No Sex #10

This issue was published by Steve Streeter under the Paige Comics logo. It featured 68 reduced digest pages on white stock. It had a bright yellow wraparound cover. It was distributed in 1978. Now, years later, I have no idea why I switched from Dan and Paul Watson to Steve. I do know that the Watson's were starting to move on with their lives and fandom was falling behind. I believe they were both looking at college and careers. In any case, I was working with Steve with fan art, he had contributed to No Sex and he had dabbled in publishing by putting out an excellent Outer Limits Newsletter which I contributed too. He also put out his own zines. This issue did seem to break away from the prior ones, by luck I had an excellent choice of art and story and they all reflected the fun attitude I was feeling about fandom and why I decided to do my own fanzine. of all the issues, this is the one I feel did what I was trying to do in fandom and it only took ten issues to get there. I really liked Bobs art and he was as technical as the Bode copiers without the vulgarity.

Contents: The cover is by Robert Barger and the back is by Dave Sim. Both are autographed on my copy.

The cover feature is from Bob Bargers' Build your own Universe, which gets into ships and planet for waging gaming, which was very popular at the time. I was very much into D&D and space battle simulation. Besides the regular features, I was starting to get Jerry Collins into the issues, he brought us Retribution in his Bode style, the final installment (five issues!) of CR Olivers' Journey to Another Here, Another Now is illustrated by Marie and Stephen Schwartz, Bank Robbery by Stan Osborne, Silver moon, Silver death by Gay and mike Brewer, Tour of Duty by me and The Dying Folk by An Clovis. There is a great art portfolio by Earl Geier. The back cover by Dave Sim is one of those could have been a front cover and given all the fame he got in pro and fandom circles I should have gotten him on the cover somehow.

Robert Barger, Rafael Kayanan, David Heath, Jerry Collins, Stan Osborn, Ward Batty, C Robert Oliver Jr., Marie and Stephen Schwartz, Mike and Gay Brewer, Earl Geier, An Clovis, Paul Watson, Lari Davidson, Chad Draper, Dave Sim.

Notes:

This issue showed the influence of art by two artist, Earl Geier and Jerry Collins. I could have probably kept issues going for decades just on the art these prolific artists sent to me. I tried my best by provided portfolios of their art but they were both very massive. As most know I eventually lost track of Jerry and would like to know hat happened to him.

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