Here is my guide for “Totally Kids Magazine” issue 22, “Spring 1996”.
Credits:
The Final Word Guys:
Judith Ross Enderle
Stephanie Gordon Tessler
The Put-It-Together Gal:
Theresa Kennedy
The Creative Guys:
Peter Green Design
Scott Russell
Debra Hintz
The Printing Guys:
R. R. Donnelley & Sons
The Pencil Pushers:
Eric Black
Jennifer India Scott
Stephen Stralka
Steven Melching
The Big Helpers:
Tom Yi
Jennifer Luke
Robin Lia
Michelle Zajic
Big Thanks:
Marvel Entertainment
Scholastic, Inc.
Mattel, Inc.
Universal/Harvey Animation
TEXT ON FRONT COVER A.K.A. PAGE 1:
“This spring is loaded with specials to enjoy,
Like C-Bear and Jamal, and Siegfried and Roy.
FOX KIDS has Casper, Goosebumps and Tick,
On what page is candy that comes on a stick?”
PAGE 2: ad / End to End Game: “Hair Today, Goon Tomorrow -or- ‘Do’s and Don’ts” (Life with Louie)
PAGE 3: “From the Big Guy” / Credits / copyrights / “Bobby Wonders Wouldn’t It Be Weird If…”
PAGE 4: “Tick Talk”
PAGE 5: McDonald’s ad: “If Kids Took Over The Space Program”
PAGES 6 & 7: “The Mystical McWorld of Magic!”
PAGE 8: “Pink Power!” (Power Rangers/Catherine Sutherland)
PAGE 9: Barbie ad: Fashion Avenue Collection
PAGES 10 & 11: “Give Us Goosebumps: The Haunted House Game”: The debut of this short story. Features a Magazine contest. Be one of 25 kids to write an ending and R.L. Stine would pick one to be published in the next issue.
PAGE 12: “Can’t Stop The Blues” (Fox Kids Countdown)
PAGE 13: Zebco ad: Go fish!: This has a now-expired Power Rangers Bobber “coupon” that you could cut out of the page.
PAGES 14 & 15: “Toy Factory!”
PAGE 16: “Odd Bods” (The Tick)
PAGE 17: Power Rangers toys ad: Alien Rangers
PAGES 18 & 19: Masked Rider comic: No credits.
PAGE 20: Fox Kids Create a Video Game contest ad
PAGE 21: Sega ad
PAGE 22: “Siegfried and Roy: Masters of the Impossible” (Fox Kids Club Earth Crew)
PAGE 23: “Casper Haunt & Seek: A Game for 2-4 Players”
PAGE 24: “The Man Behind the Bear” (C Bear and Jamal/Tone Loc/Arthur Reggie III) / “The Great Eek! the Cat Around-the-World Adventure!”
PAGE 25: Goosebumps VHS ad: Features a “Haunted Mask” you could cut out of the page.
PAGE 26: “A Dialogue with Stan Lee” (Spider-Man/X-Men)
PAGE 27: The Tick ad: Stick the Tick / “Fox Kids Trading Cards” front side (FOX Kids Network: #53 “Scrog and Ivan”, #54 “Stupid Aliens”, #55 “Loafy”, #56 “FOX Fox”)
PAGE 28: “Klutter Bites the Dust”: There is a copyright credit for the images. / “Fox Kids Trading Cards” back side
PAGE 29: Movie Max ad: There is a now-expired “order form” that you could cut out.
PAGES 30 & 31: “Fun in February!” (The Fox Cubhouse)
PAGE 32: “Inside the KidVid Biz” / “Spotlight on: Jennifer Luke”
PAGE 33: “Hangin’ with the Winners!” / “Fox Kids Funnies”
PAGE 34: “Fuddlements”: “Batman and the Labyrinth of Lunacy”; “All Keyed Up with Carmen Sandiego”
PAGE 35: “Fuddlements”: “The Terrible ThunderLizards Time Warped!” / Answers (right side up) / ad
BACK COVER A.K.A. PAGE 36
THOUGHTS: Starting with this issue, the page counter has colored triangles with an oval attached to it. … Sherri’s name was incorrectly written with one “r”. … “Taz-Mania” had copyright text, but does not appear in the magazine.
Here’s a gallery of photos! It’s less than perfect, though.




































[…] However, there’s a new wrinkle to add to the story. In 1996, Fox Kids Magazine (a.k.a. Totally Kids Magazine), held a contest where kids could send in their own alternate ending to this story. The winning entry was selected and published in the Summer ’96 issue. This would’ve been lost to the ages (or at least taken a while for the Goosebumps fandom to discover) if I hadn’t stumbled upon this post. […]