Stellar

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A fanzine co-edited by Ted White and Larry Stark in 1956-57 and distributed at times in OMPA and FAPA. It started as Zip, edited by Ted White. Starting with issue eight in 1956, the name changed to Stellar and Larry Stark joined as co-editor. (but White continued publishing a much smaller apazine under the name Zip) Stellar published twenty-three issues ending in 1957 when it was re-titled Gambit.

Writing in Vegas Fandom Weekly, in "What Are The Greatest Fanzines?", Arnie Katz writes, "Stellar...established Faan Fiction (fiction about fans) as a genre and also explored new frontiers of multi-color mimeography. Stellar presented both classic reprints and new stories that attempted to bring the values of fiction to stories about fans and Fandom." Apazine published by Ted White . It was renamed Stellar (which see) with issue 8 in 1957,

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	August 1953		Named Zip, Ted White was sole editor.
2	1953	50
3	1953	50
7			First Ted White FAPA contribution.
8	1956	36	Renamed Stellar, Larry Stark joins as co-editor; in OMPA 8
9	October 1956	60	in OMPA
10	December 1956	44	"Lee Hoffman Adoration Issue"; in OMPA
11	1957	52
12	1957	54
13	1957	24
14	1957	22
15	1958	4
16	1958	4
18	1958	8
21	1958	20
22	August 1958	2

Stellar online at fanac.org

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1953—

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