Egg

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Egg was a fanzine published by Peter Roberts.

It began as an OMPAzine in 1970 and some issues were also distributed with ANZAPA and APA-45. It won the Checkpoint Fan Poll in 1970/71 and placed third in 1974/75. Issues were duplicated on quarto paper.

It often included a column of fanzine reviews and chatter by Eric Bentcliffe and a column 'North Sea Nog' or just 'Nog' by John Brosnan.

Issue Date Pages Notes
1 January 1970 22
2 April 1970 24 Distributed in ANZAPA #12, APA-45 #23 (postmailed) and OMPA #58 (premailed); 'incorporating Checkpoint 10', a review column and presumably precursor of the newszine Checkpoint which launched in 1971.
3 July 1970 32
4 October 1970 34
5 August 1971 30 Distributed in APA-45 #29 and OMPA #62
6 June 1972 34 Cover by Dave Rowe; interior illos by Harry Bell, John D. Berry, Terry Jeeves, Alistair Noyle, Bob Rickard (bacover), Dave Rowe. Editorial; "A Very Fannish Career" by Ian Williams; 'North Sea Nog" (column) by John Brosnan"; "An Australian Na­tional Fannish Song" by Sam Long; column: "Kaleidoscope" by Gray Boak; lettercolumn.
7 March 1973 26
8 August 1974 20 Interior illos by John D. Berry. Editorial; 'A Boy and his Scarf' by Gray Boak; 'North Sea Nog" (column) by John Brosnan; 'Heicon History (Part Two)' by Waldemar Kumming
9 February 1975 26 Cover by Graham and Pat Charnock; interior illos by Bill Rotsler; Editorial; 'North Sea Nog" (column) by John Brosnan; 'Whatever Happened to the Terrestial Fantascience Guild?' by Peter Roberts; 'Where No Man Will Go Again' by Greg Pickersgill; 'Slantwise Through My Letter Box' by Eric Bentcliffe; Included Egg Book Reviews as a supplement
10 December 1975 28 Cover by John Richardson; interior illos by Dave Rowe, Atom, and Roger Woods; editorial; 'Lovecraft Again' by James Parkhill Rathbone; 'North Sea Nog" (column) by John Brosnan; 'Egg Yolks on my Outworlds' by Eric Bentcliffe.
10.5 October 1976 22 This was an appreciation issue of Egg published when Roberts moved to Dorset from London in 1976
11 May 1978 24 Cover by Jim Cawthorn; interior illos by Jim Barker, Bill Kunkel, Bill Rotsler. Stu Shiffman and D. West; Editorial; the first two chapters of Roberts's 1977 TAFF trip report; 'Nog" (column) by John Brosnan; Final issue



Publication 19701978
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