One of my must-have’s was CPL, produced in Indianapolis titled CPL, short for Contemporary Pictorial Literature. Some of my favorite fanzines were ones I never wrote for, like The Collector, Rocket’s Blast Comic Collector, the aforementioned The Buyer’s Guide For Comic Fandom, The Comic Reader, Eclipse, Epoch, Inside Comics, Wonderful World of Comics, Mirkwood Times, Fantastic Fanzine, Etcetera, Comixscene, and a slew of others whose names now escape me.
Some of the names escape me but I recall being published in ‘zines like The Media and Blast among others and soon had regular articles and a review column for a Canadian tabloid called The Journal that was published by Paul Kowtiuk and his Maple Leaf Publishing. Soon after I began submitting articles to a number of fanzines and wouldn’t you know it, some of them actually published them. My interest for all things in writing, publishing and editing skyrocketed at that point. We also made sure our principal and selected teachers received one.)
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We probably mailed out another 30 or more for free (and for reviews) and gave the rest away to our friends. I have no idea how many we sold, possibly 25 or 30 maybe out of a print run of 100.
We dutifully rented a post office box, put together an advertisement using my Dad’s typewriter and some horrible sketches I drew (Cyclops is one I remember) and purchased an ad in The Buyer’s Guide For Comics Fandom. In 1971, in the throes of junior high school my pal and fellow collector Mike ‘Buck’ Humrichouser and I produced two issues of our fanzine, Informative On Comics (more on this at a later time). Fanzines are for the most part ‘amateur’ publications devoted to a genre of some sorts and comic book fanzines had a tremendous appeal to me, to the point where in the 70’s, as my interest in collecting waned to the point I no longer purchased comic books, I still ordered fanzines for several years thereafter.Īs an aspiring writer I had hoped to eventually have the opportunity to be published and fanzines were the perfect vehicle to hone ones skills, so to speak. Back in the 1960’s when I was an avid comic book collector I started to receive fanzines.
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