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Earth Defense Command
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| Name: | Earth Defense Command |
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| Country based in: | US |
| Focus: | Anime |
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Earth Defense Command is an early Texas-based anime fan club that published the zines Nova and Whispers of Iscandar.
History
As a “paramilitary” organization, the EDC always was faced with the disinterest the majority of its members held towards the whole “warship equals chapter” thing. Most EDC members were there for the anime fandom; the ‘zines and the meetings and copies of Be Forever Yamato were most important. Reading the newsletters from the 1983-1985 period, several motifs are eviden: difficulty in printing and distribution of fanzines, problems in starting chapters and keeping chapters active, and a general frustration at trying to fit the square peg of military task-force-based organization into the whatever-gets-us-anime round hole of fandom.Dave Merrill for Cosmo DNA, 2013: "The Star Blazers Chronicles: Anime Fandom Texas Style"
In 1989 the club responded to allegations made by Randall S. Stukey in the March issue of his zine Celluloid Diversions that they were showing the Cream Lemon videos to underage con-goers in what came to be known as the Cream Lemon Dispute. Stukey retracted the original allegations but continued to dispute that Cream Lemon was appropriate con fare.