No Sex #13
If
you went by the cover of this issue, you would say this were a copy of NS9. It
features the same clean lines of Earl Geiers' cover for No Sex #9. Except this
one is printed on a green stock. This issue is 68 pages in the digest offset
format published by me under the Heath Facts logo. It was it was
distributed in the summer of 1980 while I was still a captain in the army
stationed at Ft Knox, Ky.
Contents:
Notes: The front cover is by Earl Geier and the rear cover is by Willie Peppers. The rear cover is once again a possible front cover, as noted before and expounded on below, cover art became and issue and more and more of stacked up and I was printing fewer and fewer issues.
The cover features the Geier story Let Us Pray, Placebo by Joseph Taclas is next and Evening Prayer by George Lane follows. there seems to be a lot of praying in t his issue. Track by Tom Bowen is unusual art that I wish I had gotten more of, Tony Casoria continued his one pagers with The New Sheriff and the origin of Mr. Matter continued from NS12. Joseph Shea has a short story in the issue. Jerry Collins gives us The Hunters and I get to express breasts in two ads near the back of the issue.
Earl Geier, Dan Day, John Howard, Jerry Collins, David Heath, Gary Barker, Mitch O'Connell, Joseph Taclas, George Lane III, Robert Barger, Klaus Haisch, George Kochell, Vern Clark, Chad Draper, Joseph Shea, Josephine Brainovich, Steve Streeter, Ken Meyer Jr., Tony Casoria, Stephen Fox, Lari Davidson, Kim Wheat, Willie Peppers.
Notes:
I
am a bit superstitious about the number 13, though I can not think of anything
that has ever happened to me bad under that number. I considered not having a
13th issue for that reason, but again, figure history would find confusion in
that so went ahead. I honestly never thought the 'zine would go this far. It
takes a lot to get some of the real good artist to contribute. Some artists get a big
head like me and will only draw if they can get their stuff on the cover. Some
are just generous, but you feel bad for not being able to feature their art like
you want to. Fortunately this is a time that I was president, director and
editor for the longtime SF fan club, N3F. When I could not get art on the cover
of No Sex I would usually push the artist to the publications of that
organization to make up for my limited print run. This is how Dave Garcia,
Willie Peppers and George Lane (to name a few) ended up on the 80's covers of
Tightbeam and TNFF. By the way, on the cover depicted here they are naked
ladies, they were placed on there later when Earl Autographed my copy and not on
the original cover. Not that I have anything against naked ladies, I just wanted
to be accurate.