Third Foundation

(Did you mean the Wayne Third Foundation, a club at Wayne State University?)

The Third Foundation (T3F) was a club fanzine published by the club "The Third Foundation," 1967-1970. The first issue was #77 ("so we would have the Spirit of '76 to inspire us"), and the last issue is #105. The club's mythos was that "We were founded at the The 'End of Eternity' to make sure that Hari Seldon was born on time." The club had the right to choose the editor, but it was usually edited by Lee Klingstein (later Lee Gold)

Lee (Klingstein) Gold says "I found organized SF fandom in 1967 at Westercon XX", including filking, then "A month later I attended my first LASFS meeting with copies for sale of The Third Foundation #77 (the fanzine's first issue), containing my first filksong: Oh, What a Beautiful Martian. One of the LASFSians who sang it that night was a fellow named Barry Gold, whom I married two years later."

• ConChord Songbook 12.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
76	1967		Mythical first issue: #77 had "answers to last issues quiz" and "letters of comment" on the "previous issue".
77			first issue
78			Managing editor: James Shapiro. Lee Klingstein is listed as "Ambassador from Academia"
79
80
81
82
83	July 1968	41
84	September 1968	36
85
86-87	January 1969	50
88	June 1969
89
90	Sept.-Oct. 1969	48	Pages numbered 1-38, A-J. Cover by "Simpson"
91	1969
92	1970	42	"Year-ish". Cover by G. Barr. Internal evidence implies this was probably published in late Jan. 1970.
93
94	1970
95	January 1970	40

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1967—1970

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