Syndicated Images

Syndicated Images is a gen multimedia fanzine. It was printed in Australia and was edited by J.J. Adamson.
There are eight issues, and it was bi-monthly.
==The Psueds==
It was edited by Jane of Australia using the pseud "JJ Adamson." All but four of the stories in the zine series was by Jane using different pseuds (Jack Heston, Peta Brock, Jane Sterling, G.W. Conrad, Adam Jenson), which Jane sometimes talked about in the third person. "But for now, I'll take the time that's fallen to me to rave about Jack Heston's work which appears in SYNDICATED IMAGES #1. Jack, as you'll have noticed by this time, is a major contributor: he's been sitting on his stories for some time, there being so few media zines within reach, and they've all surfaced at last. Bunch by bunch, we'll be working away at them, getting them all into print, as well as his new stories, and those of other media writers like Adam Jenson, Jane Stirling and Elyse Dickenson." -- from Jane's letter at the end of issue #2 "The story which dominates the first issue is on-the-shelf already: Jack Heston and Adam Jenson are
together, co-writing the same story - and what a story it is!" -- from an ad in issue #3 
==Challenges and Its Demise==
The zine series had a bumpy road, and the editor often complained about the challenges it faced. The zine folded after eight issues in fifteen months, which the editor ultimately blamed on zine piracy.
Other issues that contributed to the zine's demise: finding an audience for its media fiction, the high cost of shipping print zines from Australia to other countries, fans may have not enjoyed the fiction and/or the art style which relied heavily on headcanon The editor's summary of a story by Jack Heston in issue #4: "[He's at his] nuts-and-bolts, nitty-gritty best!" , the possibility that if fans did like the fiction of one writer they were out-of-luck due to the fact that all but four of the stories were by the same person, perhaps because each issue was published a very quick two months after the previous one which presented a financial and postal service challenge, and yes, there was the aforementioned zine piracy.
==It Was Entropy Press' First Publication==
This zine series is Entropy Press' first publication. While the first issue of "Syndicated Images" has a publication date, one of the press' creators cites "Entropy Press'" beginning as late 1984. "When Entropy Press first came into existence in late 1984 it was with the launch of the media zine SYNDICATED IMAGES." 
==About==
From the editorial in "Syndicated Images" #1: 
From the editorial of Burning Skies (1991): 
==Disappointing Sales==
In May 1985, the editor wrote: 
==Closing Up Shop==
In a long, long personal statement in 1986 that was printed in Universal Translator #32, Jane of Australia said Entropy Express was closing down shop due to zine piracy: 
==General Reactions and Reviews==
==Issue 1==
Syndicated Images 1 was published in January 1985 and contains 52 pages. 
According to the very lengthy editorial in issue #2, this issue was about a month late due to communication problems with the Australian train service and communication. 
* The Destroyer by Mike Adamson ("On an arid moon, Boomer discovers the remains of a lost alien culture, little imagining that the means of its downfall is still desperately close at hand.") (Battlestar Galactica) (3)
* Dangerous Legacy by Adam Jenson ("At the edges of nowhere, Servalan offers Avon amnesty -- at a price. To delve into a mystery long in his past, and which he swore he would never go near again.") (Blake's 7) (16)
* Widowmaker by Jack Heston ("The Captains of Skydiver 6 always seem to die in combat, but Peter Carlin doesn't believe in jinxes, and when Sky 6 joins him in battle, he knows it's time to lay the ghost") (UFO) (also in Flightpath #1) (23)
* Dear Uncle Frank by Jane Sterling ("Life on Jim Kirk's Enterprise, seen through the eyes of a true-blue Aussie as she writes her Uncle up the bush...") (This may have been reprinted in Federation.) (Star Trek) (28)
* Postcard from Corel by Jane Sterling ("Luke may be "the kid who blew up the Deathstar" but that's no guarantee against being ensnared in red-tape and at the mercy of petty officialdom. It's enough to drive a Jedi to drink!" (Star Wars) (32)
* Freefire by Peta Brock, art by JJ, from an original film script by JJ and Mike Adamson ("A highjacking at London airport brings CI5 into conflict with old adversaries.") (The Professionals) (reprinted in Longshot) (34)
* E=MC3, letter from the editor (51)
 
Image:syndicated1-1.jpg|from issue #1, Mike Adamson
Image:syndicated1-2.jpg|from issue #1, JJ Adamson
Image:syndicated1-3.jpg|from issue #1, Mike Adamson 
Image:syndicated1-4.jpg|from issue #1, JJ Adamson
Image:syndicated1-5.jpg|from issue #1, JJ Adamson 
 
