FAPA

FAPA ("FAP-uh"), the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, the oldest fan apa in the world, distributing members’ fanzines for nearly a century. It was founded in 1937 and is still going. It has been nicknamed, infamously, Where Old Fans Go to Die and The Elephants' Graveyard for most of its existence. However, in the 2020s, it has become a growing organization.

Members are usually called Fapans, but terms such as FAPAte have been tried. Fanzines distributed through FAPA are FAPAzines.

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959

Fapans Fapate, Fapans, Faps. All names designating members of FAPA. The second is that endorsed by usage (prob'ly by analogy with "fans") but really the first is correct; FAPA is an association, so its members are associates.

From Fancyclopedia 1, ca. 1944

FAPAzine A fanzine published thru the FAPA; sometimes a synonym for individ fanzine. The name was used as the official title of a thing by Perdue.

• Fantasy Amateur online at fanac.org.
• FAPA Mailings online at fanac.org.
• FAPA One-Shots online at fanac.org.
• FAPA Index (Mailings 1-28).
• FAPA Book.
• FAPA Memory Book.
• A Sense of FAPA.
• Facebook group.

Mechanics

Like other apae, FAPA is primarily an agency for distributing to its members print publications, produced by its members in a variety of formats, at their own expense. Members are required to produce at least 8 pages of minac a year. Mailings are quarterly.

Joining

According to FAPA's by-laws, to qualify for membership, a prospective member must have done one or more of the following within a year of applying:

• produced and distributed at least one issue of a fanzine;
• contributed material (written or artistic) to two fanzines not produced in the same metropolitan area;
• and/or posted contributions in two different electronic forums.

However, in practice, FAPA had no (or virtually no) new members throughout the 2010s and seemed destined for extinction. As an expedient, when prospective new members suddenly starting showing up in volume in 2022, the primary way they were added was by sponsorship or "franking" by an existing member.

Thus, as of 2023, the way one becomes a member of FAPA is less formal than it has been in the past. To wit:

• Send a check for $10; and,
• 20 copies of your zine to the OE:
  Ken Forman
  2234 Marion County 7055
  Flippin, AR 72634

If your zine is accepted (no one has been rejected yet), you're a member so long as you maintain your 8-page minac requirement and the annual check to cover mailing costs. These costs may increase as more members join.

For more information, Ken can also be reached at kforman@att.net.

Officers

There are annual elections (August) of a secretary-treasurer and Official Editor, limited to two consecutive one-year terms. Other officials have included president, vice-president, Official Critics, a Laureate Committee, and ballot counters. The latter two positions were abandoned by the mid '40s, and the former two in 2009, but a teller for the annual officer elections continues to be appointed by the Secretary-Treasurer.

History

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959

Fandom's Oldest Organization -- Established 1937 (Or, more usually, approximations and parodies of this) refers to FAPA, which was and is the oldest Fandom-wide organization. There are other clubs like the LASFS and PSFS which are older but are locals.

1930s

The Fantasy Amateur Press Association was founded in 1937 by Don Wollheim and John Michel. They were inspired to create FAPA by their memberships in some of the non-fan amateur press associations (“ajays”), which they learned of from H. P. Lovecraft. FAPA's original constitutional limit was 50 members to accommodate publishers using hektographs. There were 21 members listed on the roster of the first mailing in August 1937; it took until the November 1938 mailing to fill the 50-member roster. The membership limit was raised to 65 in 1944 and has remained at that level ever since.

The early years of FAPA were stormy with party politics and sociological feuds (for details, see Jack Speer's pioneering fan history, Up to Now), and its third year, 1939-40, was marked by the Interregnum. Thereafter the prophets of Third Fandom came into control.

FAPA Campaign

The 1938 elections for the officers of the newly-created FAPA were seen at the time as a battle for the future of fandom between the Don Wollheim–John Michel axis and the non-political fans.

Wollheim was at the peak of his influence in fandom -- basically, he dominated it -- and arranged to continue control over FAPA by running a slate of officers and by sending out his slate’s attacks on the opposition along with the ballots. His slate won because, in those days of much slower communication, most of the FAPA membership had no idea what was going on. Once fans did realize how Wollheim had played them, sentiment turned against his group and it resigned.

While Wollheim and company continued to be very influential, they never again dominated fandom.

