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[randy_byers]

One of the greatest fanzine covers I've ever seen, although I'll grant you I haven't seen that many compared to some. This is Richard Bergeron's cover for Warhoon 26. I'm not sure what year it's from, but perhaps somebody can tell me. Sometime in the '60s, I'm thinking. Three unevenly-spaced staples, you'll notice.

Comments

[c-crockett.livejournal.com]

So much for my theory, Colin got his copy, and it's quite poorly stapled. The positioning is less optimal than in your copy, although similar, and they didn't all go all the way through to the back-cover. Maybe it wasn't intentional.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I like to think it was a stoned collation party where things were a bit haphazard when it got to the stapling.

[c-crockett.livejournal.com]

One would hope so!

I was never allowed to help collate any of the Derelict zines; they were really, really, anal about doing it perfectly, and I was a neo. My first collation that was actually social was about '01 or '02 at a Minicon, collating Rune.

[the-maenad.livejournal.com]

That's a gorgeous cover that I've not seen before, my run of Wh lacking that number.

1969 is about right (#27, which I do have, was about then) but I'm not sure Bergeron was silkscreening that early.

And the words "stoned collation party" and "Richard Bergeron" do not go together well; remember that Bergeron was a notorious fannish hermit, making Harry Warner look like a mad party animal...

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Well, it could have been a stoned collation party of one!