Fanzine Library: Newfangles #10 (March 1968)

Now officially monthly, the newsletter expanded coverage, noting price increases and other pro news as well as fan items.

News included: winners (including Will Eisner) of the National Cartoonists Society awards; deaths of cartoonist Rudolph Dirks (91) and mystery writer and SF editor Anthony Boucher (56); variant pricing of 15 cents of Gold Key comics in New York City and on the West Coast; a fire at Bill Thailing's house; publication of Zap Comics ("We blithely admit we didn't understand it, but we dig it. Crumb, says [Bill] Spicer, draws like a retarded Basil Wolverton. True." Sigh. Showing our age and non PC-ness, even then.)

National called off editorial-office tours for the time being; Creepy and Eerie Editor Bill Parente was looking for contributors ($25 story, $10 per page art); and lots and lots more.

Reviews of The Spectacular Spider-Man, His Name Is ... Savage!, and Creepy. Bruce Anderson comments, "Charlton lists exact numbers of subscribers, without rounding off. They get credit for the comic with the fewest subscribers -- Army War Heroes, with 5 average for the 12 months."

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Fanzine Library: Newfangles #9 (April 1968)

News included: Gold Key comics' upcoming price hike to 15 cents; correction of the preceding issue's statement that Robert Crumb's background was as a science fiction fan (he was a comics fan, of course) and other corrections; Wayne Howard made the Dean's List at Wesleyan; Russ Manning left Gold Key to do the Tarzan strip; other artist moves; "Yes, Virginia, there is a King Pack containing Flash Gordon #11, apparently sent only to subscribers. At least, no one has reported seeing it on the stands."

And check out our first "Squash That Rumor" -- the rumor being that Stan Lee had quit Marvel, joined Charlton, and was trying to lure Steve Ditko away from DC. We squashed it by calling a news source at Marvel: Stan Lee. But Flo Steinberg had left Marvel, pleading overwork (to which we had contributed, sigh).

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Fanzine Library: Newfangles #8 (March 1968)

News included: death of Rocco (Rocke) Mastroserio; the end of King Comics; the birth of Mort Walker's Boner's Ark; output of Jeff Jones; Gil Kane's leaving DC; plugs for On the Drawing Board and Nostalgia Book Club; articles by Jacquelyn Harper; the "long-long-promised checklist of Dell special edition titles" by Don and Maggie Thompson; and an obsessive chunk of information about circulation statistics.

And this item on page 4: "Fan Makes Good Dept.: Robert Crumb, onetime science fiction fan (publisher of Foo), whose work appeared in the late lamented Help!, is now doing a comic strip called Fritz the Cat for Cavalier. It has been described as the greatest thing in comic art appearing these days. We are unwilling to go that far, but it is great. No kids."

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Fanzine Library: Newfangles #7 (February 1968)

It wasn't officially monthly by this point, but the February issue followed the January one, and Newfangles began its monthly frequency.

News: The Academy of Comic Art Fans and Collectors (ne The Academy of Comic Book Arts and Sciences) became moribund; Mac Raboy died; drops in Batman circulation; other circulation information; editorial moves at DC; convention news; and problems for Cartoonists Showcase.

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Fanzine Library: Newfangles #6 (January 1968)

The rider this time gives an indication of the search for community that was under way by early 1968.

News included: deaths of Ray Miller's father (61) and Don's father, S. Enos Thompson (71); upcoming conventions; the formation of the Society for Comic Art Research and Preservation Inc. (SCARP -- and we included an informational flyer); and a meeting of Los Angeles comics fans.

And we reviewed The Man in the Cannibal Pot and I, Lucifer. (Officers of SCARP were Phil Seuling, Tom Fagan, Maurice Horn, Mike McInerney, and Joseph Salvo.)

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