Checkpoint

Checkpoint was a SF/fan newszine founded and for much of its run edited by Peter Roberts. It saw over a hundred issues between 1968 and 1979. Issues 47 to 62 were edited by Darroll Pardoe and and issues 63 to 73 by Ian Maule. Roberts resumed editorial control from 73 to 100, the final issue.

Checkpoint was a successor to Skyrack and was in turn succeeded by Ansible.

Its First Series, 1968-1969, was devoted entirely to fanzine reviews rather than news. An initial trial issue was titled Lostwithiel Check-Point (Lostwithiel is a town in Cornwall). Its second series began in 1971 with two trial issues numbered 00 and 0.

Transcripts of all issues are archived online – see Website below – and the archive was repackaged as the ebook The Complete Checkpoint (Ansible Editions, November 2018).

There were two versions of 41 (October 1973) and two slightly conflicting narratives to explain this. One account says that an early version of 41 dated July 1973 was sent only to Don Allen and was later abandoned as out-of-date. In the British Fanzine Bibliography Roberts said of 41 that "a very few copies of an earlier edition (Jul/73 m Q 4) were sent out – most were destroyed". It seems likely that the first version is entirely lost.

Checkpoint ran the Checkpoint Fan Poll.

Issue	Date	Pages	-Notes
First Series
0	December 1968	8	Titled Lostwithiel Check-Point
1	April 1969	14	Title now Checkpoint
2	July 1969
3	July 1969
4-5	August 1969
6-7	September 1969	8	double issue
8-9	October 1969		Final issue of first series
Begin Second Series
00	April 1971	2	Trial Issue
0	April 1971	4	Trial Issue
1	April 1971	6
2	May 1971	6
3	May 1971	4
4	June 1971	6
5	June 1971	6
6	July 1971	4
7	August 1971	6
8	September 1971	6
9	September 1971	2
10	October 1971	4
11	November 1971	4
12	November 1971	4
13	December 1971	6
14	January 1972	6
15	March 1972	4
16	March 1972	6
17	June 1972	6
18	June 1972	6
19	July 1972	6
20	July 1972	6
21	August 1972	14
22	September 1972	6
23	September 1972	6
24	October 1972	6
25	October 1972	6
26	November 1972	4
27	November 1972	6
28	December 1972	4
29	January 1973	6
30	January 1973	4
31	February 1973	6
32	February 1973	2
33	March 1973	4
34	March 1973	4
35	April 1973	6
36	April 1973	14
37	May 1973	6
38	May 1973	6
39	June 1973	4
40	June 1973	4
41	October 1973	8	two versions although the first likely lost; see above
42	October 1973	10
43	November 1973	8
44	December 1973	8
45	January 1974	4	Included Eric Bentcliffe's AmiZine Stories
46	March 1974	12
47	April 1974	4	Darroll Pardoe takes over as editor
48	May 1974	4
49	May 1974	4
50	June 1974	4
51	August 1974	4
52	September 1974	4
53	September 1974	4
54	October 1974	4
55	October 1974	4
56	November 1974	4
57	November 1974	4
58	January 1975	4
59	February 1975	4
60	March 1975	4
61	April 1975	4
62	April 1975	4
63	December 1975	6	Ian Maule takes over as editor
64	February 1976	4
65	March 1976	8
66	March 1976	2
67	1976	4
68	April 1976	4
69	May 1976	4
70	July 1976	4
71	August 1976	4
72-73	August 1976	8	double issue
74	September 1976	6	Peter Roberts returns as editor
75	October 1976	6
76	November 1976	6
77	December 1976	6
78	January 1977	4
79	February 1977	6
80	March 1977	6
81	April 1977	6
82	June 1977	6
83	July 1977	6
84	August 1977	4
85	Winter 1977	4
86	February 1978	6
87	March 1978	6
88	April 1978	6
89	May 1978	6
90	July 1978	6
91	September 1978	8
92	December 1978	6
93	February 1979	8
94	February 1979	6
95	April 1979	6
96	May 1979	6
97	June 1979	6
98	July 1979	6
99	August 1979	6
100	September 1979	6	Final issue

• Checkpoint online at fanac.org
• The Complete Checkpoint ebook

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1968—1979

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