Cricket: The Magazine

Huh. It's still going:

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I'm really glad this magazine still exists. If you don't want to get rid of them, I think the Beeps would like them someday. I always just read whatever was around the house...little kids aren't so worldly they'd complain about its age. It's more interesting a factor than an offputting one: "this is what dad read when he was my age!"

There was a girl who wrote in one time that her name is Nicole because she was born on 5/5, and her name kinda sounds like "nickel" which is worth five cents. I have thought about Nicole every Cinco de Mayo since I read that letter in 1981.

That's really sweet.

For some reason I always avoided even picking this up and thumbing through it when I was in elementary school...maybe it was the bug motif? If I recall, they were rendered in a more realistic fashion than were the likes of Richard Scarry's cuddly Lowly the Worm types.

Yeah, keep 'em for Beeps! I had a full year's worth in the mid-seventies, and I loved them dearly -- don't know where they are now, sadly. It's where I first read Joan Aiken and saw Quentin Blake's illustrations, among other things.

I think my favorite 'cast member' was the two-headed earthworm.

i subscribed to this for years. anyone else ever hear the cricket record album?

i had a subscription to cricket when i was a kid and i would never read them. i don't know why. i was more of a highlights man, i guess.

http://memphismemories.org/Decades/1960s/RememberWhen/HighlightsMagazine.jpg

and dynamite obviously. i never missed an issue of dynamite.

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oops

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http://www.stuckinthe70s.com/images/dynamite1277.jpg

still the single greatest magazine cover ever printed

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"Everything you need to know about the tennis racket! HILARIOUS JOKES!"

I'd gotten the idea that Cricket was inspired by St. Nicholas Magazine, but I looked it up on Wikipedia and it turned out that they were trying for a New Yorker for the Hot Wheels set. I read it as a kid, like the rest of you, and even then it struck me as a magazine designed for grownups to give to children rather than one that a kid would pick up on his/her own.

Loved Cricket as a kid. My kid loves Ladybug (younger kids' version) now. Screw the haters.

My parents would not have allowed Dynamite but I devoured it, feeling guilty, at the public library. I did have a great book at home (I believe it was called "The B+ Guide to School Survival") by Dynamite ed-in-chief "Jovial" Bob Stine, now better known as R.L.Stine, the Goosebumps guy.

OK, just looked this up, and "Jovial" Bob Stine was the editor of Bananas, not Dynamite. My mistake. He was also not the author of "The B+ Guide to School Survival," which was actually called "Bananas B- Guide to School Survival" -- so Stine must have had something to do with it -- but the authors are Pat and Joe Arthur. He did, however, write "The Absurdly Silly Encyclopaedia and Fly Swatter," which I definitely had.

i always feel sad about my lack of appreciation for these magazines. i was really into RL Stine & Chris Pike when i was a kid, and loved Mad Magazine, but after i got my subscriptions to Spin & Rolling Stone as a 4th grader, i kind of went into 'screw that kiddie shit' land. and yeah, that makes me sad.