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Dear Magazine collectors. We found these great blog entries about Old Magazines we want to share with you: Doug Gilford, a floor-covering store owner from Gresham, Oregon, has been running his Mad Cover Site for ten years. We talked about the joy of Mad Magazine  and his passion for collecting. When did you start collecting Mad? Gilford: As a youngster, in the mid-70s, I was introduced to Mad magazine by a babysitter. I'm not sure what triggered the obsession to have a collection. Suffice it to say, something happened in the deep recesses of my mind; that compulsive part of the collector's personality for obtaining parts of the whole. The prize of a complete collection seemed possible and had its beginnings in my early youth and lasted into my early 20s.... To read more click here... http://ephemera.typepad.com/ephemera/2007/03/interview_with__2.html -------------------------------- Cliff Aliperti has spent his life immersed in collectibles, buying them, examining them, selling them. In today's interview, we spoke about his collection of vintage magazines and his remarkable career as a collector. How did you become interested in old magazines? Aliperti: I'd dealt in baseball cards/sports collectibles since the mid-1980's and there had always been a little run-off into titles like Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, even some issues of LIFE with sports covers. When I started selling on eBay in 2000, I quickly came to find that the margins for baseball cards weren't that great. I gravitated to movie cards/collectibles which also involved selling some movie magazines. I'm a bit of an information junkie, and I love both literature and history, so suddenly, I found myself testing out magazines. General titles like Time and the Saturday Evening Post to more obscure literary titles like Paris Review and Poetry magazine, with a little bit of everything in between. By late 2006, I found the competition strengthening in movie categories on eBay and saw a lot of the more obscure stuff, which is what I liked, selling for prices higher than I was willing to pay. I upped the ante with magazine back issues then. To read more click here... http://ephemera.typepad.com/ephemera/2008/07/here-you-go-ive-included-some-links-mine-and-others-feel-free-to-use-them-or-not-i-hope-this-is-okay-i-began-to-get-the.html
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