Tags: comics

Saddle-stitched, b&w interiors, printed on card stock.
More fun with a comics nerd in a post-apocalyptic world.

Saddle-stitched, b&w interiors, full-color covers.
Stumbling onto a comic shop in a post-apocalyptic world and still managing to find some weirdo hanging out.

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 includes Jerry Bails (Central Mailer), Paul Gambaccini, Bob Jennings, Daniel Alderson, John & Tom McGeehan, Richard Kyle, David Castronuovo, Marc Nadel, Pete Jackson, David Kaler, Pete Phillips, Duncan Robertson, John Ryan, Elliot Brill, Ronn Foss, Dennis Richard, Joe Hehn, Bill Spicer, Howard Keltner and Al Kuhfeld.
Cover by Biljo White and Jerry Bails
Contributions include Agent X Reporting (Bails), Views and Verdict (Nadel), The Rambling Roamer #1 (Jackson), Listen Here! (Gambaccini), Small Talk (Johnson), Data Sheet (Bails), Checklist of Features in Comic Books of the First Heroic Age (Keltner), An Index of Periodical Literature Pertaining to Comics (Brill) and an ad for The Official Guidebook to Comics Fandom (Spicer)
Back cover is blank

No membership roster given.
Cover by Ronn Foss
Contributions include Looking Back and Ahead (Foss), Operation Ishfael (Moslander), Agent X Reporting (Bails), House of Info (McGeehans), The Authoritative Guidebook for the Bewildered Comic Pro (Weingroff via Bails), A Clipping for Your Files (Bails), The Chopping Block (Robertson), Kid Stuff? (Kuhfeld) and Heavy Water #1 (Patten)
Reproduction by ditto and mimeograph
Back cover by Fred Patten and Jack Harness

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

Membership includes Jerry Bails, Paul Gambaccini, Daniel Alderson, John and Tom McGeehan, Glen Johnson, Richard Kyle, Marc Nadel, Pete Jackson, David Kaler, Duncan Robertson, Howard Keltner, Al Kuhfeld, Elliot Brill, Ronn Foss, John Ryan, Dennis Richard, Paul Moslander, Roy Thomas, Fred Patten, Raymond Miller, Phil Castora, Richard Weingroff
Applicants include Derrill Rothermich, Joseph Wehrle, Coreen Casey, Richie Benyo, Gary Behymer, Don & Maggie Thompson
Cover by Jerry Bails
Contributions include Agent X Reporting (Bails), Index to Periodical Literature #2 (Brill), Checklist to First Heroic Age #2 (Keltner), ROY-al Ramblings #1 (Thomas), Listen Here #4 (Gambaccini), Heavy Water #3 (Patten), Shmoz #2 (Castora), Hints: Repro with Spirit Duppers (Bails), Sounding Off (Kaler), Wandering Miner #1 (Rothermich), The World of Ryandom #2 (Ryan), Summation of K-a #1-3 (Alderson), By-Laws of CAPA-alpha (Bails), Membership Roster (Bails)
Reproduction by ditto and mimeograph
Back cover by Jerry Bails

Nickelodeon took the place of Trumpet after Tom Reamy became embroiled in a publishing deal with Nostalgia Inc. that didn’t turn out as he had hoped or been led to believe. Reamy shared editing and publishing duties with Ken Keller, who would go on to publish Trumpet #12 in 1981, in an effort to resurrect the title.

Features include an interview with Frederick Pohl.
Letters page includes letters from Doug Potter, Kenneth Smith, and Andrew Porter.

Letters page includes letters from Robert Bloch and Andrew Offutt.

Features include the first installment of George Barr’s adaptation of Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword.
Letters page includes letters from Poul Anderson, George Barr, and Harry Warner Jr.

This issue includes a two-page ad for Witzend #1.
Letters page includes letters from Maggie Thompson, Jerry Pournelle, Harry Warner Jr., and Fritz Leiber.

Features include the second installment of George Barr’s adaptation of Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword.
Letters page includes letters from Ted White, Harry Warner Jr., Andrew Offutt, and George Barr.

Trumpet #7 got a second printing in 1970, and was advertised in Dallascon Bulletin #5.
Features include the third installment of George Barr’s adaptation of Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword, and a profile of George Barr. Also features a portfolio by Jeffrey Catherine Jones.
Letters page includes letters from Bhob Stewart and Harry Warner Jr.

Letters page includes letters from John Brunner and Harry Warner Jr.

Features include portfolios by Hannes Bok and Stephen Fabian, and Harlan Ellison on 2001 A Space Odyssey.

Features include a portfolio by Tim Kirk.
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