| Definition | = fanzine |
| OED requirements | antedating 1946 |
| Earliest cite | in 'Startling Stories' Summer |
| Comment | Cory Panshin submitted 1947 cites from the fanzine review columns in Startling Stories for both "zine" and "'zine". Keith Stokes submitted a 1962 cite from "A Key to the Terminology of S-F Fandom". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a fanzine review by "Sergeant Saturn" in the Summer 1946 Startling Stories.
(Earliest cite in the OED: 1965) |
| Last modified | 6 July, 2008 |
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| 1946 ‘Sergeant Saturn’ Rev. of Sci. Fiction Fan Publications in Startling Stories Summer 109/1 | A couple of hunks of the 'zine were torn off in the unbinding process, but here is what on what [(sic )] was left. |
| 1947 Startling Stories May 112/2 | Poor printing and snafu artwork keeps this Detroit zine down in the doldrums despite a high-powered lineup that includes Brazier, Elsner, Tigrina and Joe Kennedy. |
| 1947 Startling Stories May 113/1 | Not overimpressive for a 'zine that terms itself somewhat grandiosely ‘official organ of the National Fantasy Fan Federation’. |
| 1962 D. Franson Key to Terminology of S-F Fandom 18 | Zine , magazine, fanzine or prozine. |
| 1988 S. McCrumb Bimbos of Death Sun viii. 102 | Such an article once written would be reprinted in every zine in fandom. |
| 1991 Fantasy Spring 50/3, | I read that the ‘zines associated with the club were looking for stories. |
| 1993 Sci. Fiction Stud. Nov. 451 | One of the most embarrassing aspects of reviewing BCP [Beyond Cyberpunk] is to realize how much closer to taking advantage of this powerful and exciting technology are zines such as bOING, bOING than are ‘cutting-edge’ academic journals such as SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES. |
| 1993 B. Shaw Dimensions (1994) 41 | For all we know, what you have here are cookery and fashion zines. |
| 1993 SFRA Rev. May–June 64 | They can respond to the text through fan activity, 'zines, rewriting episodes, and so on. |
| 1994 Interzone Apr. 65/2 | Peeping Tom has won the British Fantasy Society best zine award for the second year on the trot. |