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The Collectors Weekly runs a spectacular interview with Movie Poster dealer and appraiser Rudy Franchi this week. This post is a condensed biography of Franchi’s fascinating career.

Written on the day of the 2009 Tigers-Twins playin game, a look back at baseball as covered in an 1889 issue of Century Magazine. Plus this writer’s unsolicited 2009 playoff picks.

An interview with Bob of the Star Wars Magazine Reference Guide, a visual checklist to over 1,200 periodicals referencing the original Star Wars Trilogy.

Get them while you can! eBay seller wherens2008 offering these 2 early Marilyn Monroe magazine cover appearances, from Laff Magazine in 1946 and 1947 as Norma Jean Dougherty.

A look at the history of Wisdom Magazine from Volume 1, Number 1 in 1956 and what happened with publisher Leon Gutterman after the magazine ceased publication in 1964. Partial checklist included.

Happy birthday to Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), with a gallery of Hemingway magazine appearances and cover shots as well as Hemingway resources including a magazine bibliography.

Part 8 of 8 of Periodicals and Permanent Literature, this section with focus on the quality of magazine articles versus books themselves. This is an article reprinted from its original appearance in The North American Review, December 1920.

Part 7 of Periodicals and Permanent Literature, this section with focus on the quality of magazine articles versus books themselves. This is an article reprinted from its original appearance in The North American Review, December 1920.

Part 6 of Periodicals and Permanent Literature, this section with focus on Rudyard Kipling inside magazines. This is an article reprinted from its original appearance in The North American Review, December 1920.

Part 5 of Periodicals and Permanent Literature, this section with focus on Thackaray and mid to late 19th Century appearances of major literary figures inside magazines. This is an article reprinted from its original appearance in The North American Review, December 1920.

Part 4 of Periodicals and Permanent Literature, this section with focus on Matthew Arnold and the Mid-19th Century. This is an article reprinted from its original appearance in The North American Review, December 1920.

Part 3 of Periodicals and Permanent Literature, this section with focus on Lamb and Hazlitt. This is an article reprinted from its original appearance in The North American Review, December 1920.

Part 2 of Periodicals and Permanent Literature, this section focusing on 18th Century Pioneers. An article reprinted from its original appearance in The North American Review, December 1920.

Part 1 of Periodicals and Permanent Literature, an article reprinted from its original appearance in The North American Review, December 1920.

A complete reproduction of the original article “What Sank the Lusitania?” from the May 29, 1915 issue of The Scientific American magazine, May 29, 1915.