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1===
 
==Issue 2==
Syndicated Images 2 was published in March 1985 and is 47 pages long. 
* Luke's Kingdom by Jack Heston. The last summer of Luke's old life on Tatooine is a learning experience, in spades. Come with Luke on this first part of a classic adventure! (Star Wars) (reprinted in Burning Skies) (3)
* Action: Marineville by Jack Heston. The forces of Titan, the evil undersea tyrant, strike at the heart of the World Aquanaut Security Patrol! Fully rewritten and expanded. (Stingray (1964 TV series)) (16)
* Dear Uncle Frank - Again by Jane Sterling. Jim and the crew play diplomat to environmental activists with an axe to grind, as the Aussie continues her memoirs... (This may have been reprinted in Federation.) (Star Trek: TOS) (22)
* The Sentinal by Jack Heston. On a planet rich in mineral wealth, the crew of the Nostromo discover the terrifying machines of an alien warzone. (Alien prequel) (26)
* Freefire by Peta Brock, the conclusion (a novelisation of the original screenplay by JJ and Mike Adamson) (The Professionals) (35)
* Zine Ads (48)
* Letter from the Editor: "Typing, 'flu, and SuperViv..." (This section was supposed to contain letters of comment, but did not due to problems with the Australian trains and communication.) (49)
 
Image:syndicated2-1.jpg|from issue #2, Mike Adamson
Image:syndicated2-2.jpg|from issue #2, Mike Adamson
Image:syndicated2-3.jpg|from issue #2, Mike Adamson
Image:syndicated2-4.jpg|from issue #2, JJ Adamson
Image:syndicated2-5.jpg|from issue #2, Mike Adamson
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2===
==Combined Issue 1 and 2==
 
In 1995, issues #1 and #2 were revamped and revised and published as a 160-page double-issue.
* The Destroyer by Mike Adamson (Battlestar Galactica)
* Dangerous Legacy by Adam Jenson (Blake's 7)
* Widowmaker by Jack Heston (UFO)
* Dear Uncle Frank by Jane Sterling (This may have been reprinted in Federation.) (Star Trek)
* Dear Uncle Frank - Again by Jane Sterling (This may have been reprinted in Federation.) (Star Trek)
* Postcard From Corel by Jane Sterling (Star Wars)
* Freefire by Peta Brock (The Professionals)
* Luke's Kingdom by Jack Heston (Star Wars)
* Action: Marinevlle by Jack Heston (Gerry Anderson's Stingray)
* The Sentinel by Jack Heston (Alien)
* Jarrat by Mike Adamson (Jammed between advancing basestars and a heavily fortified and cleverly camouflaged Cylon asteroid, the only hope for the fleet is a suicide raid by the elite of her fighter squadrons, in which the warrior Jarrat is a wildcard: is he insane, or merely driven harder than any human being can handle?) (Battlestar Galactia)
 
==Issue 3==
Syndicated Images 3 was published in May 1985 and contains 50 pages. 
One of the topics of the editorial is disappointing sales. See more here. And excerpt: 
* Kronos by Jack Heston ("The kind of nitty-gritty story you really wish they'd tell on the show, though they never do. Michael and KITT only think they've been in trouble before: In the wastes of Baja California they meet a machine called Kronos. and the story builds to a showstopper of a climax.") (Knight Rider) (3)
* The Argyll Intercept by Jack Heston ("One of Jack's favourite fields is that of Gerry Anderson fandom. Here, he takes Scarlet and Blue out into the wilds of Scotland, as the Mysterons set out to destroy the World Navy docks.") (Captain Scarlet) (20)
* Prey by Mike Adamson (Battlestar Galactica) ("Long famed for his BSG work, Mike Adamson Is back with a story of survival; Fredrick Brown's ARENA Is the classic format for this Gothic Horror In which Starbuck finds himself enmeshed. Starbuck. alone, has the only gun. and Centurlan Torgan, also alone. Is unarmed: but Cylons can see when a man Is blind...") (25)
* Hit and Run by Jack Heston ("A follow-up to the first Luke's Kingdom story. In SI 12 — but it doesn't matter if you haven't read it, this is a series rather than a serial. In that each of the stories prop themselves up. Luke hasn't got home yet after his slight altercation with Jabba The Hut; here, he's mixed up with Imperials, and Rebels! Princess Leia's operation was not his first brush with Insurrection!") (Star Wars) (reprinted in Burning Skies) (34)
* Worm's Eye View by Adam Jenson ("Avon's idea of a vacation is a comuter fair — without his fellow inmates from the ship! What could go wrong? Well, nothing really, but it's amazing what can happen without anything really going wrong! Situation comedy at, perhaps, it's most unexpected!") (Blake's 7) (39)
 
