Tightbeam

Tightbeam, our third-oldest fanzine, was first published in 1960 as Hyperspace Tightbeam.  By its third issue, the name was shortened to Tightbeam. More than 50 years after its first publication, in 2013, the Library of Congress assigned to Tightbeam the periodical classification ISSN 2329-4809.  Over our near-century of existence, records have been lost, so we no longer have a complete set of Tightbeam issues. The fanzines seen here include zines issued electronically and zines recovered from a variety of sources, notably FANAC.org from Joe Siclari and Edie Stern. 

2023 Editors:
George Phillies phillies@4liberty.net
Jon Swartz jon_swartz@hotmail.com

Submission Details

Past Editors/Issues

Tightbeam – letterzine

Year Editor(s) Issues Available in PDF
1960 Walter Coslet, Art Hayes & Marion Zimmer Bradley  
1961 Art Hayes 10.5
1962   12
1962   13
1963   15
1962 Don Anderson 16
  Al Lewis 5A
    17
1963 Dave Hulan, Lee Riddle, G.M. Carr & Gary Labowitz 18
1963   19
1963   20
1963 G.M. Carr 21
1963 Gary Labowitz 22
1964 Felice Rolfe 23
  Janie Lamb (published after issue 25) 24 (March)
  Art Hayes? 25
  Roy Tackett 26
    27
    28
1965 Norm Matcalf, Duncan MacFarland, Art Hayes, G.M. Carr & Cindy Heap 32
  Cindy Heap Claims to be from 1964? 34
1966 Bill Mallardi 35
  Bill Bruce 38
    39
1966 Stan Woolston, Bil Bruce, Jim Schumacher, Greg Shaw & Bill Malardi  
1967 Fred Hypes & John Jusske 43
    44
  Don Miller 46
1968 Wally Weber 47
  Gary Labowitz 47.5
1968-70 Gary Labowitz 49
  Gary Labowitz 50
  Gary Labowitz 53
1969 Gery Labowitz 54
  Gary Labowitz 55
  Gary Labowitz 56
  Gary Labowitz 57
  Gary Labowitz 58
1970 Gary Labowitz 59
  Gary Labowitz 60
  Gary Labowitz 61
  Gary Labowitz 62
  Gary Labowitz 63
  Gary Labowitz 64
1971 Frank Denton & Chuck Ruthford 65
  Frank Denton & Chuck Ruthford 66
  Frank Denton & Chuck Ruthford 67
  Frank Denton & Chuck Ruthford 68
  Frank Denton & Chuck Ruthford 69
  Frank Denton & Chuck Ruthford 70
1972   71
  Verne O’Brien 72
    April
    73
  Joe Siclari 74
  Joe Siclari 75
1973 Joe Siclari 76
  October 78
  Need to assign 84
    85
    86
    87
    88
    89
    90
    91
    92
1974 Beth Slick 1974.01
    1974.015
    1974.03
    1974.05
    1974.07
    1974.09
1974 Beth Slick 1974.11
1975 Beth Slick, Gary Labowitz 1975.01
    1975.03
    1975.05
    1975.07
1976 Lynne Holdom & Joanne Burger 1976.07
    1976.09
1977 John Robinson  
1978-81 Dave Minch & Lynne Holdom 97
1978 September 99
  Dave Minch & Lynne Holdom 107
1979 Dave Minch 109
  Lynne Holdom 18
1979 Dave Minch & Lynne Holdom 110 (#20 on cover)
1979 Lynne Holdom 21
1980 Lynne Holdom 22
  Lynne Holdom 24 (May)
  Lynne Holdom 25
1981 Lynne Holdom 30
1982 Owen K Laurion 37
  Owen K Laurion June June
1982   127
1983-1985 Owen K Laurion Special
1985   138
1986 Owen K Laurion & Sally Syrjala 141
     
  Sally Syrjala 1983
  Owen K Laurion & Sally Syrjala 143
  Sally Syrjala 145
1987 Sally Syrjala & Lynne Holdom 150-151
1988 Lynne Holdom  
1989 Lynne Holdom & Ingrid Maack  
1990-91 Catherine Mintz & Diane Miller  
1992 Catherine Mintz  
1993 Catherine Mintz & Diane Miller  
1994-1996 Diane Miller & Janine Stinson 200
1997-2001 Janine Stinson 215

“The Fan” – TNFF/Tightbeam combined

Year Editor(s) Issues in PDF
2001-2002 Janine Stinson  
2003 Janine Stinson & Ruth R Davidson  
2004 Bob Sabella & Ruth R Davidson  
2005 Bob Sabella, Jeffrey Redmond, Chris Garcia & Ruth R Davidson  
2006 Ruth R Davidson, Jeffrey Redmond, Chris Garcia & Janine Stinson  
2007 Janine Stinson, Jeffrey Redmond & Ruth R. Davidson  
2008 Ruth R. Davidson & Heath Row  
2009-2011 Heath Row  

Tightbeam – Genzine

Year Editor(s) Issue
2012-2015 David Speakman 261
  David Speakman 262
  David Speakman 263
  David Speakman 264
  David Speakman 265
  David Speakman 266
  David Speakman 267
  David Speakman 268
  David Speakman 269
  David Speakman 270
  David Speakman 271
  David Speakman 272
2016-2017 Bob Jennings 273
  Bob Jennings 274
  Bob Jennings 275
  Bob Jennings 276
  Bob Jennings 277
  Bob Jennings 278
  Bob Jennings 279
  Bob Jennings 280
  Bob Jennings 281
  Bob Jennings 282
  Bob Jennings 283
  Bob Jennings 284
  Bob Jennings 285
  Bob Jennings 286
  Bob Jennings 287
  Bob Jennings 288
2018 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 289
2018 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 290
2018 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 291
2019 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 292
2019 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 293
2019 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 294
2019 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 295
2019 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 296
2019 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 297
2019 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 298
2019 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 299
2019 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 300
2019 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 301
2019 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 302
2019 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 303
2020 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 304
2020 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 305
2020 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 306
2020 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 307
2020 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 308
2020 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 309
2020 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 310
2020 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 311
2020 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 312
2020 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 313
2020 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 314
2020 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 315
2021 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 316
2021 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 317
2021 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 318
2021 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 319
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2021 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 327
2022 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 328
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2024 George Phillies and Jon Swartz 352
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