Going Down the Wormhole: Starlog Japan

I am today years old when I found out about the wonders of Starlog from Japan. It all began with a great video on YouTube from Battlestar Collectica, view below, and went on to a Bing search that possessed my attention for hours. I probably have seen covers from this publication, but it just didn’t register in my mind that it wasn’t anything but just Starlog. Come to find out fellow blogger, The Vintage Toy Advertiser, has written a wonderful post on this very subject. Finally, an in-depth discussion on the subject via phantasmic.com.

Cat gifts from Japan #2 – Starlog Jan 1981

Wooof just told me to post up the rest of the goodies from the 1981 Starlog magazine he brought back from Japan – the one with the exceedingly cool free cassette labels that we featured here.…

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Across Time & Space: The Legacy of the Japanese "Starlog" 

First published in the US in 1976, the magazine Starlog was conceived by Norm Jacobs and Kerry O’Quinn initially as a Star Trek centric magazine, but became an all encompassing look into the burgeoning world of science fiction a scant year before the release of Star Wars. 1976 was the year before Star Wars would…

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