Green Harvest
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| Zine | |
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| Title: | Green Harvest |
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| Editor(s): | Lisa Cowan and Lee Vibber |
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| Date(s): | 1982-88 |
| Fandom: | multimedia & Star Wars |
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Green Harvest is an annual Star Wars advertising zine. Each issue includes information about Star Wars as well as Science Fiction and Fantasy fanzines. There were twenty issues all together.
It has the subtitle, "Values Beyond Imagination."
It was a supplement to On the Mark.
Issue 1
Green Harvest 1 was published in 1982 and contains 6 pages. It is digest-sized.
The contents include a fannish glossary, zine flyers, short zine ads, info about fan clubs, and fan's ads for things both for sale and wanted.
"This is the long awaited advertising supplement to ON THE MARK - the newsletter for Mark Hamill fans. While most, of the ads pertain to STAR WARS related items, we have tried to include a variety for your interest. For those of you who might not be familiar with "fannish terminology" we have provided a short glossary of terms you will see in Green Harvest. It explained the terms fanzine and filksong and told fans "SF = Science Fiction, (never, never use "Sci Fi")."
Issue 2
Green Harvest 2 was published in 1983 and contains 18 pages. It is digest-sized.
The art is by Signe Landon, Cindy Rinne, Maya Sakamoto, Shari Stitt, and Angela Varesano.
It contains info about pen pals, flyers for zines and clubs including The Big Luke One and The Jeremy Bulloch Fan Club. This issue also contains a full-page flyer for the 42nd Worldcon that is tailored specifically for Star Wars fans; it includes info about the On the Mark events there and the tag line: "Come and take your first steps into the larger world of fandom!!!!!."
"This is our second edition of GREEN HARVEST, the annual advertising supplement brought to you by the friendly folks at ON THE MARK. While most of the ads pertain to STAR WARS related items, we have tried to include a variety of ads for your interest. New this year is a Pen Pal listing."
Issue 3
Green Harvest 3 is undated but likely published in 1984. It contains 4 pages. The format is not digest sized, but instead 8x11 papers with a single staple.
It contains ads for fan goods and info about fan clubs.
Issue 4
Green Harvest 4 was published in 1985.
Issue 5
Green Harvest 5 was published in 1986.
Issue 6
Green Harvest 6 was published in 1987.
Issue 8
Green Harvest 7 was published in 1988. It was included with the mailing of On the Mark #24.