Gambit

(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

• Gambit online at fanac.org
• Stellar online at fanac.org
• Zip (New Series) online at fanac.org

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Publication

1954—1982

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