''Bop'' magazine was a monthly American entertainment magazine for children 10 years of age and teenagers. It began publication in the summer of 1983 and was published by

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, which also publishes ''

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'' magazine. The headquarters of ''Bop'' was in

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. Popular features included articles, mini-mags, interviews, and the ''Fly Free To Hollywood'' contest, where readers had to correctly guess the stars, whether it was identifying their eyes, finding their names in a word search, or identifying them by their hair (the photos had the celebrities with their faces blacked out). A spinoff magazine, ''Big Bopper'', later called ''BB'', was released in the fall of 1986 and was published until 2000. ''Bop'' and ''Tiger Beat'' were very similar, as they share an editor and feature the same celebrities. ''Bop'' was sold by its founders (Julie Jenkins, Teena Naumann, Kerry Laufer and Scott Laufer) to

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in 1998. Primedia sold it (along with ''Tiger Beat'') to Scott Laufer in 2003. ''Bop'' ceased publication in July 2014.

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