Wednesday, 31 May 2017

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).  


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2 comments:

  1. ed31 May 2017 at 18:14

    quality control didn't seem to be an issue for the Starlog group but then again, these mags were promotional tools in and of themselves or in the words of Harlan Ellison :


    " flacks for the industry. "

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  2. ed31 May 2017 at 18:15

    THE PHANTOM was by far the best of those three movies.

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