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A [[one-shot]] 1957 [[apazine]] "published once in the lifetime by the GOONTACT group: [[Vince Clarke]] [given below as editor], [[Joy Goodwin|Joy Clarke]], [[H. P. Sanderson|'Sandy' Sanderson]], and [[Chuck Harris]]" (who is given below as Publisher with his address; perhaps the occasion was a mutual visit?). It is a spoof 1st April 1957 "No 13, a [[FAPA]] [78] and [[OMPA]] [[Postmailing]]".
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'''''Goontact''''' was a [[one-shot]] 1957 [[apazine]] 'published once in the lifetime by the GOONTACT group: [[Vince Clarke]] [given below as editor], [[Joy Goodwin|Joy Clarke]], [[H. P. Sanderson|'Sandy' Sanderson]], and [[Chuck Harris]]' (who is given below as Publisher with his address; perhaps the occasion was a mutual visit?). It is a spoof 1st April 1957 'No 13, a [[FAPA]] [78] and [[OMPA]] [[Postmailing]]'.
  
Its 4 pages combine spoof news items (credited by authors' initials) with some promotion of the coming [[Loncon 1]], and a column of relevant "New Current Fanzines".
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Its 4 pages combine spoof news items (credited by authors' initials) with some promotion of the coming [[Loncon 1|Loncon]], and a column of relevant 'New Current Fanzines'.
  
[https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Irish_Fandom/Irish_Fandom11-01.html ''Goontact''] at [[Fanac.org]] (image page scans)
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It is a spoof of ''[[Contact-bennett|Contact]]'', the 1956–7 [[newszine]] published by the Contact Group ([[Ron Bennett]], [[Jan Jansen]], [[John Hitchcock]], [[ Ellis Mills]] and  [[Steve Schultheis]]),
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* [https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Irish_Fandom/Irish_Fandom11-01.html ''Goontact''] at [[Fanac.org]] (image page scans)
  
 
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Revision as of 04:35, 5 December 2024

Goontact was a one-shot 1957 apazine 'published once in the lifetime by the GOONTACT group: Vin¢ Clarke [given below as editor], Joy Clarke, 'Sandy' Sanderson, and Chuck Harris' (who is given below as Publisher with his address; perhaps the occasion was a mutual visit?). It is a spoof 1st April 1957 'No 13, a FAPA [78] and OMPA Postmailing'.

Its 4 pages combine spoof news items (credited by authors' initials) with some promotion of the coming Loncon, and a column of relevant 'New Current Fanzines'.

It is a spoof of Contact, the 1956–7 newszine published by the Contact Group (Ron Bennett, Jan Jansen, John Hitchcock, Ellis Mills and Steve Schultheis),


Publication 1957
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