APA-F

The first weekly (and local) fannish amateur press association. The largely overlapping membership of two 1960s New York City fan clubs, Fanoclasts and FIStFA, which met on alternating Fridays, allowed the two clubs to serve as the apa's distribution sites. Its Official Organ was The Amateur Effer. The F was a nod to the clubs, but APA-F is also FAPA spelled backward.

The genesis of APA-F was when Dave Van Arnam and various Fanoclasts got involved in an incident (see Subway Incident) after a meeting, which Dave was urged to write up. He began doing so in a fanzine he titled First Draft, which he began publishing and distributing every week at subsequent alternating FIStFA and Fanoclasts meetings. Dave worked as a professional typist and mimeographer in a Times Square mimeography shop, so on Fridays it made a kind of sense for him to stay long enough to write and run off an issue before going to Fanoclasts in Brooklyn or FIStFA in Manhattan, rather than leave work for his apartment in the Bronx (twice as far in the opposite direction) before turning around and heading back to whichever club was meeting that week. When, within a matter of a few weeks, other members began publishing and bringing fanzines to the meetings for distribution in a similar vein, an OO was published on site and APA-F got started. The first official mailing was July 10, 1964.

It was killed off, by generally mutual agreement in October 1965, after 69 mailings. APA-F was the inspiration behind APA-L in LA.

Contributors and Apazines:

• Tom Armistead -- Hydra
• Lon Atkins -- The Widget Factory, The DEGLER! Factory
• Stephen Barr -- Pfennig
• Ken Beale -- Bride of Glark, Glark
• John Benson -- Peeping Tom, Shang Ark
• Bill Blackbeard -- Cauldron Bubble, Goldurn Bubble, E*X*C*U*S*E, Scrimshaw
• John Boardman -- Dagon, Reuters Reports, Dear New York Fan, Graustark, This Is Our City, Pillycock, Deirdre, Pilly Cock
• Karina Boardman -- The Sea Serpent
• Ray Bradbury -- The Pandemonium Theatre Co. Inc. Arrives
• rich brown -- The Crudzine Quarterly, Focal Point, The Focal Point Poll, Paul Stambery
• Ross Chamberlain -- Crossoid, Vulch, Blyp, Some Facts bout APAs, Semicrossoid, ApartheiD
• Ross Emshwiller -- Crosseyed
• Don Fitch -- Damask & Moss
• Tom Gilbert -- Carcasilla
• Dan Goodman --Satanachia, Gafard, Akkilmar, Russic, End the War, Arniniel
• Jack Harness -- The Gallant Gallstone, The Milkman is Molting
• Lee Hoffman -- LA.129, Project Report 1
• Dave Hulan -- Niddhoggr
• Dave Kaler -- Kaler's Kuttings, The New York ComiCon, Attention! Important News!
• Arnie Katz -- Fanoclast Weakly
• Fred Lerner --
• Dick Lupoff -- OPO, OPOSO, Report of the Hugo Study Committee to the Business Session of the World Science Fiction Convention, London, 1965, The Stygian Gazette, One Page Only
• Pat Lupoff -- OPO, Feringstan No!, The Stygian Gazette, One Page Only
• Mike McInerney -- Hydra, Focal Point, Pressing Business, The Focal Point Poll, Paul Stambery, Number One
• Kent Moomaw -- The Adversaries (postumously)
• Fred Patten -- Kindergarten Bible Lessons
• Ross R. Paul -- Crosseyed
• Bruce Pelz -- Eto CpoyHo
• Andy Porter -- Degler!, The New York ComiCon, The Daily Degler!, Metrofan Bulletin
• Jim Sanders -- Good Lord, Nothing to Say, Life Could Not Better Be, Circular Ellipsis, SStaF and Nonsense
• Al Scott -- Tangent
• Steve Stiles -- Tonight's the Night to Go to the Movies
• Ellie Turner -- Gremalkin
• Dave Van Arnam -- FanoMatiC, First Draft, maLAise, Three Artists, Calculated Risk, Approximate Draft, The Jug of Doubtful Joy, First Fistfa, Top Waitinglister, Safrise, Spirit of, First Annish, First Oneshot, Vote for a Modern Constitution
• Bob Whalen -- Organized Chaos, Postern
• Jon White -- Draft
• Ted White -- Gambit, maLAise, F, L
• Frak Wilimczic -- Colloquium
• Frank Wilimczyk -- The Wigglemiggle Remembrancer
• Paul Williams -- Manana

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Publication

1964—1965

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