My Name AIN'T Mary Sue!

My Name AIN'T Mary Sue! is a gen, perhaps het, anthology.
==A One-Time Planned Sister Zine==
At one point, a sister zine called "My Name AIN'T Mary Sue: Special Gay/Lesbian Issue" was planned, but it was not published. 
According to a submission request in Southern Enclave #38 in 1994: 
==Disclaimer==
From issue #2: 
==Issue 1==
My Name AIN'T Mary Sue! 1 was published in January 1993 and contains 164 pages. It contains no interior art.
The editors mention that this zine began in "an introductory newsletter, published back in August 1992." 
 
The zine has many, many acknowledgments. One of them: "All women in fandom everywhere — for breaking the mold! Whoever wrote that old Lt. Mary Sue story that started it all -- please "come out" and join us!"
* Acknowledgments (1)
* Kimber's Editorial (2)
* Julie's Editorial (3)
* The Tapes of Eddy Sin by Autumn Lee (Simon and Simon) (5)
* Cat's Paw (or, "Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been?") by Cheshire de la Croix (War of the Worlds) (17)
* The Shadow by Jon Cephas (Star Wars) (23)
* Only a Child by Julie Evans ("Author's Note: The following is a re-worked and expanded excerpt from my unpublished novel, "The Prisoner," in which the character of Jessica Kozel is introduced. It appears in the novel as a flashback to help clarify the source of the tension between Picard and Kozel.") (Star Trek: TNG) (31)
* A Darkness in the Woods by J.L Hallmark (Twin Peaks) (39)
* Quiet Fire, (An Excerpt from Harrison Blackwood's Journal), by Anonymous (War of the Worlds) (43)
* Congratulations, It's a Mary Sue! part 2 by Kimber Norquest (Star Trek: TOS) (49)
* Red Carpet Treatment by Karen Rhodes (Hawaii Five-O) (53)
* The White Tiger by Pat Ames (Land of the Lost) (59)
* Kendra's Lament by Amy Butzlaff (Hawk the Slayer) (77)
* That Old Black Magic by Cinda Gillilan (reprinted from Doin' the Job #1, also in Black Magic #1) (Miami Vice) (93)
* Tellin' It Like It Is (letters of comments), one of them is the essay I still haven't seen a good definition of a Mary Sue) (139)
* Pure Nonsense and Blatant Self-Indulgence:
** OOPS! Department (143)
** Deep Space Nine, a filk to the tune of Gilligan's Island, by Jon Cphas (144)
** I'll Be Home for Christmas (Or Picard's Worst Nightmare), a parody vignette by Julie and Kimber (Star Trek: TNG) (145)
** The Corporate Con Crisis: Does Fandom Really Belong to the Fans Anymore? by Julie and Kimber (152)
* About the Authors: pages 155-164
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
 
==Issue 2==
My Name AIN'T Mary Sue! 2 was published in 1994 (1993 is on the cover, but 1994 is the copyright inside) and contains 223 pages. All the art, including the cover, is by Jonathan Cephas.
 
From one of the editorials: 
* Ye Editorial: Sex and the Fine Art of Selling Out (or, In Case You're Wondering Why the Zine is Late) (i)
* Ye Co-Editor's Page
Section 1: The Mary Sue Stories
* Seven Nights in Sammystown by Cheshire de la Croix (War of the Worlds) (1)
* Ghosts of the Past by Autumn Lee (Simon and Simon) (37)
* The Laughing Vulcan and Her Plants by Kimber Norquest (Star Trek: TNG) (63)
* It Happened in Atlanta by Amy Butzlaff (The Highwayman) (71)
* The Dark: Even in His Youth by Johnathan Cephas (not listed in the table of contents) (Star Wars) (85)
* A Silence Between Warriors, TNG by Ann Rogers Dodd (Star Trek: TNG) (95)
* And the Bones Came Together (Or, "You've Got the Right String, but the Wrong Yo-Yo") by Cheshire de la Croix (War of the Worlds) (97)
* Phoenix by Karen Rhodes (Hawaii Five-O) (137)
Section 2: Tellin' It Like It T-I-Is (LoCs)
* Karen Rhodes, comment on the essay The Corporate Con Crisis: Does Fandom Really Belong to the Fans Anymore? (1)
* James C. Bassett (2)
Section 3: Pure Nonsense and Blatant Self-Indulgence
* I'll Be Home For Christmas (or Picard's Worst Nightmare), part two by the editors (1)
* Mary Sue Speak: Or "How to Understand Your Editors the Next Time You Run Into Them Around the Con Suite!" (a personal glossary of many in-jokes and terms regarding fannish terms) (9)
* Who Do You Think You're Calling a Con Slut?, essay about women, clothing, and consent (13)
Section 4: Shameless Promotion/The Ad Section
==References==
 
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