Year: 1977

FLASH GORDON issue.
Editorial features include:
Cover by Stephen Fabian. Back cover by Mike Zeck.
A 4-page Flash Gordon strip by Mike Zeck.
“COMICOPIA” by RC Harvey.
“The Rockets of Mongo” by Alex Raymond.
“An Interview with Buster Crabbe” by Jay Rubin.
Pictorial feature of Flash Gordon serial reprinted from Those Enduring Matinee Idols.
"FILMS FANTASTIQUE" (“Flesh Gordon”) by James Van Hise.
Centerspread by Tom Sutton.
“Flach Gorton” parody strip by Ron Wilber.
ARTIST PROFILE of Ralph Fowler.
“CRITIQUE” fanzine and comix reviews by Mark Burbey, RC Harvey, and JVH.
"COMICS COMMENTARY" by JVH.
“Face-Off on ‘King Kong’” by Mike Kuntz and JVH.
“THE PERTWILLABY PAPERS” by Don Rosa.
"BLASTS FROM THE READERS.”
Ads for:
BARBARIAN COMICS #1 thru 4
BARBARIAN WOMEN #1
CALIFORNIA COMICS #1 and #2
COLLECTOR’S DREAM #1
EAGLESTAR #1
ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS #3
FANTASY FILMBOOK #1
LITTLE BOOK OF INNER SPACE
MURGUNSTRUMM & OTHERS by Hugh B. Cave
TREK #7
TREK SPECIAL #1

Editorial features include:
Cover by Mike Zeck. Back cover by Frank Hamilton.
“MARK BURBEY’S INTERVIEW” with Tom Sutton.
“Space 1999” parody strip by Ron Wilber.
ARTIST PROFILE of Ron Wilber.
“CRITIQUE” fanzine and comix reviews by Tom Sutton, Mark Burbey, JB Clifford Jr, Phil Sunde, and James Van Hise.
“THE KEYHOLE” by Gary Brown.
"Don Rosa's INFORMATION CENTER” by Don Rosa.
“COMICOPIA” by RC Harvey.
“COMIC COLLECTORS COMMENTS” by Howard P. Siegel.
"THE EC ARTIST COLLECTOR" by JVH.
“POINT/COUNTER POINT” by Doug Haines and John Baglem.
“THE PERTWILLABY PAPERS” by Don Rosa.
"BLASTS FROM THE READERS.”
Ads for:
ART FANTASTIQUE #1 and #2
BARBARIAN COMICS #1 thru 4
BARBARIAN WOMEN #1
CALIFORNIA COMICS #1 and #2
CINEFANTASTIQUE Vol. 5, #4
CHRISTOPHER ENTERPRISES Portfolios and Posters
COMIX WORLD PRESENTS The Berkeley Comic Art Fair
ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS #3
FANDOM FUNNIES #3 (Buyer’s Guide Parody)
JAMES BOND 007 #1 (published?)
LITTLE BOOK OF INNER SPACE
THE BEST OF COMICOLOGY
THE COMICS JOURNAL
TREK #2-7
TREK SPECIAL #1
ZOTZ #1
Also: an ad from Tom Sutton selling original art.

Editorial features include:
Cover by Mike Zeck. Back cover by Dennis Fujitake.
“Beware the Creeper” by Mark Burbey.
“CRITIQUE” fanzine and comix reviews by Mark Burbey, Phil Sunde, JB Clifford Jr, and James Van Hise.
"Don Rosa's INFORMATION CENTER” by Don Rosa.
ARTIST PROFILE of Don Rosa.
"COMICS COMMENTARY" by JVH.
“COMICOPIA” by RC Harvey.
“THE KEYHOLE” by Gary Brown.
Nominating Ballot for “The 1977 Comic Art Fan Awards.”
“DELL COMICS ARE GOOD COMICS” by Jeff Gorrell and Sandy Soares.
“Evolution” (1-page ) and “A Boy and His Machine” (8-pages), strips by Mark Burbey and Dennis Fujitake.
"THE EC ARTIST COLLECTOR" by JVH.
“POINT/COUNTER POINT” by Doug Haines and John Baglem.
"BLASTS FROM THE READERS.”
Ads for:
ART FANTASTIQUE #1 and #2
BARBARIAN COMICS #1 thru 4
BARBARIAN WOMEN #1
CALIFORNIA COMICS #1 and #2
CINEFANTASTIQUE Vol. 5, #4
COPPER TOADSTOOL #2
DIARY OF SLAUGHTER (Mike Zeck art; published?)
ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS #1 thru 4
LITTLE BOOK OF INNER SPACE
THRUST SF in Review #8
TREK #2-7
TREK SPECIAL #1
ZOTZ #2

Editorial features include:
Front and back covers by Stephen Fabian.
“An Interview with Rick Baker” by Kerry Gammill and Michael W. Davis. "Don Rosa's INFORMATION CENTER” by Don Rosa.
"COMICS COMMENTARY" by James Van Hise.
“CRITIQUE” fanzine and comix reviews by Mark Burbey, Phil Sunde, and JVH.
“COMICOPIA” by RC Harvey.
“Stepsons of Cimmeria” by Robert Weinberg.
“Conan of the Movies” by JVH.
ARTIST PROFILE of Kerry Gammill.
“Twilight of the Heroes Part 1” by Ron Wilber.
“THE KEYHOLE” by Gary Brown.
“COMIC COLLECTORS COMMENTS” by Howard P. Siegel.
"BLASTS FROM THE READERS" with a letter from Russ Cochran.
Ads for:
ART FANTASTIQUE #1 and #2
BARBARIAN COMICS #1 thru 4
BARBARIAN WOMEN #1
CALIFORNIA COMICS #1 and #2
CINEFANTASTIQUE VOL. 5, #4, Vol. 6, #1
DUNGEON OF PAIN (published … ?)
ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS #4
FANZINE ’77
LITTLE BOOK OF INNER SPACE
OMNICON SOUVENIR BOOK
PHANTASMAGORIA #5
PORTFOLIO 13 by Kenneth Smith
TREK #2-8
TREK SPECIAL #1

