Cover History

Early Magazine Covers mostly put the table contents and a title and tried to make it look like the cover of a book. They never made the covers to where you can see what was inside.

The Poster Cover was sometimes the only thing on the cover of a magazine and would try to set a mood for the reader. A picture is worth more than a thousand words so the picture itself explained everything without the words.

Pictures Married to Type didn't have pictures but had a catchy headline. They'd put a picture right in the middle of a title to make it more interesting and so you can see the picture and words at the same time.

In the Forest of Words made both the picture and the title stand out and be interesting. They would put "almost naked" women on the covers so men would read them and women would want to read it because they wanted to look like them.