Philosophical Gas

A long-running fapazine of John Bangsund. For a time he stopped it and published Perergon Papers, but later declared it to be a continuation of Philosophical Gas. It appeared in FAPA, ANZAPA and OMPA.

In issue 32 he described it thusly:

Philosophical Gas, despite my occasional outbursts to the contrary, continues to be very largely concerned with science fiction. I've tried to interest my moronic readers in a better class of literature, such as the works of Thomas Love Peacock, Brian O'Nolan and Lennie Lower, but sf keeps on rearing its ugly head and I guess I just have to live with that if I want to go on publishing (and I do, I do: I don't know why, but I do!) so PG must be regarded as a science fiction fanzine.

It is also, as John Clark up there in Queensland remarked a few issues back, my private diary. It isn't as intimate a diary as, say, Dick Geis's, but it's a diary and I like to think I am among friends when I sit down in front of a blank stencil and begin to recount the momentous and other events in my life.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	September 1970	8
2	October 1970	4
3	December 1970	2
4	April 1971	4
4.5	April 1971	2
5	June 1971	3
6	August 1971	6
7	September 1971	4
8	October 1971	3
9	December 1971	2
10	April 1972	3
11	April 1972	6	In FAPA 13
12	June 1972	8
13	June 1972	18
14	December 1972	4
15	February 1973	2
16	February 1973	6
17	February 1973	6
18	February 1973	9
19	April 1973	14
14-19		36	Combined issue. Some parts of this were also published separately.
20	April 1973	14
21
22	May 1973	14
23	April 23, 1973	2
24	August 1973	6
25	Spring 1974	30
26	Summer 1974	28
27	Autumn 1974	26
28	Winter 1974	38
29	February 1975	36	bound with New Millennial Harbinger 14
30	March 1975	26
31	July 1975	18
32	August 1975	8
33	1976	15
34	May 1976	1	There was a 1-page July supplement
35	November 1976	1
36	December 1976	7
37
38	July 1977	8	AKA Perergon Papers 1
39	August 1977	14	AKA Perergon Papers 2
40	September 1977	14	AKA Perergon Papers 3
41	September 1977	14	AKA Perergon Papers 4
42	December 1977	13	AKA Perergon Papers 5
43	January 1978	14	AKA Perergon Papers 6
44	February 1978	17	AKA Perergon Papers 7
45	1978	36	AKA Perergon Papers 8
	October 1978	19	AKA Perergon Papers 8 Part 2
46	August 1978	7	AKA Perergon Papers 9
47	October 1978	28	AKA Perergon Papers 10
48	December 1978	8	AKA Perergon Papers 11
49	February 1979	14	AKA Perergon Papers 12
50	November 1979	10
51	July 1980	6
52
53-54	January 1981	8
55-56	March 1981	7
57-59	May 1981	25
60	March 1982	9
61	February 1982	9	(Date as printed)
62-63	Spring 1982	16	Double issue
64	Fall 1983	6
65	Spring 1984	8
66
67	February 1985	11
68	August 1985	6
69	June 1986	8
70	August 1987	1	in FAPA 201
71	August 1987	3	single-sided
72
73	November 1987	3	"
74	April 1988	11
75	October 1988	8	in FAPA 205
76-77	Spring 1989	12	for FAPA
78	February 1990	8
79	May 1990	12
80	November 1990	2
81	February 1991	2
82	Winter 1991	8
83	Spring 1992	8
84	February 1993	8
85	April 1993	4
86.5	August 1993	4
87	Spring 1993	4
88
89
90
91
92	Spring 1996	6
93	April 1997	6

Philosophical Gas online at fanac.org

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1970—1997?

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