| The following Life magazines are offered for sale
on a first come first served basis. They are in good-very good condition, There will be address stickers on the front of each one that seem to be removable. Some have loose covers but are intact. If you are purchasing as a collector, you may e-mail for exact description of the condition of the magazine of your choice. All magazines are priced as final sale but are open to offers on units priced over $15. |
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| Year/ M | Life Magazines Cover description | Price | |||||||
| 1978 | |||||||||
| Oct | Cover – Hot Air balloons. | $15 | |||||||
| Nov | Cover – Mickey Mouse is laughing | $20 | |||||||
| Dec | Cover - Prince Charles in His Welsh Guards Uniform | $10 | |||||||
| 1979 | |||||||||
| Jan | Cover – Shar-Pei dog. Dogs you’ve never seen before. | $15 | |||||||
| Feb | Cover – lingerie by Arthur Elgort. Exclusive pictures of Nixon coming out of exile. | $15 | |||||||
| Mar | Cover - Lesley-Anne Down. Art Heists, they're stealing the pictures off the walls | $15 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Solar eclipse. The Eclipse | $15 | |||||||
| May | Cover - cooling towers at Three Mile Island. | $15 | |||||||
| 1980 | |||||||||
| Apr | Cover - Children of a Hare Krishna commune in West Virginia. | $20 | |||||||
| 1981 | |||||||||
| Apr | Cover - Meryl Streep, America's best actress, | $15 | |||||||
| 1982 | |||||||||
| Jan | Cover - Princess Diana's wedding. Special issue 1981 - the Year in Pictures. | $30 | |||||||
| Feb | Cover - Christie Brinkley in a swim suit, | $15 | |||||||
| Jul | Cover - Raquel Welch in a swimming suit, fit, firm and 41 | $20 | |||||||
| 1983 | |||||||||
| Mar | Cover - Prince Rainier of Monaco with his family, Albert, Caroline and Stephanie. | $15 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Human embryo hand. Treating the unborn, surgical miracles inside the womb | $15 | |||||||
| May | Cover - Debra Winger in the bath, a zany photo with her in fancy evening dress. | $15 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - Scenes from Star Wars, including a heroic view of Luke rescuing Princess Leia. | $20 | |||||||
| Jul | Cover - Lake scene from Glacier National Park. Montana's Glacier wilderness | $20 | |||||||
| Sep | Cover - Classic cars. The 10 best and 10 worst American CARS ever! | $20 | |||||||
| Oct | Cover - Nancy Reagan on a rocking horse, first ranch lady. | $15 | |||||||
| Nov | Cover - JFK. The Kennedy assassination - Four days that stopped America. | $15 | |||||||
| Dec | Cover - Barbra Streisand. Fighting and dying in Beirut and Grenada | $15 | |||||||
| 1984 | |||||||||
| Jan | Cover - 1983 The year in pictures, Special Issue - neat fold-out cover of many of the faces of the year. | $25 | |||||||
| Feb | Cover - The Beatles in a swimming pool. The Beatles : 20 years ago | $20 | |||||||
| Mar | Cover - Daryl Hannah in a swim suit - feature inside. | $15 | |||||||
| May | Cover - History of Cocaine, 1884-1984, from Freud to Delorean. | $30 | |||||||
| Special | Cover - Runner Mary Decker. Special Issue - the Olympics. A picture history and a preview of 1984, the highlights, the heroes, the hoopla. | $30 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - Harrison Ford (as Indiana Jones) and Kate Capshaw. D-Day's historic beaches 40 days later | $15 | |||||||
| Jul | Cover - Dan Pisner and five quintuplets | $15 | |||||||
| Aug | Cover - Grizzly bear. Can grizzlies and people coexist? | $15 | |||||||
| Sep | Cover - Michael Jackson - big feature inside | $15 | |||||||
| Oct | Cover - Doonesbury is back, cartoon figures Mike and J.J. are Married, | $25 | |||||||
| Nov | Cover - John and Caroline Kennedy. All the Presidents' children, | $15 | |||||||
