No Sex #4

Published by Dan Watson under the Galactic Enterprises logo this was a 48 page white stock issue using the photo-offset process. Listed as Spring 1977 making it almost three years after NS3. A lot happened between NS3 and NS4. After getting NS#3 out, I was in the army. By the time NS4 came out I was through Ranger School and Basic Officer training and stationed in Germany. I did not have the time to get the work done to publish the 'zine. I almost thought I would never publish another issue. Dan Watson offered to help me out with printing and distribution under his GE marquee. This line included his Ewigkeit fanzine which I had done a bit of work for. All I had to do is collect the material and lay the 'zine down. This of course meant I had to go to the accepted digest sized 'zine, but that was okay with me because I wanted my 'zine to be like everyone else's and I was a bit disappointed in the cost and the time it took to come up with the very well done NS3. This explains of course why the issues after NS3 are so different in appearance from 1-3.

Contents: Front and back covers by David Heath, back cover from the Future Death series of full pagers

Featured art by myself on the cover for the strip Jim Gray the Man Who Destroyed Mars which was one of my old stories that I had wanted to get into print for some while. You have Sky Child by WAM (William Meugniot), The Mutant by Mike Brewer, Life Trap by Klaus Haisch and the neat strip Pete: A Fantasy by Joe Caporale.

David Heath, Will Meugniot, Mike Brewer, Dan Watson, Paul Watson, Joe Caporale, Bill Alan.

Notes:  

This issue led to the standardization of the 'zine. I was really searching for a voice in issues 1-3 and did not have a set method I wanted to follow. This issue showed a lot of thought as to what I wanted to say and the economics of saying it. I began to include features that would be seem for years to follow, like the "Ships of the Galaxy", The Cosmic Stopwatch, The Adventures of No Sex Reader and of course the 'zine reviews. I never had aspirations of No Sex being a big time 'zine, but I was obsessed by two things that did come to pass this issue based on the popularity of the first three. Those were ads and subscriptions. I was assigned the WSA number 492 and displayed it on the inside cover.

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