1 BEAM THE OCCASIONAL UNOFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS ISSUE #12 : NOVEMBER 2017 May Tucker’s Ghost be Smiling Upon Us EMINENCE FRONT Welcome back, my friends, to the show that’s yet to end, as this particular clown car is gassed up and ready to take another careening turn around the awkward corners of fandom, professional driver at the helm and a fierce-eyed navigator on shotgun. This given issue of the World’s Finest Fanzine is brought to you by a timely “They threw us out clashing cacophony of two of fandom’s of England. They greatest contrarian iconoclasts: Jeff Schalles threw us out of and Roy Hessinger... no, seriously, did I France. So here we have you going for even half a fuckin are.” second? Might I have had you going if you were even bothering to read this or any This issue of BEAM is edited by Nic Farey and Ulrika O’Brien. 3342 Cape Cod Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89122, USA, email :
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