Writers / Artists: Ronn Foss




Dimensions are 10 x 7. Alter Ego #1 thru #4 was published by Jerry G. Bails. Issues #5 & #6 was Ronn Foss. Biljo White edited #7.
Interview with Joe Kubert.
Front cover is a photostat copy of Tor #3 by Joe Kubert. Back cover by Mike Vosburg.

United Fanzine Organization memberzine.

No roster of membership is given in this mailing.
Cover by Howard Keltner
Contributions include Agent X Reporting (Bails), Checklists of Features in Comic Books of the First Heroic Age (Keltner), House of Info (McGeehans), DC Scripts by Otto Binder (Bails), On Zines...Pro & Fan (Keltner), Comicon '65 (Kaler), Richard Kyle's Wonderworld #2 (Kyle) and Looking Back and Ahead (Foss).
Back cover by Ronn Foss

No membership roster given.
Cover by Ronn Foss
Contributions include Looking Back and Ahead (Foss), Operation Ishfael (Moslander), Agent X Reporting (Bails), House of Info (McGeehans), The Authoritative Guidebook for the Bewildered Comic Pro (Weingroff via Bails), A Clipping for Your Files (Bails), The Chopping Block (Robertson), Kid Stuff? (Kuhfeld) and Heavy Water #1 (Patten)
Reproduction by ditto and mimeograph
Back cover by Fred Patten and Jack Harness

Membership roster not given
Cover by Howard Keltner
Contributions include Agent X Reporting (Bails), Edgemar Milk is Supermilk (bumper sticker inclusion, Patten), Operation Ishfael Part Two (Moslander), The World of Ryandom (Ryan), Richard Kyle's Wonderworld #3 (Kyle), Shmoz #1 (Castora), Secrets Behind All-Star Comics (Bails), The Rambling Roamer #2 (Jackson), Heavy Water #2 (Patten), Miss Suzy Fandom (Miller), Barton Werper - Apprentice Imitator (Hulan), Listen Here! (Gambaccini), Questionnaire for CAPA-alphans (Bails), Looking Back - And Ahead (Foss)
Reproduction by ditto and mimeograph
Back cover by Ronn Foss

Carmine Infantino issue, featuring a short interview with Infantino, and articles about Infantino’s work in the 40s, 50s, and 60s.

Joe Kubert issue, featuring articles about Kubert characters, and an interview with Kubert.
Characters in art include: Tor, Angel, Anthro, Hawkman, Buffalo Bill, Crimebuster, Viking Prince, Volton, Thor
Offset, saddle-stitched.
Possibly one more contributor: Grant (?)

Wally Wood issue, featuring articles about Wood’s career, and a Wally Wood checklist.
Letters from Joe Kubert, Bob Cosgrove, and Duffy Vohland.
Characters in art include: Dynamo, Captain Science, Animen, Animan, Nudine, Daredevil, Radian, Captain Action, Captain America
Offset, saddle-stitched.

Comics/fandom news and views by Gary Brown and Wayne DeWald. Also contains letters by Mike Friedrich, Gary Friedrich, Rocke Mastroserio, Tom Fagan, Mike Barrier and others, plus art by Ronn Foss and Alan Hutchinson.
Characters in fan art include: Green Lantern, Ringo Starr
Mimeo, side-stapled.
The copy in this entry's images, at some point, had staples removed, protective sheets added at front and back and then got restapled.

This issue is all Flash Gordon. Contents include: indepth "Flash Gordon Films" article by Royer; articles on serials "Trip to Mars" and "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe"; roundtable discussion between Royer, Sinnott, Greim and Tony Isabella; a four-page Flash Gordon comic by Greim and Black.
Characters in fan art include: Flash Gordon, Ming the Merciless, Azura
Offset, saddle-stitched.

Special "Barbaric Issue". Contents include: interview with Frank Thorne; Conan fiction by Isabella; article on Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan; profile of artist Carlos Gimenez (Dani Futuro); 10-page Eclipse ama-hero strip by Foss; more.
Characters in fan art include: Conan the Barbarian, Tomahawk, Dani Futuro, Thor, Slam Bradley, Tarzan
Offset, saddle-stitched.
There are two other artists I couldn't identify.

Contains a letter from Paul Gambaccini, a tribute to Reed Crandall, news that Steve Ditko would no longer be doing Spider-Man for Marvel Comics, Catwoman art by Doug Potter, The Spirit art by Will Eisner, and The Fox by Ronn Foss.

Contents include: a seven-page American Man ama-hero strip; sale/want lists (Howard Rogofsky, Mike Vosburg, Jerry Bails, others); a look at some obscure Golden Age characters; warnings about unscrupulous fans; letters; more.
Characters in art include: Shock Gibson, Captain Freedom, Black Cat, Pat Parker
Ditto, corner-stapled.
There was a third person in TRIAD (another Foss but I'm not sure about the first name).

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Includes reprint of Tarzan Sunday pages by Burne Hogarth, Flash Gordon Big Little Book illustrations by Alex Raymond, a Houston Con 1969 report with photos, a one-page strip by Earl Blair and Roy Bonario, and Golden Age cover reproductions.
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