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My thanks to Phil Elliott for kindly donating this zine to the archive.

Today's upload is:
SHORT FUSE 2 - 1983
By Graham Cousins, Paul Duncan, John Jackson
Covers by Bryan Talbot & Mike Higgs
classicukcomicszines.weebly.com/short-fuse.html

Only one upload this weekend; but it's a good one

SHORT FUSE 1 - 1982
By Graham Cousins, Paul Duncan, John Jackson 
Covers by Ian Gibson & Alan Davis

check it out here:
http://classicukcomicszines.weebly.com/short-fuse.html

Today's upload:

THE PANELOLOGIST #5 - 1976
Published by George Barnett

The fanzine review page is depressing - Only in the fact that it hints at just how little I've only scratched the surface so far.

That's counterbalanced by the photo page, which makes me 'slightly' less embarrassed about my own hair around the same time this was published

Interesting to see that the Lee V Kirby fight was in full swing 40 years ago... Not much different now really...

http://classicukcomicszines.weebly.com/panelologist.html

Today's upload:

THE PANELOLOGIST #3 - 1975
Published by George Barnett
More news from 1975, were you a 'Marvelite'?

http://classicukcomicszines.weebly.com/panelologist.html

Today's upload:

THE PANELOLOGIST #1 - 1975
Published by George Barnett

Influential and well respected News zine
May thanks to Peter for permission to archive these issues.

Today's update:

Is this an example of the 'perfect' fanzine?

FA #94
Martin Skidmore - 1985/6
Cover by: John Ridgway

Interviews with Dave Sim and Marv Wolfman, a lively letters column, news and reviews, and Alan Moore explaining how to write comics. The series of Moore's 'How to's' would be collected some 15 years later in a book published by Avatar Press (Alan Moore's Writing for Comics - 2003) where Moore updates his advice and tells the reader to ignore some of the stuff he said earlier.
A really great zine, this.

Today's upload:

HELLFIRE #3
By David and Paul Roach - 1983
Cover by David Roach
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It was a real shame that there were only 4 issues of this zine. In the short time it was published, it became very well respected. It's also a shame that this is the only issue I have (Kindly supplied by David himself), but I'll keep searching for the others.
I remember that Sean Roberts and I were very jealous of the high quality dot matrix printer the guys were using, while we struggled on with a typewriter. It was lovely to get a shout-out in the editorial though.

There's a great interview with Dave here, from the Judgement exhibition, in Cardiff: http://www.judgementincardiff.info/inte ... ch-part-1/

More zines uploaded, including 'Cygnus Alpha'.

Just a reminder that there is a 'Spotlight' page on the archive site, where I'm hoping to encourage people who were involved with fandom, to reminisce about the movement as a whole, and to talk about their personal history and experience.

If you fancy a platform for sharing your own memories, it would be lovely to hear what you have to say about that time. I won't edit your work, but I may be able to help out with example images. Please let me know if you're interested.

Ta Leigh, uploads are averaging one a day at the moment, so always worth keeping an eye open for what's been posted. I'll not post every day here, as it might be viewed as spamming.

Today's update.

COMIXINE #6 (Incorporating The Comic Review) - 1981
By Howard Stangroom (Co-Ed: Maureen James)

That would be "Sword" of course... I really must get some sleep.

I think you guys might like this one; interviews with Alan Moore and Steve Dillon

Arken Sward 11

http://www.weebly.com/editor/main.php

Some new zines uploaded (I'm hoping to average one a day).

I've also added a 'Spotlight' page to the site, to highlight a particular zine upload, or for a guest to talk about their history and involvement with Fandom. So if anyone wants to review one of the zines, or just write about their time as a contributor / editor / publisher, I'd be happy to include it

Dave.
 

Thanks guys, over the next few weeks and months I hope to make it into comprehensive resource.

My pleasure, I hope the site will bring back lots of happy memories for people