wildojinx
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Post by wildojinx on May 9, 2022 14:29:52 GMT -5
Is there an actual list on what fell under the Apter magazine brands? It seemed like a huge list, crazy to see there were many different wrestling magazines available in the 90s. Curious on how big the subscriber base was. Seems like everytime I've checked ebay for magazines I find out there was another magazine out there that I never heard of Let's see....help me along here... Pro Wrestling Illustrated was their crown jewel of course. The Wrestler Inside Wrestling (these are the Big Three in the Apterverse...) Wrestling 'XX Sports Review Wrestling (home of the Kamala with Hogan's head on a spear cover) Wrestling Superstars (home of the Superstar Dream Match columns) Wrestling Bad Guys (spun off from the W'XX title) Wrestle America (which came out in the 90s and seemed more territorial. WWF, WCW, USWA and Global each got a section of the mag I think. Maybe one for other companies. Complete with their own rankings with comparisons month by month and blurbs about the wrestler) WCW Magazine (was it so until the end?) WOW Magazine (late 90s/2000s mag) Was ECW Magazine an Apter too? WCW Magazine was Apter from 1991-1994. The 1995-2001 magazine was a different thing. WOW and ECW were not Apter/London Publishing titles (though Apter did work for the former). There was also the short-lived (1997-2000) Wrestling Analyst magazine (just focused on the strengths and weaknesses of various wrestlers) and Wrestling Classics (reprints of older Apter mag articles from the 70s-80s). |
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Post by dablueboy on May 10, 2022 3:23:23 GMT -5
If there was ever a time i was travelling to the UK or Australia i'd always keep an eye out for Power Slam or Fighting Spirit. Both were pretty good mags. I know with Fighting Spirit they had guys like Lance Storm, Jim Cornette, Bryan Alvarez and Bill Apter among other contributors over the years it ran. If you ever do it in the future have a look out for Wrestletalk or Inside The Ropes, the former launched as an amalgamation of FSM and another short lived magazine while the latter was launched around 18 months ago by the guys behind the website/podcast of the same name and is, in a way, a spiritual successor to Power Slam especially as one of the contributors is former PS editor Fin Martin. I believe they ship worldwide as well |
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Post by Gremlin on May 10, 2022 12:16:46 GMT -5
I recently found an issue of Ringside Wrestling at a flea market, dated March 98, with Hogan and Sting on the cover, an article about the Montreal Screwjob and Bret leaving.
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Post by polarbearpete on May 10, 2022 14:49:22 GMT -5
I really liked WOW back in the day. It was the first magazine I read that was more oriented to smarks instead of trying to uphold kayfabe like the first party and stuff like PWI. Yes, WOW was great. Smark-targeted, edgy, large magazine with glossy pages. It didn’t seem to run that long, from what I remember, and it might have been less frequent than monthly. I’ll see if I can dig up some of my old copies. |
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Post by wrestlingrecap on May 12, 2022 14:27:39 GMT -5
I have several of these "other" magazines that I plan on eventually doing for my Inside The Magazine series. i've not looked in them, yet, but looking forward to now that I've seen some people praise them.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on May 12, 2022 16:11:23 GMT -5
Another one here who remembers WOW. I say "remembers", I largely remember a mate almost having his copy confiscated in school, a load of writeups of late nineties indy wrestling, and a review of a Los Straitjackets album. Good times.
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Post by eudypfohl on May 13, 2022 1:25:16 GMT -5
I remember some mail order wrestling game (I guess like a board game?) was always advertised in those mags. They had these fake cartoonish wrestling characters that they made up to form a federation. Must've been some kind of role playing (Nook The Secret Weapon and Big Box were 2 that I remember)
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