Rats Tales

You may be looking for Rat Tales (a Professionals zine), or RATales (a Krycek mailing list).
Rats Tales is a gen Blake's 7, Doctor Who and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fiction anthology. 
This zine series appears to be related to Queen Bat and Space Rat and was published by the same fans as Yrch!.
==Issue 1==
Rats Tales 1 was published in 1986. The front cover is Glen Hattersley.
The editor was Jackie Marshall. 
* "Early Days" by Ken McBride (B7)
* "The Sprung Trap" by Audrey Baker (Judge Dredd)
* "Madame La Baronne" by Philippa Irving (unknown fandom)
* "One of Those Days" by Carolyn Douglas (Hitchhiker's Guide)
* "Prelude" by Val Douglas (unknown fandom)
* "Marvin" by Carol West (poem, Hitchhiker's) 
* "The Priz" (cartoon, uncredited)
 
File:Ratstales1.jpg|front cover of issue #1
File:Ratstales1-1.jpg|inside page from issue #1, Paul Richardson
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
==Issue 2==
Rats Tales 2 was published in 1987. The front and back covers are by Paul Richardson. The interior art is by Sue Graham, Paul Cornell, and David Tulley.
 
* Facade of Daemons by Andy Lane and Craig Hinton (5)
* The Last Enemy by David Bell (7)
* No Offense Intended by Carol Livingstone (19)
* song by Lucy Zinckiewicz (25)
* Epitaph by Carol West (26)
* Starvation World by Miles Booy (27)
* "Beneath That Cold Exterior..." by Justin Richards (42)
* Echoes by Tim Westmacott (44)
* The Scan by David Tanner (45)
* The Twins by Nick Cooper (47)
* song by Lucy Zinckiewicz (50)
* Zen and Oral by Steve Bowkett (51)
* Parasite by David Tulley (53)
* His Last Name at Last Revealed by Ros Williams (Blake's 7) (63)
* Mammon by Mark Gillespie (70)
Image:ratstales2-1.jpg|inside page from issue #2, Paul Richardson
Image:ratstales2-2.jpg|inside page from issue #2, David Tulley
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2==
==Issue 3==
Rats Tales 3 was published in 1988 and contains 71 pages. It has a front cover by Amanda Kear. The back cover by Ian Colledge. The inside back cover is by Roz Barnes.
The editor apologizes for its late publication, see image below.
* Tail Ends (2)
* Christmas on Moonbase Alpha by Paul A. Pearson (4)
* a/w by Dan Bowden (5)
* Requiem by Jan Harley (6)
* Love, Peace & Bells by Jackie Marshall (20)
* a'w by Sue Graham (29)
* Murder at Stony Flats by Audrey Baker (30)
* Do Mutants Dream of Illegal Sheep? by Alan J. Sim (37)
* a/w by Amanda Kear (40)
* poem by Lucy Zinkiewicz (43)
* Gibby the Globule by Dan Bowden (44)
* Down the Time Lines, Like the Wind by Miles Booy (45)
* poem by Lucy Zinkiewicz (49)
* Traveller by David Tulley (50)
* And All Because... by Douggie (59)
* Men, Moths, and Mi'Cronnions by Carol Livingstone (60)
* poem by Lucy Zinkiewicz (65) 
* The Queen Bat Superteams Contest by Paul Cornell (66)
* Solitary Reflections by Sue Bursztynski (68)
* Outsider by Tim Westmacott (69)
* Bits ov Various Films and Sometimes Lives by David Tulley (70)
* a/w by Roz Barnes (71)
* Star Trawler by Iaian College (72)
[[Image:rattales3late.jpg|the editorial from issue #3
 Image:ratstales3insideback.jpg|inside back cover of issue #3
==References==
Category:Doctor Who Zines
Category:Blake's 7 Gen Zines
Category:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Category:1980s