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1937/07/24 — Cover illustrated by Robert C. Kaufmann

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Contest for 25 Pedigreed Dogs

1937/03/13 — Cover illustrated by Charles De Feo

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$1,500 Man Hunt Contest

1964/04/18 –

1943/05 — Cover design by Wilhelm Cushman – Photograph by James Abbe, Jr.

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1942/04 — Cover design by Preston Duncan

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1940/01 — Cover design: Painting by Jane Van Eyck – Border design by W.P. Schoonmaker

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Well, I must admit I’m getting pretty tired of typing “new and improved,” but there’s really no other way to describe it. I’d like to say I was patiently biding my time in waiting to move the old existing site, which has been up since early 2007, from it’s ugly old home at magwiki.things-and-other-stuff.com to this spiffy location, but truth be told it took so long because the old MediaWiki site architecture had just beaten me down. It took me awhile to create new listings on the original site, so long in fact that I eventually stopped doing it.

But beyond looks, this new magawiki has got performance going for it as well. I gave up after 1,200 of so listing over there. Or maybe it was 1,500. I don’t remember, but it’d been about 6 months since I’d put up anything new. This new site, well, it wasn’t even an idea just one week prior to my typing these words–and it contains all existing files plus another dozen to twenty listings I’d created since importing all 2,900 or so of those original ones.

If you want to see the true spark for this revamped version of the site you’ll find it in this write-up I did for the Robert Donat movie “The Magic Box” on the Examiner.com. It’s less of a review and more of a rumination about inspiration in classic movies. When I mentioned being productive, this site was the end result. And that was dated September 7, today is September 13.

It looks better, it’s much more complete, it’s faster, it’s better organized, okay, but then if you’re new just what is it?

Well, quite honestly that’s all on the home page but to boil it down as far as it goes the magawiki is a tool. It contains page after page of indexes and contents to old magazine back issues offering details only gleaned from paging through the entire issue. The tool is hopefully an early step towards achieving knowledge, though it’s also quite capable of making you money when either buying or selling old magazines as well. If you know what to look for.

The video below is currently on the home page and other pages inside the magawiki. I expect it will be replaced or moved around eventually, so I want to place it here in the blog section, right at post #1, so you’ll always know where to find it.

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1958/04/26 — Cover design by George Hughes

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
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1957/11/23 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover design by George Hughes.

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
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Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Half-page ad for Ideal Dog Food with caption “Nothing like a cigarette after an Ideal Meal” showing what looks like a Boxer lighting a cigarette and illustrated by Ted Drake, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. ad illustrated by Norman Rockwell, New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. ad illustrated in color by John Clymer, “Sign of Good Taste” Coca-Cola on the back cover is a scene from Tokyo illustrated by William A. Smith.

1951/09/29 — Cover design by John Falter

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
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1949/02/05 — Cover design by John Falter

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
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1948/07/03 — Cover design by John Falter

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1947/01/11 — Cover design by Norman Rockwell

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1946/11/23 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover design by John Atherton.

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
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Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: color ad featuring Burns & Allen for G-E Lamps, Anne Baxter promoting The Razors’ Edge in an ad for Beautyrest by Simmons, Camel Cigarettes, United States Steel ad illustrated by Keith Ward, Farnsworth Television, color ad for The Jolson Story, and a Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on the back cover.

1946/08/17 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover design by John Falter.

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
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Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Fred Allen for GE light bulbs, Carole Landis for Nescafe, Boeing, Association of American Railroads ad with color illustration by Ray Prohaska, and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover.

1946/06/29 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by John Atherton.

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
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Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Frank Sinatra for General Electric Radios, American Airlines ad with color illustration by John Falter, USS Steel ad with color illustration by Keith Ward, and a Wheaties ad on the back cover.

1946/05/04 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Doris Lee.

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
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Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Old Gold Cigarettes illustrated by Monet, Mennen Skin Bracer illustrated by Mingo, 7-up baseball themed ad, Pennsylvania Oils ad with horse racing illustration by Fred Ludekens, TWA, Nescafe ad with color illustration by Arthur Szyk, Springmaid Fabrics with Clayton Knight illustration*, American Airlines ad on the inside back cover illustrated by Albert Dorne, and a Kodak ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

1946/02/09 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Alexander Brook.

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
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Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Perry Como and Martha Stewart for General Electric Radios, Kate Smith for Stratford Pens*, full-page for Clark Gable and Greer Garson in Adventure, Boeing, TWA with Eiffel Tower illustration, Jane Wyman for Servel Gas Refrigerators, and a General Mills ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

1944/01/29 — Cover design “R.F.D.” by Alex Ross

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
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1943/02/27 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Howard Scott.

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Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Republic Steel with color illustration of a lunch-counter scene by Douglass Crockwell, Greyhound, Dupont on the inside back cover with a color war scene illustration by Bingham, Sunkist on the back cover.

1941/09/13 — Photographic cover featuring the great Man o’ War with groom William Harbut is by Ivan Dmitri

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1941/04/05 — Cover design by McCauley Conner

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1939/10/21 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Photographic cover by A.F. Sozio.

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Keeping Posted

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Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Rice Krispies featuring Snap, Crackle and Pop, half-page ad for Calox with June Lang, United Air Lines.

1938/08/27 — Cover design by Ivan Dmitri

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1938/03/26 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover Design by Neysa McMein.

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Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Camel Cigarettes ad with record-smashing auto driver Wilbur Shaw, 2-page ad for Oldsmobile and its 40th AnniversarySonja Henie for Dodge, “Theodora Goes Wild About Her New DeSoto” is a DeSoto ad featuring an illustration of Irene Dunne leaving the Brown Derby and getting into her DeSoto, and an Old Dutch Cleanser ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))