Proper Boskonian

The NESFA club genzine, published from 1967 to 1998. The name was selected by Tony Lewis from a suggestion by Dainis Bisenieks and is a play on the old phrase "A Proper Bostonian". (Another suggestion -- fortunately not used, was The Fenway.)

Issue	Date	Pages	Editor	Notes
0	October 31, 1967	12	Cory Seidman	Sub-titled "The Great Pumpkin Lives! "
1	February 1968	34	"	Sub-titled "Happy Birthday, Tony Lewis"
2	June 14, 1968	46	"	Sub-titled "Special Fuzzy Pink Issue"
3	November 1968	36	"	Sub-titled "Smoffing is a Way of Life"
4	March 11, 1969	50	"	Sub-titled "Beware the Ides of March"
5	August 1969	48	Richard Harter	Sub-titled "Tranquility Base Here, the Eagle Has Landed"
6	July 1970	62	"
7	April 1971	60	"
8	September 1971	86	"
9	April 1972	86	"
10	July 1973	32	Tony Lewis	Sub-titled "Real Soon Now"
11	May 1974	20	"	Sub-titled "Highmore in '76 "
12	May 1975	30	David Stever
13	January 1976	42	"
14	August 1976	38	Sheila Glover D'Ammassa
15	November 1976	60	"
16	February 1977	44	"
17	December 1978	24	Mike Blake
??	1978	26	"	This is probably the Worldcon NESFA special edition, which was edited by Mike Blake, and was probably a variant of issue #17.
18	December 1979	36	James Mark Anderson	"James Mark Anderson" here was Mike Saler working alone
19	1980	40	"
20	May 1981	6	"	NN. Distributed with Instant Message #292
21	June 1981	2	"	Distributed with Instant Message #294
22	July 1981	3	"	Distributed with Instant Message #296
23	September 1981	12	"	Distributed with Instant Message #300
24	January 1982	12	"	NN. Distributed with Instant Message #307
25	November 1984	74	Joe Rico
26	December 1985	46	"
27	May 1990	48	Laurie Mann	Sub-titled "The Fall of '73 Issue", which is what this would have been if PF had come out quarterly.
28	February 1991	36	"	Sub-titled "Back to Boskone"
29	August 1992	38	"
30	June 1993	46	Kenneth Knabbe
31	December 1993	92	"
32	June 1994	78	"
33	December 1994	74	"
34	June 1995	50	"
35	August 1995	54	"
36	December 1995	58	"
37	June 1996	48	"
38	December 1996	46	"
39	1997	52	Lisa Hertel	It was determined that this would have been the Fall 1976 issue if PB had actually come out quarterly.
40	April 1997	52	"
41	July 1997	46	"
42	November 1997	46	"
43	May 1998	36	"
44	November 1998	52	"	Final issue

Proper Boskonian online at fanac.org

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Publication

1967—1998

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