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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:58 am Post subject: IFW periodicals during the 1960's
Well Gents, I am looking for some entries in this research area to help fill it out the 1960s run of IFW periodicals. I would like to go ahead and enter all of these issues in the html archive area once complete. So for now, I have some obvious missing entries and a couple of open areas that need to be addressed at some point to complete the archive. Issues I am looking for below have been provided via information taken from Scott Duncan's A History of the IFW in the June 1969 IFW issue. Please take a look at the article synopsis in scribe's musings.
List of issues needed.....
Spartan issues 1-12? 1966-67....technically these were produced by the USCAC which switched names as an organization to the IFW in 1967. Alas, we have none for the archive now and I am betting these are more than a little tough to find existing. See Duncan's IFW History article synopsis above for a 'rough' issue tally.
The Spartan Vol.1 No2
The Spartan Vol.1 No4?
Any other The Spartans leading up to IFW Monthly Vol 2 No 1 featured now in the research forum? I am sure these would provide clues on why the club's newsletter abruptly dropped The Spartan as the name of the newsletter.
Summer compilation of International Wargamer similar to Jan-Mar & Mar-June Issues? Not likely this would exist as the monthly was renamed International Wargamer for the August '69 issue. _________________
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:26 am Post subject:
In the later publications of 1968, there are plenty of advertisements for back issues from earlier in the year which attest to the existence of 8 total issues of the monthly in Volume 1, labeled #1 through #8. Note that Scott Duncan's article in v2n6 specifically mentioned Vol.1 #2 as a March 1968 publication.
Naming of these issues is irregular. Vol.1 #6 is named The Cardboard Commander, Vol.1 #7 is completely untitled, and Vol.1 #8 returns to the title The Spartan (though it contains much debate about naming). Presumably #2 is known as The Spartan. Naming of Vol.1 #4 and #5 is currently unknown, but until we learn otherwise I'd imagine they shared that name.
I have also seen some evidence of the existence of a single issue of the International Wargamer (the quarterly, that is) published in 1968. It apparently designated as "#6" (see the "Common Market" in IFW Monthly v2n2).
I can say little more about Spartan Vol.0 (my proposed designation for the 1966-1967 publications) than your note on v2n6 does. From that article, we can deduce the existence of six 1966 issues (#1 March, #2 April, #3 June, #4 September, #5 October, #6 December) and at least two in 1967 (one probably in January or February, another in April) before the disaster at Malvern shut down publication.
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