Mags is an English contraction for Magazines - therefore the title of our web page signifies nothing else than Mad Magazines and is by no means a wrong written allusion on the known Australian cult film Mad Max.

This project devotes itself especially to the secondary literature to fantastic film. Mad Mags introduces not only magazines and books, but also film and festival programs and advertising materials like posters and press books. The archive has its main focus on detailed summaries and search options, so that you can search the data pool directly for certain film titles or persons.

The doctor is one of the most impressive characters in the German silent film classic Metropolis. Some of the illustrations used here are based on the film and the figure of Rotwang. He is impersonated by the actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge. His Rotwang is one of the first «Mad Scientists» of the film history and, so to speak, the mascot of Mad Mags.

The archive is split in six different categories in order to separate rare books or souvenir magazines from regularly published items such as magazines or film programs.

Fourteen different genre symbols show the main focuses of a publication. Beside the important genres like «horror movies», «literature» or «Behind the scenes» there are also genres which are to be found, primarily, in the area of the magazines, for example «music» or «media».

The specific search according to certain information is substantially simplified by the article categories. The principal subject of an article can be assigned to one of sixteen categories. A poster to a certain film can be found in this manner about the combined search for the film title and the category «Artwork». The names of the categories are selfexplicatory. Here follows a short description:

The prize guide specifies fair prices in respect of the values of certain publications. It is distinguished between three different conditions which can affect the value of each item:

If you observe the prices with the known on-line auctioneers for old or rare publications in Europe and in the USA, you will note partly drastic differences. Because there is, in Germany for example, only a very small group of collectors who would spend a higher sum of money on a rare magazine, such publications achieve in these countries often only a fractional amount of the price which the same item would achieve in the USA. The prices declared by our prize guide are based on the average prices at on-line auctions and estimates of different collectors.

Not with all film writings a complete and detailed table of contents is available immediately, because the arrangement can last some time according to complexity and circumference. Of course it's tried to exchange these short contents at a later time for the more precise summaries.

We try to offer articles as reprints which fit very well in the main topics of a publication and are therefore typical for them. The layout is reproduced to a great extent from the printed or copied original. If the reprints differ strongly from the originals, these are marked as a Director's Cut.

The PDF documents which are marked with the note Director's Cut are either from the authors corrected, updated texts (Updated Edition) or with qualitatively better pictures equipped articles (... in shocking colours!).

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