Spacewarp
(Did you mean the phenomenon?)
Spacewarp, edited by Art Rapp in Saginaw, Michigan, a focal point fanzine of the 1950s, had over 40 issues from April, 1947, to September, 1950. For some early issues, Bill Groover was co-editor. In 2001, it was nominated for the 1951 Best Fanzine Retro Hugo.
Redd Boggs' column, "File 13", was especially important. Other contributors included Forrest J Ackerman, Henry Ackerman, Michael De Angelis, Warren Baldwin, Wrai Ballard, Donn Bratton, Donn Brazier, Guerry C. Brown, W. E. Bullard, Charles Burbee, Lyon de Coeur, Wilkie Conner, Arthur Jean Cox, Ed Cox, Paul D. Cox, Jim Craig, Ralph Fluette, Vaughn Greene, Andy Gregg, John Grossman, Charles Hames, Jim Harmon, William James, David H. Keller, Joe Kennedy, F. Towner Laney, Carl Lawrence, Al F. Lopez, Don McConnell, C. Stewart Metchette, Ray Nelson, Robert Parris, Rog Phillips, Bill Rotsler, Hal Shapiro, Ben Singer, Rick Sneary, Genevieve K. Stephens, Bob Stein, Charles Stuart, Bob Tucker, Bill Venable, James A. Wade, T. E. Watkins, and Wally Weber.
A 10-part round-robin space-opera by Rapp and five others appeared in most of the 1949 issues and was reprinted in 1960 by Ed Cox as STF Broadcasts Again!.
Rapp then turned it over to F. Towner Laney and Charles Burbee to edit. They put out two issues in 1950, the last was called the "Insurgent Issue".
In 1983, Rapp resumed publishing Spacewarp as a member of SAPS.
See Redd Boggs' “The Purple Dawn” for a lengthy review of Spacewarp.
| From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959 |
| Something that when you go into it in a straight line you come out at a different place, and/or going in a different direction, than you should according to Newtonian physics. Fans are always wandering into such things in strange cities and getting losted. A slightly different affair was the turntable on which the Shirley-Savoy in Denver was mounted, so that the Denvention attendees could start near the hotel, walk for blocks and blocks, and still be near the hotel.
Mention we must Art Rapp's fanzine of this name, keystone of Fifth Fandom, which introduced such things as Steinpix, the helicopter beanie, and R*O*S*C*O*E to fandom. |
| Issue | Date | Pages | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 V1.1 | April 1947 | 8 | ||
| 2 V1.2 | May 1947 | 11 | ||
| 6 V1.6 | September 1947 19 | |||
| 7 V2.1 | October 1947 | 22 | ||
| 9 V2.3 | December 1947 | 24 | ||
| 14 V3.2 | May 1948 | 16 | ||
| 16 V3.4 | July 1948 | 20 | ||
| 17 V3.5 | August 1948 | 22 | ||
| 18 V3.6 | September 1948 | 21 | ||
| 19 V4.1 | October 1948 | 22 | ||
| 20 V4.2 | November 1948 | 22 | ||
| 21 V4.3 | December 1948 | 30 | ||
| 22 V6.4 | January 1949 | 24 | ||
| 23 V6.5 | February 1949 | 22 | ||
| 24 V6.4 | March 1949 | 22 | ||
| 25 V5.1 | April 1949 | 22 | ||
| 26 V5.2 | May 1949 | 22 | ||
| 27 V5.3 | June 1949 | 22 | ||
| 28 V5.4 | July 1949 | 26 | ||
| 29 V5.5 | August 1949 | 24 | ||
| 30 V5.6 | September 1949 | 28 | Includes Art Rapp’s Cinvention con report. | |
| 31 V6.1 | October 1949 | 26 | ||
| 32 V6.2 | November 1949 | 26 | ||
| December 1, 1949 | 22 | Index to V1-5 | ||
| 33 V6.3 | December 1949 | 40 | ||
| 34 V6.4 | January 1950 | 22 | ||
| 34 V6.4 | January 1950 | 22 | ||
| 35 V6.5 | February 1950 | 24 | ||
| 35 V6.5 | February 1950 | 24 | ||
| 36 V6.6 | March 1950 | 26 | ||
| 36 V6.6 | March 1950 | 26 | ||
| 37 V7.1 | April 1950 | 32 | ||
| 38 V7.2 | May 1950 | 26 | ||
| 38 V7.2 | May 1950 | 26 | ||
| 39 V7.3 | June 1950 | 28 | ||
| 40 V7.4 | July 1950 | 24 | ||
| 41 V7.5 | August 1950 | 16 | first Insurgent issue; edited by Charles Burbee & F.T. Laney | |
| 42 V7.6 | September 1950 | 82 | edited by Charles Burbee & F.T. Laney | |
| October 1951 | 6 | |||
| February 1952 | 6 | |||
| June 1953 | 10 | |||
| 65 V11.6 | January 1960 | 62 | ||
| 66 V11.6 | April 1960 | 46 | ||
| 67 V12.1 | July 1960 | 30 | ||
| 69 V12.3 | January 1961 | 26 | ||
| 73 V13.1 | January 1962 | 8 | ||
| 74 V13.2 | April 1962 | 32 | ||
| 76 V13.4 | April 1963 | 6 | ||
| 77 V13.5 | October 1963 | 7 | ||
| 80 V13.1 | January 1965 | 10 | ||
| 85 | July 1967 | 9 | ||
| 100 | October 1972 | 104 | ||
| 101 | January 1973 | 24 | ||
| 109 | January 1975 | 20 | ||
| 122 | October 1981 | |||
| 128 | April 1983 | 12 | ||
| 129 | July 1983 | 22 | ||
| 131 | Includes Robert Lichtman's Here There Be Saps #1 (Second Series) | |||
| 133 | July 1984 | 16 | ||
| 164 | April 1992 | 10 | ||
| 2001 |
Spacewarp online at fanac.org
| Publication | 1947—1950 |
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