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HERO Magazine was an American glossy men's magazine co-founded in 1997 by Sam Jensen Page and Paul Horne.

HERO features like THE BEST fashion designers and some of the pretty damn finest photographers on the planet too. And it's all about the FACES OF TOMORROW – the guys who will be shaping menswear campaigns and runways over the next few seasons.

HERO comes out twice a year, the SUMMER/FALL issue in May and the WINTER/SPRING issue in October.

The magazine rode the wave of the "mainstreaming" of gay culture. It published the first automotive column in a national gay magazine, the first gay man's wedding guide, etc. HERO turned away from the "sex sells" attitude of other gay publications, and did not accept adult or tobacco advertising. The magazine was also more inclusive of couples and men over 40 than other magazines at the time. It has been argued that its target readership was romantic single gay men.

After fast growth in its first 3 years, the magazine's financial backing was frozen after September 11, 2001, and the publication was forced to cease operations in January 2002.

The India Today Group launched the Indian edition of COSMOPOLITAN in 1996 under licence from the Hearst Corporation of the US. After all, who but the world's largest selling young women's magazine understands women better? Designed to reflect the fluid attitude of women who want it all, COSMOPOLITAN plays big sister, best friend and favourite doctor every month, offering advice, dictating style and trends. The range of issues and straight-talk features cover relationships, sex, career, health and almost every imaginable aspect of the new woman's life and style.

Australian Vogue is published in Australia by FPC Magazines twelve times a year under license from Conde Nast. Kirstie Clements is the current Editor in Chief and Paul Meany is the Creative Director. Many of their covers are original, although often there are reprints from other Conde Nast magazines. Printing and binding are average, but they use glossy paper and a thick cover. Fashion editorials are simultaneously airy and dismal-I don't know how that's possible, but they accomplish it quite well. Perhaps it can be attributed to the use of a lot of dark studio photography and the occasional happy outdoor work. Vogue Australia began publishing in 1957 with only three issues a year. Throughout the 1960's and 1970's, they gradually raised publication to six, eight, ten, then eleven issues. In 1980, they began monthly printing and have been maintained at that rate for almost thirty years.

"it represents one of the first online magazines in Spanish and was created in 1999 strongly believing that the internet was the future.