No Sex #9

This issue was published by Dan Watson under the Galactic Enterprises logo in June 1978. It featured 64 reduced digest pages on white stock. It had a hard stock wraparound cover and featured the WSA logo in the lower right-hand corner and the stylized No Sex logo. I was trying to standardize the issues and strengthen consistency and appeal at this time. I was back from my overseas tour and wanted to keep my zine going strong. I was not on the issue every two months roll, it was taking 3-4 months and longer to get one out now. A lot of things were going on in my life and I was going to a lot of SF conventions in the mid-west and south. I was also big-time into N3F publications. I felt kind of good the way this issue came out, I was just getting into the Geier art so I had him on both front and back covers. He and Jerry Collins became my most prolific art contributors.

Contents: Cover and back cover by Earl Geier.

This is was done while I was still in the army and I was still looking to Dan to help me get the issues out while I was overseas. It was the last of The GE published issues as I went over to Steve Streeters' Paige Comics the next issue. It featured art by Jerry Collins, Stephen Schwartz and of course myself. The featured story was the Space Worlders by An Clovis a featuring illustrations by me. It  was not till years later that I realized this name was a pseudonym for some fan I have yet to identify. Boy, was I naive. The typing on that story was actually readable! Journey to Another Here.. Another Now.. continued by C R Oliver with illustrations by SSG Beaumont from my army times. Earl Geier weighed in with the main strip of the issue, God Things, which I could have printed better and there was story by Steven Pick illustrated by Lari Davidson.

There were classic fan ads from Trick Tunnel by Jamie Adler and Klaus Haisch's Firefly issues 2 and 3. Paul and Dan Watson ran an ad in the back and Hugo Winner Brad Foster did as well

Earl Geier, Stephen Schwartz, Jerry Collins, Robert Barger, SSG Hugh Beaumont, CR Oliver, Lari Davidson, Steven Pick, Rich Seary, Frank Murray, Gay Brewer, Herzog/Mutschler and a few more in the ads.

Notes:  

I consider this one of my best efforts and all the features seemed to have matured to the point that they kind of made sense. R Barger has art using halftone which was unusual for him at the time. Probably the tightest issue I did, one day I will get Earl to comment on the art he sent and how he later went off to do his own zine.

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