Double or Nothing (Starsky and Hutch zine)

Double or Nothing is a slash Starsky and Hutch fanzine. 
==Publisher's Disclaimer==
 
==Issue 1==
Double or Nothing 1 was published in June 1995 and is 163 pages. 
The sparse art is by the author. 
This zine includes a very lengthy flyer for a zine called Nightwings, one which never materialized. It was to be a slash multimedia zine that had the characters "vampirized."
Summary from the publisher: 
From the editorial: 
* The Devil to Pay by Jane ( "A new narcotic appears on the streets, brought into the US by a 'boko' of a cult called 'Petro.' Black Vodoun blossoms in a heat wave, leaving Starsky and Hutch with questions for which there are no good answers.") (6)
* A Cherry Tree Grows in Venice by Jane ("Hutch takes out the Torino and has an accident; his relationship with Starsky is embryonic and fragile. Will this spell the end of it?") (70)
* Journeywork by Jane ("A clinical psychiatrist with a very special patient seeks the aid of Starsky and Hutch, and plunges them into the midst of scenes unimaginable, in a stormy California night ... and a touch of "the dark side of the force.") (90)
* Family Favorites by Jane ("Starsky finds out just exactly why Hutch left home. After this, he doesn't blame him! — to mystery with an SF element.") (152)
==Issue 2==
Double or Nothing 2 was published in 1998 and is 125 pages.
From the editorial: 
* The Future Can Wait One More Day by AMW ("Starsky is still fighting back from the shooting, and it's a long, hard road. Without Hutch to help him, and love to discover along the way, it's certain he wouldn't make it.") (6)
* The Interview by AMW ("In this story, neither character really did "make it" at all ... they drifted apart, and neither did well, until some blind chance brought them into the same approximate place, and the identical medical need, at the same time...") (54)
* Familiar Demons by Jane (From the author's notes: "This piece is a little experimental - in style, if not in content, and I'd be very pleased indeed to get a modicum of feedback. Please write, even if your comments are in the negative vein. The external story is very straightforward, but the internal one is convoluted indeed... in fact, the story that's taking place in 'the real world' is merely the backdrop here, and the real story is taking place in Hutch's mind. How well this works depends on two things: your own feelings toward such stories and treatments, and also... how well I wrote this!") -- ("For Hutch, this is a kind of baptism of fire: a friend has been shot in line of duty, when a job on the street went terribly wrong. That's well and good ... but Starsky can accept the horrific danger with which "street cops" work, and Hutch can't. It's one of the worst phases of his life., and the comes an epiphany...") (64)
==Issue 3==
Double or Nothing 3 was published in March 2002 and is 155 pages. Cover and interior art (black and white photomanips) is by Jade.
Link to the flyer is here.
The flyer describes a CD that may or may not have been part of this zine: 
From the zine's title page: 
Jane of Australia, the editor, also writes of the fundraiser for the new printer and of some of its results: 
* Wish List by Carla (poem) (9)
* Magnetism and the Case for Australia by B. Jones (10)
* On Any Sunday Night by Felicity (poem) (21)
* Secrets, Lies and Other Virtues by Lutra Cana ("Starsky is hiding secrets ... but what are they, and why must he hide them? Hutch had never even come close to guessing that Starsky was not quite the guy he had always believed, until one day — quite by chance — the truth comes out...") (22)
* Let It Be Me by Dara Rose ("The boys have been lovers for some time, but beneath the passionate surface tensions of their relationship runs an undercurrent of uncertainty. Women still notice Starsky and Hutch, and from time to time Starsky still notices women. Not that he'd go do anything except notice, you understand ... but the fact is, Hutch doesn't understand that. Yet.") (42)
* Birthdays Only Make You Older by Lutra Cana ("Twenty years after the shooting which almost cost Starsky his life, the partnership is still closer than close ... yet as Starsky runs up against the hurdle of yet another birthday he finds himself filled with doubt and questions. Is he "too old" for Hutch? More importantly, what does Hutch think about this?! In fact, Starsky's misgivings are barely even the tip of the iceberg, and when the confrontation is reached ... sometimes an explosion clears the air.") (76)
* Heat by Jane ("August in California is stifling and the emergency services are gearing up for the possibility -- probability -- of a major fire in the hills south-east of L.A. The city itself is simmering. Starsky and Hutch are sharing an apartment where the a/c has broken down, and there's such a "run" on the repair guys, the weather will probably break with a storm out of the Gulf before it's fixed. Meanwhile, in the city, Parker is stood on its head with shock as one of its most innovative, brilliant young detectives faces charges of rape, brought against him by a youth whom he just arrested for dealing. But the boy accusing him is known to be in the pay of a gangland boss against whom Parker's bright newcomer is soon to give evidence in a federal court -- all is not as it seems. Starsky and Hutch are pitchforked into a rollercoaster ride from L.A.'s sleazy city bottom to the blazing hills near the little town of Medina. Once near the heart of Spanish California, Medina is now under siege and literally at the center of a ring of fire. With California's emergency services cut off, the water supply failed, the smoke jumpers fighting to save the national forest and the highway jammed with frightened people trying to make it out, Starsky, Hutch — and their quarry — are on their own, in a battle of wits and a fight to survive.") (98)
==Issue 4 Plans==
A fourth issue was planned but not completed: 
==References==
Category:Starsky & Hutch Slash Zines
Category:1998 Zines
Category:1990s
Category:2000s