| Dec | Cover - Princess Diana and new baby - big feature inside. | $25 | |||||||
| 1985 | |||||||||
| Jan | Special Issue - The 1984 year in pictures. Orwell was all wet. | $25 | |||||||
| Feb | Cover - Brooke Shields bares the new swimsuit | $15 | |||||||
| Mar | $15 | ||||||||
| May | Cover - Bill Schroeder (artificial heart recipient) and his surgeon William DeVries | $15 | |||||||
| Special | Spring/Summer 1985 : World War II Special Issue - 40 years later. This is a nice review issue for the WWII buff, includes modern follow-ups on many people and things | $50 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - Bill Cosby. Cosby! - America's funniest father. | $15 | |||||||
| Jul | Cover - AIDS. Now no one is safe from AIDS, | $15 | |||||||
| Aug | Cover - Janet Jones swinging hula hoop and wearing a poodle skirt. | $20 | |||||||
| Sep | Cover Tina Turner and Mick Jagger. LIVE AID : Superstar spectacular, | $20 | |||||||
| Oct | Cover - Joan Collins, Dynasty's bad girl as you've never seen her before, | $15 | |||||||
| Nov | Cover - Princess Diana. Prince Charles and Diana in America. | $20 | |||||||
| Dec | Cover - Astronaut and starscape. Seeing beyond the stars, | $15 | |||||||
| 1986 | |||||||||
| Jan | Cover - The year in pictures - 1985, Special Issue. Ceremonies marking the ends of two wars, World War II and Vietnam. | $25 | |||||||
| Feb | Cover - Paulina Porizkova in a swimming suit ( | $20 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Caroline, Princess of Monaco. | $15 | |||||||
| May | Cover - 5 actresses, Jessica Lange, Sally Field, Barbra Streisand, Goldie Hawn, Jane Fonda. Special Issue : Celebrating the Movies. | $15 | |||||||
| Jul | Cover - The Statue of Liberty, America the Wondrous. | $15 | |||||||
| Special | Fall 1986 - 50 years of Life - special anniversary issue. HUGE! Hundreds of the most famous LIFE photos. Printed in two versions, same cover, same editorial (text and photos) content. One version has ads, one doesn't: | $50 | |||||||
| Subscription version = Fall 1986, with 416 pages, including advertisments. | |||||||||
| Sep | Cover - Caroline Kennedy. The Weddings, Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, | $25 | |||||||
| Oct | Cover - A person smoking cocaine. "I am a coke addict" | $20 | |||||||
| Nov | Cover - Paul Newman and Tom Cruise, a private visit with the new hustler and the old pro | $15 | |||||||
| Dec | Cover - Madonna, great feature inside. How to cope with a nuclear missile in your backyard, | $30 | |||||||
| 1987 | |||||||||
| Jan | Special Issue : 1986 - The year in pictures - Including Industrialist Armand Hammer. 100th birthday for Statue of Liberty. | $25 | |||||||
| Feb | Cover - Christie Brinkley and daughter Alexa Ray Joel - feature inside | $15 | |||||||
| Mar | Cover - Part of Mel Fisher's hoard of Spanish gold and silver, the richest find so far. | $15 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Movie Stars including Tom Cruise, Molly Ringwald, Faye Dunaway, Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford, Debra Winger, Timothy Hutton. Special Issue : the Movies. | $15 | |||||||
| May | Cover - Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman team up for Ishtar | $15 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - Baby Shira, the world's first "Host Womb" baby, related story inside. | $15 | |||||||
| Jul | Cover - Outdoor scene with trembling aspen from the Wet Mountain valley in Colorado, fold-out photo. | $15 | |||||||
| Aug | Cover Oliver North and his wife Betsy. | $15 | |||||||
| Special | Fall 1987 : Cover - The Remarkable American Constitution - Special Issue. An enduring passion - a constitution that meets and masters challenges | $15 | |||||||
