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Fanzine and Convention Program Book Appreciation Thread
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I've never collected fanzines, but recently read Bill Schelly's book about comic fandom and really enjoyed it...it has quite a few images of early fanzine covers and interior art:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562290/sense-of-wonder-by-bill-schelly/9781623171513/

It's interesting that several (many?) professional comic writers and artists started out in comic fandom...

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22 hours ago, vintagetorque said:

Here's another from 1975

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Thanks for the additions.  Some of the Comic Readers have value and/or have first appearances.  For instance #139 has the first appearance of Black Lightning and #179 has the April Fool's Stan Lee obituary cover

https://www.ebay.com/sch/63/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw="comic+reader"&_sop=16&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1

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17 hours ago, silverseeker said:

I've never collected fanzines, but recently read Bill Schelly's book about comic fandom and really enjoyed it...it has quite a few images of early fanzine covers and interior art:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562290/sense-of-wonder-by-bill-schelly/9781623171513/

It's interesting that several (many?) professional comic writers and artists started out in comic fandom...

Here's a great book about the first NY Comic Con and really the beginning of organized fandom

https://www.amazon.com/1964-New-York-Comicon-Conventions/dp/0981534910

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Ok, now that I've come out of my Young Berni stupor....

Here's an Albedo fanzine that I recently picked up. Don't know much of anything about it, but thought it looked cool. Plus...Albedo, so.... Posted it in the Albedo thread in Copper Age, but feel like it should be in here as well for posterity:

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Back cover:

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A cool record of 'Music in the Albedo Universe' attached on the inside:

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On 7/3/2019 at 10:03 AM, Legion HQ said:

Ok, now that I've come out of my Young Berni stupor....

Here's an Albedo fanzine that I recently picked up. Don't know much of anything about it, but thought it looked cool. Plus...Albedo, so.... Posted it in the Albedo thread in Copper Age, but feel like it should be in here as well for posterity:

653706069_Refractions1-frontcover.jpg.28637a27b4e2c79184d8d06d74564f78.jpg

Back cover:

706584346_Refractions1-backcover.jpg.20c20068ee76e42d0db1004987579028.jpg

A cool record of 'Music in the Albedo Universe' attached on the inside:

160593219_Refractions1-interiorrecordattached.jpg.759bc428722960d7808b1a5f4f4fa496.jpg

Nice, what year?

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