When you were a child--say, up to age 12--did you ever have a subscription to a kids' magazine or a comic book series?

My sister and I subscribed to some DC comics, paid for out chore money (our parents didn’t believe in an allowance, but were all about a fair wage). I loved them!

Not as a kid. As a teenager I got Fave magazine and Tiger Beat.

I subscribed to the weekly “Mickey Mouse Magazine” starting at about 8. It came with spy gear or some prank item. Days when that was waiting for me, I hurried home.

Later (around 11) I switched to the kids’ version of the “Geo Magazine” – far-off places, environmental issues, amazing pictures. Similar to the National Geographic. I also started receiving a monthly magazine about dogs. I skipped some of the long articles about, for example, veterinary medicine, but devoured anything on training.

The subscriptions were some of my favourite presents, usually sponsored by my grandpa.

Does Mad Magazine count?

My parents also got me Highlights. And Boys Life when I was a scout.

OMG, yes, Mad Magazine! A birthday present from a friend on my tenth birthday!

Boy’s life

I received Highlights for Children. I loved it.

Loved Mad Magazine!

I have a subscription for Highlights Imma sign up some of my grandkids.

Yes, we got Highlights.

There was a subscription to Children’s Digest. Each magazine was thoroughly enjoyed so much that they were carefully stored on a shelf in my closet and revisited later.

I would get scholastic magazine. From grades 3–6.

Boy’s Life and Weekly Reader, which I think was a Scholastic publication.

We didn’t get subscription magazines as kids but we probably had 500 books in the house on every subject you can imagine, including a full set of Encyclopedia Brittanica.

No, not even playboy. Too expensive.

For a short time Highlights.

I think maybe I had one to Humpty Dumpty or Jack and Jill? Or, I took them out of the library. My memory is vague.

Highlights for Children and Disney Comics.

Older siblings got Mad Magazine and Tiger Beat. Later they got Wizard Magazine. I remember Highlights and Ranger Rick.

Though I think only Ranger Rick was an actual subscription that was delivered to our house. Everything else was from saving up spare change and lunch money each month.

It was a birthday present from our neighbor, Nancy. She was a sweet older woman who lived by herself. Kind of like the neighborhood grandma.

I saved each issue of Ranger Rick. Still had them in my room when I went to college. My niece (who moved into my room) told me she read each issue several times.

Don’t think Nancy could have imagined that her simple gift would still be giving twenty years later!

Also grew up with a TON of comic books. DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, etc. But not as a subscription.

I remember Ranger Rick! I don’t know if we subscribed or just bought an issue here and there.

I forgot Ranger Rick. I had a subscription to that.

I also had a magazine that had a comic strip about Goofus and Galant.

@RedDeerGuy1 Highlights. :)

@raum Thanks.

Boys Life, the Boy Scout mag. Yeah, there were some interesting articles. Mostly pertaining to outdoors adventures and wild life.

I also was allowed to read my dads men’s mags, not the sexually explicit type, but mags like Saga. Just adventure stories that were supposedly true. Like, “South Africa Game warden fights off 20,000 Mau Mau with dirt clods”, “I was a prisoner of the Leopard Men cult,” stuff like that.

Boys Life. I don’t think I subscribed to comic books but I had a collection. Mad Magazine.

When I was a kid, Mad Magazine was so popular (early 1970’s).

Does anybody remember Wacky Packs? They were stickers that were funny spoofs on popular products, such as detergent or peanut butter. We used to collect them.

@jca2 Yes, I remember the stickers. We would wrap our school books in brown paper bags and decorate them with the stickers.

Kids collect all kinds of stupid nonsense. Rocks, leaves, stickers. My little brother had a box full of dead butterflies.

My dad also had Argosy mags laying around, which he also let me read.

Ha – the magazines we had lying around were Popular Science, IEEE Spectrum, Scientific American, and stuff like that. No Argosy for my dad.

Argosy was just a more sci fi oriented version of Saga. Harmless fluff for men. Argosy would often feature a cover picture of some souped up UFO exiting the ocean. where as Saga would depict some guy in a bush jacket and safari hat holding a pistol, and glinting off into the distance at some unseen hazard. Fun reading. @elbanditoroso

Used to read my older brothers” Popular Mechanics” and Science mags as nothing else in the home other than comics in the newspapers and Little LULU comics laying around.
Bored until our Library was built close by.
Loved reading everything after that! Its like a whole new world came to life then , for me!

I subscribed to Highlights from third grade until fifth grade, and Boys Life from third grade through junior year of high school.

My dad’s cousins from England visited one summer, and brought me a few copies of an English weekly newspaper/comic book called The Hotspur. It was easily 64 pages every week on newsprint of adventure strips, puzzles, and news of interest to young people. I subscribed to it for two years, and it was a lot of fun, my friends would bug me for back copies to borrow.