YOU GUYS.
I realize that I’ve posted about this before and I think maybe only like 15 people max will care and you all probably already (?) know…
Contact 4 is now online!!! Yes, the epically influential “gen” (and by “gen”, I mean full of gems like the art above- I swear these zines are the physical embodiment of pre-slash) Kirk-Spock “friendship” zine series from the 70s/80s, Contact, has put of up a PDF of its fourth issue online. (Issues one through three are up too.)
In an ideal world, I would make a long-ass post explaining how central Contact was to the development of literally all slash in fandom ever. But I can’t right now, and instead I am just gonna rejoice and praise Surak that some of the people involved in its creation care enough about it to release it online.
(Fanlore page for the zine series: here. The artist of the second art piece is Pat Stall. You can learn more about her and her dramatic and sad life here.)
So happy to see others happy about this. A few fans volunteered to help with the scans. Several other zine publishers have put their zines online- mostly letterzines Southern Enclave - Star Wars and IDIC - Star Trek letterzine by ScotPress. But ScotPress has also posted some of their gen fic zines: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Scotpress