Megavore

Not to be confused with the 1930s Science Fiction Collector (although it also sometimes included The and hyphen).

The Science-Fiction Collector (retitled Megavore: The Journal Of Popular Fiction for issues 9–13 and then returning to The Science Fiction Collector with no more hyphen) was a printed fanzine or possibly semiprozine (SFE calls it amateur magazine) published and edited by the collector and bookseller/dealer J. Grant Thiessen of Winnipeg, MB, devoted to bibliographic material on paperbacks and prozines.

Issues of SF Collector were collected (or apparently just re-bound) into three hardcovers produced by Thiessen's Pandora's Books in 1980–1 (ending with #14) in 140 to 250 numbered signed copies.

Its publication history is moderately complicated. All issues were 48 pages, some with advertising supplements/inserts.

Iss.	Date	Pp	Title, Notes, Publisher
1	October 1976		The Science-Fiction Collector. Published by James Grant Books, Calgary. Cover: Ace Book Index, $1.25
2	1976
3	February 1977
4	July 1977	48	Publisher changed (for the rest of the run) to Pandora's Books Ltd., Thiessen's business. Cover (art Dave Gallon) feature is Science Fiction Pornography by Kenneth R. Johnson
5	September 1977	48
6	May 1978
7
8	October 1979
9	June 1980	48	Cover says and shows “The Science-Fiction COLLECTOR Combined with: Age of the Unicorn. Now Combined as Megavore: The Journal Of Popular Fiction". AotU was a fanzine devoted to various pulp fiction by Michael Cook, who suffered a heart attack.
10	August 1, 1980	48	simply Megavore: The Journal Of Popular Fiction; no further mention of Age of the Unicorn even in the editorial
11
12	Dec 1980
13	March 1981
14	May 1981	48	The Science Fiction Collector is back, now without hyphen
15	July 31, 1981	48	Tabloid format. Articles up to p. 19, the rest advertisements only.

Reportedly there was Issue #15½ (30 November 1981), simply a catalogue, also in tabloid format.

A final issue was printed in an 11,000 copy run (instead of the usual 3,000), in a newsprint, tabloid-size format, in conjunction with my catalog #41 from my company, Pandora's Books.  My subcribers got a copy, plus all of my customers for my mail-order business, and the remainder were given out at the World Science Fiction Convention in 1981.
At that point, my mail-order business, and growing children, ate up all my time, and the magazine ceased publication.  

• Collector rescanned (alas, without OCR) for eFanzines, with Thiessen's introduction
• Collector at Internet Archive, with OCR
• Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• Science-Fiction Collector detailed bibliography at ISFDB

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Publication

1976—1981

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