OMNI was known for its strange and often iconic covers, and its striking internal art too, following in the long tradition of sci-fi and fantasy magazines and pulp books, but often also looking like a portal into a Twilight-Zone universe...
This article almost never came into being, thanks to the peculiarly dictatorial nature of my local newsagent. In 1978 we’d just moved to the seaside town of Swanage, from the seaside town of Bournemouth, and when I saw an advert on telly for “the world’s first major magazine of science fact, fiction and fantasy”, I thought I’ll have some of that! So off I trotted down the steep hill to my local branch of Martin the Newsagent and asked for a copy. “Oh no,” said Mr Hammerton, the creepy owner, “That’s not a kids’ magazine, you won’t enjoy it, it’s for adults only.”