BEM (Bemusing Magazine)/Issue 7-21

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Issue 22-36 · Issue 7-21
Zine
Title: BEM (Bemusing Magazine, Bem Comics News, Bem and Masters of Infinity)
Publisher: Martin Lock (1973-1980) (#1-34)
New Media Publishing (1981-1982) (#35-36)
Editor(s): Martin Lock: Issues 1 - 36
Type: Comics, News, Criticism, Interviews
Date(s): 1973 - ​1982
Medium: print
Fandom: DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Independent Comics, Underground Comics
Language: English
External Links: The Fanscene Project - scans of all 36 issues; Wikipedia
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Issue #7

Issue #7 by Superswipe - Conan the Barbarian

October 1975. Editor: Martin Lock, assistant editor Nigel Edwards. 16 pages. Art by Greg Chown, Andrew Hanson, Leslie Stannage, Mercy Von Vlack and Superswipe.

A copy of Weird Trash #3 was included with this issue of BEM.

Contents:

And so another issue of Bem emerges, with news, views and reviews, plus this time. a bonus of extra added Weird Trash, brought to you by Jack Straw and overseen by Nigel Edwards-- all complaints, law-suits, bombs and gripes should be sent to them, please, not to me!


You will have noticed that this issue of Bem isn't a "Comic Mart Special" -- this is an experiment. If the sales are hit we'll have to go back to that rather complicated logo. Also, there is a slight shift perhaps from straightforward news and reviews -- but more on that next time...
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There's a slilght change in the art in Bem this time, too, as we welcome three people new to Bem; Leslie Stannage, whose GL head in on this very page; Andrew Hanson who sent in the Man-Thing drawing; and Mercy Von Vlack, whose Supergirl illustration I got from Alan Austin by promising him a review copy of The Heroine Addict. Mercy is an American fan-artist, providing fine work to Batmania, THA, and Comics Unlimited -- and I will certainly try to make her a Bemusing regular too, if I can!

As you'll see from the ad I composed to go around Mercy's illustration, I'm now the British Agent for "The Comic Heroines Fan Club", publishers of THA and The Adventuress -- and an upcoming issue of THA has an article of mine, on Modesty Blaise. They're rather interesting magazines I find -- if you are fond of the female of the super-hero species you'd do well to join the club!

Bemusings - Martin Lock - Issue #7

Reactions and Reviews - Issue #7

Issue #8

Issue #8 cover by Mercy Van Vlack


Issue #9

Issue #9 cover by Superswipe


Issue #10

Issue #10 cover by Superswipe


Issue #11

Issue #11 cover by Superswipe - Superman v Muhammed Ali


Issue #12

Issue #12 cover by Superswipe - Howard the Duck


Issue #13

Issue #13 cover by Superswipe - Vision


Issue #14

Issue #14 cover - industry previews


Issue #15

Issue #15 cover by Superswipe - Thor Odinson


Issue #16

Issue #16 cover by Superswipe - Kurt Wagner


Issue #17

Issue #17 cover by Mike Higgs - monsters


Issue #18

Issue #18 cover by Nick Neocleous - miscellaneous Marvel Comics heroes and villains


Issue #19

Issue #19 cover by Superswipe - Red Sonja


Issue #20

Issue #20 special edition cover by Chris Top - Superman vs Captain Frog
Issue #20 cover


Issue #21

Issue #21 cover by Russ Nicholson - BEM


References

  1. ^ No record of this publication exists online, but there is an article about it in Hellfire (Comics zine)#Issue 4
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