Jack Speer, while very much a player in these events, produced the first fanhistory, Up To Now, in 1939 and described the process in detail. For a full and fairly well-balanced account, see the chapters:

• Up To Now: The FAPA Campaign
• Up To Now: The Crucial Period
• Up To Now: The Undertow
• Up To Now: The Situation in the West
• Up To Now: The Order Begins to Crumble
• Up To Now: The Decline and Fall of Wollheim

From Fancyclopedia 1, ca. 1944

Pronounced variously [efeipiei], [faepe], and [fapa]. The Fantasy Amateur Press Association, constituted in 1937 by Wollheim, and Michel. Others soon joined, up to its constitutional limit of 50 (changed to 65 in 1943). The FAPA's first year was stormy with party politics and sociological feuds, and its third year, 1939-40, was marked by the Interregnum. Thereafter the profets of the Third Fandom came into control, and it prospered to become the longest-lived successful fan organization. It is primarily an agency for distributing to its members publications put out by its members at their own expense. This it does by mailings every three months. Members are required to be active in some way, writing or publishing. There are annual elections in June of a president, vice president, secretary-treasure, and Official Editor (he also does the mailing), who cannot held the same post again for five years. Other officials are the official critics, laureate committee, and ballot counters. Red tape is at a minimum.

1940s

Order of Dagon

(Did you mean the Esoteric Order of Dagon?)

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959

Order of Dagon In 1944 FAPA had become somewhat cumbered with deadwood and official resistance to change frustrated attempts to get the latter out by tightening activity requirements, etc. By December 1944 the Battle Creek-Bloomington-Los Angeles Axis had plans for an anschluss in FAPA well in hand. The Futurians were to be quashed by a nebulous group, the Freedom Party, standing for strengthened activity requirements and some miscellaneous projects which came to nothing. It was to be backed up by a secret self-perpetuating group known as the Order of Dagon; this started with the three plotters mentioned above (Ashley, Tucker, and Laney) and included such folk as Liebscher, Wiedenbeck, Saari, Spencer, Rothman, Croutch, Perdue, and Ackerman. The Order was to implement the Freedom Party program by bloc voting and by presenting all FP candidates for office, and successfully swung its first election. But the anti-Futurian aspect of the move was frustrated by the Little Interregnum, when the Futurians abdicated their leadership and withdrew into VAPA.

1944 also saw a special election about racism, spurred by obnoxious opinions of Jack Speer.

At the beginning of 1945, withdrawal of the Futurians, some of whom were officers, precipitated a Little Interregnum and during the next two years a series of officers who failed to properly function plagued the group (see Blitzkrieg).

In 1947, Speer reformed the Constitution, and the Insurgents quashed the last inactive OE, Elmer Perdue. Since then official troubles have mostly not disturbed FAPA, and red tape has been held to a minimum. The Constitution was again revised in 1958 (also by Speer) to incorporate amendments, bylaws, and practices adopted since 1947.

Where Old Fans Go to Die

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959

(Sneary:Laney) or any parody of this slogan has reference to FAPA, on account of the tenacity with which members clung to the roster toward the end of World War II. ("FAPA members never quit and rarely died.") Laney, struck by Sneary's coinage, stuck this phrase on the masthead of the FA during his OEship (1948). On gaining office, Sneary as VP banned usage of the phrase there or in any FAPAzine. "Why, I wonder?" wonders Burbee. "I suppose he decided that it wasn't as funny or as significant as we claimed."

From Fancyclopedia 2 Supplement, ca. 1960

Sneary's term did not refer to the "tenacity with which members clung to the roster" -- in Winter 47-8 there was no waiting list at all. What he meant was that actifans who had produced important subzine work were withdrawing from this activity to spend their declining years (fannishly speaking) in FAPA. And "I wasn't VP [when I banned the phrase from FAPA appearance]" recollects Sneary, "but Prexy. I made many foolish rulings, like no one being allowed to read a FAPAzine before the mailing -- including its editor -- and appointing myself, at the end of my term, as FAPA's ex-vice-president for a term of 9 years, to run concurrent with Perdue (who was the ex-President for 10 years)."

1950s–70s

During the '50s and '60s FAPA was so popular and membership so sought after that the waiting list grew to monumental proportions, for a period of time exceeding the number of membership slots on the FAPA roster. A waiting list fee was instituted to cover the cost of sending the Fantasy Amateur to so many fans awaiting membership, and a requirement that wait list periodically acknowledge receipt of the Fantasy Amateur was begun in order to weed out those who lost interest during the long wait. Bill Danner started the FATE Tape (the Fantasy Amateur Tape Exchange) for FAPA members in 1955.

