Archive of twelve issues of The Maureen O'Hara's Fan Club fanzine "Maureen O'Hara" (later "From Maureen To You"), 1955-1961

Binghamton, New York: Maureen O'Hara Fan Club, 1955-1961. Archive of twelve issues of the Maureen O'Hara's Fan Club's fanzine, 1955-1961.

Included in the archive are over 50 original photographs (ranging from 2.75 x 3.75 inches to 5.5 x 4 inches overall), largely of O'Hara, but also include other actors and fan club members, tipped into the fanzine with photo-corners (with the exception of two photographs in Vol. II, No. 1, which were glued in place). The issues range from 36 to 68 pages each, and all but one feature an illustration of O'Hara on the front wrapper made by a fan club member (Vol. 5, No. 3 features a reproduction of a photograph of O'Hara with fan club president John Kolcun).

The Maureen O'Hara Fan Club was founded in August 1955 by fan club president and editor John Kolcun of Binghamton, New York, and was supported and promoted by O'Hara (the "Honorary President" of the fan club), who frequently wrote an opening letter and supplied photographs for use in the fanzine. The first issue of the fanzine, "Maureen O'Hara," found in the archive here, was released in the fall of 1955. In 1959 the fanzine changed it's name to "From Maureen To You," beginning with issue Vol. V, No. 1: Spring-Summer, 1959 (also found in the archive here).

The twelve issues contained in the archive are: Vol. I, No. 1: Fall 1955; Vol. II, No. 1: Jan., Feb., March 1956; Vol. II, No. 2: April, May, June 1956; Vol. II, No. 4: Winter 1956-57; Vol. III, No. 1: Spring 1957; Vol. III, No. 2: Summer 1957; Vol. III, No. 3: Fall 1957; Vol. IV, No. 3: Winter 1958-59; Vol. V, No. 1: Spring-Summer 1959; Vol. V, No. 3: Winter-Spring 1960; [Vol. V, No. 4]: Fall-Winter 1960; and Vol. VI, No. 1: Spring 1961.

8.5 x 11 inches with illustrated card wrappers, spirit duplication reproduction, side stapled. Light toning to the wrappers overall, else Near Fine.

[Book #162937]