1996: STARLOG MOVIE TIE-IN MAGAZINES

from 1996: The danger with publishing licensed tie-ins is that you have to take a bet on movies and TV shows that - unless they have a good track record (and Starlog even fell out of love with Trek towards the end) - could be a total stinker.  

Just like the Hollywood studios, STARLOG GROUP must have had a ratio of sustainable hits-to-failures which allowed the profits from the successful hook-ups to offset the losses from the disasters.

I'm betting none of these mags turned much of a profit for the publisher... Maybe that's why they had to charge 75 dollars (including postage) for a reprint (see previous post).