No Sex #6

This issue was published by Dan Watson under the Galactic Enterprises logo. It featured 64 reduced digest pages on white stock with a blue hard stock wrap-around cover. Listed as May1977, it was put out about two months after NS5. I got some help from some army folks once I got over the embarrassment of letting them know that I put out my own "comic book". One of my tank commanders, SSG Hugh Beaumont, was especially excited to find out that I was a fan of Vaughn Bode as himself and that there was an outlet for his own art. He started coveting my art, giving me some of his and his stuff got into this issue. I had to be very careful because I was his platoon leader and I did not want to show favoritism to him because we shared a hobby. I was having the same problem with members of the Bombholders Motorcycle Club (I was the first president) since some of the members were in my unit as well. I was also starting to get some excellent contributions from the regulars in SF fandom, like Brad Foster, Chad Draper and Gene Davis it was hard to get all the stuff I was getting into the 'zine and thus  I hyped to 64 pages from the 48 I was running before.

Contents: Front and back covers by David Heath,

NS#6 featured art by myself on the cover for the strip Fate and the Werewolf which was written by Paul Watson. Adventures of No Sex Reader, Space Tub and Ships of the Galaxy become an established staple. I developed a stable of reviewers of comics and fanzines and this issue had a few. I don't know if it was because the word "Sex" was in the title of the zine, but I developed a bunch of very risqué aspects to the zine. This issue features the continuation of CR Olivers' Journey to Another Here, Another Now and the illustrations by SSG Beaumont are way more sexy than the V Bode art he emulated. Then there was Second Coming by Terry Kaegin, it is out there sexually. It was almost like I didn't view this stuff before putting it into the zine, but I did!! I just did not react to the overt sex of some of the stories, I just wanted content. Brad Foster had a strip, Wha'zit and Dan Watson gave us The Man. Gay and Mike Brewer gave us The Familiar. There were two other pieces of prose in the issue.

David Heath, Paul Watson, Gene Day, C Robert Oliver, SSG Hugh Beaumont, Terry Kaegin, Dan Watson, Jim Major, Brad Foster, Mike Dooney, Mike Brewer, Gay Brewer, Joe Caporale, William Fulwiler, Sam Park, Dave Smithmeyer, Ricky Campbell, Randy Hendricks

Notes:  

 I admit that I did not  pay much attention to the comics reviewers I used I barely read or edited them. I was more interested in fanzine and SF reviews. I wanted to pattern my zine against Space and Time, but want to have more art and panel story. By the way I had subscribed to Gordon Linzers' Space and Time for some while it is a very long running fanzine which I believe still is in publication. I finally broke down and contributed some art and for a short while was a regular contributor illustrating stories. When I was stationed in KY I meant to go visit Gay and Mike Brewer. that are seen in issues ever since NS3 and well into the history of the zine. Interesting fantasy art and story. I would still like to meet them. I talked about page count earlier. I really had no standard for that aspect of the zine. I published what I had when I had the money. Later when times got hard this manifested in 16 page issues. I would later start having a problem with covers, with so many people were sending them that I was losing track of my original goals. One was to provide myself with a forum to print my own full-page art as covers. Then I wanted to recognize good art remembering how hard it was for me to get art on a fanzine cover. I finally in later issues had to start putting cover submissions on the back cover to acknowledge them.

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