Mundo Estranho
| Editor | Fabio Volpe |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | nearly 130,000 |
| First issue | November 2001 |
| Company | Editora Abril |
| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Website | http://www.mundoestranho.com.br |
Mundo Estranho (literally "strange world" in Portuguese), first issued November 2001, is 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, now being a full-fledged separate magazine.
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.
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 features curiosities about music, video games and movies, and answers reader questions.
After its 70th edition (December 2007), Mundo Estranho suffered small modifications with its structure. The sections are as follows:
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. This division 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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