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Zine
Title: Trumpet
Editor(s): Tom Reamy, later issues with a combination of Alex Eisenstein and Al Jackson
Type: fan, non-profit, fairly slick but not a prozine
Date(s): 1965-1974 (there was a five year gap between the last two issue)
Medium: print
Fandom: science fiction
Language: English
External Links: all but one of the issues have been scanned online here
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Trumpet was a science fiction zine published by Tom Reamy.

from issue #3, artist Hollis Williford portrays Tom Reamy, the editor

There were eleven issues.

It included science fiction stories, commentary, and illustrations.

The first issue's table of contents states it is "the pretentious fanzine."

From the second issue:

TRUMPET is published quarterly or thereabouts by Tom Reamy, [redacted] Dallas, Texas [redacted]. Price is fifty cents per copy or two dollars for a five issue subscription. Free to contributors and writers of bona-fide letters of comment (postcards and short notes don't count) if they will pay the ten cents postage. Letter writers out of the country will get away with ignoring this little rule in the interests of foreign relations and besides, what am I going to do with a bunch of foreign stamps? I also trade fanzines with just practically anybody.

Some Heavy Hitters Contributed

Some of the contributors to "Trumpet" with fiction, essays, art, and letters of comment were BNFs.

Some examples were Harlan Ellison, Arthur C. Clarke, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Hannes Bok, Harry Warner, Jr., William Rotsler, George Barr, Jerry Pournelle, Robert Bloch, Poul Anderson, John Trimble, Fritz Leiber, Buck Coulson, Ted White, Vaughn Bodē, Tim Kirk, and more.

Intensely Male

"Trumpet" is an example of the intensely male focus of much of science fiction fandom at the time.

Of the eleven issues, there were two essays and two reviews by women. There were two short stories, though they were reprints from somewhere else. Of the letters of comment, there were perhaps three or for by women. Women appeared in photographs #1 and #5.

Women did appear in art; they were almost always naked.

Racism and Homophobia

The zine series was a product of its time in its treatment of Black people and of homosexuality. Some of these offensive portrays were in the form of cartoons, illustrations, and other commentary.

Issue 1

Trumpet 1 was published in February 1965 and contains 40 pages.

front cover of issue #1, Tom Reamy
back cover of issue #1, Schoenherr

The back cover is by Schoenherr. Other art by Tom Reamy, Jerry Hines, Hollis Williford.

According to issue #4, it had a print run of 750, and it sold out.

In the editorial, Reamy writes about how he gafiated five years ago, and now is back.

As for myself, I haven't seen a fanzine or corresponded in over five years. I don't know what the hell's going on. When I gafiated, it was total. I left letters unanswered and promises unfulfilled. Now would be a good time to apologize to one and all — especially Marion Zimmer Bradley, Noreen Falasca and Dan Adkins. Some of the material in this issue was originally intended for CRIFANAC 7 (does anybody remember CRIFANAC?); and that's another story. Several things contributed to the demise of the zine: The Futurian Society dissolved — or, rather, we elected

Mosher] president and all resigned. The Southwestercon VI (dubbed the Publicitycon by Kent Moomaw) was an utter fiasco thanks primarily to the peculiar behavior of Dale Hart; such as the banquet incident.

[...]

I didn't gafiate out of bitterness as I was accused — though it may have seemed that way — I was simply tired of the whole mess (strains of La Traviata here.) I couldn't afford CRIFANAC for one thing. I was too lazy to do all the work required for another.

Now I've decided to start it all over again. I made many mistakes in CRIFANAC and will undoubtedly repeat some of them in TRUMPET (a name fraught with Freudian implications). When I reread the two issues, I cringe. I hope my outlook has changed in the intervening years.

From the Bradley essay:

The question — why does one person like sf and another person hate it? What is the serious psychological difference between fan and non-fan? What is it that makes the sf reader defend his favorite literature variously as escapes, enjoyment, extrapolative, delight, the fun of seeing the future, while the non-reader shudders at "that morbid futuristic horror stuff."

And suddenly I had the answer.

