Blue Moon (Cohen)

(Did you mean a Dan Steffan fanzine?)

Blue Moon was a fanzine published by Dave Cohen in Manchester in the UK for the Manchester Circle.

An editorial in #1 said:

We hear rumours scattered here, there, and everywhere... especially at conventions... that miracles do happen. Here's proof! A fanzine by the Manchester Circle. (Ye Olde remnants of N.S.F.C.) A bone shaking idea that shook us out of our reverie of Ghod Bheer when one member was brave enough to suggest it. (He has recently come out of hospital after recovering from a severe "accident"!)

A review of that issue in Focus #5 (June 1956) as by 'bem' said:

An odd item containing stories, article, illos and personalities in a wild jumble that is quite exhilarating. The standard is generally fairly high, particularly with stories like "No Choice" and "The Stranger". "Purely Coincidental" also is a story worth reading. It's all about what might happen when the Loncon of '57 gets along. 
If a second issue of this 'zine is pubbed, don't miss it.

It's a little unclear why 'bem' thought it an 'odd item'.

Contributors included Don Allen, Ron Deacon, Cyril Evans, Eva Firestone, Bill Harry, Terry Jeeves, Ken McIntyre, Archie Mercer, Frank Simpson, Ken Slater, Phil Sless, Ken E. Smith, Bobbie Wild and Jack Wilson.

Onshe was a supplement included with the first issue 'As an excuse to add to Once in a Blue Moon and give you perhaps later news.'

Issue	Date	Pages	-Notes
1	December 1956	30	'Once in a Blue Moon'
2	1957	36	'Twice in a Blue Moon'
3	Summer 1958	38	'Thrice in a Blue Moon'; d/w Kettering 1958; Final issue

• Blue Moon online at fanac.org.

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Publication

1956—1958

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