Tribulta Times

Tribulta Times is a 39-page zine created by Edward Shields. 
The main focus is Star Trek: TOS, but there are about six pages of Star Wars at the end. 
If this zine WAS published in 1977, it makes it one of the earliest known fan-published zines with Star Wars content. See The First Star Wars Zines.
==Notes from the Editor==
==Contents==
* Notes from the Editor
* Space Mines, fiction by Mike Rathke (Star Trek: TOS) (1)
* short bios of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, with small photocopied images (6)
* small photocopied images of Sulu, Rand, Chapel, Uhura, Chekov (9)
* Captain Spock, fiction by Edward Shields (Star Trek: TOS) (10)
* info on Klingons, a crossword puzzle, (15)
* Bowling Anyone, a math logic problems by Edward Shields (Star Trek: TOS) (18)
* info on Romulans (22)
* Trivia Quiz (23)
* cartoon featuring a woman asking Spock, who is applying for a job at the Employment Agency: ("You say you're an expert on computer technology?" -- artist is Kim, reprinted from "Creative Computing" (?)
* word find (25)
* crossword puzzle answers, info about advertising in this zine (26)
* The Weapon, fiction by Edwards Shields (27)
* info about a raffle for fans to win a free issue of this zine if they send Edward the name of your favorite Trek episode (32)
* some photocopied Star Wars images, labeled "Puzzle Section" (33)
* word find (34)
* crossword puzzle (35)
* more photocopied Star Wars images (36)
* match up game (Star Wars) (37)
* more photocopied Star Wars images (38)
* a publicity still of Leonard Nimoy (39)
==Sample Interior==
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==The First Star Wars Zines==
* Hyper Space (fiction and non-fiction) ties with The Force (non-fiction) as the first zines with a focus of Star Wars. Both zines were published in June 1977.
* Warped Space #26/27, a multimedia zine published in July 1977, had a Star Wars cover, the artist was Gordon Carleton. In August 1977, "Warped Space" #28 had the first Star Wars story in a multimedia zine. Moonbeam #1/2 also contains an early story that was published in November 1977.
* Come Wars, a 1977 (month unknown) 16-page sexually explicit gay/slash comic by Sean
* Timespan, a 1977 (month unknown) included "The Saga of Jharal" a story about two Jedi's, pre-ANH
* Moonbeam #3 (focus of Star Wars fiction and art) The editor of "Moonbeam" says: "I believed for almost 30 years that it was in fact the first primarily Star Wars fiction fanzine, but I recently learned that Skywalker, the exceptional Star Wars zine edited by Bev Clark, was in fact first by a couple of weeks. Ah well. I was still one of the first, and probably the first on the East Coast..".Actually, according to the dates on the zines themselves, "Moonbeam" was first; perhaps there was an understood wiggle-room with the distribution? and the letterzine, Alderaan, a letterzine with a Star Wars focus, were both published in February 1978.
* Against the Sith (Star Wars fiction and non-fiction) and Skywalker (Star Wars fiction) were both published in April 1978. From Nancy Duncan in "Against the Sith's" editorial: "We know of two other SW zines so far, Hyperspace .... and Skywalker." This statement is contradicted in December 1985 by the editor of "Skywalker," Bev Clark, in comments to Southern Enclave #10: "AGAINST THE SITH came out a few weeks before SKYWALKER, no more than six. Neither was the first SW fanzine, exactly. The very first fanzine was a small, poorly produced effort out of Long Beach, called THE FORCE; it was more like a traditional SF fanzine in that it didn't have much fiction. It was also what is bluntly called in SF fandom, a crudzine. The first fanzine to print all SW fiction, though admittedly as a single issue of a fanzine that was not devoted to SW to the exclusion of all else, was MOONBEAM 3, which came out in the late fall of 1977 or the early spring of 1978 before either AGAINST THE SITH or SKYWALKER, at any rate. SKYWALKER was certainly in preparation by then, however, it began in September, 1977." It appears that either Bev Clark is mis-remembering the date of her own fanzine's publication, or there is a difference of opinion about what constitutes the "beginning" of a zine, and that perhaps Clark is referring to when she first started collecting material, rather to when the zine was available to fans. 
==References==
Category:1977 Zines
Category:Star Wars Zines
Category:Star Trek TOS Gen and Het Anthology Zines