APA-50

APA-50 was an APA that required members to have been born after January 1, 1950. Its name was, more fully, The Amateur Press Association of 1950 (but no one used it).

It was modeled after APA-45 and founded in 1974 by Chris Sherman. Except for one or two of the founding members who would have just missed the cutoff, it could just as well have been APA-55, and its apazines were full of teenage angst. Fl. 1974-81. Apparently still active in 2020, though no longer with birthdate limitations.

Contributors and Apazines:

• Steven Beatty — Aprikos
• Jim Bodie — Give Us a Song
• Mike Bracken
• Bill Breiding
• Cy Chauvin
• Brett Cox
• Lindsay Crawford
• Larry Downes
• Diane Drutowski -- What the Hell Is a Cheese Straightener
• Gary Farber
• Patrick Hayden -- What the Hell Is a Cheese Straightener, Lightboard
• Ken Gammage
• Warren Johnson
• Victor Kostrikin -- Sunday Siberian
• Steve MacDonald — Cosmic Bar
• Loren MacGregor
• Tim Marion — The Arkham Archivist, Sugarloaf
• Chris Sherman -- Vertere
• Bruce Townley -- Le Viol
• Craig VanGrasstek
• Leah A. Zeldes — Dreamtree, Worm Cravings

OEs:

• 1974–?? — Chris Sherman
• 1980-81 — Bill Breiding

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Publication

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