Priority 1 (Star Trek zine published in the 1970s)
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Priority 1 |
| Publisher: | Code 1 |
| Editor(s): | Brett L. Newkirk and Jeffery Reiss |
| Type: | |
| Date(s): | 1977 |
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Priority 1 is a gen Star Trek: TOS zine edited by Brett L. Newkirk and Jeffery Reiss.
Issue 1
Priority 1 v.1 n.1 was published in 1977 and contains 18 pages.
The art is by David Harris, Robert McDonald, Jaeson Kay, and Jeffery Reiss.
From the editorial:
You are probably wondering how all of this got started. It is a long, complicated story.
[...]
Way back when, about May of '73, myself, Robert McDonald, and Chuck Etheredge got together and decided to start a STAR TREK fan club. The first step was to get some members. Where are we going to find members? Why not try school? Lots of kids, there's got to be a few others like us. We advertised, told everyone we were STAR TREK fans. Almost everybody called us weirdos. After class, a few other kids showed and told us they were STAR TREK fans but they didn't want to be called weirdos. We were sincere. They wanted to knew what the clubs name was. We were the PENETRATORS. We charged $1.00 to join and $ 2.00 a month dues.
The club got up to about 25 members before I had to announce a big change. I was moving to California. Everyone was stunned, heartbroken, begging me not to leave (HAHA). The next week I was in California. I set up my little office and tried to start a new club at my new location but with negative results. It was summertime and I missed my friends. I wrote letters but they were rarely answered. I decided to make a club newsletter, so I could communicate back and forth a lot easier (besides, my phone bill devoured my allowance). I called it the The Communicator, what else? I issues that came out monthly. The price ranged from 25 cents-50 cents.
I had then moved to Burbank. School had already started and I made a few friends, none of which really liked STAR TREK. I met one person, he was wearing an engineering insignia. I made friends with him. We got together and made a new Communicator, this one containing photographs.I sent some copies to my friends back East. I was then flooded with orders for the NEW Communicator. One of my friends in Florida told me that he too, had made a zine. He suggested we merge our zines to make a super-zine, we did. We kept his name of Triplanetary (it was far mere original than the Communicator). We made 4 monthly issues before we stopped. I contacted Group 1 publication here in Burbank. They ' also had a zine. I bought copies from them to replace Triplanetary. This gave me time to work en Priority 1.
So when you read Priority, think of all of the experience that has gone into it. We don't get older, we get better.
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