Help us find the missing TOS Trek Zines of the 1960s!

[ChallengerHK]

doctor_beth2000 on ebay has a huge collection, and a lot of stuff on ebay for sale. If nothing else, she might be able to help you with your lists.

Ming Whatne had a collection which, near the end, I am told filled two shipping containers. I was lucky enough to use her collection for research, and I barely scratched the surface. After her passing the collection was given too a college for its archives. I want to say it was University of Kansas, but I'm not certain.

 

[Timewalker]

doctor_beth2000 on ebay has a huge collection, and a lot of stuff on ebay for sale. If nothing else, she might be able to help you with your lists.

Ming Whatne had a collection which, near the end, I am told filled two shipping containers. I was lucky enough to use her collection for research, and I barely scratched the surface. After her passing the collection was given too a college for its archives. I want to say it was University of Kansas, but I'm not certain.

Doctor_beth2000 is someone to beware of. For one thing, her prices are insanely high compared with other sellers.

For another, she sells on multiple sites, and there have been times when I've ordered a specific title from her and instead I got a message that basically says, "Oops, I already sold that, you can substitute another title for the same price" - which doesn't help if there isn't anything else I want at that time, or if there's something I want that's either lower or higher, plus having to factor in the constantly changing exchange rate between Canada and the U.S. Oh, and be sure to check the shipping; she made a rather significant mistake one time, and evidently didn't notice that she sent me an invoice that included a shipping charge of $3000.

 

[Daddy Todd]

Jim (& Melody) Rondeau is my favorite source for Trek zines. They've been selling fanzines for 40+ years. Generally fair prices, with an occasional exception because a great deal of their stock is on consignment, and prices are set by the consignor. Who sometimes think they're gonna pay off the mortgage by selling a few old fanzines.

NOTE: I'm just a satisfied customer; I have no connection to Jim & Melody beyond that.

 

[Christopher]

It was a bit amusing that the voice cast for many of the one shot characters were listed as "unknown" when it was quite evident many of them were performed by Doohan, Nichols and Barrett. (Reads like a law firm.)

The characters voiced by those three and Takei were all credited properly in the 1976 edition of the Concordance. The ones listed as "Unknown" were almost always different performers whose identity remains a mystery to this day (with the exception of Jane Webb, who played Lara and the Vedala in "The Jihad"). Unfortunately, the 1995 edition of the Chronology erroneously attributed them all to Doohan even though they're clearly a different person or persons, and Memory Alpha and other sources have perpetuated those errors.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I can remember in the late 70s/early 80s fanzines being available in the local science fiction book shop in Australia. So probably are not on your list . But who know maybe someone's scanned them in and they're available online.

I have been adding zine summaries and images to Fanlore for years.

As a Sydneysider, I saw numerous Australian fanzines, especially "Star Trek" and "Doctor Who" newszines, at Galaxy Bookshop and the now-defunct "The Land Beyond Beyond". In fact, I sold copies of "Kiron III", "Data", "USS Hood Orientation Manual" and "Utility Belt" through Galaxy. In Melbourne it was at "Minotaur" and the now-defunct "Space Age Books". In Adelaide, it was the now-defunct "The Black Hole".

Susan Smith-Clark (now Batho) donated her extensive collection to the National Library of Australia and most/all of them are referenced on Fanlore.
https://www.nla.gov.au/collect/s-sc-lst.html

I found it odd that the episode synopses for each cartoon segment were, on average, longer and more in depth than the live action episodes.

Not so odd. TAS was all-new for the commercially-published "Concordance". Filmation supplied plentiful line drawings for each episode and DC Fontana had supplied detailed materials to Bjo as the show was being made.

Since Ballantine probably thought many fans might stay satisfied with their amateur "Concordance" issues, adding plenty of juicy, new stuff was a sensible idea.

 

[Daddy Todd]

Not so odd. TAS was all-new for the commercially-published "Concordance". Filmation supplied plentiful line drawings for each episode and DC Fontana had supplied detailed materials to Bjo as the show was being made.

Since Ballantine probably thought many fans might stay satisfied with their amateur "Concordance" issues, adding plenty of juicy, new stuff was a sensible idea.

Not to mention, Ballantine were simultaneously publishing ADF's Star Trek Log series. The Concordance came out a month after Star Trek Log Eight. That might have been another incentive to go heavy on coverage of TAS.

 

[Falconer]

You’ll also notice in the 1975 Concordance that all the TOS-based art has been moved to the front of the book, and the art sprinkled throughout it all for the TAS entries. In the original fan publications, the TOS art is interspersed properly.

 

[publiusr]

Good days

 

[Neopeius]

You’ll also notice in the 1975 Concordance that all the TOS-based art has been moved to the front of the book, and the art sprinkled throughout it all for the TAS entries. In the original fan publications, the TOS art is interspersed properly.

It was interesting reading the original zines that the Concordance's art came out in. The pretty picture of Mark Lenard, for instance.

When I read the Concordance in the late 70s, there was no clue that the professionally published volume had once been a zine itself.

 

[F. King Daniel]

There are a lot of Trek fanzines available at archive.org. None of them the missing ones listed above, but thought I'd share.

 

[Maurice]

There are a lot of Trek fanzines available at archive.org. None of them the missing ones listed above, but thought I'd share.

Like these (link).

 

[Commishsleer]

Like these (link).

Cool!

 

[Timewalker]

Like these (link).

I have some of these, and others were on my 'to get' list.