MV (Miami Vice zine)

Zine
Title:	MV
Publisher:	Gold Coast Press
Editor(s):	Mary Platt
Type:	information zine
Date(s):	1986-?
Frequency:
Medium:	print
Fandom:	Miami Vice
Language:	English
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MV is a Miami Vice information/news zine. The first two issues were labeled with volume and number, and then they were labeled simply with volume.

Issue 1

MV v.1 n.1 was published in 1986 and contains 70 pages.

• a Miami Vice tour of Miami, hitting the show's film sites
• an opinion about Don Johnson's contact dispute
• a Don Johnson interview reprinted from somewhere else; he talks of his hair, his clothes, the big walk out and the tabloids
• a review of Johnson's album
• Vice news from Europe
• photos
• "Ebb Tide in Pastels for the Real Man" by Connie Koehen and Claire Derway, a article that was reprinted from the Los Angeles Times (fan response in the next issue)
• art by Julie Madge and Marry Platt
• newsclips

Issue 2

MV 2 (v.1 n.2) was published in Winter 1987 and contains 94 pages. It contains art by Mary Platt and Julie Madge.

front cover of issue #2

• Jump City, An Introduction (1)
• On Being an Activist Fan (Write Letters!) (3)
• Let Your Voice Be Heard... How You Can Help Miami Vice Make the Grade Again! (Join Viewers for Quality Television), essay by Mary Platt (5)
• Letters and Views from Readers (10)
• clipping from the New Yorker: "Boswell's Life of Don Johnson" (28)
• Japan Views Vice (29)
• Miami Vice and the Contra Controversy (30)
• Newsclippings (32)
• A Sponsor Salute (37)
• Milena Canonero: From Movies to Miami Vice (38)
• Michael Talbott Goes Home to Iowa (39)
• An Editorial Rave for "Shadow in the Dark" (41)
• Hot Wire (News from All Over) (43)
• From the New York Magazine: Pete Hamill on Edward Olmos (48)
• Art: Crockett and Tubbs by Julie Madge (55)
• The Stars Go to Aspen (56)
• A Response to "Ebb Tide in Pastels for the Real Man" is an essay by Anne E. Batterby (It was written in response to "Ebb Tide in Pastels for the Real Man" by Connie Koehen and Claire Derway, and article that was reprinted from the Los Angeles Times in the last issue of MV) (From the essay: "They are complex, fascinating people, capable of great courage. They are what makes MIAMI VICE special — characters possible only because of the very good work on the part of the actors, writers, and directors involved. The profound sadness cited in the article flows naturally from the conditions the characters continually have to face—as well as the losses they have sustained — because these are real and complex people, not wooden soldiers or cartoon heroes. It is not a sadness painted on by viewers over some imagined loss of "real men" who were never real anyway, just male fantasies similar to the "Mary Sue" of fan fiction. Both have their place in escapist pop literature, but despite the pop veneer of music, clothes, and cars, MIAMI VICE is not escapist fare. It is literature—popular, to be sure, but still literature — in that the characters are drawn well enough so that however foreign their milieu is to our own, we can recognize them, empathize with them, learn from them as we cope with our own lives' struggles and losses.") (57)
• Heartbeat: Video Feature, Special Section (news, reviews, interviews) (60)
• Readers' Ads (90)
• Media West Con 7: Information (91)
• Vice Verse: poem by Elaine M. Batterby, "Scratch One Basque Cop" (93)
• Vice Verse: poem by Anne E. Batterby, "Sometimes, Sonny" (93)
• Sometimes, Sonny, a poem by Anne Batterby (reprinted in Vice Verse #1)

From "On Being an Activist Fan":

MIAMI VICE-bashing seems to be fashionable in the media lately. Well, OK — we fans of long standing know that VICE-bashing has been going on practically since the series began: it was too new, it was too different, it was too "quickly" a hit (though it really took quite a while — more than a full season—for it to hit big), its stars were too lionized by the media (and were too outspoken), and it spawned too trendy a following. This tends to irritate the media, particularly in this country, where it seems that writers and critics build something up only to try to tear it down later. When only a few people knew how different, and how good, MIAMI VICE was, the literati patted themselves on the back for having "discovered" it, and touted it in their columns and critiques. Then, when the world discovered the show and made it their own, the trendoids in the media turned their backs and turned up their noses. As recently as January 2, 1987, USA TODAY, in one of those ubiquitous lists of "what's in" and "what's out," listed MIAMI VICE as an "out" while listing "literate TV shows" as "in." As if the two were somehow the antitheses of each other! We fans sighed. How many times in the past few years have we seem MIAMI VICE on an "out" list? It happened last year at the beginning of the year—and now it's happening again. Maybe they should put "listing MIAMI VICE as an 'out'" on their "out" lists.

Issue 3

MV 3 was published in Spring 1987 and contains 106 pages.

• art by Julie Madge and Mary Platt
• fan location report from Bonnie Skaggs
• Scratch One Basque Cop, a poem by Elaine Batterby (reprinted in Vice Verse #1)
• Gone, poem by Anne Batterby (reprinted in Vice Verse #1)
• Watching, poem by Anne Batterby (reprinted in Vice Verse #1)
• No Exception, poem by Elaine Batterby (reprinted in Vice Verse #1)
• letter from fans
• a letter to Mary from Michael Talbot, a letter to Mary from Michael Mann
• photos and clippings

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3

Have you ever collected newspaper and magazine articles and put what you have found into an album? That is what this zine is, but features a lot more than one person could possibly accumulate. Included in this issue is a lengthy and interesting article about VICE music-man Jan Hammer from an English music magazine. There are many, many articles from magazines and newspapers in here, all jam-packed. Some are about the show, some about each actor, just too numerous to mention. There is some fine artwork in here too. Special Report: We go behind the scenes in Miami…on location with VICE producer Richard Brams…Edward James Olmos “Delivers” a hit movie…Don Johnson makes a new movie, a new record, plays golf, launches a new boat, and talks about Barbra…Biography of Michael Talbott and “Ebony” Thomas and more.

Issue 4

MV 4 was published in Spring 1988 and contains 126 pages of interviews with the actors, newspaper clippings, fiction, articles, biographies, and art.

cover of issue #4

• lots of illlos by Julie Madge and Mary Platt
• One Monster Back to Hell, poem by Elaine Batterby (reprinted in Vice Verse #1)
• Night Watch, poem by Anne Batterby (reprinted in Vice Verse #1)
• poem by Hindman
• a behind the scenes report from Mary Platt when she was able to visit the set
• there's a short short from Brenda Cunningham
• many, many clippings