zine n.
[shortening of fanzine n., or directly from magazine]
Fancyclopedia
SF Fandom
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1941
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Harry Jenkins, Jr.
CONTENTS PAGE—Not up to par with the rest of the zine.
Letter in Fantasite (vol. 1, iss. 4) July 25/1
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1944
Jack Speer
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The Check-List also gives variant names of a given zine, summarizes dates by volume and number, and includes information and rumors on proposed magazines that never appeared.
Fancyclopedia 34/1 -
1946
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A couple of hunks of the ’zine were torn off in the unbinding process, but here is what on what [sic] was left.
Review of Science Fiction Fan Publications in Startling Stories Summer 109/1 -
1947 Review of the Science Fiction Fan Publications in Startling Stories May 112/2
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Poor printing and snafu artwork keeps this Detroit zine down in the doldrums despite a high-powered lineup that includes Brazier, Elsner, Tigrina and Joe Kennedy.
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1947 Review of the Science Fiction Fan Publications in Startling Stories May 113/1
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Not overimpressive for a 'zine that terms itself somewhat grandiosely ‘official organ of the National Fantasy Fan Federation’.
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1962
Donald Franson
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Zine, magazine, fanzine or prozine.
Key to the Terminology of Science-Fiction Fandom 18 -
1988
Sharyn McCrumb
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Such an article once written would be reprinted in every zine in fandom.
Bimbos of Death Sun viii. 102 -
1991 Fantasy Spring 50/3
I read that the ‘zines associated with the club were looking for stories.
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1993 SFRA Review May 64
They can respond to the text through fan activity, 'zines, rewriting episodes, and so on.
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1993 Science Fiction Studies Nov. 451
One of the most embarrassing aspects of reviewing BCP [Beyond Cyberpunk] is to realize how much closer to taking advantage of this powerful and exciting technology are zines such as bOING, bOING than are ‘cutting-edge’ academic journals such as SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES.
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1993
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Bob Shaw
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For all we know, what you have here are cookery and fashion zines.
Alien Porn in Interzone (#67) Jan. 29/1
Research requirements
antedating 1941
Earliest cite
in Fantasite
Research History
Cory Panshin submitted 1947 cites from the fanzine review columns in Startling Stories for both "zine" and "'zine".Keith Stokes submitted a 1962 cite from "A Key to the Terminology of S-F Fandom".
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a fanzine review by "Sergeant Saturn" in the Summer 1946 Startling Stories.
Ben Ostrowsky submitted a 1941 cite from Fantasite.
(Earliest cite in OED2: 1965; updated to 1946 in OED3.)
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