Who's/Blake

Mini Review By Sarah Thompson

I've had #1 for several years now, and a very nice zine it is. I was hoping to find cheap used copies of the later issues, but they've never turned up. So I finally sprang for expensive new reprint issues from the Rondeaus. It was worth it just to satisfy my curiousity, even though there's only a little B7 in the later issues, and some of it I already had in other zines.

In general, #1 is the best for B7 fans. After that, the editorial team split up; Rebecca Reeves went on to do her own excellent all- B7 zine, =Input=, and Dianne Smith, now the sole editor, discovered "Beauty and the Beast," leading to a change in emphasis and eventually a change in title for her multimedia zine.

As far as I know there is no B7 content in issues #7 and #8, but I haven't actually seen them.

That leaves three of the Blake's Seven Re-Release series still unaccounted for: =Blind=, =The Crucible's Flame= (aka =The Crucible=), and =Waves= (aka =Waves upon a Mirrored Surface=, =Waves upon a Reflected Surface=; however, this is =not= the same as the story "Reflections: The Mirror's Image" in =B7 Complex= #15). Yes, Linda has been asked about the stories; she says they were in multimedia zines around ten years ago, but she doesn't remember which zines, and she lost her trib copies in a fire a while ago.

If anyone happens on the zines in which these stories were originally printed, please let me know! I'm also looking for the zine that had a story by Jean Curley, "And All They Had Left Were Empty Gestures." I've got a photocopy of the story, clearly from a zine, but I don't know =which= zine.

Contents of Who's/Blake issue 1

Editor: Dianne M. Smith, with Ellen Squires, Barbara Reeves, and Rebecca Reeves
Publisher: Apathy Productions (Victoria, BC)
Date: February 1987
Format: letter size (with slightly oversize covers), [3] + 103 pp., beige card covers, side staples

B7 fiction:
Rebecca Reeves, "Interlude" (S4, Rescue; B)
Rebecca Reeves, "The Way Out" (S5; V)
David E. Hume, "Memories Betrayed" (S4-S0; A)

B7-related nonfiction:
Rebecca and Barbara Reeves, "Video Listing: Alice in Wonderland/Alice through the Looking Glass" (B7-DW cast list; humor)

B7 poetry:
Vicki Harrison, "B7 Filksongs" (performed by Travis & the Mutoids at Scorpio IV, August 1986)
"Black Leather Boots" (f, Blue Suede Shoes)
"Federation Rock" (f, Jailhouse Rock); later reprinted in HIP DEEP IN HEROES (US, 1989.2)
"Wooden Heart" (f, Wooden Heart)
"The BBC" (f, Let It Be Me); later reprinted in HIP DEEP IN HEROES (US, 1989.2)
"Are You Lonesome Roj Blake" (Are You Lonesome Tonight); later reprinted in HIP DEEP IN HEROES (US, 1989.2)

B7 art:
Donna Paton cover A, Se, Ta, & DW
p. 12 Paul Darrow
p. 60 V
p. 86 A
p. 96 A
p. 98 Se
J. A. Gogan p. 23 B
p. 26 J
p. 29 C
photo (by p. 19 Terry Nation Barbara Reeves)
Rebecca Reeves p. 31 Liberator
? p. 47 Scott Fredericks
p. 50 Michael Keating

Other fandom: DW

Contents of Who's/Blake issue 2

Editor: Dianne M. Smith (Victoria, BC)
Publisher: Apathy Publications (Victoria, BC); authorized reprint by Peg Kennedy and Bill Hupe (Mason, MI)
Date: 1988
Format (reprint): letter size, [3] + 206 pp., blue card covers, black comb binding

B7 fiction:
Paulie Kay, "Sounds" (S2; G; humor)
E. A. Mundell, "Time Again" (S5; A-V)
Linda A. Knights, "After the Rumours" (S3, post-Rumours; A-C)
E. A. Mundell, "Full Circle" (S5; A, V; reprinted from THE SYSTEM #1 [nl; AU, 1986?])
Paulie Kay, "Was It Or Wasn't It" (S2; A-V)

