''Toxic'' magazine is a British comics magazine launched in September 2002 by London-based

Egmont Publishing The Egmont Group (officially Egmont International Holding A/S; known as Gutenberghus Group until 1992) is a Danish media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark. The business area of Egmont has traditionally been magazine publishi ...

. The intention was to address the elusive boys' magazine market. The magazine's content was originally themed around

gross out Gross-out is described as a movement in art (often with comical connotations), which is intended to shock the viewer(s) and disgust the wider audience by presenting them with controversial material (such as toilet humor and fetishes) that might ...

topics, although this has been significantly reduced over time. The magazine has proved to be extremely successful and the title continues to be published today. ''Toxic'' is "edited" by ''Team Toxic'', a group of creatures under the supervision of Doc Shock. Key content strands include movies, gaming (traditional and virtual world), TV, DVD, jokes, comics, sport, cars, celebrity, competition prizes and how-to. Initially launched as a monthly title, ''Toxic'' increased frequency to every three weeks with issue 14, then to fortnightly with issue 34.

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