Raunch

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Zine
Title: Raunch
Publisher: Stellar Productions, Al Schuster
Editor(s): Gale Burnick
Type: explicit
Date(s): 1970
Medium: print
Fandom: Star Trek TOS, science fiction
Language: English
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Raunch is an sexually explicit zine "published semi-erotically" by Gale Burnick.

It was "dedicated to the proposition."

There were four issues.

3 August 1970 4 November 1970

v.1 n.1

Raunch v.1 n.1 was published in April 1970.

v.1 n.2

Raunch v.1 n.2 was published in June 1970 and contains 11 pages. It was "whacked out by Al Schuster."

front cover of v.1 n.2
back cover of v.1 n.2, touts the next issue

It has an illo by Greenstone.

The staff: it was "whacked out by Al Schuster." Other staff were Mark Horn - "Fandom's up and coming raunchmaster" and Lee Smoire - "The femmfan viewpoint for the hole world."

The zine contains lots of name dropping of BNF science fiction fans such as Ted Pauls, Brian Burley, John Boardman, Jack Chalker, Frank Dietz, Harlan Ellison, and others.

There are many allusions to the 28 August–1 September 1969 Worldcon in St. Louis at the Chase Park Plaza.

Well, gang - here we come again! Many of you probably thought we'd never be more than a one shot, but you should only know to what lengths we exhibitionists will go to put our thing out. However, if you imagine that I enjoy setting the type on this scandalous sheet, well, you'll just have to 9.et to know me better!

  • pages of graffiti (and many in-jokes and small vignettes)
  • centerfold of a monster giving a naked woman cunnilingus by Turd
  • The Screwing of Suzie Stranahan, long poem by John Boardman (lots of racist stuff)

v.1 n.3

Raunch v.1 n.3 was published in August 1970. It has a cover by Frank Frazetta.

cover of issue #3, Frank Frazetta

v.1 n.4

Raunch v.1 n.4 was published in November 1970.