Bete Noire

A FAPAzine edited by Redd Boggs. The first four issues were named Cockatrice.

Issue	Date	Pages	FAPA mailing	Notes
1	Summer 1962	14	100	Initially titled Cockatrice. A. o. comments on "the Ed Martin affair", i. e. critique of his "ouster" from FAPA over Grotesque
2	Autumn 1962	4
3
4	Spring 1963	18	103
5	Summer 1963	16		Now titled Bete Noire
6	Autumn 1963	10	105	Motto below masthead "Improve every opportunity to express yourself in writing, as if it were your last. — Thoreau, Journal, 17 December 1851", repeated on following issues. Front & back cover illos by George Metzger, on the inside poems by Bill Blackbeard
7	Winter 1963	14	106
8	April 1964	6	107
9	Summer 1964	4	108
10	Nov 1964 Autumn 1974	46	149	"… intended for circulation with FAPA mailing #109, autumn 1964, and is actually being sent out with FAPA mailing #149, autumn 1974." Long conrep about Pacificon II stenciled in 1964/5, with new introduction and other material dated 3 Nov 1974
17	Summer 1966	8		subtitled "THE MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, ART, AND POLITICS"; opens with poem "Lamplight Under Stars" by August Derleth
18	Autumn 1967	10	121
19	Spring 1970	8	131
20	Summer 1970	8	132
21	Autumn 1970	6	133
22	Winter 1970	8	134
23	Summer 1972	8	140
24	October 1972	8	141
25	July 1973	18	144
26	July 1974	4	148	content is "Frolic Footnotes to a Life: Some Fannish Memories 5. Tap-tap-taptap-tap-tap-ping", on history of Boggs's typewriters
58	1964	2		Spoof issue titled Betenoire, dated Autumn, 1976 as by "Greg Boggs"

• Bete Noire online at fanac.org.

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Publication

1962—

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