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
As we walked through Kabukicho’s patchwork of bars and more dubious businesses, he showed me an out-of-print yakuza fan magazine, one of many that for decades were fixtures at Japanese newsstands.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2022
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
Joe took a chair while he waited and thumbed through a fan magazine.
From Mercenary by Birmingham, Lloyd
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