Ink Stains 180: YSG 18

Yancy Street Gazette 18: April/May 1968
Editors: Steve Zeigler, John Hoecker, Jan Bertholf

Hello and welcome again to Ink Stains, your friendly neighborhood fanzine review column, taking you back sooooo many years to the halcyon days of teenage boys (mostly) publishing home made magazines from their basements covering all their favorite comics, characters, artists and writers.

​This month it is another issue of The Yancy Street Gazette, notable mostly for the constant contributions of Dave Cockrum (for me, anyway). Of note also are contributions from future professionals Roy Thomas and Tony Isabella.

Above you see a sampling of spot illustrations from the other staff artist, Al Grinage Jr. He was a very prolific fan artist, also contributing to zines like Gary Groth's Fantastic Fanzine, among others.

Onward with the contents of issue 18, which starts with some club news, then moves on to an installment of The Gadfly, by Marvel Mirror editor Greg Kishel, the subject this time being On The Relevancy in the Comic Book. Ann Henry follows with Villains and the Negro, ending nobly with "Let us be the first group to eliminate racial stereotyping and unwarranted prejudice." 

Pat Janson in next up with The Complete History of the Comic. Pretty lofty goal for a fanzine article! Luckily it is listed as part one of a series.

A popular reappearing section, New YSG Members is next.

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Pawns of Dr. Doom, by Andris Taskans, is next, and examines and takes issue with (in typical great fannish detail) a specific issue of Marvel's Strange Tales. Don't poke the bear!

Tony Isabella, that fandom stalwart, brings us On the Corner of Yancy Street, mainly talking about the zine itself.

Resident pro, Roy Thomas, gives us an inside view on why Pros Rank Kirby No. 1 in View From the Top. No surprise there...he ain't called The King fer nuttin!

The letters page (It's Clobberin' Time) is the last entry in this issue of the fanzine. But, I saved the best for last. Below you see a plethora (I said it) of work by the great Dave Cockrum, already exhibiting his lithe and sinuous figure work as far back as 1968.

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And that is it, the Yancy Street Gang has exited the building, leaving behind a mess of beer bottles, stogies, and old newspapers. What a buncha hooligans!

Thanks this time goes again to Marvelous Manny Maris! Check out the pdf of the entire zine!


Ken Meyer Jr.
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