Image:syndicated3-1.jpg|from issue #3, JJ Adamson
Image:syndicated3-2.jpg|from issue #3, Mike Adamson
Image:syndicated3-5.jpg|from issue #3, Mike Adamson
Image:syndicated3-4.jpg|from issue #3, JJ Adamson
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3===
==Issue 4==
Syndicated Images 4 was published in July 1985 and contains 49 pages.
This issue contains an ad for telepix that Entropy Express was selling: 
From the editorial: 
* Cadenza by Adam Jenson ("Adam is back with a tale from his other favourite show. It's an intrigue piece, where Doyle is missing and the answer to the whole baffling riddle is tied up in the manuscript of Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto. See if you can figure this one out before the last page!") (The Professionals) (reprinted in Longshot) (3)
* Friends and Traitors by Adam Jenson ("Here's a really different UFO story, with an Allen who is trying to defect, an old comrade of Straker's, a gun battle in the wilderness and a nail-biting race against time - can Alec get there before Straker surrenders to his wounds or the UFO renders the whole situation academic?! Here is Adam Jenson as you've never read him before!") (UFO) (also in Flightpath #1) (11)
* KITT Alone by Jack Heston (Knight Rider) (18)
* The Pharoah Sanction by G.W. Conrad (" Here's a new writer with a new subject, and a story you won't be able to put down, as Max Rockatanski and his Dog do battle against a strange, crazed biker tribe in the wilderness near Broken Hill where Max finds the city reduced to a ghost town and a mechanical fortress inhabited by an old man who holds the secret of unlimited fuel and firepower!") (Mad Max 2) (20)
* Imperium, Inferno by Jack Heston ("This begins a new post-Jedi SW series. In which all the characters appear. Jack Heston at his nuts-and-bolts, nitty-gritty best! Skin-of-the-teeth adventure as the star-destroyers advance on the Calamari homeworld and the Rebels fight a desperate rear-guard...") (Return of the Jedi) (27)
* The Video Voyages, review of the movie The Search for Spock and the book Ishmael by JJ Adamson (46)
* The Fanzine File, ads (48)
 
Image:syndicated4-1.jpg|from issue #3, a telepix, see comments about the inclusion of more photos rather than art going forward in the comments for issue #4
Image:syndicated4-2.jpg|from issue #3, Mike Adamson
Image:syndicated4-3.jpg|from issue #3, first page of the article 
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 4===
==Combined Issue 3 and 4 (NEVER PUBLISHED)==
==Issue 5==
Syndicated Images 5 was published in September 1985 and contains 50 pages.
From the editorial: 
The editors remark again about sales: 
* Mandalay by Jack Heston "Scarlet and Blue are ferrying a leviathan generator from its manufacturers in Israel to its destination in Burma. By road is the only way. and a lethal high-speed road war ensues as Scarlet is afraid he has made a lethal, irreversible mistake!") (Captain Scarlet) (3)
* The Carrier 60 Incident, by G.W. Conrad ("G.W. is back with his second story in SI, and this is a futuristic Gothic horror in which Enterprise answers a mayday from a Federation ore carrier, and a terror begins that could engulf the whole galaxy...") (Star Trek: TOS) (13)
*Waiting Game, by Elyse Dickenson ("It's a protracted game of nerves for Han Solo, played with a grenade in one hand and only the life of an Imperial officer to bargain with.") (Star Wars) (19)
* Viper Starhound by Mike Adamson ("Apollo and Jolly escort Tiger Flight — six raw pilot cadets — on their first training missing; if was never intenc- ed to become a battle, but Fate had other ideas!") (Battlestar Galactica) (27)
* Imperium — Safehaven by Adam Jenson ("With the Empire breathing down its neck, the Rebellion knows it needs a new base, and Luke Skywalker is dispatched to scout a likely planet; however, this planet is inhabited -- and this time, the natives are neither small nor cute. Luke is in a lot of trouble.") (Star Wars) (38)
* Behind Thunderdome: The Making of Mad Max 3, article by Mike Adamson (44) 
* The Fanzine File (48)
* E=MC3, letters of comment (50)
 
