Just read your post on the first star wars slash, and ive also been looking for a copy of hoth admiral! There's a university down south that has a huge library of fanzines that might have it, and they're working on a digital archive!
In the Midwest, actually! The University of Iowa has an extensive special collection focusing on media fandom fanzines and currently works with The Organization for Transformative Works (which also runs our beloved Archive of Our Own) to receive donations of fanzines as part of the Fan Culture Preservation Project. The collection is accessible to the public, so long as you fill out the appropriate form ahead of time so they can pull the zines you want.
The late Ming Wathne’s Fanzine Archives is part of that collection. The Fanzine Archives started out as an extensive Star Wars fanzine lending library and became multifandom over the course of its lifetime, until it was donated to the University of Iowa after Wathne’s death in 2010. All 3,000+ zines of it.
Very sillily, I have never checked the University of Iowa’s website to see if they list what’s included in Wathne’s collection, so thank you for reminding me! Let’s see what we’ve got…
It’s in Imperial Entanglements #1, so they have it. THEY HAVE IT.
Um, road trip?
I looked through Texas A&M University finding aide - both the paper and the digital finding aide (they have some zines scanned) and alas did not find a copy. Iowa welcomes visitors and you can also flatbed scan or copy in their facility.