The '60s also saw more FAPA fan politics: As recounted in Ratatosk #6 and #7, ten or so members of FAPA blackballed the entire waitlist, apparently to protest the blackballing provision in the FAPA constitution, thus eliminating the entire waitlist. The Secretary-Treasurer of FAPA duly cleared the waitlist and then immediately invoked a precedent from the 1940s when FAPA was short of members, and selected a group of fans to be on a new waitlist. By coincidence, the new waitlist looked a very great deal like the old one.... In a similar vein, Rick Sneary proposed an amendment to the FAPA constitution that no member of The Cult (another apa) be allowed to be FAPA members. Someone arranged for all FAPA members who were not members of The Cult to be granted Honorary Membership in it -- and Dick Eney ran a large Fantasy Rotator, Avanc 8 through FAPA -- so that if the Sneary amendment passed, everyone would be thrown out of FAPA. (It failed 24 to 6.)

1980s–2010s

Decline and Fall

With the growth of the Internet, paper-based fanac began to decline generally, and most apas faltered in competition with online forums.

FAPA had long been known as the last stomping grounds of geriatric fandom, and at this point, the waiting list became much smaller, and in the mid-'90s had disappeared altogether. The number of members had also shrunk as existing members died or otherwise dropped off the roster. As of May 2016, there were 23 active participants; by May 2017, there were just 19.

A major revision of the FAPA Constitution occurred in 2001 under the oversight of Robert Lichtman (Secretary-Treasurer 1986–2022), clarifying and conforming constitutional requirements with actual practice.

2020s

Renaissance

At the beginning of 2022, the nadir of FAPA, there were only 13 members.

In 2021, Erica Frank, a fanwriter and member of the Hugo-nominated fanzine Galactic Journey, made the intensive effort to determine whether the legendary FAPA still existed and, if so, how to join. It wasn't easy. Eventually, she got a hold of member Roger Wells, who put her in contact with Ken Forman.

Erica joined in the second mailing of 2022 (May). This sparked an inflow of people, all tracing back to her. Since Erica, a new member has joined every quarter, and the rolls now total 19 (one longtime member, Robert Lichtman, died in 2022, and is being kept on the rolls as a posthumous honor).

Thus, FAPA is undergoing a comparatively explosive revival while maintaining the timbre and tradition of the original organization. It is hoped that FAPA can reach its 65-member cap (and explore what to do then!) in time for its hundredth anniversary.

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959

("FAP-uh") The Fantasy Amateur Press Association, constituted in 1937 by Wollheim and Michel. Others soon joined, up to its constitutional limit of 50 (raised to 65 in 1943). The first year of FAPA was stormy with party politics and sociological feuds, and its third year, 1939-40, was marked by the Interregnum. Thereafter the prophets of Third Fandom came into control. At the beginning of 1945 withdrawal of the Futurians, some of whom were officers, precipitated a Little Interregnum and during the next two years a series of officers who refused to function plagued the group (see blitzkrieg). In 1947 Speer reformed the Constitution, and the Insurgents quashed the last inactive OE, Perdue. Since then official troubles have not disturbed FAPA, and red tape has been held to a minimum. The Constitution was again revised in 1958 (also by Speer) to incorporate amendments, bylaws, and practices adopted since 1947. FAPA is primarily an agency for distributing to its members publications put out by its members at their own expense. This it does by mailings every three months. Members are required to be active in some way -- writing or publishing -- and produce at least 8 pages of activity a year. There are annual elections (August) of a president, vice-president, secretary-treasurer and Official Editor; the two former cannot hold the same post again for five years. Other officials have included Official Critics, a Laureate Committee, and ballot counters. FAPA was the stronghold of the Brain Trust during Third Fandom, and has always been the most influential general fan organization; in fact, such APAs are the only general fan organizations that are really active.

