apazine n.

a contribution to an apa n.

[< apa n. + zine n.]

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  • 1953 R. Silverberg 1952โ€”In Review in Spaceship (#20) Jan. 6 page image Robert Silverberg bibliography

    There were some hum-dingers and new fanzines. [...] Plus apazines of all descriptions, and one-shots too numerous to mention and often just unmentionable. But you get the idea.

  • 1959 R. Eney Fancyclopedia II (1979) 5 Dick Eney bibliography

    APA, Amateur Press Association. A group of people who publish fanzines and, instead of mailing them individually, send them to an official editor, who makes up a bundle periodically (altho these mailings have sometimes not been temporally regular) and distributes one to each member. Such apazines are contributed to the bundle by their publishers without charge, being considered exchanges for the other members' fanzines. The procedure saves time, work, and postage for the publishers; and since the mailing bundles are identical and all members may be assumed to know their contents, comments on them lead to lively discussions. For fan APAs see under FAPA, OMPA, and SAPS, all still active, and 7APA, Vanguard, and WAPA, now defunct. (Whether the Cult is an APA is hard to decide, but go ahead and look it up anyway.)

  • 1959 Savoyard Dec. 2

    For official apazines, the perpetrator ought to be able to wait until the next mailing to have his included; if he wants to send it out to the members as an unofficial apazine, okay.

  • 1969 H. Warner, Jr. All our Yesterdays 3 Harry Warner, Jr. bibliography

    Another fascinating near-miss in this instinct toward the fanzine was experienced by one Howard Scott, an amateur journalist in the 1870โ€™s. He issued a publication called The Rambler and collected ayjay publications of others that laid much stress on speculative science. A surviving bound volume of such apazines contains such items as an article about possible inhabitants of other worlds, information on the more abstruse habits of birds, mesmerism facts, and a discussion on the possibilities of phonetic spelling. There must have been trufaanish instincts among Scottโ€™s circle.

  • 1979 Science Fiction Rev. Jan. 33/3

    A fanzine for general circulation in fandom is called a genzine (general interest fanzine) as opposed to one for an amateur press association (apa) which is called an apazine.

  • 1993 D. Fratz Twenty-Year Spree in Quantum Springโ€“Summer 53/3

    My APAzines had names like Poppycock, Horse Feathers, Crap, and Bull.

  • 2012 C. Doran Crush on a Superhero in Chicks Dig Comics 204 page image Colleen Doran bibliography

    My Element Lad uber-crush gave me my big break in comics. From my first scribblings in an APAzine, to my first mainstream comics gig!

Research requirements

antedating 1953
Earliest cite

R. Silverberg 'Spaceship #20'
Research History
Leah Zeldes submitted a 1959 cite from Fancyclopedia II.
Fred Galvin submitted a 1959 cite from Bruce Pelz's apazine "Savoyard 3".
Malcolm Farmer submitted a 1979 cite from Darrell Schweitzer's "Occasionally Mentioning Science Fiction".
Jeff Prucher submitted a 1993 cite from Doug Fratz's "The Twenty Year Spree".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1969 cite from Harry Warner's "All Our Yesterdays" .
Bill Mullins submitted a cite from an article "1952 -- In Review year of the jackpot" by Robert Silverberg in Silverberg's fanzine, Spaceship #20, from January 1953.
Ben Ostrowsky submitted a 2012 cite from Colleen Doran.

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