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A fanzine by Raymond Fisher which started in the 40s and, with a hiatus between 1951 and 1966, was still being published in the 60s, and had at least eighteen issues. Richard Elsberry and Joyce M. Fisher co-edited some issues. It was one of the more respected general interested fanzines of the 60s and was nominated for the 1968 Best Fanzine Hugo.

Issue 17, dated Sept 1967, is 88 pages long and includes an article on "Paranoia in and of Science Fiction" by Ted White, "The Art of Morality" by Ray Nelson, and a portfolio of artwork by DEA (Margaret M. Dominick), who also did the cover. It is heavily illustrated. Letters from (among others) Stan Woolston, Urbanus Sylvan, Ray Nelson, Dick Lupoff, Don Wollheim, Roger Zelazny, H. L. Gold, John Christopher, Harry Warner, Jr., Don D'Ammassa and Tony Lewis.

Issue 18, dated Spring 1968, is 126 pages and includes a graphic short story "Us Dragons" by Jack Gaughan, a portfolio of artwork by R. Edwards Jenning, and a large letters section.

Joe Haldeman's column "Letters from Vietnam" appeared here.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	1949
2	1949
3	1949	12
4	December 1949	16
5	June 1950	16
6	August 1950	22
7	October 1950	30
8		32
9	1951	32
10	March 1951	40
11	June 1951	34
14	1966	50
15	January 1967	66
16	March 1967	64
17	September 1967	88
18	Spring 1968	126
19	Summer 1968	98	ed. Raymond Fisher. Fiction by Zelazny. Memoriam for Ron Ellik by Robert Block.
20	Summer 1969	106

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1949—1969

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