Members of FAPA and their FAPAzines included:

• Forrest J Ackerman -- Fantasticonglomeration, Glom, Get Them Out on Time, Black and White, Presenting -- Adam Singlesheet, Rahuun Ta-Ka, The War Lock
• Anni Ackner -- Archaic Barrel Volume
• Martin Alger -- Revoltin' Development
• Karen Anderson -- Goliard, Alif
• Harry Andruschak -- Intermediate Vector Bosons, The Owlet Hoots
• Anonymous -- Fantasy Faction Field
• Bruce D. Arthurs -- Staggerwing, Undulant Fever, F-Words
• Abby Lu Ashley and Al Ashley -- En Garde
• Al Ashley -- The Precipitant, Meet FAPA, These Amazing Amendments, The Stump
• Mal Ashworth -- Fringe, I Dreamt I Crept in Marble Crypts, The Hasty Stopgap, The Last Fans in Town, Yrautibo, Running, Jumping, & Standing Still Magazine, Rot, Hita Pfushana, Biggy Plonks at the End of Time, Old Gaffer Hossetith Tells It the Way It Is
• Lenny Bailes -- Tuesday After Lunch...
• Wrai Ballard -- Wraith
• John Bangsund -- The New Millennial Harbinger, Philosophical Gas, Society of Editors Newsletter, Private Cellar Club, What's Happening in Australia, Great Australian Colour Book of Minac, In the Gums of a Mumbling Gale, Wreckin Heaves
• Elisheva Barsabe -- Landscape
• Anders Bellis -- Sweden 85, The Engholm File
• Greg Benford -- Doorway
• Jim Benford -- Motley
• Ron Bennett -- Qurp, Directory of Science Fiction Fandom
• Richard Bergeron -- Warhoon, Serenade, VOX
• Ruth Berman -- Pantopon
• John Berry -- This Goon for Hire
• John D. Berry
• Robert Bloch -- Science-Fiction Fifty Yearly
• Redd Boggs -- Sky Hook, Nehwon Review, Open Season on Monsters, Bete Noir, Cockatrice, The Lovecraftsman, The Bagabash Papers, The House of the Hidden Poet, Hurrah for Our Side, We Remember Terry Carr
• Sandra Bond -- Big Fish, Little Fish, Cardboard Box
• Kenneth H. Bonnell -- ForLo Kon
• Bernadette Bosky -- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Wizard Music, Your Tentacle Touched My Heart, Teller Story, W.A.S.T.E. Paper, Bobbing for Golden Apples, Lynx
• Phil Bronson -- Wudgy Tales
• Lester Boutillier
• Velma Bowen
• Marion Zimmer Bradley Gemini Fapa, Allerlei, Catch Trap, Astra's Tower
• David Bratman -- Girabbit, Private Enterprise Rabbit
• Walter Breen -- Allerlei, The Gemini Problem: A Study in Darkover
• Greg Bridges -- Misled Ptah Too
• Lynn Bridges -- Inspiration
• Brian Earl Brown -- Fapamentary, Brownian Motion, Sticky Quarters, FAPA Festival Fanzine, Memory Dump
• Mel Brown -- Fan Slants, Venus-Con
• Charles Burbee -- Burblings, Get Them Out on Time, The Best Loins Are on the Floor
• Stan Burns
• Jason K. Burnett -- Hexagon, Placeholder, All Sinking, No Power
• David Burton -- Catchpenny Gazette
• Elinor Busby -- Fapulous, Salud
• F. M. Busby -- Sercon's Bane, Re-Entry
• Rogers Cadenhead -- Release the Hounds, Swordperson
• Gregg Calkins -- The Rambling Fap
• Jack Calvert -- Exclam!
• Marty Cantor -- The Lime Jello Gazette
• Stven Carlberg -- The Pied-A-Terre
• G. M. Carr -- Gemzine, Epistles & Egoboo, Unasked Opinion
• Miriam Carr -- Klein Bottle
• Terry Carr -- Diaspar, Klein Bottle, Entropy, Atomica
• Lee Carson
• Jim Caughran -- A Propos de Rien
• Jack Chalker -- Interjection, Viewpoint, Mirage, Oh Yeah
• Louis Russell Chauvenet -- Spinnaker Reach, Sardonyx, Zizzle-Pop, Ephemeron, Detours
