Hyphen

Hyphen was a fanzine, the successor to Slant, published between 1952 and 1965 by Walt Willis and Chuck Harris. Ian McAulay became co-editor with issue 25, and Madeleine Willis also acted as co-editor.

Hyphen was more fannish and less sercon than Slant and is widely regarded as one of the greatest fanzines ever published. Contributors included Atom, who drew much artwork straight onto stencil; Bob Shaw, whose regular column was titled “The Glass Bushel”; and James White. An occasional feature was "The History of Irish Fandom", in which Hyphen regulars wrote about themselves.

A final issue was published in 1987, after a hiatus of 22 years, to celebrate 40 years of Irish Fandom. Hyphen was nominated for the 1956 Best Fanzine Hugo and, in 2004, the 1954 Best Fanzine Retro Hugo.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	May 1952	16
2	September 1952	20
3	February 1953	28
4	October 1953	28
5	November 1953	22
6	January 1954	26
7	March 1954	28
8	April 1954	30
9	July 1954	44
10	September 1954	34
11	November 1954	34	Noted for the First Word on Page 28.
12	December 1954	52
13	March 1955	42
14	June 1955	42
15	November 1955	40
16	August 1956	30
17	December 1956	42
18	May 1957	40
19	January 1958	26
20	February 1958	26
21	October 1958	42
22	March 1959	26
23	November 1959	24
24	March 1960	24
25	November 1960	26	Ian McAulay became co-editor.
26	January 1961	24
27	March 1961	26
28	May 1961	26
29	September 1961	26
30	December 1961	24
31	March 1962	26
32	March 1963	28
33	June 1963	24
34	September 1963	24
35	April 1964	24
36	February 1965	22
37	Autumn 1987	62	Final ish, after a 22-year hiatus. Ebook.

• Hyphen online at fanac.org.
• Hyphen at eFanzines.

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959

(Madeleine Willis) "A fanzine", defines Chuck Harris laconically, "First issue May 1952". It was co-edited by Walt Willis and Harris, but was really more or less the product of the group known as the Oblique Angles. It became a focal point for a lot of people on the fringe of fandom as well as within it, succeeding Quandry as Zeitgeistsprecher of the old Sixth Fandomites who opposed 7th Fandom during the Sixth Transition. It influenced Anglofandom (and US Fandom) muchly by its amiably irreverent attitude toward fandom and stf in general -- the "Serious Constructive Insurgentism" of Walt Willis' which found its most perfect, if not most typical, expression in The Harp Stateside and such other works as Through Darkest Ireland and The Enchanted Duplicator. "Neither Walt nor I cared for the name when Madeleine coined it," Chuck explains, "but now we think it's about perfect and wouldn't change it for anything."

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Publication

1952—1987

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