Le Zombie

Le Zombie (subtitled "The Ghouls’ Gazette") was a highly-regarded fanzine (often known by its nickname LeZ) published intermittently by Bob Tucker ("Published every time a zombie awakens") from December 1938 through December 1975 for 68 printed issues. (There was, for instance, a decade-long gap between #29 in 1959 and #30 in 1969.) After a 21-year gap, Tucker re-started it as e-Zombie in 2000, ending on August, 2001 for five more issues.

Tucker said that "the original reason for its existence was to wash some of the starch from the stuffed shirts of fandom." One early column was Poor Pong's Almanac.

It began as a satire on Doc Lowndes’ Le Vombiteur, but the tail began to wag the dog. The title may also refer to the Tucker death hoaxes which played such a distinctive role in fandom.

The term space opera may have originated there. Beginning in mid-1942, along with Harry Warner's Spaceways, Le Zombie began sponsoring the Fanzine Service as a way of distributing fanzines to servicemen.

In his obituary of Tucker, John Clute wrote: "It is only in recent years that academic critics have begun to come to terms with the huge amount of intellectual activity -- along with pre-blog gossip -- that filled fanzines, perhaps the most brilliant of them being Bob Tucker's Le Zombie."

See also: Lez-ettes.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1 V1.1	December 1938	2	The first nine issues were a supplement to Fantasy-News
2 V1.2	January 1939	2
3 V1.3	March 1939	2
4 V1.4	April 1939	2
5 V1.5	May 1939	2	#s 5, 6 and 7 were bound with Nova #1
6 V1.6	May 1939	2
7 V1.7	May 1939	1
8 V1.8	June 1939	2
9 V1.9	July 1939	6
10 V1.10	August 5, 1939	4	This was the first issue to be distributed independently
11 V1.11	August 19, 1939	6
12 V1.12	September 1939	12
13 V2.1	September 16, 1939	4
14 V2.2	September 20, 1939	4
15 V2.3	October 14, 1939	8
16 V2.4	October 28, 1939	4
17 V2.5	November 18, 1939	6
18 V2.6	December 2, 1939	8
19 V2.7	December 16, 1939	8
20 V2.8	December 30, 1939	6
21 V2.9	January 13, 1940	6
22 V2	January 27, 1940	8
23 V2.10	February 1940	8
24 V2.11	February 24, 1940	5
25 V3.1	March 9, 1940	6
26 V3.2	March 19, 1940	2
27 V3.3	1940	6
27.5 V3.4	April 1940	2	Included a postcard for readers to vote on Lez's future.
28 V3.5	May 1940	6
29	June 1940	12
30	July 1940	10
31	August 1940	12
32-33 V3.9-10	September 1940	20
34 V3.11	November 1940	11
35 V3.12	December 1940	12
36 V4.1	January 1941	20	2nd annish
37 V4.2	March&May 1941	10
38 V4.3	April 1941	16
39 V4.4	June 1941	10	Mis-numbered as 38 on cover
40 V4.5	July 1941	18
41 V4.6	August 1941	10
42 V4.7	September 1941	22
43 V4.8	October 1941	12
44 V4.9	November 1941	10
45 V4.10	January 1942	18
46 V4.11	April 1942	14
47 V4.12	May 1942	12
48 V5.1	July 1942	14
49 V5.2	September 1942	12
50 V5.3	November 1942	12
51 V5.4	March-April 1943	72+	4th annish; included Fanzine Yearbook 1942 & Le Zombie Advertiser #3; In two parts
52	April 1943	14
53	May 1943	12
54	September 1943	14
55	November 1943	14	Cover was included in FAPA 26
56	January 1944	46	5th annish; includes Fanzine Yearbook 1943
57	April 1944	16
58	July 1944	20
59	November 1944	20
60	September 1945	16
61	July 1946	14
62	not published
unnumbered	July 1946	2	Included in Pacificon Combozine (but not numbered as 62!)
63	July 1948	12	Produced for Torcon and intended to be the last issue.
64	January 1955	40	Published to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first fanzine
65	June 1958	4	Distributed with Fanac
66	December 1968	24
67	December 1975	24
68	October 2000		First ish as e-Zombie
69	November 2000
70	November 2000
71	December 2000
72	August 2001		Final issue

• Le Zombie online at fanac.org
• Le Zombie at Midamericon.org.

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Publication

1938—2001

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