The sf and fantasy reader does not fear the unknown!

  • Blarings: Ancient History & Sleeping Dogs, editorial by Tom Reamy (1)
  • "I'm Not Afraid", article by Marion Zimmer Bradley (4)
  • Christmas Cards, portfolio by Hannes Bok (6)
  • The Altruist, fiction by Charles Portis (8)
  • The Cosmic Dancers, fiction by James Twiggs (Metafic? Takes place at a house party, includes many photos of SPEC members: Marti Fellhaur, Ken Shearer, Kay Grebe, Bill Morris, Jan Ischy, Tom Reamy, Dawn Henry, Bill Sebastian, Betty Sebastian, Mary Fassnacht, Tom Snow, Glen Helm, Hollis Williford.) (11)
  • Existential Da-Da Pop Art Funnies, drawings by Gilbert Shelton (16)
  • The Demolished Fan, fiction by Richard Koogle (20)
  • Somebody Out There Likes Us!, article by Al Jackson (22)
  • The Science Fiction Fantasy Film Revisited, reviews by Tom Reamy (reprinted in Cinefantastique #5) (24)
  • Attention Poster Customers, ad by Tom Reamy (25)
  • Le Sacre du Printemps, portfolio by Tom Reamy (26)
  • The Sisters, fiction by Leonora Carrington (originally published in 1945 in a book titled "A Night With Jupiter and Other Stories") (28)
  • The Traveling Salesman and the Farmer's Daughter, fiction by Arthur Norman (35)

Issue 2

Trumpet 2 was published in June 1965 and contains 40 pages.

front cover of issue #2, Richard Huebner
back cover of issue #2, D. Bruce Berry

The art is by Jack Jackson, Hollis Williford, Gilbert Shelton, Alex Eisenstein, Richard Huebner, D. Bruce Berry, Bill Sebastian, and Dan Adkins.

According to issue #4, it had a print run of 500, and it sold out.

From the editorial:

And another Important Announcement: Do you think, if I'm going to send this beautiful, erudite, expensive, but essentially modest fanzine free for a letter of comment, it would be too unheard

of for me to ask the letter writer to pay the postage on his free copy? I would appreciate it if, when you write a LoC designed expressly for the purpose of getting the next issue, you would enclose a ten cent stamp or a couple of fives. Hmm?

From the editorial:

You know? Fanzines come in two sorta what you might call categories—or, if they're not in one of these two groups, they're trying to be.

There's the faanish fanzine in which the editor's personality careens through it like a fourteen year old hop-head in a Stingray. Most of the material in this type thing is either funny or cliquy or funny and cliquy. The writers use hmmm! four-letter-words and talk about liquor, jazz, mescaline, sportscars and sex—not necessarily in that order. The artwork is usually confined to filler- illos (as I sat smoking a long-black fillerillo listening to Boyd Raeburn play selections from "The Sound of Music" on the ocarina) and a cartoonish cover. They are always mimeographed.

And there's the sercon fanzine which usually doesn't have much of an editorial personality of any kind because there is usually no editorial unless it's a business-like message. It's seldom funny and less often cliquish. The writers use twelve letter words and talk about things Far Above. Like the Freudian implications of Bergey covers (when they occasionally touch on sf). There usually isn't a lettered, fanzine reviews or other editor-reader contacts. The art is mostly abstract doodles and it's often offset.

I enjoy reading both kinds, really I do, but I can't see myself publishing either.

And what is this mimeo-mythos, anyway? I don't understand it. I've gotten letters from people who couldn't care less about the material; all they can do is goggle over the reproduction. Others find nothing particularly wrong with the content but gripe because it isn't mimeographed. Offset is a method of printing, ferchrissake! I use it because it's prettier, easier to read and you can do anything with it. How can anybody make a fetish or a phobia out of it?

