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(Do you mean a different ploy or another Stellar?)


An apazine published by Ted White in the mid-60s for APA-F. It was first named Zip, then Stellar and finally Gambit, but the numbering was retained.

A fanzine co-edited by Ted White and Larry Stark in 1956–57 and distributed at times in OMPA and FAPA. It started as Zip, edited by Ted White. Starting with issue eight in 1956, the name changed to Stellar and Larry Stark joined as co-editor (but White continued publishing a much smaller apazine under the name Zip) Stellar published twenty-three issues ending in 1958 when it was re-titled Gambit. At some point it was combined with Gafia and Dimensions as well.

Writing in Vegas Fandom Weekly, in "What Are The Greatest Fanzines?", Arnie Katz writes, "Stellar...established Faan Fiction (fiction about fans) as a genre and also explored new frontiers of multi-color mimeography. Stellar presented both classic reprints and new stories that attempted to bring the values of fiction to stories about fans and Fandom."

(Interestingly, White re-used the name Zip and the Zip numbering in 1956 for several issues as a small apazine.)

Some issues were actually columns in other fanzines.

Issue Date Pages Notes
1 1954 48 Titled Zip
3 1954 48
4 1954 58
5
6
7
Zip (New Series)
8 May 1956 4
9 May 1956 4
10 May 1956 4
Now titled Stellar; The Stellar issues were co-edited with Larry Stark
8 1956 26
9 October 1956 60
10 December 1956 44 Lee Hoffman adoration issue
11 1957 52
12 1957 54
13 1957 24
14 1957 22
15 1958 4 Year of the Jackpot
16 1958 4
17 1957 4
18 1958 8
19 August 1958 2 Combined with Gafia 15
20 1958 2
21 1958 20
22 August 1958 2
23 Now titled Gambit
24
24 1/2 October 1958
26.6 October 1958
25 October 1958
26 November 1958 2
27 November 1958 4
28 November 1958 10
29 December 1958 2
30 December 1958 22
31 1959 2
32
33 2
34 4
35 April 1960 Column in Void 21
36 May 1960 Column in Void 22
37 1960 2
38
39 December 18, 1960 2 co-edited with Pete Graham and combined with This #10
40 January 1961 Column in Void 23
41 1961 Column in Void 24
42 Column in Void 25
43 August 1961 Column in Void 26
44 August 1961 2
45 October 1961 Column in Void 27
46 February 1962 Column in Void 28
47 1962 4
48 1963 36 10th annish; co-edited with Les Gerber; includes Minac 4
49 July 10, 1964 1 for APA-F #1
50 July 17, 1964 1 for APA-F #2
51
52 August 1965 4
53
54
55 March 1, 1982 24
56 August 16, 1982 38


Publication 19541982
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