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Once again, we're braving the downscale genre mags of sleazy publishing mogul
Myron Fass' Stories Layouts and Press Inc., purveyors of cheap newstand fodder. A while back, we reviewed the short-lived sci-fi mag,
Star Encounters, but this time around, we're looking at his company's longest-running cheapo
Starlog imitator -
Space Wars.
Like its companion magazines,
Space Wars was printed on the cheapest possible newsprint, with little-to-no interior color, and ugly, cluttered layouts. Still, for young genre fans back in those pre-home video/pre-Internet dark ages, Fass' 'zines helped sate the appetite for behind-the-scenes stories and sci-fi news between issues of
Starlog and
Fantastic Films.
Here's a gallery of some of the lurid cover layouts that caught our eyes from the newsstand racks and lured our meager allowances out of our pockets...
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One of these days, I'll post the remaining
Space War covers. How many of these did
you have?
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