  • Blarings (about S.A.S.E.s, comments on the Hugo Awards, different kinds of editorials in different kinds of zines) (2)
  • White Rabbits, fiction by Leonora Carrington (This story states: "copyright 1945 by View, Inc." -- originally published in 1945 in a book titled "A Night With Jupiter and Other Stories") (3)
  • A Chatty, Preferably Controversial Column by Andrew I. Offutt (5)
  • Science Fiction as Cinema?, article by Al Jackson (6)
  • The Noise in the Dark, cartoon by Gilbert Shelton (7)
  • The Iconoclast Iconoscope, An Occasional Column Devoted to the Demolition of Mythical Classics of Science-Fiction, by Alex Eisenstein (10)
  • Persiflage, letters of comment (Greg Benford, Harry Warner, Jr., Edward W. Ludwig, John W. Andrews, Bill Glass, John R. Duvoli, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ann Chamberlain, Don Bates, Phil Harrell, John Boston, Creath S. Thorne) (14)
  • Homespun Idyll, fiction by George Mueller Lewis (18)
  • The Science Fiction Film Revisited, reviews by Tom Reamy (24)
  • EC Comics Sale , ad by Tom Reamy (37)

Issue 3

Trumpet 3 was published in December 1965 and contains 56 pages. The covers are by George Barr.

front cover of issue #3, George Barr
sadly, only a partial back cover of issue #3, George Barr

The art is by George Barr, Tom Reamy, Irwin & Lawrence, Alex Eisenstein, William Rotsler, Ray Nelson, Hollis Williford, Andrew J. Offutt, Al Jones, and Dan Adkins.

According to issue #4, it had a print run of 750.

While very typical of its time, this zine makes almost no mention of women: there is a small line drawing of a woman in a Wonder Woman-like outfit, a fan's wife named Crystal ("is that how you spell it?") cooks some other fans a breakfast omelet, a cavewoman is shown being flung over a caveman's shoulders and carried away, and there is a photograph of a woman in a sequin swimsuit on the table of contents page. Dennis Smith, however, contributed a lovely drawing on page 37.

  • Salvarzan of the Apes by Greg Gabbard, illustrated by Tom Reamy ("Greg Gabbard buries into satire.") (2)
  • Emphasis, Emphasis by Stephen Barr (it has the subtitle: "The Italicization of Emily" but it is not on the article, nor is there any clue to who Emily is) (4)
  • OG, comic strip by Irwin & Lawrence (about Og, the caveman) (5)
  • The Pandemonium Theatre Company Arrives by Ray Bradbury, illustrated with photographs of actors Harold Gould and Dennis Patrick from the stage production of “To the Chicago Abyss” (6)
  • The Bohemian Tory, a beginning column by Jerry Pournelle, illustrated by Tom Reamy (8)
  • Zen and the Art of Cooking by Ray Nelson, illustrated by Ray Nelson ("Ray Nelson stirs up something in the kitchen.") (10)
  • The Broken Blade by Kent Moomaw (fanzine reviews which were originally written in 1958 for an issue of Crifanac which never appeared) (12)
  • A Chatty, Preferentially Controversial, Column: The Son of Hercules vs. Andy Offutt by Andy Offutt, illustrated by Andrew J. Offutt (16)
  • The Science Fantasy Film Revisited by Tom Reamy, illustrated by Al Jones; reviews of Day of the Triffids (1963) and She (1965) (21)
  • Editorial and Other Pretensions by Tom Reamy, illustrated by Hollis Williford (27)
  • Drawing by Dennis Smith (28)
  • The Wondrous Adventures of Grady Good Monster or My Vacation; A Conreport of Sorts by Tom Reamy, illustrated by William Rotsler (descriptions of a road trip from Texas to L.A. to Worldcon, mentions many fans, visiting Bjo Trimble and John Trimble's house, discussing Breendoggle, and much more) (29)
  • Drawing by Dennis Smith (37)
  • The Compost Heap by Alex Eisenstein, illustrated by Al Jones & Alex Eisenstein (new fanzine reviews) (38)
  • Horror: The Thin Line Between Revulsion by Dan Bates ("Dan Bates tosses his cookies at the flicks.") (43)
  • Persiflage, letters of comment; illustrated by Al Jones, George Barr & Dan Adkins (Robert Lowndes, Leland Sapiro, Len Moffatt, Richard Hodgens, Peter Singleton, Robert Bloch, Andy Offutt, Earl Noe, Rob Pudim) (45)

Issue 4

Trumpet 4 was published in April 1966 and contains 52 pages.

front cover of issue #4, Al Jones
back cover of issue #4, Dan Adkins

The art is by Al Jones, Dan Adkins, Lynn Pederson, Dave Ludwig, and several uncredited artists.

