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just a quick addition.
i guess i could use and modify the archive page
something like this would be great
http://franklinbishop.net/archives/ but with the issue number somehow....

i can always fake the date by modifying the dates within the posts.

however! i will have a news catagory so i need to omit those posts somehow...

right think ive found a way

worked out how to get a single catgory up in a page

<?php $query = new WP_Query('category_name=Review'); ?>
<?php while ($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post(); ?>

post info

<?php endwhile; ?>

now working out how to list an archive like sidebar on the page

worked out the coding just hive to find the snippits.
eg

catagory sort (as above) for "Review"
  loop
    meta get for issue number : post month
        loop
            post tile with permilink
        endloop
  endloop

woop nearly there bad plugin has forced me to reinstall

Right heres my code
thanks to design_dolphin on topic http://wordpress.org/support/topic/275903?replies=7

<?php
	$term = get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var( 'term' ), get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) );
	$tt = $term->taxonomy . '=' . $term->slug;
	global $post;
	$query = 'numberposts=-1&' . $tt . '&orderby=date&order=DESC';
	$myposts =  get_posts();
	foreach($myposts as $post) {
		$year = get_the_time('Y');
		$title= $title= the_title('','',0);
		$groeps[] = $year;
	} 

	$groeps = array_values(array_unique($groeps));
	$qi = $groeps[0]; // change this number (e.g. to 1) to change the year.
	$query = 'posts_per_page=-1&' . $tt . '&year=' . $qi .  '&category_name=Review&orderby=date&order=DESC';
	query_posts($query);
	while (have_posts()) :
	the_post();
	?><?php $myissue = get_post_meta($post->ID, issue, true); ?>
    <?php $myissue = $myissue . ' '; ?>
  <?php the_date('F Y','<h3>Issue: ' .$myissue ,'</h3>'); ?>
 <div><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
<?php endwhile; ?>

my alterations have been adding the magazine issue number to the date and only showing certain catagory name "review"
hope that helps someone