Controversial Magazine Covers From The Past

It is said that there is no such publicity as bad publicity. However, public media can endanger one’s personal rights. Things are different now days where a person’s rights must be respected. Therefore magazines and newspapers aren’t allowed to print controversial covers in order to make a selling. There are many ways in which newspapers can intrigue their readers such as the quality of the stories and photographs from all over the world… But bear in mind that you shouldn’t believe everything you read. Makes one wonder how all of the stuff written can affect a person?
Time Magazine, April 8, 1966: Is God Dead?

Video: Controversial Barack Obama New Yorker Cover
Time Magazine, January 2, 1939: Hitler as Man of the Year

Life, November 26, 1965: War In Vietnam

Esquire, April 1968: The Passion of Ali

Esquire, May 1969: The Drowning of Andy Warhol

Playboy, October 1971: First Playboy African-American Woman

National Lampoon, January 1973: If You Don’t Buy This Magazine…

National Lampoon, January 1973: If You Don’t Buy This Magazine…

Rolling Stone, January 22, 1981: John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Vanity Fair, August 1991: Demi Moore, Pregnant and Nude

Vanity Fair, August 1993: K.D. Lang and Cindy Crawford

Time Magazine, June 27, 1994: OJ Mug Shot Controversy


The Economist, September 10, 1994: The Camel-Humping Issue

Time, April 14 1997: Ellen’s Coming-Out Issue

Wired, June 1997: 101 Ways to Save Apple

Time, Dec 21, 1998: Devil Horns on Clinton

Esquire Magazine, December 2000: The Crotch Shot

The New Yorker, Sept. 24, 2001: Twin Towers in Silhouette

Entertainment Weekly, May 2 2003: Dixie Chicks

Seventeen, May 2003: Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Zombie Arm

Rolling Stone, January 2006: The Passion of Kanye West

Baby Talk, August 2006

Texas Monthly, January 2007: Dick Cheney Cover Issue

Time, August 29, 2007: Devil Horns on Billy Graham

Golfweek, January 19, 2008: The Noose that Hung an Editor

People Magazine, March 2008: Brangelina Twins

Vogue, April 2008: King Kong Cover

The New Yorker, July 21, 2008: The Obama Couple Satire

OK Magazine, June 2009: Michael Jackson Death Photo


