  • Editorial and Other Pretensions by Tom Reamy (2)
  • Cardshark Campbell Meets Sex and the Common Man by Tom Perry (6)
  • The Broken Sword by George Barr - comic strip (11)
  • The Bohemian Tory by Jerry Pournelle (graphic/comic, story adapted by Tom Reamy, art by George Barr) (19)
  • Dr. Faustus Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gore (Almost) by Dan Bates (20)
  • Tarzan and How He Grew Or: Whatever Happened to Jane Baby? by John McGeehan (about canon things, but also much about fandom and fanzines) (21)
  • Dr. Who, Adventures in Time and Space by Alan Dodd (28)
  • The Science Fantasy Film Revisited by Tom Reamy (30)
    • Satellite in the Sky
    • Horror of Party Beach
    • The Most Dangerous Man Alive
    • The Crawling Hand
    • The Wasp Women, reviewed by John Brunas
  • The Compost Heap by Alex Eisenstein (38)
  • Versial Column by Andrew J. Offutt (43)
  • Persiflage, Letters of Comment (John Trimble, Poul Anderson, Michael Brunas, Tom Draheim, Bill Glass, Ned Brooks, Creath Thorne, Harry Warner, Jr., George Barr, Alma Hill) (45)

Issue 5

Trumpet 5 was published in April 1967 and contains 44 pages.

The art is by George Barr, Alex Eisenstein, Jim Gardner, Lynn Pederson (male), Vin Scheihagen, Dave Ludwig, Rob Pudim, Hollis Williford, and Dennis Smith.

front cover of issue #5, man in camouflage, posing with a dead unicorn, photo by Glenn Helm
back cover of issue #5, artist is Dennis Smith

The second part of "The Broken Sword" by George Barr is not in this issue as he didn't do it.

From the editorial:

WITH A PONG IN MY HEART [1]

The latest nonsense to hit the fannish scene, as you may have heard if you are a NyCon 3 member, is the Con Committee's decision to eliminate the "best fanzine" Hugo Award. Instead they plan a separate award for fandom ( reserving the Hugo for the pros) called a "Pong" named, obviously, after Bob Tucker's faanish creation Hoy Ping Pong. Tucker, by the way, will be the fan guest-of-honor at the NyCon 3. When I received the nominating ballot I felt stunned, cheated, and put upon in general. I suppose it's the goal of every fanzine editor, sooner or later, to win a Hugo. It's certainly mine, and I don't want a "Pong." I thought probably that I might be the only one who felt this way but it turns out, happily, that the feeling in fandom (especially among fanzine editors) is running quite heavily against the "Pong." Bill Mallardi of DOUBLE: BILL has stated publicly that, should D:B win, he will refuse to accept the silly thing, and rumor has it that Felice Rolf of NIEKAS has said the same thing. Bruce Pelz has hinted that, should L.A. get the '68 convention bid, the Hugo will be restored. But it isn't necessary to wait until next year when something can be done now. If you agree that the "Pong" is a lot of nonsense, indicate it on your ballot (a copy of which should be included with this issue). Cross out the words FAN ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS near the bottom and write in "Hugo" or something to indicate quite clearly your feelings on the subject.

Perhaps something further should be done to prevent things like this happening in the future. Major changes like this should not be made at the whim of a half dozen fans (and fans can have some pretty strange whims). The membership has every right to an opinion on such a change and to not have it shoved down their throats. I still think it's a good idea for the Awards Committee to be separate and distinct from the Convention Committee. Members of such a committee could be elected for, say, a three-year-term. There would be a stability and continuity that is lacking now as each new group must start from scratch, year after year. Besides, there's plenty for the Con Committee to do without worrying about the awards. If the duly elected Awards Committee wanted to make any changes in the awards structure, it merely proposes them at the business meeting and the membership votes on them. It's a simple, workable arrangement and I can't understand why it hasn't been done already.

