Woodward, Ian, editor

Some notes on Dylan. [Afterwards, The Wicked Messenger], nos. 1-238 [complete]

N.p. but U.K. [publisher not identified], 1980-1985. The Wicked Messenger was begun in December 1980 as Some Notes on Dylan (4 issues only), initially circulated privately and printed by photocopy. When The Telegraph started in November 1981, The Wicked Messenger was included as loose-leaf inserts until November 1985 (# 1 to # 238), then as the main part of the Rolling Telegraph Supplement until November 1988 (# 239 to # 429). For a period, there was parallel publication of The Wicked Messenger in Look Back. Since December 1988, The Wicked Messenger has been an integral part of Isis magazine from no. 430 on. The last issue was no. 2271, which is dated in January 2009. The Wicked Messenger ran for just over 28 years, which is slightly more than 80 issues a year on average. Included here are the first four Some Notes on Dylan (1980-81); and The Wicked Messenger, nos. 5-238 (1981-85), all printed by photocopy and stapled into 3 plain gray stiff paper wrappers. 4to (11" x 8½"), 238 pages in all, each number of The Wicked Messenger consisting of a single page. The sequence of The Wicked Messenger, which extends beyond the single leaf inserts in The Telegraph (as here), to the Rolling Telegraph Supplements and finally into Isis, is confusing and perplexing. Bowling Green, La Salle, Santa Cruz and Minnesota Histoical in OCLC, each with indeterminate runs. Item #60636

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