| Oct | Cover - Mikhail Gorbachev. Margaret Thatcher on dealing with Gorbechev. | $10 | |||||||
| Nov | Cover - MIA, are any still alive? 25 compelling M.I.A. cases from Vietnam, Reserved | $10 | |||||||
| Dec | Cover - Meryl Streep, on top and tough enough to stay there | $15 | |||||||
| 1988 | |||||||||
| Jan | Special issue - The 1987 year in pictures. Reagan and Gorbachev. | $25 | |||||||
| Feb | Cover - Speed skater Bonnie Blair, best bet for a U.S. gold. | $10 | |||||||
| Mar | Cover - Gilda Radner. Gilda Radner's answer to cancer, healing the body with mind and heart. | $10 | |||||||
| Special | Spring 1988 : Special issue - Civil Rights, the dream then and now. Horrible two page vintage photo of lynching (hanging) of two black men | $25 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Why little Cecelia survived and 154 die on Flight 255 | $10 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - R.F.K. The family remembers RFK, Robert Kennedy, his legacy, public and private. | $20 | |||||||
| Aug | Cover - Pee Wee Herman. Pee-Wee : how to throw the coolest party ever. | $15 | |||||||
| Sep | Cover - Paul Newman's Dream, a caring camp for ailing kids, includes Becky Whipp, Olivia Goggins, Nicholas Gullett, Nathan Sims, Matt Nicoli, others. | ||||||||
| Oct | Cover - Sigourney Weaver with a gorilla - feature inside, six full pages. | $15 | |||||||
| Nov | Cover - Our Planet - breathtaking view from space by those who have been there. (With Mickey Mouse Section) | $25 | |||||||
| Dec | Cover - Lisa Marie Presley and Priscilla Presley. Elvis' daughter talks about Dad | $30 | |||||||
| 1989 | |||||||||
| Jan | Cover - 1988 The Year in pictures, Special Issue. Drought, flood, wind and fire scar the planet. | $25 | |||||||
| Feb | $20 | ||||||||
| Mar | Cover - Improvised explosive device, I.E.D. Bombs on planes, a chilling exposé of US airports. TV turns 50, anniversary celebration - a 50 page special. | $20 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson (on a snowmobile) tell their love story, starting over. | $15 | |||||||
| Special | Spring 1989 : Cover - Hollywood 1939-1989, Special Issue. Today's stars meet the screen's legends | $20 | |||||||
| May | Cover - Barbara Bush, with dog Millie and her cute new puppies. | $20 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - Melissa McKnight in a bra. Hurrah for the bra, it's 100 years old this month - a history. | $10 | |||||||
| Jul | Cover - Jackie Kennedy. Happy Birthday Jackie, her 60 years in photographs. | $10 | |||||||
| Aug | Cover - Woodstock, 20th anniversary special. Where are they now? | $30 | |||||||
| Special | Fall 1989 : Cover - The 1980's, Special Issue. Recapping a turbulent decade | $25 | |||||||
| Sep | Cover - Flight 232, airplane crash. Finding God, gripping stories told by the passengers | $10 | |||||||
| Oct | Cover - 101 Things worth saving. Five year-old witness to murder | $20 | |||||||
| Nov | $10 | ||||||||
| Dec | Cover - Jane Pauley. Our loss, her dream : how Jane Pauley got what she wanted, | $10 | |||||||
| 1990 | |||||||||
| Jan | Cover - 1989 the year in pictures, Special issue. Mr. Bush's neighborhood. Weddings, including tennis star Bjorn Borg wearing red. | $25 | |||||||
| Feb | Cover - Child lighting candle in Prague's Wenceslas Square. | $10 | |||||||
| Mar | Cover - Nadia Comaneci, gymnast, her story from the 1976 Olympic games to the downfall in Ceausescu's Romania. | $10 | |||||||
| Special | Spring 1990 : Cover - Red-haired girl, Elizabeth Hardy. Special Issue : The world of Children. | $20 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Billy Crystal and the Academy award. The genius of Billy Crystal - | $15 | |||||||