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 5

original photograpy?, "contents page photo: Bill Rotsler" -- printed on the table of contents page, issue #5, portrays a naked bound and helpless woman with an evil leering monk/Satanist.
The photograph on your inside front cover could be a poor fan's guide to abnormal psychology, if enough readers come right out and say what it meant to them. I found it ambivalent, ambiguous, and half-revealing as one of those Rohrschach [sic] inkblot tests. Is the half-visible figure in the background worshipping or threatening the robust young lady, and is that figure actually a male as my instincts hastily assured me? ((It's Steve Tolliver)) Is the girl about to utter some profound revelation in a prophetic trance, after removing her garments in order to be distracted by no secular possessions at this important moment, or is she about to play an important role in a sacrificial drama? What's the pole doing, sticking up there beside her left ear, and do the fingers wrapped around it belong to the girl or to the shadowy person in the background? Where did the shadow come from that makes one part of the face look so much more mature and serious than the remainder of her charmingly chubby physiognomy? I assume that the original photograph reveals more shadow detail than the engraving. But deliberate or accidental, the total impression is commendably exciting. [2]

In tallying the nomination ballots for this year's Achievement Awards, we find that TRUMPET will place as one of seven fanzines nominated for the final Awards ballot.

In view of your repeated statements to the effect that you will not accept a Fan Achievement Award should you win one, we are uncertain as to whether you would desire inclusion on the ballot for TRUMPET.

If you are unwilling to see TRUMPET enter the competition for this award, please notify us within the month (May), and we will remove its name from among those contending."

"((You must have me confused with several other people, Ted. It's true that I oppose the Pong but I have never, repeat ne-ver [the hyphen was deliberate], said that I would refuse it should Trumpet win. I expect that I would accept were the award a chocolate-covered doughnut.))" [3]

Issue 6

Trumpet 6 was published in June 1967 and contains 44 pages.

front cover of issue #6, Dennis Smith
back cover of issue #6, artist is Jim Cawthorne

The art is by Dennis Smith, Jim Cawthorne, Earl Noe, George Barr, Hollis Williford, Tom Reamy, Jim Gardner, Mel Sepulveda, Rob Pudim, Bill Holloway, and Al Jones.

If you've noticed, there have been some changes made on the editorial staff. Al Jackson has been promoted and Alex Eisenstein has become a full-fledged Trumpet editor—whatever that means.

As Al is in Houston and Alex is in Germany, I'm still doing all the work and it may take a while for everything to sort itself out. But if Al and Alex are going to get to pay their share of the money, then they have to do their share of the work. I told Alex the deadline for this issue and asked if he wished to write an editorial. I haven't received one, so he either didn't want to or didn't believe that this issue would appear as soon as scheduled. It was probably the latter. The same is true of The Compost Heap. I never got around to asking Al for an editorial; as a matter of fact, I never got around to telling him he was an editor instead of an associate editor. Hey, Al. Surprise!

The Pong situation is still up in the air, I suppose. I haven't heard anything new lately. Either the opposition wasn't strong enough or the NyCon Committee plans to bull it through anyway. According to Ted's letter in this issue, nothing has changed.

Recently John Trimble published a fanzine devoted exclusively to the Hugo. The first issue was composed primarily of a longish letter from Ted explaining the Committee's decision to change the award. Among all the verbiage I was unable to find a single substantial reason for the change. It all ended with a petulant cry of, we are right and you are wrong so why are you fighting us? It's all rather sad, really.

Issue 7

Trumpet 7 was published in May 1968 and contains 44 pages.

front cover of issue #7, Jeff Jones

The art is by Glenn Helm, Tom Reamy, Howard Mingus, James H. Gardner, Dave Ludwig, George Barr, Doug Lovenstein, Jeff Jones, Rob Pudim, Sharon Baugh, Alex Eisenstein, John Boland, Al Jones, Jim Nielson, Gene Klein, Bill Bowers, Irwin and Lawrence, and Jerry Mayes.

