Kong, calm down. Everybody's upset they canned the magazine. The articles weren't always spectacular (those "Indy's Top Ten Chases/Fights/Funniest Moments" features stand out in my mind as particularly weak), but some were great: issue 5's behind-the-scenes look at the novels, for example; or the three-part series with those (previously unseen?) storyboards from
Raiders. Perhaps most importantly, the magazine had unlimited potential: there are a ton of great ideas for features out there (ask Mitchell!), and it was exciting to see which ones they'd go for every couple of months.
There's no way a polite (if sternly worded) email from one over-excited superfan could have "spooked" them into ending the magazine. Heck, I never even threatened to cancel
my subscription, never mind orchestrating some sort of fandom-wide boycott. (The lifted text
was plagiarism, BTW.)
My guess is that either
- as Gobi-1 suggested, they were capitalizing on the hype surrounding the movie, and never intended the mag to go more than a year, or
- they were expecting Star Wars-level sales that never materialized. (That's almost certainly what killed the Hasbro line, right?) Around here every grocery store had it in stock; there are a fair number of fans out there, but not that many.