Edgar Rice Burroughs fanzine. Contains artwork by Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Roy G Krenkel and John Celardo.

Contents include: six-page Mr. A comic and wraparound cover; biography of Ken Barr; a Tarzan art portfolio; a John Fantucchio portfolio (with color centerspread); "The By-Products of Adventure" (radio drama); biography of Joe Sinnott; a "Greenhorn" comic by Hanley (Marvel/DC parody); a brief interview with C.C. Beck; a gorgeous 10-page Hyperman comic; letters (Al Hewetson, Kenneth Smith, Joe Kubert, others); more.

Characters include: Batman, Tarzan, Superman, Deadman, Lone Ranger, the Old Witch (EC Comics), Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr., Cthulhu, Doc Savage

Offset, some interior color, saddle-stitched.

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Numbered edition of 500.

Published by Mitch O'Connell?

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Features include an interview with John Severin, and fanzine reviews.

Includes ad for The Collector #27, The Menomonee Falls Gazette, The Comic Reader, Phantasmagoria #3, The Monster Times, Space & Time #17, Graphic Illusions #1, Heritage #1b, Erb-Dom, Chronicle, and various Middle Earth portfolios and prints.

Letters page includes letters from Kenneth Smith, Bill Black, and Mark Burbey.

Interview with Len Wein & Marv Wolfman, interview with E. Nelson Bridwell, 1975 Comic Art Convention report, more.

EC Comics fanzine. Contents include: interview with William Gaines; pulp art of Graham Ingels; article on Joe Orlando; article on Roy G. Krenkel (including several handwritten letters); article on Ray Bradbury's EC comics; interview with Jerry De Fuccio; Wally Wood artwork for Galaxy Magazine; article on Basil Wolverton; an index to Frazetta and Krenkel book covers; a Frazetta portfolio; more.

Xero was a key building block in the creation of comics fandom. Produced by Dick and Pat Lupoff with Bhob Stewart (uncredited), it was a widely circulated science fiction fanzine that began to examine comic books thru the pivotal series “All In Color For A Dime.”  Those articles help focus the attention of would be comic fans in comic books, and the entire series was later reprinted in book form. Xero went on to win a Hugo, and some of the articles were reprinted many years later in a hardback book. In Flyer #5, the supplement to Xero, Dick Lupoff mentioned that the circulation of the zine was 160 copies. No copies were for sale, and no subscriptions were ever accepted. It was only available by direct mailing with recipients getting one free first time copy, and you only got subsequent issues by trading your zine for it, or writing letters of comment (long letters, not just post cards and thank you notes), or writing articles for the publication. [Aaron Caplan]