Rapier

A fanzine published by Eric Erickson of Calgary.

According to an article by Erickson himself in Innuendo 6, and a later article by Erickson's correspondent Archie Mercer, it tended toward pseudoscience and wild predictions such as a Communist take-over of the USA on 17 March 1958, to be followed shortly by an alien invasion.

These failed to occur as predicted, and according to Terry Carr in Cry of the Nameless 123, Erickson committed himself to a mental institution later in 1958.

Issue	Date	Pages	-Notes
2		16
3	July 1957	10
4	August 1957	4	Date sourced from article by Archie Mercer, Scottishe 61
5	September 1957	4	Ditto

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Publication

1950s—

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