It’s Back to the Future Part III’s 20th anniversary this week. Let’s take a look back at the Back to the Future Fan Club and the Fan Club Magazine that also debuted in 1990.
Here is a very cool looking 1990 ad for the Back to the Future Fan club. You could find this ad in magazines and comics in late 1989 and early 1990.
It entices you to join up with the promise of a “beautiful” membership kit which includes an 8×10 photo (of what?), a logo patch, stickers, pencils and a membership card. You also get a 1 year subscription to the quarterly fan club magazine, which was cool, except the magazine itself only lasted one year. You also get a forwarding service for fan mail to cast and crew of the movie, which was actually pretty cool because more often than not that could result in autographs. I obtained a lot of Star Wars autographs through mail by writing letters to actors (pre-Sept 11, though).
Like I said, the actual Fan Club magazine only lasted a year, and since it was quarterly that meant only four issues. Let’s take a look at those issues.
Here’s issue #1 of the fan club magazine. It was released in Winter 1989, very soon after Back to the Future Part II was released. Needless to say, there were lots of news and reviews of Part II as well as upcoming rumors on the impending May 1990 release of Part III. Also included is a nice interview with screenwriter Bob Gale and Neil Canton.
