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{{DISPLAYTITLE: British Amateur Press Association}}''Do you mean the [[British Amateur Press Association]], the non-[[fantasy]] or [[fannish]] UK [[APA]] founded in 1890.''

The '''British Amateur Press Association''' ('''BAPA''') was a comics [[APA]] in the [[UK]] founded in 1977 following a proposal from [[Phil Greenaway]] in the letter pages of the comics fanzine ''Bemusing''. Its first mailing (under the name PAPA, the first initial standing for 'Prime'<ref>Not to be confused with the [[Pornographic Amateur Press Association]] or the [[Protean Apa]], both also PAPAs.</ref>) was circulated in January 1978. Greenaway was the first Central Mailer and his successors included [[Steve Green]]. It was disbanded in 2004 with a final one-off mailing in 2005.

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