• Vin¢ Clarke -- Tucker Hotel
• Esther Cole -- Orgasm
• Lester Cole -- Orgasm
• Tom Collins -- Is, Jesting Pilate
• Ed Connor -- The Science Fiction Echo
• Roger Conway -- X
• Walter Coslet -- Futusyn, The Insider, Somnambulism, Thirteen
• Henry G. Coswell -- Fapasnix
• Rob Coulson & Juanita Coulson -- Vandy
• Dale Cozort -- Science Fiction Adventure Magazine
• Ed Cox -- The Best Lines Are on the Floor, Fafhrd, Maine-iac, A Fanzine In..., Not This August
• Burton Crane
• Dick Crain
• Leslie Croutch -- Light
• John M. Cunningham -- Salute
• Bill Danner -- Stefantasy, A Dangerous Thing, Stuffanonsense, Lark
• Walter Daugherty -- Cushlamochree
• Eric Leif Davin -- A Different Drummer
• Chan Davis -- Blitherings
• Donald B. Day -- Fan-Scent
• Claude Degler
• Gerry de la Ree -- Beowulf
• Gary Deindorfer -- Balderdash
• Michael Deckinger -- Godot
• Calvin Demmon -- New Cat Sand
• Howard DeVore -- Grandfather Stories
• Saul Diskin -- Irusaben
• Paul Doerr -- Trove
• Bill Donaho -- ASP, How We Won
• Royal Drummond -- Duckspeak
• Walt Dunkelberger -- Mag Without a Name
• Sally Dunn -- Driftwood
• Lee B. Eastman -- Last Testament
• George Ebey -- Star-Stung, Willie Acquires an Italian Hand, Tag-Line Musings?
• Phyllis Aitch Economou -- Phlotsam
• Leigh Edmonds -- Rataplan
• Janice Eisen -- Faceless Bureaucrat, Faceless Ex-Bureaucrat, Electric City Express
• Gordon Eklund -- Sweet Jane, Rubber Frog
• Ron Ellik -- Fafhrd
• Dick Ellington -- Kim Chi
• Pat Ellington -- Kim Chi
• Dick Eney -- Target: FAPA, It's Eney's Fault!, Stupefying Stories, Nudity, Snake Pit, Target of Opportunity
• Ahrvid Engholm -- Multum Est, Eronews, Sweden 85, Swede Ishes
• Bill Evans -- Evans-Pavlat Fanzine Index, Fungi from Yuggoth, Celephais
• Earl Evans -- Fapazeen
• E. Everett Evans -- A Tour, A Tale of the 'Evans
• R. Alain Everts --Lovecraft's Daughter, Edgar Hoffman Price, Clark Ashton Smith
• Kenneth Faig -- Tekeli-Li
• Nic Farey -- Singsing
• Larry Farsaci -- Falling Petals, The Rochester-American Patriot
• Moshe Feder -- Hysteresis
• Tom Feller -- The Road Warrior
• Mike Fern -- Fan Slants, Eccentric's Orbit
• Ken Forman
• Joe Fortier -- Scientifan
• John Foyster -- Notes on a Son and Brother, Candiru, Where are You Going, Where Have You Been, The Day I had Gout and Other Stories and Other Stories
• Erica Frank
• Paul Freehafer -- The Letters of Henry S. Whitehead
• Chris Garcia -- Claims Department
• Richard E. Geis -- Richard E. Geis, Psychotic 2
• Janice Gelb -- Vu Ja De
• Ron Gemmell -- High Rates Drifter
• Bill George -- The Whether Report
• John L. Gergen -- Mutant
• Joseph Gilbert -- Sound Off!
• Bruce Gillespie -- Dreams and False Alarms
• Dian Girard -- Cacoethes
• Mike Glicksohn -- Xenium
• Jenny Glover
• Steve Glover
• Mike Glyer
• Seth Goldberg -- Hawai'i
• M. E. Goldhammer -- The Smurf Bashers' Gazette
• Dan Goodman
• Ann Green
• Steve Green -- Slave Girls of FAPA, Cyfddydd, Free Radical
• Dean Grennell -- Grue, Le Gruesome Zombie, Bleen, Binx
• Patrick Hayden -- Ecce Fanno
• Chuck Hansen -- Damballa
• Rob Hansen -- Licks
• Phil Harrell -- Vorpal Dragon
• Chuck Harris -- Chux Own, It's Tycho's Floor in '54, Off the Cuff For Gertrude, This Goon for Hire
• Dale Hart -- FAPA Flypaper, Ichor
