fan magazine
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fan magazine
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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“I was still searching for an identity for myself,” Reiner told an “All in the Family” fan magazine in 1971, the year Lear offered him the role of Archie Bunker’s hippie son-in-law Michael “Meathead” Stivic.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
As a plus-size bounder, she has drawn inspiration and gotten tips from others, and was recently featured in a fan magazine for her look as Scar from “The Lion King.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023
Bean starred on Broadway as a timid fan magazine writer in George Axelrod’s 1955 Hollywood spoof “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?” alongside Jayne Mansfield and Walter Matthau.
From Washington Times • Feb. 8, 2020
The French claim stemmed from a fan magazine article from the 1910s that suggested Chaplin was born while his performer mother was on tour.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2012
Especially in Phrack, which at times read like an LoD fan magazine; and Phrack was everywhere, especially in the offices of telco security.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
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