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
1	February 1968	34	"
2	June 14, 1968	46	"
3	November 1968	36	"
4	March 11, 1969	50	"
5	August 1969	48	Richard Harter
6	1970	62	"
7	Spring 1971	60	"
8	July 1971	86	"
9	April 1973	86	"
10	1973	32	Tony Lewis
11	May 1974	20	"
12	May 1975	30	David Stever
13	January 1976	42	"
14	August 1976	38	Sheila D'Ammassa
15	November 1976	60	"
16	February 1977	44	"
17?	December 1978	26	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	1980	6	"
21	1981	2	James Mark Anderson	distributed with Instant Message
22	1980	4	"	date approximate
23	1981	12	"
24	1981	12	"	date approximate
25	November, 1984	76	Joe Rico
26	December, 1985	50	"
27	May 1990	48	Laurie Mann
28	February 1991	36	"
29	Spring 1992	38	"
30	Summer 1993	46	Ken 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

---

Publication

1967—1998

This is a publication page. Please extend it by adding information about when and by whom it was published, how many issues it has had, (including adding a partial or complete checklist), its contents (including perhaps a ToC listing), its size and repro method, regular columnists, its impact on fandom, or by adding scans or links to scans. See Standards for Publications.