• Rusty Hevelin -- H-1661, Laundry Mark
• Rosemary Hickey -- Cognate FAPA, The Next Best Feeling to Being in Love is Being Hired
• Lynn Hickman -- Bullfrog Bugle
• Arthur D. Hlavaty -- Nice Distinctions, Disinformation, The Dillinger Relic, Lines of Occurrence, The Discordian/Neo-Platonic Wedding, Teller Story, Scrapbook, A Small Tasteful Announcement
• Lee Hoffman -- Self Preservation, Tangent, Laundry, Fan History, Fantasy Jackass, Chooog, Cutty Fapazine, The Inadequate Time Machine, Project Report 1
• Harry Honig -- Arcadia
• Mike Horvat -- Curmudgeon
• Cathy Howard --The Brass Potato
• Terry Hughes -- Seeds & Stems
• Dave Hulan -- Why Bother?, Loki, Pelf, David Hulan
• Fred Hurter -- Censored
• Ben Indick -- Ben's Beat, Reports on Some Hubbardiana
• Lee Jacobs -- Orgasm
• Terry Jeeves -- Erg
• Harry Jenkins, Jr. -- Jinx
• Tom Jewett -- Faparition
• Ted Johnstone -- Persian Slipper
• Bob B. Jones -- Pegasus
• Arnie Katz -- Tandem, Plasma, Folly
• Joyce Worley Katz -- Western Romance, Tandem
• W. Max Keasler -- Al la Baboom
• Earl Kemp -- SaFari
• Joe Kennedy -- Grulzak
• James Kepner -- Toward Yesterday, Fen, Caustic Square Bullshooter
• Miriam Knight -- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Poughkeepsie
• H. C. Koenig -- The Reader and Collector
• Bill Kunkel -- Don't Make Me Laugh
• Louis Kuslan -- FAPA Review, Nucleus
• Trudy Kuslan -- FAPA Review, Nucleus
• Gary Labowitz -- This Way Out
• F. Towner Laney -- Fan Dango, Ah! Sweet Idiocy!, Venus-Con
• Dave Langford -- Cloud Chamber
• Anita Lapidus -- 3-5-0-0
• Jerry Lapidus -- Day by Day, 3-5-0-0
• Bob Leman -- Vinegar Worm
• Fred Lerner -- Lofgeornost
• Al Lewis -- A Statement of Posture, Why Not
• Alan J. Lewis -- A Fanzine for Now, Iconoclastic Quarterly
• Robert Lichtman -- Psi Phi, King Biscuit Time, Not Ready for Prime Time Fapazine, Night-Dreams and Daymares
• Walt Liebscher -- Three Fingers, Mutant
• Guy Lillian -- Vainomoinen
• Eric Lindsay -- Gegenschein
• Ethel Lindsay -- Bletherings
• Dave Locke -- Slow Djinn
• Robert Lowndes -- Agenbite of Inwit, The Futurian Review, Vagabondia
• Dick Lupoff -- Horib
• Pat Lupoff -- Horib
• Hank Luttrell -- Starling
• Lesleigh Luttrell -- Starling
• Andy Lyon -- Fanomena
• Howard Lyons -- Abject Apology, Ibidem, Travelling Midget
• Bob Madle -- The Meteor
• Mark Manning -- Jupiter Jump
• W. E. Marconette -- Incredible
• Gideon Marcus -- FAPA Fanac
• Tim Marion -- Terminal Eyes, The Curse of Cthulhu, Mumble Gutter, Here Come the Hardy Boys
• Mark Manning -- Ashe
• Don Markstein -- Philistine Quarterly
• Edgar Allan Martin -- BOBLIQUEP
• Charles Martinez
• Sam Martinez -- Sambo, Shadowland
• Mike McInerney -- Number One
• Dan McPhail -- Phantasy Press, Phantasy Press Memorial Issue
• Norm Metcalf -- Devil's Work, CAC, Hasta La Vista, Chuck
• Judith Merril -- Science*Fiction
• John Michel -- The Futurian Review, The Works
• Franz Miklis -- Galacto-Celtic Newsflash
• Don Miller -- Son of the WSFA Journal
• J. Chapman Miske -- Chaos
• Len Moffatt -- Moonshine, The JDM Bibliophile
• June Moffatt -- Moonshine, The JDM Bibliophile, Heat Wave Minac
• Janice Morningstar -- Nothin’ says Lovin’ Like Somethin’ in the Oven
• Murray Moore -- Green Stuff, Harry Warner Jr, Fan of Letters
