Articles on Victor Fox, the 1939 Superman/Wonder Man controversy, Jack Mendelsohn, letterer Abe Kanegson and Captain Marvel.

Membership includes Jerry Bails (Central Mailer), Paul Gambaccini, Bob Jennings, Bill Placzek, Daniel Alderson, John Koch, John & Tom McGeehan, Tom Dietz, Richard Kyle, David Castronuovo, Marc Nadel, Pete Jackson, Dick Memorich, David Kaler, Pete Phillips, Glen Goggin, Duncan Robertson, Margaret Gemignani, Howard Keltner and Al Kuhfeld.

Cover by Jerry Bails.

Contributions are Agent X Reporting (Bails), House of Info (McGeehans), Listen Here! (Gambaccini), Comments and Suggestions Re Academy Elections (Kuhfeld), Mandrake the Magician in the Land of X (House of Info - McGeehans), Data Sheet - DC Scripts by Otto Binder (Bails), Checklists of Features in Comic Books of the First Heroic Age - Approx. 1938-51 (Keltner), I Was a Teenage Gambaccini! or Blecch! (Gambaccini) and Wonderworld #1 (Kyle).

Reproduction by ditto and mimeograph.

No roster of membership is given in this mailing.

Cover by Howard Keltner

Contributions include Agent X Reporting (Bails), Checklists of Features in Comic Books of the First Heroic Age (Keltner), House of Info (McGeehans), DC Scripts by Otto Binder (Bails), On Zines...Pro & Fan (Keltner), Comicon '65 (Kaler), Richard Kyle's Wonderworld #2 (Kyle) and Looking Back and Ahead (Foss).

Back cover by Ronn Foss

Membership roster not given

Cover by Howard Keltner

Contributions include Agent X Reporting (Bails), Edgemar Milk is Supermilk (bumper sticker inclusion, Patten), Operation Ishfael Part Two (Moslander), The World of Ryandom (Ryan), Richard Kyle's Wonderworld #3 (Kyle), Shmoz #1 (Castora), Secrets Behind All-Star Comics (Bails), The Rambling Roamer #2 (Jackson), Heavy Water #2 (Patten), Miss Suzy Fandom (Miller), Barton Werper - Apprentice Imitator (Hulan), Listen Here! (Gambaccini), Questionnaire for CAPA-alphans (Bails), Looking Back - And Ahead (Foss)

Reproduction by ditto and mimeograph

Back cover by Ronn Foss

Special issue dedicated to Will Gould and his strip, "Red Barry."

Letters from Jerry De Fuccio, Dick Voll, Stanley Pitt, Alan J. Hanley, Roy Thomas, Jim Harmon, Hames Ware, Jim Jones, Jim Gardner, Larry Ivie, Howard Waldrop, Bill Blackbeard, John Benson, Frederic Wertham.

Results of Graphic Story Magazine Poll.

Features an interview with Dan Spiegle.  

Features an interview with Jim Steranko.  Debut of strip by Dan Spiegle titled "Penn & Chris."

Final issue under this title.  Continues as WONDERWORLD #9.

Major format change from unstapled newsletter to saddle-stitched zine with more pages and heavier paper.  Interview with Dick Giordano by Mike Friedrich, article about King Features Syndicate by Rudi Franke, Parts 6, 7 and 8 of Richard Corben’s first published strip, “Monsters Rule,” graphic critique of Will Eisner, and another strip by Corben called “The Lure of the Tower.”

Formerly titled Graphic Story World, and continued same numbering until this new title.

Letters page includes letters from Art Spiegelman, George Metzger, Joe Brancatelli, Jim Jones, Larry Johnson, Mort Walker.

Final issue. 

Letters page includes letters from Ron Haydock, and Michael Cherkas.

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]