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A [[newszine]] published by the '''Contact Group''': [[Ron Bennett]],  [[Jan Jansen (Belgium)|Jan Jansen]], [[John Hitchcock]], [[Ellis Mills]] and (from #4) [[Steve Schultheis]].

The first three issues were distributed free to members of [[ISFCC]], [[NFFF]], [[OMPA]] and [[FAPA]] and the mailing lists of Jansen's'' [[Alpha]]'', Bennett's ''[[Ploy]]'' and Hitchcock's ''[[UMBRA]]''. Writing in ''[[Skyrack]]'' #1 in 1959, Bennett said that Jansen had proposed that the newszine should pay for itself:

 The surprising thing was that fandom didn’t object to paying out for a newszine, but instead seemed to welcome the innovation.

He also said that the title 'slipp[ed] away into limbo after Jan had broken a collarbone in a road accident'.

In 1958 Bennett wrote to Jansen proposing he take over the title. Receiving no reply, he launched ''Skyrack'' instead in April 1959.

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 Issue || Date || Pages || Notes 
1 ||October 1956 ||6 || 
2 ||November 1956 ||6 || 
3 ||November 1956 ||8 || 
4 ||December 1956 ||6 || 
5 ||December 1956 ||6 || 
6 ||January 1957 ||6 || 
7 ||January 1957 ||6 || 
8 ||February 1957 ||10 || 
9 ||July 1957 ||4 || 
9.5 ||October 1957 ||4 ||Final issue 
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