The Holmsian Federation Front cover
The Holmsian Federation Back cover
The Holmsian Federation One inside image
Here’s a media Fanzine Friday by request from @meeedeee
I’ve always been fascinated by Spock/Sherlock connections so I went digging for some early examples.
The Holmsian Federation #1 from 1978 is the first of eight issues of a Sherlock/Spock zine that crossed over with other fandoms as well.
The FANTASTIC cover art is by Gayle F (click through link is NSFW).
All eight issues of this zine came to Special Collections as part of the Fan Culture Preservation Project in collaboration with the Organization for Transformative Works. @transformativeworks
MsC0320 - 2012 Addendum - Crossover zines
Many more images, and a history and explanation of this title are available on Fanlore.
Stop by and read anytime M-F.
-Colleen
I love this zine series. So worth reading.
From Fanlore, the fan run wiki about media fandom:
“Here’s a very lovely little production, a definite one-of-a-kind journal that was nothing but fun for its readership. As the name implies, this journal featured Sherlock Holmes/Star Trek crossover fan fiction. Beautiful covers, a nice variety of stories that took some imagination to come up with, the occasional non-Trek Holmes crossover (Dr. Who, H.P. Lovecraft, the Invisible Man, Dracula …). The Holmesian Federation was one of those publications that was definitely taken from us too early – a sort of James Dean of fanzines – as Holmes and Star Trek hadn’t even begun to cross over. I’d have loved to have seen where it would have gone once Mr. Data and Spock’s Star Trek VI well-known quote, “An ancestor of mine …” had entered the mix.
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And yes, if you are in Iowa, stop by the Special Collections and read a copy.