Phaser Blast

Zine
Title:	Phaser Blast
Publisher:	Fans of Star Trek Fan Club out of Winona, Minnesota
Editor(s):	Dan Munson
Date(s):	July 1974-?
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Medium:	print zine
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Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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front cover by Dan Munson

Phaser Blast is a gen Star Trek: TOS anthology, a club zine, edited by Dan Munson.

It has a newsletter sister zine called Cryptic News.

Issue 1

Phaser Blast 1 was published in July 1974 and contains 37-pages of articles, stories, illos, and cartoons. The front cover is by Dan Munson, the back cover is by Eric Miller. Subscription rate was fifty cents an issue, $2.50 for five issues.

On the cover: "To the Edge of the Galaxy and Beyond." Inside on the table of contents page: "The Magazine of Star Trek."

• And If I Die, a story by Alec Slade (40)
• a note that in the next issue would be the story "At Creation's Realm," "another Alec Slade spectacular!"
• Starship by Eric Miler (11)
• S.T.S.T.C. (12)
• Spock's Bad Day, a comic strip by Eric Miller (13)
• Star Trek in Europe, a report by Dan Munson (15)
• Moment of Triumph, a story by Daryl Lanz (17)
• Equicon '74 by Rick Blackburn (20)
• Note by Daryl Lanz (20)
• The Words to the Theme of Star Trek (21) ("Beyond, The rim of starlight, My love, Is wandering in star-clustered reaches, Love, Strange love a star woman teaches, I know, His journey never ends never, His star trek, Will go on forever, But tell him, While he wanders his stormy sea, Remember, remember me.")
• Them UFO's? by George Perkins (21)
• A Look at Engineering by Eric Miller (23)
• A Change of Worlds, a comic strip by Eric Miller (23)
• Ads and Coments [sic] (28) and (37)
• Television by Kim Moore (29) (Begins with: "Many people don't like television and can't understand why it is so poplular. Well, for Trekkers and science fiction nuts there is a very special reason. For it has been able to bring Star Trek and many science fiction shows (good and bad) to the screen for our enjoyment...")
• A Survey by Kim Moore (30)
• Word Search Game by Dan Munson (31)
• Bibleography [sic] by Eric Miller (32)
• Letters by Daryl Lanz (33)
• Vacation Sites/Famous Spots Visited by the Enterprise by Eric Miller (34)
• Star Trek 1701 F.O.S.T. (36)

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Issue 2

Phaser Blast 2

Issue 3

Phaser Blast 3

Issue 4/5

Phaser Blast 4/5

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 4/5

PB#4/5 has several stories that are on a higher level than those found in some fanzines. The artwork is not exceptional, but the stories more than make up for this deficiency. One interesting article is an interview with Lt. Arex, an Edoan. There are cartoons and jokes scattered throughout. Average for most zines of this sort.

Rating "7 out of 10."