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Author: Greg Jones
Date: Dec 10, 2007

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1970'S POSTER MAGAZINES
SUPERMAG
GENE RODDENBERRY PENTHOUSE INTERVIEW
ARTIFACTS FROM THE FUTURE
MAGAZINE COVER SCANS
GREETING CARDS
RCA TV AD

1970'S POSTER MAGAZINES

Of all the magazines devoted to Star Trek over the years, my personal favorite has got to be the “Star Trek Poster Book” magazine published by Paradise Press in the late 1970's. These jewels were 8-1/2" X 11" size, fold-out publications featuring 8 pages of photos and text on TOS with the reverse side featuring a “giant” 34" X 22-1/2" poster, all for $1! Although the poster was clearly the main attraction, the articles were also great: “Inside a Vulcan mind” and an interview with Mr. Spock (not Leonard Nimoy, kids...Spock!) were some of the creative features in this series. The color photo reproduction was brilliant, for the period, as the editors always seemed to pick the best photos for the articles as well as the poster. I’m not sure how many there were (there were at least 4, probably upwards of 10 total) since I’ve only been able to find a few of them. Finding them in “near-mint” condition is difficult since most fans put up the posters which resulted in thumbtack holes, edge tears, old scotch tape, and general dog-earing of the corners. Star Trek: The Motion Picture also received it’s own special issue in this format (see below). Paradise also did poster magazine series for Star Wars, Close Encounters, Meteor, Superman, Battlestar Galactica, and other popular genre films of the era.

Featured here are scans of four pages each from issues #4, 5 and the first three pages of the TMP issue (the poster is the same image as the cover/page 1). The posters, unfortunately, are too large to fit in a home scanner.  As always, if any of you have some of these in your closet (or on your wall) we’d love to see scans of the covers at least, so send them in if can.

Star Trek Giant Poster Book Voyage Four - December 1976 - Cover	Star Trek Giant Poster Book Voyage Four - December 1976 - Page 2	Star Trek Giant Poster Book Voyage Four - December 1976 - Page 3
Star Trek Giant Poster Book Voyage Four - December 1976 - Page 8	Star Trek Giant Poster Book Voyage Five - January 1977 - Cover	Star Trek Giant Poster Book Voyage Five - January 1977 - Page 2
Star Trek Giant Poster Book Voyage Five - January 1977 - Page 3	Star Trek Giant Poster Book Voyage Five - January 1977 - Page 8	Star Trek The Motion Picture Poster Book - 1979 - Cover
Star Trek The Motion Picture Poster Book - 1979 - Page 2	Star Trek The Motion Picture Poster Book - January 1979 -  Page 3

SUPERMAG VOLUME 4, #5; EARLY 1980

Published by Xerox Education Publications, Supermag was an 8-1/2" X 5-1/2" kids magazine that you could order through your school back in the 1970s-‘80s. It was kind of like a combination of Newsweek and People, but designed for kids, and often had covers & articles featuring popular culture icons like “The Fonz”, Mork & Mindy, and–of course–Star Trek. Posted below is the TMP issue cover, article, and pin-up from my own collection.

Supermag Vol 4 No. 5 - 1980 - Cover	Supermag Vol 4 No. 5 - 1980 - Pages 4 and 5	Supermag Vol 4 No. 5 - 1980 - Pages 6 and 7
Supermag Vol 4 No. 5 - 1980 - Pages 8 and 9	Supermag Vol 4 No. 5 - 1980 - Pages 24 and 25

GENE RODDENBERRY PENTHOUSE INTERVIEW

This is an interview with Gene Roddenberry that appeared in the March 1976 issue of Penthouse Magazine.

Penthouse March 1976 - Pg 92	Penthouse March 1976 - Pg 93	Penthouse March 1976 - Pg 94
Penthouse March 1976 - Pg 95	Penthouse March 1976 - Pg 118	Penthouse March 1976 - Pg 120

ARTIFACTS FROM THE FUTURE

This is an article from The Star Trek Communicator #126, 12/99-1/00, pp. 26-30, titled "Artifacts from the future" by Harvey Werksman Jr. This was a cool article about various TOS collectibles, many of which I hadn't seen before.

MAGAZINE COVER SCANS 

Fangoria #4, 2/80	Starlog Science-Fiction Video Magazine #2, 1990	The Monster Times-Star Trek Special, 1973
Starlog #30, 1/80	Sci-Fi Entertainment, Vol. 5, #4, 10/98	Star Trek Monthly (UK), 11/96

GREETING CARDS 

1990's Christmas Card

1995 Hallmark Birthday Card

RCA TV AD 

Lastly, not sure where this is ad is originally from, but it dates around 1966-67.

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