Mundo Estranho

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Mundo Estranho
EditorFabio Volpe
FrequencyMonthly
Circulation nearly 130,000
First issueNovember 2001
Final issueAugust 2018
Company Editora Abril
Country Brazil
Language Portuguese
Website mundoestranho.abril.com.br (last version archived)

Mundo Estranho (literally "Strange World" in Portuguese), first issued November 2001, was a monthly diversities and fun facts magazine, very popular among Brazilian teenagers and one of the country's most popular magazine of its type. It started as a section in the more popular Superinteressante magazine, but was already a separate paperback a few months after its first issue, later converted to a full-fledged separate magazine.

Contents

As a section in Superinteressante (2001–2002)

During its first two years, the magazine was a special issue from Superinteressante, an influential scientific magazine in Brazil. Mundo Estranho's content was more scientific. The magazine's team worked together with Superinteressante's team. With Mundo Estranho's popularity rising up, the Superinteressante's chief-editors decided to separate a special team exclusively for it, and publish it as an independent magazine. Some modifications were made with the magazine's structure and its logo.

As a separate magazine (2002–2018)

With a separate team and very popular for its use of informal language and good relationship with the readers, instead of exclusively scientifically-correct articles, Mundo Estranho now featured curiosities about music, video games and movies, and answers reader questions.

On August 6, 2018, Editora Abril announced the discontinuation of the magazine, along with nine more titles. [1] [2]

In October 2022, Editora Abril, in partnership with Disney, launched a special edition of the magazine to promote the animated film Strange World . This limited edition brought information about the characters, production, cast, and plot of the movie and was distributed only in some theaters in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. [2]

Sections

After its 70th issue (December 2007), Mundo Estranho made small modifications to its structure. The sections are as follows:

Mundo Estranho Hot

ME Hot is a division of Mundo Estranho. It follows the same structure as the main magazine, but with questions and curiosities only about sex. It was created after some criticised articles about sex in Mundo Estranho's articles, so the magazine's team decided to create a separate division for that purpose and exclude all the articles about sex from Mundo Estranho.

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References

  1. "Abril encerra dez títulos; Veja, Exame e Claudia ficam". 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  2. 1 2 "Abril demite 500 jornalistas e praticamente fecha as portas". Revista Fórum. 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2018-08-06.