“Poul Anderson’s the Broken Sword” is a graphic treatment of the novel by George Barr and Tom Reamy. This was the last chapter; it is never finished.

The “Sketches” by Robert E. Howard all appeared in “The Junto”, the single-copy circulating magazine produced by Howard and his friends.

  • Editorial & Other Pretensions, essay by Alex Eisenstein and Al Jackson and Tom Reamy (2)
  • The Long and the Short of It, essay by Phyllis Eisenstein (3)
  • "Affair with a Green Monkey" by Theodore Sturgeon, review by Phyllis Eisenstein (4)
  • S.P.E.C. [4] Has a Halloween Fling, essay by uncredited, artwork by Glenn Helm and Tom Reamy (5)
  • CPCC: The Man with the Power, essay by Andrew J. Offutt, artwork by Howard Mingus (8)
  • The View from Up Here, essay by Dan Bates, artwork by Dave Ludwig (11)
  • Poul Anderson’s The Broken Sword (Part 3 of 3, though never completed), serial by Tom Reamy, art by George Barr (12)
  • Trumpet People: George Barr, essay by George Barr, art is not credited (21)
  • Etched in Ebony, short story by Robert E. Howard (22)
  • Ambition by Moonlight (1929), essay by Robert E. Howard, artwork by Doug Lovenstein (variant of Ambition in the Moonlight) (23)
  • Musings (“The little poets sing of little things …”), poem by Robert E. Howard (24)
  • Surrender: Your Money or Your Vice, essay by Robert E. Howard (24)
  • The Galveston Affair, essay by Robert E. Howard (25)
  • To a Man Whose Name I Never Knew, essay by Robert E. Howard (26)
  • Them, essay by Robert E. Howard (26)
  • A Folio, artwork by Jeff Jones (27)
  • Incident in a Small War, short story by W. G. Bliss, artwork by Rob Pudim (33)
  • Persiflage, letters of comment (John Boardman, James H. Gardner, Robert Stewart [as by Bhob Stewart], Harry Warner, Jr.(35)

Issue 8

Trumpet 8 was published in September 1968 and contains 44 pages.

front cover of issue #8, Jeff Jones
back cover of issue #8, artist is Bernie Wrightson

It was co-edited with Alex Eisenstein and Al Jackson.

The art is by Jeff Jones, Bernie Wrightson, George Barr, Tom Reamy, Michael Gilbert, Jerry Mayes, Vaughn Bode, Stan Taylor, Hollis Williford, Dave Ludwig, Doug Lovenstein, and Rob Pudim.

  • Editorial by Tom Reamy (1)
  • Editorial, reflections on a silver icon, an editorial of suspended belief by Alex Eisenstein (topic: the Hugo Awards) (2)
  • Pierheads in Space, article by H.H. Hollis (4)
  • Bode's Machines, pictorial feature by Vaughn Bode (7)
  • CPCC, Dracula Was a Bad Guy, column by Andrew J. Offutt (19)
  • The Trumpet People: Hollis Williford (autobiographical description, includes a photo of Williford posing on a fancy car) (21)
  • Walden's Pond, pictorial feature by Stan Taylor (22)
    • Recording angel sits on high, Quietly watching worlds go by, Of one dread spot he is most fond, A dark, dark place called Walden's Pond
    • The Pharisee's Burden
    • This is your sepulcher -- keep it clean!
    • Love they Neighbor, Brother
    • We is all God's Chillun [5]
  • The View from Up Here, Hiss the Villain Cheer the Anti-Hero, column by Dan Bates (27)
  • The Compost Heap, reviews by Alex Eisenstein (31)
  • Persiflage, letters of comment (Richard Hodgens, John Brunner, Harry Warner, Jr., Alma Hill, Jerry Lapidus) (36)
  • OG, caveman cartoon by Irwin and Lawrence (41)

Issue 9

Trumpet 9 was published in October 1969 [6] and contains 52 pages.

front cover of issue #9, Hannes Bok
back cover of issue #9, Jerry Mayes

It was co-edited with Alex Eisenstein.