B7 poetry:
Teresa Ward, "Just Deserts" (alt-S3-4; A-B-Tr)
Teresa Ward, "First Impression" (S1; B-J)
Teresa Ward, "Ramblings" (Tr)
Paulie Kay, "Colors" (V)
Alyns Lawchilde, "Do You" (C)

B7 art:
Jeanette Carnell p. 11 G; illo for "Sounds"
p. 58 "Wanted Dead or Alive" (Tr)
p. 106 A; illo for "After"
p. 153 V; illo for "Was It"
p. 156 A-V; illo for "Was It"
back c. Christmas cartoon
J. A. Gogan p. 55 V
Lynne Alisse Witten p. 110 C
Cynthia Case p. 151 V

Other fandoms:
DW, ST, RoS, BatB, Pros

Contents of Who's/Blake issue 3

Editor: Dianne M. Smith
Publisher: Apathy Productions (Victoria, BC); authorized reprint by Peg Kennedy and Bill Hupe (Mason, MI)
Date: September 1989
Format (reprint): letter size, [4] + 189 text pp. + [6] pp. zine ads, color front cover with clear plastic overlay, light gray card back cover, black comb binding

B7 fiction:
Paulie Kay, "Butterfly" (S2; past V/ocf)

B7 art:
Sheila Paulson p. 162 V
J. A. Gogan p. 164 B

Other fandoms:
RoS, B&B, Pulaski, DW, STTNG

Contents of Who's/Blake issue 4

renamed SHERWOOD TUNNELS from #5 on

Editor: Dianne M. Smith
Publisher: Apathy Publications (Victoria, BC); authorized reprint by Peg Kennedy and Bill Hupe (Mason, MI)
Date: September 1989
Format (reprint): letter size, [4] + 174 text pp. + [6] pp. zine ads, color front cover with clear plastic overlay, light gray card back cover, black comb binding

B7 fiction:
Sheila Paulson, "A Stitch in Time" (S4; BatB crossover; A-V, A-hc); later reprinted in AIRWAVES #23 (UK, 1992.5) and AIRWAVES BLAKE'S SEVEN SPECIAL #3 (US, 1995)

B7 art:
Barb Johnson p. 12 A-Vincent; illo
p. 17 V-Catherine; illo
p. 23 A-Vincent; illo
J. A. Gogan back c. So

Other fandoms:
RoS, B&B, DW

Contents of SHERWOOD TUNNELS #5

formerly WHO'S/BLAKE]

Editor/publisher: Dianne M. Smith (Victoria, BC); authorized reprint by Peg Kennedy and Bill Hupe (Mason, MI)
Date: 1990
Format (reprint): letter size, 2 + 298 pp., color front cover, pink card back cover, black comb binding

B7 fiction:
Kathy Hintze, "Death Is for the Dying" (S2; A-V, A-hc)

B7 art:
Wilma Douglas p. 121 A; illo for "Death"
p. 121 V-O-Z; illo for "Death"
J. A. Gogan p. 123 A
p. 125 V
p. 131 A

Other fandoms:
BatB, Dark Knight, Captain Scarlet, RoS

Contents of SHERWOOD TUNNELS #6

Editor/publisher: Dianne M. Smith (Victoria, BC)
Date: [1991?]
Format (reprint): letter size, [4] + 372 text pp. + [10] pp. zine ads, color front cover with clear plastic overlay, light gray card back cover, black comb binding

B7 fiction:
Linda Knights, "Surprises" (S1; B-A); later revised and reprinted as a standalone, SURPRISES (US, 1997)

Linda Knights, "Reunion" (S4; A-B)

B7 art:
Mary Prince p. 36 S1 A
p. 243 C
p. 244 A-B on GP
p. 245 S1 crew cartoon
Arlene Gogan Oliver p. 241 B-J

Other fandoms:
BatB, Phoenix, RoS, original fantasy, Nick Knight (TV movie), Starman, DW, STTNG, Pulaski, SW, Arthur of the Britons, W&W


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