Editorial features include:
Cover by Mike Zeck. Back cover by Stephen Fabian.
"Don Rosa's INFORMATION CENTER” by Don Rosa.
ARTIST PROFILE of Hilary Barta.
“CRITIQUE” fanzine and comix reviews by Mark Burbey, JB Clifford Jr, and James Van Hise.
“COMICOPIA” by RC Harvey.
“COMIC COLLECTORS COMMENTS” by Howard P. Siegel.
“The Unknown Wrightson” (reprinting earth art by Bernie Wrightson from The Baltimore Sun).
“John Carter of Comics” by JVH.
Centerspread by John Adkins Richardson.
"COMICS COMMENTARY" by JVH.
“BETWEEN THE COMMERCIALS” by Michael Shonk.
“THE PERTWILLABY PAPERS” by Don Rosa.
Final ballot for “The 1977 Comic Art Fan Awards.”
"BLASTS FROM THE READERS" with a letter from Mike McKenney.
Ads for:
AFTA #1
ART FANTASTIQUE #1 and #2
BARBARIAN COMICS #1 thru 4
BARBARIAN WOMEN #1
CALIFORNIA COMICS #1 and #2
ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS #1 thru 4
LITTLE BOOK OF INNER SPACE
WHIZZARD #10
WILL EISNER’S THE SPIRIT PORTFOLIO

STAR WARS issue.
Editorial features include:
Cover by Ralph Fowler. Back cover by Morris Scott Collins.
“From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker” by James Van Hise.
“Star Wars Marvel Style — Where it Went Wrong” by JVH.
“An Interview with Mark Hamill” by JVH.
“Darth Vader, the Face Behind the Mask!” by JVH.
“The Music of Star Wars” by Mark Burbey.
“Star Woes” parody strip by Ron Wilber.
“The Star Wars Cosmos” by Mike Kuntz.
“A Star Wars Bibliography” by Della Van Hise.
Centerspread by Ralph Fowler.
“Twilight of the Heroes Part 1 continued” by Ron Wilber.
"Don Rosa's INFORMATION CENTER” by Don Rosa.
“Zero Hero” by RC Harvey.
“THE KEYHOLE” by Gary Brown.
Ads for:
25 YEARS OF TV: A History of Shows 1949-1974 (possibly never published)
ALWAYS COME TWILIGHT #1
ART FANTASTIQUE #1 and #2
A+PLUS #3
BATIZINE #1 (“The Ultimate in Batman…”)
COMES THE DAWN poster by Frank Brunner
ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS #1 thru 5
FANDOM CIRCUS #1, 2
FORGOTTEN FANTASIES
KA-POW #1
MEGAZINE #2 (published?)
MINDSEYE #1
NIMBUS #3
PERIGEE
RADION #6
SCIENCE FICTION, HORROR & FANTASY #1
SQUA TRONT #4
WET DREAMS PORTFOLIO
WILL EISNER’S THE SPIRIT PORTFOLIO
WITZEND #8
and an ad from Jerry Bails for
THE COLLECTOR’S GUIDE: FIRST HEROIC AGE
INDEX TO GOLDEN AGE COMIC BOOKS
THE WHO’S WHO OF AMERICAN COMIC BOOKS

Editorial features include:
Front and back covers by Mike Zeck.
“Twilight of the Heroes Part 2” by Ron Wilber.
"COMICS COMMENTARY" by James Van Hise.
"Don Rosa's INFORMATION CENTER” by Don Rosa.
“THE PERTWILLABY PAPERS” by Don Rosa.
“CRITIQUE” fanzine and comix reviews by Mark Burbey, Andy Warner, and JVH.
“Captain Atom” by Howard P. Siegel.
Centerspread by Tom Sutton.
“Two of the Greatest Films You’ve Probably Never Seen” by JVH.
“COMICOPIA” by RC Harvey.
ARTIST PROFILE of Marc Hempel.
“COMIC COLLECTORS COMMENTS” by Howard P. Siegel.
"BLASTS FROM THE READERS" with a letter from Roy Thomas.
Ads for:
ARIK KHAN #1
ART FANTASTIQUE #1 and #2
BATIZINE #1 (“The Ultimate in Batman…”)
COLLECTOR’S DREAM
COMES THE DAWN poster by Frank Brunner
FILM FAN MONTHLY
JOHNNY IRIQUOIS ADVENTUREZINE
MARVEL COMICS INDEX (George Olshevsky)
QUESTAR #1
WOLD ATLAS (Philip Jose Farmer fanzine)


1st printing: April 1977
2nd printing: 1979, edition of 200

There were two issues (#1 & 2) but I'm unsure which this is.


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EC fanzine. Jerry Weist named in masthead as Publisher Emeritus, and John Benson (editor as of issue #6) assumed role as publisher.

Fiction and art.
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