Holocron (UK Star Wars newsletter)
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| Title: | Holocron (UK Star Wars newsletter) |
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| Editor(s): | Neil and Paul Bristow |
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| Date(s): | 1995- |
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| Fandom: | Star Wars |
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Holocron is Star Wars newsletter published in Scotland. At least three issues were published. The zine contained essays, articles, comics, fan art and fan fiction.
"A lighthearted Star Wars fanzine produced in the mid 90s. These are some scans from the remaining issues and feature some of Holocrons "political cartoons", a board game and a story about Boba Fett fighting Predator." [1]
The editor has blogged about the zine's history here.
Issue 0
Holocron 0 was a free issue (more of a flyer) published in September 1995. It contains three pages.
- The Holocron (fiction)
- Zine Guidelines
- Misfits (fiction), prologue
- a cartoon
- an ad for issue #1 (includes a fan contest: "Who would be best to play Anakin Skywalker in the new trilogy, and why?")
Issue 1
- The Light, part 1 by Jody Ruth
- other unknown content
Issue 2
- The Light, part 2 by Jody Ruth
- other unknown content
Issue 3
Holocron 3 can be seen here, Archived version.
- Editorial (5)
- Echo Base (6)
- Secrets (7)
- Misfits: Below the Surface, fiction (9)
- Fallen Angels, fiction (12)
- Detention Block (14)
- Moore Star Wars II (15)
- Stars Wars v Dune, article (18)
- The Defection of Lady Tarkin, fiction (20)
- The George Lucas Interview, part 2 (a reprinted interview conducted by Leonard Maltin) (24)
- The Light, part 3 by Jody Ruth (26)
- Microchips, article? (28)
- Trekification (30)
- Old Flames (31)
- Reviews (34)
sample page from issue #3
sample page from issue #3
sample page from issue #3
sample page from issue #3
Issue 4
Holocron 4 contains 38 pages. It is undated, something that is intentional: "I bet you're thinking it's just as well those jokers at Holocron didn't put a date on the cover after they said last issue about missing deadlines. Right okay, so maybe you didn't notice, but lets [sic] pretend you did and that is what your [sic] thinking. Had we put a date on the cover you would have thrown it right back in our faces, but we didn't, so you can't. Anyway cutting to the chase, my point is that you have to be careful what you say, cause it might come right back and smack you in the face."
- Editorial (5)
- Misfits by Neil Bristow (Star Wars) (6)
- Our Man in Invergordon, comments on the inappropriate wording regarding the casting search for the new Star Wars movie, looking for a "sensual, exotic girl aged 13 to 15" (8)
- Probing the Shadows (11)
- Star Wars/Trainspotting (14)
- The Defection of Lady Tarkin (15)
- Microchip Star Wars 2.0 (19)
- Fantasy Cast List (20)
- The Light, part 4 by Jody Ruth (Star Wars) (22)
- The George Lucas Interview, part 3 (a reprinted interview conducted by Leonard Maltin) (24)
- Moore Star Wars II by Rik Hoskins (review of the "Dark Lord's Conscience," a five page black and white story printed in ESB Monthly in April 1982) (26)
- Old Flames: Defective Comics: A New Hope: True Adventures in Small Press Publishing, by Rik Hoskin (29)
- In Defense of Ewoks by Peter Ashton (32)
- Reviews: Shadow of the Empire by Dark Horse, Star Wars: The Genesis of a Legend by Dean Conrad (35)
sample page from issue #4
sample page from issue #4
sample page from issue #4
sample page from issue #4
sample page from issue #4
sample page from issue #4
sample page from issue #4, a flyer that describes issue #5 (never published)
sample page from issue #4
