For sports fans that truly appreciate the history of their favorite games, there is no greater treat than old issues of Sports Illustrated. All the drama of the great sporting events of the past few decades from great NFL rivalries to the fights of Mike Tyson are there in the pages of SI, waiting to come to life once again. And think of the thrill these old issues of Sports Illustrated can bring younger fans that may not remember the Miracle on Ice or the Super Bowl Shuffle! One of the best parts of Sports Illustrated is that they cover all sports, so the pages of their back issues have stories on everyone from AJ Foyt to Arthur Ashe and cover baseball, basketball, horse racing, the rise of NASCAR, the Olympics and more.

Sports Illustrated also has one other favorite feature: the swimsuit issue! If this is more your style than the boys of summer, than you need to check out our selection of old Playboy magazines and old Esquire magazines.

Old Playboy magazines are the archives of cool

For anyone who wants to trace the history of "cool" in post-World War II America, old magazine issues of Playboy magazine are an indispensable archive of what was hip, happening and hot for the swinging man. The pages of Playboy are full of incredible interviews with leading personalities of the day. Fashions, music, films and books are reviewed from the male perspective. There are also the famous Playboy joke sections, containing some of the finest humor of the past few decades. If that is not enough, these old Playboy magazine are also chocked full of nude pictures of the sexiest girls of their day... but PaperMags.com only reads them for the articles!