SFX is a UK magazine about sci-fi/fantasy films, TV shows and books. They've just reached their 30th anniversary. I've found very little online for availability of the earliest issues from 1995 onwards, does anybody know if its out there? Thanks.
I've never actively LOOKED, but I've never come across any scans (though later editions are available digitally.) If they aren't at the Internet Archive, they probably don't exist.
I've got issue 8 (Jan 96) scanned and ready to edit, so that will appear here eventually. I bought it as an experiment, to see if it was possible to scan on an A4 scanner (British mags never settled on a standard paper size, so they're all over the place when it comes to page dimensions.) It ended up being just slightly too wide for an A4 scanner, but the difference was so slight that I could just cut away a sliver from the side of each page without compromising the content, allowing it to be scanned. Not sure if I want to invest in buying more though, especially since there's no guarantee they didn't change their paper size at some point, rendering them unscannable.
There's 2 reasons almost no one outside of the UK scans UK mags: First, we don't actually own any, since UK mags were never sold in our country. But second - until we have them in our hands, we have no idea what size they are and whether or not they will fit on an A4 scanner (the size almost everyone owns), so buying them online for scanning purposes is SUPER risky.