Four and a half decades have passed, fads and teen idols have come and gone and died young and left pretty corpses — but through it all, Tiger Beat has endured. Sadly, the teeny bopper magazine has also survived its founder, Charles Laufer, who died earlier this month at 87. Laufer described the pin-up mag as “guys in their 20s singing La La songs to 13-year-old girls,” which sounds about right to us. We celebrate his legacy by collecting some of our favorite Tiger Beat covers, from its debut issue in 1965 to the current, Bieber-centric edition. Get ready to laugh: there are some weird ones in there.
’60s
September 1965: Tiger Beat’s debut issue
October 1965: Byrds vs. Stones? Not Beatles vs. Stones?
November 1965: Dylan!
November 1967: Hey, hey we’re the Monkees… and Spock!
April 1969: Was “Bobby’s Near Disaster” that he had King Davy growing out of his head?
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I wish we could view the entire magazine, especially the 60′s and 70′s issues. Anyone know where you can view old scanned magazines online?
1989 has to be the most depressing cover, by far. Kind of like in the first Austin Powers, when he’s going through the people he knew, and realizing they’re all dead and gone. River: Dead. Corey: Dead. Johnny Depp: Artistically Dead. Alyssa: Baseball groupie. Kirk Cameron: Insane. Staci: Who?
the onbes from the 90′s are missing a lot…. hello??? Where is JTT, andrew keagen, brad renfro,Joseph gordon levitt and devon sawa??? They were everywhere on tiger beat in the 90′s. It practically showed JTT (johnathan taylor thomas) go from little kid to puberty, to grown up teen!!!
Oh, Guilt-Free Comfort. Honey. I am right there with you. Sadly, I couldn’t find many of those covers around. It is a damn shame.
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