Off Trails

Off Trails was the Official Organ of OMPA. The editorship rotated.

It's unclear whether #78 was in fact the last issue. Editor Keith Walker wrote:

I'm beginning to appreciate the way Mike Meara felt a couple of years ago. Is it really worth perpetuating a living corpse of an APA. Shouldn't we merely give credence to Darroll's conviction that OMPA is dead? Wipe the slate clean and start all over again if need be. TAFF and the Doc Weir Award award struggle on year after year as anachronistic non-entities. Is OMPA similarly moribund. It's dead but it won't lie down?

Issue	Date	Pages	Editor	Notes
1	September 1954	6	Vin¢ Clarke
2	December 1954	6	"
3	March 1955	6	"
4	June 1955	6	"
5	September 1955	6	Joy Clarke
6	December 1955	6	"
7	March 1956	8	"
8	June 1956	8	"
9	September 1956	8	Archie Mercer
10	December 1956	10	"
11	March 1957	8	"
12	June 1957	10	"
13	September 1957	12	John Roles
14	December 1957	10	"
15	March 1958	10	"
16	June 1958	8	"
17	September 1958	8	Roberta Gray
18	December 1958	8	"
19	March 1959	6	"
20	June 1959	8	"
21	September 1959	12	Ron Bennett
22	December 1959	12	"
23	March 1960	12	"
24	June 1960	14	"
-	June 1960	2	"	an additional issue
25	September 1960	16	Daphne Buckmaster
26	December 1960	14	"
27	March 1961	10	"
28	May 1961	10	"
29	September 1961	10	Bruce Burn
30	December 1961	6	"
31	March 1962	8	"
32	June 1962	14	"
33	September 1962	2	Ken Cheslin
34	December 1962	8	"
35	March 1963	10	"
36	June 1963	10	"
37	September 1963	6	Ethel Lindsay
38	December 1963	6	"
39	March 1964	10	"
40	June 1964	10	"
41	September 1964	6	"
42	December 1964	6	"
43	March 1965	6	"
44	June 1965	8	Brian Jordan
45	September 1965	6	"
46	December 1965	6	"
47	March 1966	8	"
48	June 1966	6	"
49	September 1967	12	Archie Mercer
50	March 1968	4	Heinrich Arenz
51				never distributed & presumed lost (in Germany).
52	December 1968	8	Beryl Mercer
53	March 1969	6	"
54	June 1969	4	"
55	September 1969	4	"
56	January 1970	6	Ken Cheslin
57	April 1970	4	"
58	June 1970	6	"
59	October 1970	8	"
60	January 1971		"
61	April 1971		"
62	July 1971		"
63	October 1971	6	"
64	January 1972	6	"
65	April 1972	8	"
66	July 1972	8	"
67	October 1972	6	"
68	January 1973	6	"
69	April 1973	6	"
70	July 1973	2	"
71	October 1973	6	"
72	January 1974	6	Pat & Mike Meara
73	April 1974	4	"
74	July 1974	8	"
75	October 1974	4	"
76	January 1975	4	"
77	April 1975	2
78	July 1975	4
79	October 1975	1
80	January 1976	3	Keith Walker
81	April 1976	1	"
84	January 1977	6.5	"
85	April 1977	1	"
86	July 1977	1	"
87	October 1977	3	"	2-page issue plus 1-page 'special issue'

• Off Trails online at fanac.org

---

Publication

1954—1977

This is a publication page. Please extend it by adding information about when and by whom it was published, how many issues it has had, (including adding a partial or complete checklist), its contents (including perhaps a ToC listing), its size and repro method, regular columnists, its impact on fandom, or by adding scans or links to scans. See Standards for Publications.