| May | Cover - Giant Sequoia trees. Earth day 1990. The miracle of trees - much of this issue is about trees : | $10 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - Elvis Presley. 13 years after Elvis' death, new evidence points to suicide. | $10 | |||||||
| Jul | Cover - Kermit the frog, a muppet, mourning Jim Henson (feature inside). | $10 | |||||||
| Aug | Cover - Human fetus, seven-week old embryo. Great two page color photo of a boneshaker bicycle race | $10 | |||||||
| Special | Cover - 100 most important Americans of the 20th century, Special Issue. Photo and text for each person | $10 | |||||||
| Sep | Cover - Immigrants on Ellis Island, vintage photo. | $10 | |||||||
| Oct | Cover - Fergie and her baby, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York. | $10 | |||||||
| Nov | Cover - The Godfather. New movie, Godfather III. | $15 | |||||||
| 1991 | |||||||||
| Jan | Special Issue - the 1990 year in pictures. Operation Desert Shield in Saudi Arabia, | $20 | |||||||
| Mar | Cover - Soldier in Desert Storm camouflage, Captain David Ray Smith from Leesville, Louisiana. This issue is all about the gulf war | $10 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Father, Mother and child, Sara and Jim Vogt. | $10 | |||||||
| May | Cover - Mars from space. Our next home, Mars - bringing a dead world to life. | $10 | |||||||
| Special | Summer Special 1991 : Mount Rainier. Special Edition : Our National Parks. America's crown jewels | $10 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - Michael Landon, he gives an exclusive interview about hope, fear, family, the power of love and his impending death. | $10 | |||||||
| Jul | Cover - Statue of the Virgin Mary. Do you believe in miracles? | $10 | |||||||
| Aug | Cover - Shark. Shark Alert - we are slaughtering 100 million every year, driving them to extinction. | $10 | |||||||
| Special | Fall Special 1991 : Cover - The Bill of Rights : Special bicentennial issue. | $10 | |||||||
| Sep | Cover - Rhett and Scarlett. The sequel to "Gone with the Wind." | $10 | |||||||
| Oct | Cover - Baby being baptized in a Moscow church. The journey of our lives, | $10 | |||||||
| Nov | Cover - Portion of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling - a clear view of heaven, | $10 | |||||||
| Dec | Cover - JFK, why we still care, a new movie about the assassination reopens an old controversy | $10 | |||||||
| 1992 | |||||||||
| Feb | Cover - Liz Taylor at 60. Liz and Larry talk about their remarkable marriage. | $10 | |||||||
| Mar | Cover - Walking into the light, little girl in puffy white dress ascending stairs. | $10 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - The Earth from space. Behold the Earth, startling new pictures that show our planet as we've never seen it before. | $10 | |||||||
| Special | April 5, 1993 : Special Issue : The Wild West - yesterday and today. Cover - Cowboy on horse. | $15 | |||||||
| May | Cover - Johnny Carson. As the curtain closes on TV's greatest career, we remember the best of Carson. | $15 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - The White House. If Women ran America, an exclusive poll, how things would be different in Washington, in the Cities, at Work and at Home. | $10 | |||||||
| Jul | Cover - Two sides of the abortion debate, America divided, Pro-Choice, pro-life. | $10 | |||||||
| Aug | Cover - Princess Diana, what happened and why. | $25 | |||||||
| Sep | Cover - Nebula photo taken with Hubble telescope. | $10 | |||||||
| Oct | Cover - Sally Woodbridge of Berkeley in 1992 and 1944, she looks like Katharine Hepburn. | $10 | |||||||
| Special | October 30, 1992 : Cover - The White House - Bicentennial Issue : 1792-1992. | $15 | |||||||
| Dec | Cover - The First Christmas - Mary and Joseph and the Journey to Bethlehem, | $15 | |||||||
