1967 AVATAR BOSTON UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPER VOL. 1 NO. 1 MEGA RARE

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1967 AVATAR BOSTON UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPER
VOL. 1 NO. 1 MEGA RARE
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(newspaper)
Avatar was an American underground newspaper published
in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1967-1968. The newspaper's
first issues were published from the headquarters of
Broadside magazine in Cambridge.
Avatar was started by a varied group of people from
different parts of the Boston countercultural scene,
but quickly came to be dominated by the Fort Hill
Community, led by Mel Lyman, a charismatic banjo and
harmonica-playing folk musician who had, over some
years in Boston and Cambridge, become the center of
a group called the Lyman Family.
Over time, disputes between the Fort Hill Community
and other factions involved in putting out the paper
led to an irreconcilable split, which ended that
cycle of the paper.
A total of 24 issues were printed bi-weekly from
June 9, 1967, through April 26, 1968. Toward the end
of its run, six issues (nos. 18-23) were published
in large-size broadsheet newspaper format, with a
tabloid size magazine insert. A 25th issue, dated
May 9, 1968, was assembled and printed by the
non-Fort Hill faction, but all but 500 copies of
the 35,000-copy press run were sequestered and
disposed of by the Fort Hill faction. Michael
Kindman, founder of the East Lansing underground
newspaper The Paper, briefly worked on Avatar and
remained with the group for five years. He later
wrote of his experiences, including his participation
in the theft, in his book My Odyssey Through the
Underground Press.
This paper is over 50 years old and shows some wear
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Will be shipped flat
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