For two years, I wrote reviews of the old Spy magazine, usually once a month. Those reviews have been completed.

Walter Monheit®, 1926–2011

Sadly, Spy’s monocular movie reviewer Walter Monheit® died on 2011.08.05 at age 25, Michael Musto reports.

Spy now on Google Books

As of February 2011, Spy issues have been scanned by Google Books.

Spy: The Funny Years

The retrospective book Spy: The Funny Years came out in 2006, and, after many months, I have a half-arsed review.

Final reviews

Need a copy of an article?

If you’ve ever written me to request that I hunt through my pile o’ Spy to find an article for you, then copy it and mail it your way, be advised that I won’t be doing so even if I told you I would.

Back issues solicited

I have a highly incomplete pile o’ Spy. If you’ve got any of the issues I need, talk to me. Anything after 1993 I am not in a big rush to acquire. Before that, of course, is gold.

List of issues updated and correct as of 2014.07.06

Year

Got

Need

1986

10

11, 12

1987

3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11

1, 2, 7–8, 12

1988

3, 4, 5, 6, 7–8, 9, 10, 11, 12

1, 2

1989

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

1

1990

1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12

Nil

1991

1–2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12

7

1992

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7–8, 9, 10, 11

1, 12

1993

All

Nil

1994

2, 3, 10, 12

4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11

1995

2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11

1996

2, “Holiday”

Remainder, if any

1997

10

Other than October

1998

Nil

All (there may only be a few)

Illustration credits

Michael Russell does nearly all the scanning for this tiny site. It is vaguely ridiculous that I don’t have a scanner – still. (2013: Now I do.)

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