Wanted: The Missing Issue
Issue 16 from May 1978
Issue 15 was dated March 1978
Where is the issue from April 1978?
Get the April 1978 Missing Issue
Readers with very long memories may remember – and the sharp-eyed among those who have accessed AM’s back catalogue online may have noticed – that something is missing from the year 1978. A quick count would soon reveal that only nine issues were published that year instead of ten.
The missing magazine is for the month of April, which would have been issue 16. Instead, the number was carried over seamlessly to the May issue, which ran a fulsome apology and explanation from Peter Townsend and his co-editor and publisher, Jack Wendler: ‘The fact is that we got behind on schedules and despaired and decided that the only way to pick up on schedules was to drop an issue.’ The apology concludes with the words, ‘We’ll try not to let it happen again’ – and it didn’t.
To celebrate 40 years of continuous publication, AM is invited readers to help create a virtual issue for April 1978 to complete the set.
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