The Comet
Date
2017
Credits
- Raymond Arthur Palmer Designer
Format
- Zine 32
Type of Work
- Finished work 5480
Publishers
Media
- paper 1318
Locations Made
- Chicago 72
Links
The Comet is the first known zine to be printed.
“In 1930, the first of what would later become known in the fan world as a “fanzine” was published. Titled “The Comet,” it was produced in Chicago in 1930 by Raymond Arthur Palmer and the Science Correspondence Club. These early fanzines consisted mainly of nonfiction materials and fannish correspondence, and by the 1960s had expanded into media fanzines which contained primarily creative fanworks such as fanart and fanfiction. Although in this way they mirrored what earlier periodicals had been facilitating, these were entirely amateur productions without publishers, produced exclusively by and for fans.”
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