Inside HYMAG, the world’s largest collection of magazines

EVEN AS A child, James Hyman could not bear to throw away his copies of the Beano. Later, when working for MTV—first as a press officer compiling the day’s clippings, then as a researcher working on behalf of the hosts—he found a reason to seek out and acquire yet more magazines. “What I needed was new information: I couldn’t just regurgitate press releases,” he says. “That’s when I ramped up my collecting.”