Image:syndicated5-1.jpg|from issue #5, a telepix
Image:syndicated5-2.jpg|from issue #5, Martynn
Image:syndicated5-3.jpg|from issue #5, Mike Adamson
Image:syndicated5-4.jpg|from issue #5, Mike Adamson
==Issue 6==
Syndicated Images 6 was published in November 1985 and is 57 pages long. 
From the editorial: 
* The Tartarus Incident: Black Has Darker Shades by Adam Jenson ("Was it a rescue or a massacre? Is Travis really as black as they paint him, or are there darker and lighter -- shades of black??!") (Blake's 7) (3) 
* Fire on the Border by Jack Heston ("An oil well fire on the Bereznik border, and Scott Tracy finds himself at war, pitting Thunderbird 1 against ballistic missles before they can undo the rescue operation!") (Thunderbirds) (13) 
* Innocent Revenge by Valerie DeVries ("Bodie and Doyle are set to catch a subway killer, and the criminal turns out to be less a surprise than a shock, especially for Bodie!" )(Professionals) (18) 
* Imperium — Calypso by Adam Jenson ("As the Rebels settle in to their new base, Han Solo is dispatched on a mission to an ocean world. It should have been a romp in paradise, but...") (Star Wars) (30) 
* Operation: Obliterate by G.W. Conrad ("This story is set prior to the tenth episode of the series and ignores the deteriorated/redrawn/wrecked format. The Resistance has been planning this operation for a long time, it's the biggest wipeout ever felt by the Reptiles, and despite Mike Donovan's jubilation there remains one last and bitter chore before victory can be counted honourable.") (V) (40)
* The Fanzine File (58)
Image:syndicated6-1.jpg|from issue #5, JJ Adamson 
Image:syndicated6-2.jpg|from issue #5, JJ Adamson 
Image:syndicated6-3.jpg|from issue #5, telepix 
Image:syndicated6-4.jpg|from issue #5, JJ Adamson 
==Issue 7==
Syndicated Images 7 was published in April 1986 and contains 52 pages. It has blue paper covers with a tape binding over the staples. 
From the editorial: 
A synopsis of "Sink the Greenpeace!" part one (as printed at the top of the second part of the story in the next issue): 
* Action: Cortez, by Jack Heston ("Smugglers and Aquaphibians in the sunny Gulf of California — and a death trap for the supersub.") (Stingray) (3)
* Luke's Kingdom #3, 'Ocean Of Stone' by Jack Heston ("Luke still hasn't got home, and his trusty T-16 lets him down at last, plunging him into a wilderness where even the Jawas can't subsist. Luke is in very big trouble, and it's odd that his only friend should be an Imperial soldier!") (Star Wars) (10)
* Constitution Hospital, by G.W. Conrad ("Murdock and Face go under cover, patient and doctor, to expose a scam that is milking citizens of big money within the retrace of a psychiatric hospital!" (The A-Team) (27)
* Sink The Greenpeace!, Part One, by Adam Jenson and Jack Heston ("The new Greenpeace protest vessel is putting in to England to lead a protest fleet against the Norwegian whalers; strange, that known French terrorists and secret service personnel should also be in the city. Then — an anonymous phone call and an explosion! And CI-5 are in top gear! This whale-sized story (pun intended) concludes in SI #8, when Bodie and Doyle take to the high seas.") (The Professionals) (35)
* a review by Brian Cotter of Prime Attack
 
Image:syndicated7-1.jpg|from issue #7, Mike Adamson
Image:syndicated7-2.jpg|from issue #7, JJ Adamson
Image:syndicated7-3.jpg|from issue #7, telepix
==Issue 8==
Syndicated Images 8 was published in 1986 and contains 80 pages. It contains stories from Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, UFO, Star Trek: TOS, Star Wars, The Professionals.
From the editor: 
* Night Trap by Jack Heston ("It's a struggle against time and the unknown when SHADO seeks to ensnare the enemy in a battle of wits.") (reprinted in Flightpath #1, using a different pseud: G.W. Conrad) (UFO) (3)
* The Adventures Of Captain Adonis by Jane Sterling ("Interfleet Video are making a video adventure series based loosely on the careers of Starbuck and Apollo. It's a morale booster. It boosts everyone's morale, but Starbuck's and Apollo's, because they are unfortunate enough to be doing the stunt flying for the tall, blonde 'fairy' who plays the hero!" Another publisher's summary: "Aboard the battlestar, Interfleet Broadcasting are making a TV series loosely based on the exploits of Starbuck and Apollo, which pleases everyone but the two pilots. They do all the hard work while the actor gets 'the bows.") (Battlestar Galactica) (16)
* Sink the Greenpeace!, part two by Adam Jenson ("Bodie and Doyle take to the high seas in a life-and-death situation that will tax their ingenuity to the limit. London was never like this!") (The Professionals) (24)
* Imperium: Thunder in the Heavens by Jack Heston ("The Series concludes with this massive space opera when Rebels and Empire lock horns once more to decide the future of the Galaxy.") (Star Wars) (45)
 
Image:syndicatedimages8-1.jpg|from issue #8, Mike Adamson
Image:syndicatedimages8-2.jpg|from issue #8, JJ Adamson
Image:syndicatedimages8-3.jpg|from issue #8, telepix
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 8===
==Issue 9 (NEVER PUBLISHED)==
==Best Of Issue==
Best of Syndicated Images was published in 1986 and contains 47 pages. 
It's content is unknown.
==References==
 
Category:Multimedia Gen and Het Zines
Category:1980s