Showcase Presents the Alternate Universes of Star Wars

Showcase Presents the Alternate Universes of Star Wars was published in 1979 and has 165 pages (plus fold-outs). It contains mainly Star Wars fiction but does have one long Star Wars/Star Trek crossover. 
The art is by Randy Ash, Stanley M. Campbell, Gordon Carleton, Connie Faddis, Amy Falkowitz, Jane Firmstone, Doug Herring, Kathy Higley, Winston A. Howlett, Monica Miller, P.A. Munson, Carrie Rowles, Joni Wagner, and Susan Wyllie. Two of the illos were originally fold-outs, but reduced to a simple full-page in subsequent printings.
It has a Star Trek: TOS sister zine called Showcase.
==Slow Sales and Debt==
Despite the zine's impressive lineup of artists and authors (fans who'd made their fanworks mark in the Star Trek fandom), the zine had poor sales. The editor wrote a personal statement in Universal Translator #7 about this topic: 
==Contents==
* Editorial Comments, or Why It Took So Long to Finish This! (4)
* Communique from the Dark Lord by Dave Prowse (interview with David Prowse) (7)
* Alternate Quintette, part 1: The Jedi by Pat Carpenter (A saga that begins when Luke Skywalker's father decides there must be more to life than working on a moisture farm on Tatooine... and ends beyond the Battle of the Death Star -- all taking place in an alternate Star Wars universe.) (15)
* Alternate Quintette, part 2: Darth by Pat Carpenter (25)
* Before the Fall by Kelly Hill (poem) (30)
* Alternate Quintette, part 3: Lord of Ennahr by Pat Carpenter (31)
* Alternate Quintette, part 4: The Sith by Pat Carpenter (47)
* Lord and Lady Vader by Pat Carpenter (57)
* Star-Toons
* The Stormtrooper's Lament by Leslie Fish and Roberta Rogow (filk) (61)
* The Sith in the "Black Jedi" Universe, a Cultural & Historical Perspective by Patricia A. Munson (63)
* One of Those Days (inspired by Connie Faddis' cartoon appearing in Warped Space 29/30) by Jane Firmstone (69)
* Alderaan by Susan Wyllie (poem) (74)
* What Good is a Reward... ? by Roberta Rogow (What did Han Solo do with the reward the Rebels gave him?) (75)
* To Uncle Owen by RoByn Thompson (78)
* The Black Jedi Presentation by Patricia A. Munson (Two presentations: One, a Cultural and Historical Perspective. Two, another story in the "Black Jedi" series, a vital mission.) (81)
* Business as Usual by Anna Mary Hall (Han Solo and Chewie return to Tatooine to settle an old debt, with rather unsettling results.) (99) 
* Distress Call by Diana K. Moore (Han Solo is hired to test a new navigational computer -- which takes him to a totally unfamiliar, and unexpected, destination.) (117)
* Alternate Quintette, part 5: The Chosen by Pat Carpenter (a very rare Deathfic in this fandom) (149)
* art by Randy Ash, Stanley M. Campbell, Gordon Carleton, Connie Faddis, Amy R. Falkowitz, Jane Firmstone, Doug Herring (cover), Kathy Higley, Winston A. Howlett, Monica Miller, P.A. Munson, Carrie Rowles, Joni Wagner, Susan Wyllie
==Sample Interior==
File:Showcasepresents1.jpg|Stanley M. Campbell, one of the original fold-outs
File:Showcasepresents2.jpg|Joni Wagner, one of the foldouts
File:Showcasepresentstwo.jpg|Joni Wagner
File:Showcasepresents3.jpg|Gordon Carleton
File:Showcasepresents4.jpg|first page of the David Prowse interview
File:Showcasepresents5.jpg|Kathy Higley
File:Showcasepresents6.jpg|Monica Miller
File:Showcasepresents7.jpg|Kathy Higley
File:Showcasepresents8.jpg|Randy Ash
File:Showcasepresents9.jpg|Carrie Rowles, one illo invokes a scrod
File:Showcasepresents10.jpg|P.A. Munson
File:Showcasepresents11.jpg|Carrie Rowles
File:Showcasepresents12.jpg|P.A. Munson
File:Showcasepresents13.jpg|Stanley M. Campbell
File:Showcasepresents14.jpg|Doug Herring
File:Showcasepresents15.jpg|Stanley M. Campbell
File:Showcasepresents16.jpg|Susan Wyllie
File:Showcasepresents17.jpg|Kathy Higley
File:Showcasepresents18.jpg|Kathy Higley
File:Showcasepresents19.jpg|a rare illo by Connie Faddis, that of a cartoon; reprinted from Warped Space #29/30
File:Showcasepresents20.jpg|Winston Howlett
File:Showcasepresents21.jpg|Carrie Rowles
File:Showcasepresents22.jpg|Kathy Higley, portrays Biggs
==Reactions and Reviews==
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==References==
Category:Star Wars Zines
Category:Star Trek TOS Zines
Category:1979 Zines