• Morojo -- Guteto
• Louis Morra -- Cosmic Fetuses Quarterly, One Plus One Equals One, Wallowing in FAPA
• Bill Morse -- Bull Moose, To Wm. Danner Esq
• Sam Moskowitz -- A Canticle for P. Schuyler Miller, Different
• Joe Moudry --The Reader and Accumulator, The Unteleported Fan, Electronic Isaac, Chronicles of the Czech Navy
• Ray Faraday Nelson -- Big Cat, Beauty and the Beast
• Michael O'Brien -- Ultimate South
• Steve Ogden & Vicki Ogden -- Edgar's Journal
• Marc Ortlieb -- Dormouse
• Fred Patten -- Vukat, Great Art Should Never Be Mushed Up
• Bill Patterson -- Hors Commerce
• Bob Pavlat -- Bobolings, Evans-Pavlat Fanzine Index, Contour, The Shaw Retort
• Peggy Rae Pavlat -- Of Cabbages and Kings (and Baby Turtles), Of Members and 'Zines (and Egoboo Polls), Adventures on Earth
• Eunice Pearson -- Novaya Zemlya, Slithy Toves
• Bruce Pelz -- Ankus, The Drinking Readers Entropic Gaming Society of Los Angeles Fandom
• Elmer Perdue -- Myrtle Rebecca Douglas: An Appreciation, Elmurmurings, 520 07 0328, FAPA Blotter, FAPAzine, War in Heaven
• Boff Perry -- Cygni
• Tom Perry -- No Award, First Draft, Back Porch, Questying Party
• Otto Pfeifer -- Nov Shmoz Ka Pop
• Curt Phillips
• Andy Porter -- Twentieth Century Unlimited
• D. Potter
• Peter Presford
• Bernard Quinn
• Art Rapp -- Mindwarp
• Nancy Rapp -- Torrents, Ignatz
• Boyd Raeburn -- Le Moindre, More Stuff for FAPA, The Yngwie J. Malmsteed Story, Chimay Chimay Ko Ko Bop, Dr. Cheese and the Cake Lady
• Mark Reinsberg -- Midwest Marky
• Mark W. Richards
• Bruce Robbins -- Paradox
• Peter Roberts
• Bob Rodgers -- Advocatus Diaboli, The Bob
• Alva Rogers -- Bixel
• J. Michael Rosenblum -- Browsing
• Milton Rothman -- Milty's Mag, Plenum, War in Heaven
• Bill Rotsler -- Masque, Tapebook, A Fanzine for FAPA, Disturbing Element, Homage a' Burbee
• Heath Row
• Robert Runte -- Neogensis, Are You Talking to Me?
• Samuel D. Russell --Have at Thee Knanves, Science-Fiction Goo, Decimal Classification of Fantastic Fiction, Fantasy Critic, Eight Pages
• Oliver Saari - STF Comment, So Saari
• Ron Saloman
• Joe Sanders -- Somewhatly
• H. P. Sanderson -- H. P. Sanderson
• Peggy Rae Sapienza -- Adventures on Earth, Of Cabbages and Kings (and Baby Turtles)
• Ray Schaffer -- All That There Jazz
• Joe Schaumburger -- The New Loxygen
• Vanessa Schnatmeier -- Say the Name, The Bovo No-No
• Dick Schultz -- Die Schmetterling
• Suddsy Schwartz -- Ceres, AAGH!
• Liz Schwarzin -- Fantod
• Joyce Scrivner
• Langley Searles -- The Annex, Devil Take the Hindmost
• Bob Shaw -- Fen Crittur Comical Books
• Greg Shaw -- Metanoia
• Larry Shaw -- Caliban, Banshee, FAPA Index, Ice Age, Science*Fiction, The Unknown Madman, Claude Degler and the FAPA, Laundry, The Shaw Retort, The Steff Nyaa-aa-a!!, Cruise of the "Foo Foo Special Jr.", FAPA Index (Mailings 1-28)
• Noreen Shaw -- Ice Age
• Joe Siclari -- Chronicle of Fandom
• Robert Silverberg -- Snickersnee, Spaceship, Irusaben, Fapathy
• Roger Sjolander -- Bosh
• Ken Slater -- Matter of No Moment, Consomme, It's Tycho's Floor in '54, Twin Set
• Dick Smith
• Fred Smith -- Haemogoblin
• Rick Sneary -- Moonshine, Spiane
