Fantast Sidetrack

Fantast Sidetrack was a 16-page one-shot fanzine published by Ken Slater in the UK in April–May 1954.

The previous issue of Operation Fantast (#15) had appeared in Summer 1953. Slater explained:

Something, of course, had to be done. Newsletters at least serve to hold the membership together, but they are not what the members expect. And when over a year passes without an issue of Operation Fantast, the membership begins to grouse. I don't blame them. I'm grousing, too. I've been doing it steadily for some time now, and, as you know, Derek Pickles helped me deliver the grouse by making a personal call to discover what had happened to O.F. 15 and 16. He received a verbal promise which has not been kept. I have now asked for the copy back. At the time of writing, still no reply.

A final issue of Operation Fantast (#16) appeared in Summer 1954

• Fantast Sidetrack online at fanac.org.

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Publication

1954

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