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| Above, G-FAN #36, the first issue I saw. |
Mrs. Ruth Lees reported on Facebook that the last issue of G-FAN is currently at the printers and should be done by the May 27.
It is issue number 150 and she said that it will be "extra long & extra good."
While it is sad that this is the final issue, but it is still remarkable that it lasted for so many years. I first discovered it in 1998 with issue number 36 at Tower Records in Sherman Oaks, California. It was started in 1992 by J. D. Lees. I don't think any other fan magazine has lasted so long with so many issues. I checked, but I didn't see anything in the website of Guinness World Records for longest-running fan magazine (or fanzine).
However, the AI feature of Google posted this:
- G-FAN: Deemed the world's longest-running fanzine (fan magazine) dedicated specifically to a film subculture, this quarterly publication began covering Godzilla and Japanese monsters in 1993.
G-FAN started out "as a four-page photocopied newsletter for distribution to three recent acquaintances who were also Godzilla fans." (Source: G-FAN.com history.) It began its run as a professionally printed magazine with issue number 8.
So we should be seeing G-FAN #150 arriving in our mailboxes in early June.
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