| Special | December 1, 1992 : Cover - Special Issue : 40 years of Rock & Roll. Exclusive : behind the scenes with Guns N' Roses on tour. | $30 | |||||||
| 1993 | |||||||||
| Jan | Collector's Edition, Life remembers 1992, the year in pictures. Bill Clinton. Princess Diana. Haitian diaspora, rafts. | $25 | |||||||
| Feb | Cover - Princess Diana and Prince Charles, a wedding photo. | $10 | |||||||
| Mar | Cover - Camilla Overbye Roos. How Hollywood creates a star. | $15 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King remembrance. | $10 | |||||||
| May | Cover - The cast of CHEERS, the final episode nears. | $20 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - Michael Jackson at home with his animals. Inside the private world of Michael Jackson. | $15 | |||||||
| Issues after this date measure 10 3/4" x 9" : | |||||||||
| Jul | Cover - Baby. Babies are smarter than you think, | $10 | |||||||
| Aug | $10 | ||||||||
| Oct | Cover - Fisher towers, Utah. America's last great places and how they might be saved forever. | $10 | |||||||
| Nov | Cover - Arthur Ashe's daughter Camera. | $10 | |||||||
| Dec | Cover - Woman nursing her baby. Miracles of birth | $10 | |||||||
| 1994 | |||||||||
| Feb | Cover - Headaches. Why you get headaches and what medical science is doing to make them go away. | $10 | |||||||
| Mar | Cover - Girl praying, Fionah Dominis. | $10 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Family in red convertible car. Getting away to America's newest, hottest vacation spots | $10 | |||||||
| May | Cover - Breast cancer survivors. Fighting back against the Breast Cancer epidemic | $10 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - Dream House. We hired a great architect (Robert A. M. Stern) to design your dream house. | $10 | |||||||
| Jul | Cover - The human brain. Neuroscientists explore the benefits of Brain Calisthenics. | $10 | |||||||
| Aug | Cover - Musicians Joni Mitchell, Roger Daltrey, Crosby, Stills and Nash. An exclusive portfolio : Woodstock remembered. | $20 | |||||||
| Sep | Cover - Florida panther. Saving the endangered 100. | $10 | |||||||
| Oct | Cover - Frasier's Kelsey Grammer and his dog Eddie. | $15 | |||||||
| Nov | Cover - The best parties of the year. Woodstock! Mardi Gras! Weddings! Proms! How Americans had fun in 1994. | $15 | |||||||
| Dec | Cover - Jesus. Solving the mystery of Jesus, who was he? | $10 | |||||||
| 1995 | |||||||||
| Jan | Cover - Jackie Kennedy, 1929-1994. Collector's Edition : Life remembers 1994, the year in pictures. | $20 | |||||||
| Feb | Cover - Pinching an inch of fat. 28 questions about fat, plus all of the answers. | $10 | |||||||
| Mar | Cover - Rose Kennedy, 1890-1995. Memories of an Era. | $10 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Baby. Knowing your medical family tree can save your life. | $10 | |||||||
| May | Cover - Lion cubs. Wild animal babies, how they learn, how they play, how they survive. | $10 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - Justin and Sydney Simpson at Nicole Brown Simpson's gravesite. | $10 | |||||||
| Jul | Cover - Child. How can we keep our children safe? | $10 | |||||||
| Aug | $10 | ||||||||
| Sep | Cover - Woman sleeping. New science reveals what dreams can do for you. | $10 | |||||||
| Oct | Cover - Frank Sinatra as a young man. Sinatra at eighty, intimate pictures of a life. | $15 | |||||||
| Nov | Cover - Gulf War veteran Paul Hanson and son Jayce. The tiny victims of Desert Storm | $10 | |||||||
| Dec | Cover - Angels. On the trail of angels, search for meaning and comfort in the spiritual world. | $10 | |||||||
| 1996 | |||||||||
| Jan | Cover - The Year in pictures 1995 : Life remembers 1995 - special issue. Meet the Threetles. The Million man march. | $20 | |||||||
