Orpheus #1

Posted on December 4, 2010

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This is ORPEUS # 1, published in 1971, an excellent but short lived fanzine (formerly ASPECT) edited by Steve Moore and Steve Parkhouse.

It’s a rather SCARCE BRITISH FANZINE with brilliant illustrated articles/ interviews/ sketches / drawings/ strips & period photographs.

This issue features:
– The strip story Thong by Steve Parkhouse;
– An illustrated interview with the editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland: Forrest J. Ackerman;
Tales of Hyperborea Part 2, illustrated by the inimitable Barry Windsor Smith;
– The strip story The DESERT by Steve Moore & Steve Parkhouse;
– A wonderful article by Chris Lowder : All this & Conan too: A Tip of the Hat to Robert E Howard, illustrated by Barry Windsor Smith;
Sterling by Carlos Giminez.

Item is in excellent condition. Minor spots covers. Tiny creases top right pages. White, clean & unmarked internal pages. No tears/ clean staples/ tight binding.

A very fine copy indeed.

52 pages including Soft covers – black & white – 6 ½ x 9 inches (16cm x 23cm).

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