One-shots and Time Inc.

Time Warner , as you may have read , recently spun off their icky-OLD !!!!!!!!!!! print magazines ~ including the magazine that gave the company its name , TIME , into a seperate company .

  Rupert Murdoch's News , Incorporated did similarly with their foolscap holdings .

  And what does this have to do with " our beloved genre " ? And what about this " one-shots " phrase ?

  Stay tuned...........

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  • Oh, come right out and say it. Whatever it is.

  • As I understand it, the Fox movie and TV productions were separated from the print operations.

    Time Warner is similarly separating the movie studios from the magazines. Meanwhile, they've moved DC Comics onto their Burbank California movie studio property, so I think DC is still tied to the movie side of things.

    I don't understand what the "one-shots phase" is.

  • What Rob said: If you've got something to say, come out and say it. I don't know what you're talking about with the mention of the "one-shots phase."

    Yes, Time Warner shed its print magazine division so that Time Warner is all about TV and movies, and Time Inc. is all about magazine publishing. DC Comics falls under DC Entertainment, which is a division of Time Warner -- the movie and TV company, not the magazine company.

  • Also, Time Warner Cable TV is completely separate.

  • ...Really briefly , I am referring to this plethora of one-shot special magazine specials ~ With Time Inc. really , between their Time , People , Life and other names , flooding the marketplace with them !

      Did you notice that TI put out Robin Williams memorials under all three of the above names ?

      If they put out an Entertainment Weekly one-shot Williams memorial , well...The Earth  wouldhave spun off its axis ?

      Oh...it DID ???

  • ...Really , don't you see all these one-shot mega-magazines/" not quite " books ?

      Remembering 9/11 . The Country of The Bible . The Roosevelts ~ Teddy , Franklin and Elanor (I bought this one , tied into a recent PBS documentary ~ and I'm glad to say that Alice Roosevelt Longworth was present and accounted for too :-) !!!!!!!!!)

      Time Inc. DOES make a lot of 'em but so do other companies ~ including owners of magazine names which are no longer regularly published~ Lifeitself ,US. News and World Report , Newsweek , Spin (SawU2 look-back bringing that name back ! Now , if John Mellencamp would only enjoy a rise in popularity among the Yoof Market:-)...) . Really , like at my (former) hom e CVS in Santa Cruz , there were tons and tons of 'em ! And , in a Rite Aid just  a street down + across

    from where

     

    I sit typing this in Seattle ,  almost a whole set-apart portion of the mag rack was occupied by them...

  • ...Today , in Target , I saw a MAD speciasl one-shot , I'm sure of reprints .

      Back in Santa Cruz , my LCS there was quite heavy on MAD --- but these reprint giants would show up at CVS there that were never at said SC LCS . Can it be confirmed that MAD puts out newsstand market-exclusive Specials ?

  • ...I saw another new MAD special , at a Bartell's (WA state Rite Aid/Walgreen's-style drugstore) , a " MAS Salutes Classic Movies "-type special (I assume all reprints ~ I didn't open it) with a cover showing Alfred as a Ghostbuster with Slimer recoiling from him .

      Was this ever listed as a new release here ?

      If not , that would appear to prove my hypothesis , of newsstand-only Mad specials .

  • Correct me if I'm wrong. I think we only see Diamond releases on the weekly Comics Guide and the monthly Solicitations posted by Cap. I believe Mad is distributed through the other magazine distributors.

  • Correct.


    Richard Willis said:

    Correct me if I'm wrong. I think we only see Diamond releases on the weekly Comics Guide and the monthly Solicitations posted by Cap. I believe Mad is distributed through the other magazine distributors.

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