| Feb | Cover - Astronaut Christa McAuliffe | $25 | |||||||
| Mar | Cover - Free Willy. The happiest whale in the world. | $10 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Conjoined twins, Abigail and Brittany Hensel, one body and two souls | $10 | |||||||
| May | Cover - Dream House 1996, designed by architect Michael Graves | $10 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - Erupting volcano. Then the big one hits, volcano | $10 | |||||||
| Jul | Cover - Sprinter Gwen Torrence. | $10 | |||||||
| Aug | Cover - Climbers on Everest. Exclusive : what really happened on Everest, Reserved | $10 | |||||||
| Sep | Cover - Alternative healing. The healing revolution, surgery or acupuncture? | $10 | |||||||
| Oct | Cover - Marilyn Monroe, created by Rob Silvers using a photomosaic of previous LIFE magazine covers. 60th Anniversary Collector's edition. | $85 | |||||||
| Nov | Cover - Monkey Fetus. The dawn of life, revolutionary prenatal photographs of humans and animals. Gay marriage. | $10 | |||||||
| Dec | Cover - Statue of Virgin Mary. The mystery of virgin Mary, mother of Jesus. | $10 | |||||||
| 1997 | |||||||||
| Jan | Cover - Wedding of JFK, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Collector's Edition : The year in Pictures, 1996. | $50 | |||||||
| Feb | Cover - Human skeleton. | $15 | |||||||
| Mar | Cover - Pygmy Loris and Orangutan. Miracle babies - endangered species back from the brink | $10 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Liz Taylor. Exclusive, from her hospital bed Elizabeth Taylor takes about hopes, fears and brain surgery. | $10 | |||||||
| May | Cover - Sara Hogenson, Asthma sufferer. Breathe easy, new discoveries | $10 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - Titanic sinking. Titanic fever, why we can't look away from disasters | $10 | |||||||
| Jul | Cover - Astrology signs. Astrology - why so many of us now believe the stars reflect the soul. | $10 | |||||||
| Special | Fall 1997 : Cover - Famous people from the millennium. Special double issue : The Millennium, 100 events that changed the world. | $15 | |||||||
| Sep | Cover - Oprah. The secret inner life of America's most powerful woman, | $15 | |||||||
| Oct | Cover - Toddler in prison. Babies behind bars, photo essay of the children of women in prison | $10 | |||||||
| Nov | Cover - Princess Diana. Collector's edition : Diana - portrait of a lady, her favorite photographers | $25 | |||||||
| Dec | Cover - Michael Jackson holding his baby son. What is the soul? | $15 | |||||||
| 1998 | |||||||||
| Jan | Cover - Princess Diana. Collector's Edition - The Year in Pictures, 1997. Young women disposing of unwanted babies. | $25 | |||||||
| Feb | Cover - Man trying to sleep. Why 70 million of us are sleepless in America | $15 | |||||||
| Mar | Cover - Girl holding up photo. Kids' pictures to God - what children want God to see. | $10 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Strand of DNA. Were you born that way? | $10 | |||||||
| May | Cover - The septuplets. Exclusive, raising the septuplets | $10 | |||||||
| Jun | Cover - Doctor David Loxterkamp delivering a baby in Belfast, Maine. | $10 | |||||||
| 2000 | |||||||||
| Jan | Fold-out Cover - JFK, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Special issue : 1999 - the year in pictures. | $25 | |||||||
| Feb | Cover - Celine Dion and Rene Angelil renew their vows. Celine Dion, why I left it all for love | $15 | |||||||
| Mar | Cover - Jason Behr, Katherine Heigl and Brendan Fehr of TV's Roswell. UFO's - why do we believe? | $15 | |||||||
| Apr | Cover - Pope John Paul. The Pope travels to the Holy Land and his past. | $15 | |||||||
| May | Cover - Jason Michael Waldmann Jr., premature baby. | $10 | |||||||