Aporrheta
Aporrhēta (Old Greek for "Forbidden"; nicknamed Ape or Apē[1]) edited by Sandy Sanderson has been called one of the best British fanzines of the late 1950s — the last issue notes it "was recently voted the best British fanzine in both the Fanac and Skyrack poll."
Covers were by ATom. Sanderson wrote a regular column, “Inchmery Fan Diary.”
Sanderson’s landlord and Inchmery Fandom fellow Vin¢ Clarke did some writing (one of his columns was "Apidiascope"), but also the excellent repro (mimeo) which characterized the fanzine; in Ex-Inchmery Fan Diary, Clarke said it was "the only link I had maintained with fan-publishing in the last two weary years, [i. e. since daughter's birth] and on which I had spent so many hours of spare (!) time."
In June 1960, Vince's “wife”[2] Joy Clarke left him for Sanderson; they moved to the U.S., and Aporrheta imploded (even though Sanderson reportedly "was thinking of continuing" it).
| Issue | Date | Pages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 1958 | 28 | |
| 2 | August 1958 | 32 | |
| 3 | September 1958 | 28 | 3&4 were bound together |
| 4 | September 1958 | 24 | |
| 5 | November 1958 | 40 | |
| 6 | December 1958 | 44 | |
| 7 | January 1959 | 44 | |
| 8 | February 1959 | 38 | |
| 9 | March 195 | 40 | |
| 10 | April 1959 | 36 | |
| 11 | May-June 1959 | 52 | |
| 12 | July-August 1959 | 52 | |
| 13 | September-November 1959 | 52 | |
| 14 | December 1959 | 52 | |
| 15 | February 1960 | 52 | |
| 16 | March-April 1960 | 52 | |
| 17 | May–June 1960 | 52 | Final issue |
| Aporrheta online at fanac.org. | |||
- ↑ On the cover, the accent was arguably closer to acute é, on the typewriter, it was emulated by overtyping the e with a hyphen.
- ↑ she took his name, though they never married.
| Publication | 1958—1960 |
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