Cosmic Cuts

(For other cosmic things, see Cosmic.)

Cosmic Cuts was a fanzine edited by Gordon Holbrow in the UK for the Cosmos Club. Later issues were edited by Dennis Tucker and it's possible that the early issued were actually edited by E. Frank Parker. It was a successor to Memo Sheet.

John Aiken wrote in the Whitcon booklet that it was:

... in those early and impoverished days, run off very sub rosa in the fire-watches of the night on the Research Station's rotary duplicator, a machine with a malignant and perverted sense of humour and a fondness for a kind of puree of paper and ink. Both of those traits left permanent wounds on the outlook of the editorial staff, working as they were amongst air raids and (far worse) under the shadow of detection. Gordon Holbrow eventually succeeded Parker as editor of Cosmic Cuts and infused it with high highly individual wit; when less energetic interests claimed him, Dennis Tucker stepped into the breach and was still at work when the club finally disintegrated round him.

V5 #5 is the last known issue per the British Fanzine Bibliography and it seems to be the last as, per Aiken again::

Tucker's issue of Cosmic Cuts towards the end of that year [1946] was the last dying flicker of club activity, describing meetings which had sunk to the level of pub-crawls and theatre-parties, pleasant enough but demanding no individual effort.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
2.1	May 1943	8
2.2	June 1943	2
2.3	August 1943	4
2.4	October 1943	4
2.5	December 1943	16	in FWD 32; Includes Convention Extra #1
2.6	February 1944	6
2.7	April 1944	14
3.1	June 1944	4
3.2	August 1944	10
3.3	October 1944	4
3.4	December 1944	14
3.5	February 1945	2
3.6	April 1945	10
4.1	June 1945	2	subtitled '2nd Austerity Issue'
4.2	June 1945	2	titled 'CC Extra'
4.3	August 1945	8	first edited by Dennis Tucker; misnumbered 4.4
4.4	August 1946	2
4.5	December 1945	4
4.6	February 1946	14	misnumbered 4.5
5.1	April 1946	14
5.2	June 1946	10
5.3	August 1946	10
5.4	October 1946	12
5.5	December 1946	6

• Cosmic Cuts online at fanac.org.

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Publication

1943—1946

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