically designed for the bubble gum set, the new autonomous youth culture that had come into marketing power. With names like TEEN, TIGER BEAT and SEVENTEEN they focused on younger players, mostly …

Soon afterward, the magazine folded, but not without leaving its lasting imprint especially on the movie magazine trade. Actually, CONFIDENTIAL changed forever the editorial content of all American magazines including THE READER’S DIGEST. But studios and personal press agents now held the fan mags at a distance. CONFIDENTIAL had not …

  THE GLOBE STORY/11   Television’s, replacement of the movies as the dominant form of mass entertainment in the United States only added to Globe’s arena. Nationals and fan mags embraced the forming giant’s endless parade of new stars and forced the studios to compete with the networks for magazines …

  THE GLOBE STORY/9 For millions of Americans the “fan mags”, as they were called, were an important appendix to the movies. Their features enhanced the studio image of what heaven our lives could be if we were rich, famous, beautiful and loved. Movie magazines then were love letters not …