Yet another unimaginatively-titled genre mag from the publishing house behind such publications as
Space Wars, Star Encounters, Star Battles and
Star Warp,
Myron Fass' Stories Layouts and Press Incorporated: the short-lived and confusingly-numbered
Space Trek magazine from 1978. The eccentric Fass, who passed away in 2006, was a notorious publisher
of low-end magazines and comics, the print equivalent of an exploitation
film mogul, publishing anything and everything he thought might make a
few bucks,
especially if it appealed to the basest of tastes or could ride the coattails of some pre-established moneymaker.
As with it's corporate brethren,
Space Trek was a cheapo
Starlog knock-off,
indistinguishable from Fass' other scifi mags, complete with recycled
stories, B&W photos and fan art, haphazardly assembled and rushed to
press by the bottom-feeding publisher to separate young, starstruck
Star Kids from their allowances while the genre was still hot. How many
of these did
you buy?
