Spockanalia - First Star Trek Fanzine

[morgandawn]

It cost 50 cents, was printed on construction paper and was published in 1967. It is one of the most widely circulated Star Trek fanzines, having a print run of over 25,000 copies. Each issue of ’Spockanalia’ had many examples of Roddenberry, Fontana, DeForest Kelley, and other Star Trek creators’ interest, if not direct, comments and assistance. By issue #3, Gene Roddenberry and his production staff had taken even more note of the fanzine and submitted a letter to the editors stating: 

“SPOCKANALIA is "required reading” for everyone in our offices, and I am most distressed that you were not told of this before. We have used all the extra copies to make sure that every new writer, and anyone who makes decisions on show policy have read your fanzine, and Juanita Coulson’s ST-PHILE. The reason for this is that if we all understand what the fans see in the show, and try to understand why they are fans at all, we can then continue to hold those fans. Certain fanzines, and yours is one of them, have a mature and well- written format that is very instructive to our staff.“ 

You can read more about the fanzine on Fanlore: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Spockanalia 

 It has been uploaded with publisher Devra Langsam’s permission.

 

Comments

[oracne]

Excellent!

[tabaqui]

How freakin' cool is that! The year i was born. :D
*salutes the fan mothers*

[klangley56]

It is *lovely* that Devra has permitted this! All these decades later, Spockanalia remains one of my favorite ST zines.

So much so that I keep multiple oopies of it in my zine library. I still have all my original mimeo copies of the five issues, and I also still have the later digest-sized reprints. Those are the ones I can reread and not put my originals to further wear and tear. :-)

Thanks for facilitating this!