The art is by Robert E. Jennings, Steven Heller, Tim Kirk, Hannes Bok, Bernie Wrightson, Stan Taylor, Johnny Chambers, William Rotsler, Jerry Maynes, Jim Gardner, Rob Pudim, Hollis Williford.

Issue 10

Trumpet 10 was published in 1969 and contains 52 pages.

It was co-edited with Alex Eisenstein.

front cover of issue #10, George Barr
back cover of issue #10, D. Bruce Berry

The art is by Wallace Wood, Jerry Mayes, "Unknown," William Rotsler, Steven Fabian, Tim Kirk, Rob Pudim, Hollis Williford, Steve Kelez, Jim Nielson, and George Barr.

Issue 11

Trumpet 11 was published in 1974 and contains 36 pages.

front cover of issue #11, Steve Fabian
back cover of issue #11, Dennis Smith

It was co-edited with Alex Eisenstein and Al Jackson.

The art is by George Barr, William Rotsler, Tim Kirk, Dennis Smith, Steve Fabian, Jim Cawthorn, C. Lee Healy, Rod Pudhim (not officially listed, names taken from how the art was signed).

  • essay by Ruth Berman (gosh, thanks William Rotsler, for the naked boobies on an essay that is written by an actual woman, one of two in this entire zine series)
    essay by Ruth Berman (gosh, thanks William Rotsler, for the naked boobies on an essay that is written by an actual woman, one of two in this entire zine series)
  • from issue #11, Tim Kirk portrays Harlan Ellison
    from issue #11, Tim Kirk portrays Harlan Ellison
  • from issue #11, Tim Kirk
    from issue #11, Tim Kirk
  • from issue #11, Steve Fabian
    from issue #11, Steve Fabian
  • from issue #11, Robert Kline: Turjan of Miir. "With along-handled spoon he held food to the creature's mouth."
    from issue #11, Robert Kline: Turjan of Miir. "With along-handled spoon he held food to the creature's mouth."
  • from issue #11, Robert Kline: Liane the Wayfarer. "Over his shiny black back he wore a robe of eyeballs threaded on silk."
    from issue #11, Robert Kline: Liane the Wayfarer. "Over his shiny black back he wore a robe of eyeballs threaded on silk."
  • from issue #11, Robert Kline: "Turjan of Miir. "Turjan sprang forward, dodging the wild sweep of her sword, seized her around the waist, and dragged her to the ground."
    from issue #11, Robert Kline: "Turjan of Miir. "Turjan sprang forward, dodging the wild sweep of her sword, seized her around the waist, and dragged her to the ground."
  • from issue #11, Robert Kline: Mazirian the Magician. "'See,' she panted, 'Mazirian has come to kill you.'"
    from issue #11, Robert Kline: Mazirian the Magician. "'See,' she panted, 'Mazirian has come to kill you.'"
  • from issue #11, Robert Kline: Ulan Dhor. "The tentacle darted to cut them off."
    from issue #11, Robert Kline: Ulan Dhor. "The tentacle darted to cut them off."
  • from issue #11, Tim Kirk, the topic is the Worldcon bid by Dallas.
    from issue #11, Tim Kirk, the topic is the Worldcon bid by Dallas.
  • from issue #11, commentary on masculinity
    from issue #11, commentary on masculinity

References

  1. ^ Much more about this topic: June 22, 1967 - The Pong Arising from the World Convention; archive link (June 22, 2022)
  2. ^ from a letter of comment in the next issue of Trumpet
  3. ^ first comment by "(Ted White)", second one by Tom Reamy, from a letter of comment in "Trumpet" #6
  4. ^ S.P.E.C. is the Society for the Preservation of Enchanted Chipmonks, a group of Dallas fans, friends of the editors.
  5. ^ so racist
  6. ^ While October is not mentioned in the zine, the second issue of Otherworlds mentions this issue and that zine was also October 1969.
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