comic courier ENCORE

WELCOME to the PARTY!
...and come on in.


Marvel WEST #1
available NOW!

"I took the time to thoroughly read every page [of Marvel West] and I promise you I also thoroughly enjoyed every page! It was like getting to be a kid again, and I hope you in turn--in producing your first zine in 50 years--got to be a kid again."
--Buddy Saunders
(Lone Star Comics and mycomicshop.com)


See info on Marvel WEST #1 near bottom of page

ENCORE is a multi-zine
celebration of the 50+ year
anniversary of Comic Courier.

This undertaking has been 5 years in the works (so far!), and over 75 comic fans (many of them "first fans" from that seminal generation of Comics Fandom) are represented with contributions, new and old.

More about our Anniversary Print Party on the ENCORE page


COMIC COURIER is a 
"fan's fanzine" from the Golden Age of Comics Fandom.

COMIC COURIER had a 7-issue run from 1969 through 1972, and was a lot of fun for a few-score young fans, many who went on to professional careers in creative communications (including comic books.)

A bit of our history is on the COMIC COURIER page

Here are just a few of the zines of the
COMIC COURIER ENCORE project

Check out the rest on the ENCORE page

MARVEL WEST #1

is the first of the fanzines in the Comic Courier Encore project. It features Kid Colt, Outlaw and his principal artist Jack Keller. Original articles and art by Will Murray, John Mozzer, Marie Severin, Mark Marderosian, Mark Ammerman, Arto Heino, and more. Includes a classic 5-page "Sheriff of Tombstone" comic drawn by Jammin' Jack Keller. Profusely illustrated with examples of Western comic art by the best of the Marvel West bullpen of old. All that and a bag of buffalo chips.

48 pages, 8 1/2 x 11, wrap-around, saddle-stitched, b&w
 (and a poster!)

Available NOW
for
$10 for one copy
($18 for two)
..............

But if ordering from the UK, cost is $20.00 for one
($29.00 for two)

Order through PAYPAL at ccencore

or mail a check  to:
Mark Ammerman
1324 S. Duke Street
Lancaster, PA 17602.
Make sure you tell me where to mail your zines! The price tag includes tax and postage (and a few surprises.)
 




MARVEL WEST #2 

is a saddlebag full of story and art (old and new), comics and commentary (reprinted and previously unpublished), reviews and reminiscence by a rough-ridin' remuda of old hands from the Golden Age of Comics Fandom (and a couple of greenhorns): Paty Cockrum, Steve Green, Gary Kato, Mark Marderosian, James Murray, Marie Severin, Steve Shipley, Dave Simons, Tulio Vilela, Duffy Vohland, Mark Wheatley, Rick Williams, and Ye Ed (Mark Ammerman.)

Multitudinous pages (and a poster!) 


Coming SOON (Lord willin' and the cows come home.)

 ENCORE #1

is crammed with fantastic fanzine fun, reprising the contents of 1969's Comic Courier #1, with all new art and story by so many old fans (and a few newbies) that we can't even name them all (but we'll try): Jonathan Ammerman, Micah Ammerman, Roland Austin, Mike Bolognese, Doc Boucher, Alan Bradford, Sergio Cariello, Paul Chadwick, Bruce Chrislip, Mike Cicirelli, Ray Cioni, Kevin Clement, Paty Cockrum, Jim Engel, Rick Enloe, Kent Evans, Billy Fugate, Neal Fugate, Carlos Garzon, Mike Graycar, Marty Greim, Chris Gubelman, Alan Hanley, Ed King, Steve Kristiansen, Dick Kulpa, Russ Maheras, Chris Malgrain, Vince Marchesano, Mark Marderosian, Rich Olver, John Onoda, Mark Poe, Legend Rivera, Bot Roda, Tom Rutten, Dave Simons, Rob Smith Jr., Johnny Souza, Tom Sullivan, Carl Taylor, Keith Tucker, Mike Tuohey, Bill Wilson, Greg Turner, Jim Vadebonceour, Tulio Vilela, Duffy Vohland, Rick Williams, Craig Yoe, and Ye Ed (Mark Ammerman.)

More pages than a Silver Age DC Giant! Packaged with a reprint of Comic Courier #1: two zines for the price of one-and-a-half. (And a poster!)

We CAN'T WAIT to roll this one off the presses (but... wait we must!)

THE LEGACY of the "LITTLE ZINE"

Comic Artists
PAUL CHADWICK, JIM ENGEL, PATY COCKRUM, DAVE SIMONS, MARK MARDEROSIAN, RAY CIONI, BILL FUGATE, NEAL FUGATE (and others)
were PUBLISHED FIRST
(as FANS) in the pages of
COMIC COURIER

"I'm glad my fandom history books and research have inspired you to do a Comic Courier
one-shot [Encore]. Or perhaps other projects you are involved with. That's why I did it, to 'bring the info' to others, and hopefully it would inspire them in some way."

Bill Schelly (in an email on May 5, 2019)

"For a humble fanzine,
C.C. is one of the best buys in fandom,
provides good reading
and supplies interesting art."
 
Alan Hanley (from a letter in 1971)

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