• Jack Speer -- Synapse, Matters of Opinion, Ramblings, Sustaining Program, Full Length Articles, Science Fiction Forum, Black and White, The Cosmic Circle & Fandom, Decimal Classification for Fantasy Fiction, Investigation in Newcastle, Konan, Please Lay This Aside, To Relive Ten Years!, A, War in Heaven, Apostrophe, Period
• Dale Speirs -- Sanseveria
• Paul Spencer -- Jabberwocky, Janus
• Van Splawn -- The Fantasmith
• Norman F. Stanley -- Beyond, Fan-Tods
• Larry Stark -- Garage Floor
• Bo Stenfors -- Sexy Venus Anew
• Milt Stevens -- Alphabet Soup, Passing Parade, Opus
• Steve Stiles -- SAM, Omaha, Skiffle
• Graham Stone -- Past, Present & Future, Science Fiction News, Some Comments on Matters Raised Recently in FAPA, Proposal for Special Rule Under Section IX of the FAPA Constitution
• Joni Stopa
• R. D. Swisher and F. N. Swisher -- a, S. F. Checklist
• Roy Tackett -- Dynatron, Hort's Fapacom, Notes from Arinam
• Donald B. Thompson -- Phanny, Phanteur
• Don C. Thompson -- Don-O-Saur, Rim-i-nes-cent, Ballast
• Maggie Thompson -- Ballast
• Gregg Trend -- Trend'Art, Trending
• Oswald Train -- The Fantasy Collector
• Bjo Trimble -- A Sales Pitch to Convince FAPA to Sponsor an Art Show, Where Are All the Red Hot Shutter Bugs?, Melange
• John Trimble -- Amis, A Fanzine for FAPA, Where Are All the Red Hot Shutter Bugs?, Amblesnyde & Tiddleycover R. R. Gazette, Melange, Beauty and the Beast
• Bob Tucker -- Sci-Fic Variety, Jack Speer -- Elder God, Le Gruesome Zombie, Pong Is a Four-Letter Word, Science-Fiction Fifty Yearly, Three Fingers, BT, Fantasy Jackass, Fanzine Service for Fans in Service, Chapter Play
• R. Laurraine Tutihasi -- Feline Mewsings
• Victoria Vayne -- Non Sequitur
• Shelby Vick -- Egad!, Lesser Feats, Hyphen Tribute Thumbnail
• Michael W. Waite -- Trial and Air
• Keith Walker -- Something for F.A.P.A.
• Norman G. Wansborough -- Rune, The Happy Traveller, Terra Welcomes You
• Harry Warner -- Horizons, Fanzine Service for Fans in Service
• Raym Washington -- Take-Off!, The Science Fiction Savant
• Bill Watson -- Willie Acquires an Italian Hand, Tag-Line Musings?
• Taral Wayne -- Red Shift, The Word for World is Twiltone, Twiltone
• Charles Wells -- The Quatt Wunkery, Trill.
• Roger Wells
• Helen Wesson -- Helen's Fantasia, Pendragon, The (Unspeakable) Thing
• Ulf Westblom -- On the Road to Gafia Wonderland
• Ted White -- Null-F, Zip, A Fanzine for Krazy Kat
• Eva Whitley -- Extra-Vehicular Fanac
• Russ Whitman -- Janus
• Art Widner -- YHOS
• Walt Willis -- WAWCRHBSJWCATWCMWPMSSACW, Willis Discovers America, Pamphrey
• Frank Wilimczyk -- Paradox
• Art Wilson -- Scatalog
• Ben Wilson --Highball
• Richard Wilson -- Incredible
• Don Wollheim -- The Phantagraph, The New Hieroglyph, The Futurian Review, FAPA Fan, Ray
• Stan Woolston -- Moonshine
• Dave Wood
• Rus Wood and Pogo Wood -- Pogorus
• Bill Wright -- Earthquake!
• Roscoe E. Wright -- Beyond, A Autumn Fantasy from Rosco, Viewpoints
• Paul Wyszkowski -- The Blind Starling, Transmission, Blah, The Girls I Remember
• Laurie Yates -- Don't Make Me Laugh, Catachresis
• C. S. Youd -- Fantast's Folly
• Jean Young -- Garage Floor, Lost in the Stars
• Dan Zissman -- Science*Fiction

FAPA Issues and Officers

See FAPA Issues and Officers for a full list.

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