Tales From The Snail

In February of 1984, the Silver Snail published 

the first issue of a short lived newsletter/Fanzine 

and they called it

Tales From The Snail.

It came with a neat front cover by Ken Steacy showing his robotic Silver Snail mascot character and I am fairly sure, a stylized portrait of the cashier of the time.

In my stupidity, I have often referred to the girl on the cover as Sherri Moyer but it couldn't be her because Sherri was hired by Janet Jones, the manager after Mark Askwith and he didn't leave the store until 1987.

Then I read the "Staff" list inside the issue and the editor is credited as being Judi Kensley (by the second issue her name had changed to Judi Young, so I'm not quite sure what happened there) and I have to speculate that the girl on the cover just might be her.

Other people involved with the production were,

Associate Editors - Mark Askwith & Tom Stormonth

Contributing Editor - Martin Herzog

Art Director - Robert Badali

Word Processor - Carol Wood

The contents were eclectic, 

Comic Sense by John & Anthony Van Bruggen

An Interview with artist Ken Steacy

Who's Column (Dr. that is) by Will Hendrey

What's Hot & What's Not by John Migliore

Howard Chaykin salutes the Eaton Centre by Mark Askwith

and

An advert for the forthcoming In-Store appearance by

Marvel Comics Artist 

Paul Smith

who was drawing Dr. Strange at the time and who was as HOT as they come at the time.

I included the scan of the back cover for a couple of reasons.

Number one, I love the painting that Paul Rivoche made for this early version of The Silver Snail Poster

and number two, it shows that the Silver Snail empire had grown to include the Hamilton store.

In the next posting, I will cover the next issue or so and we'll see where that takes us.