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Jetix Magazine is a four weekly publication from Future Publishing and Jetix available in the United Kingdom. It is edited by Richard Owen.

It began as Fox Kids' Wicked, but soon changed when Buena Vista's changes finally reached the European regions, and Fox Kids was rebranded.

It serves as both a guide and showcase for programmes airing on the Jetix UK digital channel. Catering mostly to younger readers, the magazine is simple in its approach and content, offering up very easy summaries of their programming, and even simpler reviews of recently released video games and movies, similar to many other children's games and variety magazines.

Jetix Magazine is one of the few children's publications also to offer a free DVD in every issue, containing usually two episodes per disc, this would also soon include premiere episodes for seasons and series not yet airing on the channel until a few weeks after the issue would come out. Initially starting out as mere pocket slipcases, the DVD package was expanded into a near full sized DVD case with a narrow spine. The DVD packaging has since reverted back to its original slipcase form.

In November 2005, Jetix began adding three episodes per DVD to the package, starting with three classic episodes of their flagship show, Power Rangers, the episodes selected had never before been released commercially on DVD. Jetix would soon follow with more examples of this, releasing never before DVD-distributed episodes of the 1990s' X-Men animated series, Spider-Man, and the Incredible Hulk.

These decisions have been met with slight elation and disappointment by fans of these shows, delighted that these episodes have been released as a giveaway, but befuddled as to why Jetix, or Buena Vista to a larger extent, cannot release these episodes as part of box sets for each of their respective series.

Jetix Magazine's primary comic strip usually centers on Power Rangers, making it the most showcased series on the channel in the strip format (the only other one that rivals PR in terms of use was Digimon back when the publication was Wicked), now written by Transformers comic strip monarch Simon Furman, with art by Andrew Wildman. The strip has presently ended, and it is unknown if Furman and Wildman will collaborate on a Power Rangers Mystic Force strip.

The second top strip in the magazine is a UK reprinting of the Archie comics Sonic X title. Jetix Magazine also now reprints a serialised version of Mirage Studios' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics.