| Editor | Fabio Volpe |
|---|---|
| Categories | curiosity magazine |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Circulation | nearly 130,000 |
| Company | Editora Abril |
| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Website | http://www.mundoestranho.com.br |
Mundo Estranho (Strange World in portuguese) is a curiosities and diversities' magazine, very popular with Brazilian teenagers and it is the country's most popular magazine of its type. It was a division from Superinteressante magazine, but reached a kind of "half-independence" a few months after its first issue (November of 2001).
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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 and its articles were more serious. The magazine's team worked together with "Superinteressante's" team. With the magazine'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 an exclusive team and good reputation between the teenagers, "Mundo Estranho" initiated a humoristic phase, with a funnier writing in its articles and more curiosities about sex, musical bands and movies.
In its 70th edition (December 2007), the magazine suffered little modifications with its structure. This is the new magazine's division:
A.k.a "ME Hot", it's the first division of "Mundo Estranho". It follows the same structure from the main magazine, but with questions and curiosities only about sex. This division was created in consequence of the innumerable female teenagers criticisms about the supposed maleness in the "Mundo Estranho's" articles, so the magazine's team decided to create a division only for male teenagers and exclude all the articles about sex in "Mundo Estranho".