{"id":26620,"date":"2024-02-21T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=26620"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:09:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:09:38","slug":"helix-magazine-1967-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/02\/21\/helix-magazine-1967-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Helix magazine, 1967\u20131968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix01.jpg\" alt=\"helix01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another underground magazine, this one originating in Seattle during the first wave of the counter-cultural publications that flourished from the mid-60s on. Wikipedia says that <em>Helix<\/em> managed 125 bi-weekly issues from 1967 to 1970; the Internet Archive has <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/04-08_202312\/01-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first 42 issues<\/a> which run to October 1968 (the uploader&#8217;s dates are out by a year each way). When so few of these magazines are available online this makes a welcome change. As usual, the passage of time means that the ads are just as interesting as the editorial material, while the quality of the art and design improves as the magazine evolves. I&#8217;ve been too busy this week to go through all the issues but I&#8217;ve picked out some of the more notable covers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix02.jpg\" alt=\"helix02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix03.jpg\" alt=\"helix03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix04.jpg\" alt=\"helix04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix05.jpg\" alt=\"helix05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix06.jpg\" alt=\"helix06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix07.jpg\" alt=\"helix07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix08.jpg\" alt=\"helix08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix09.jpg\" alt=\"helix09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix10.jpg\" alt=\"helix10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix11.jpg\" alt=\"helix11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix12.jpg\" alt=\"helix12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix13.jpg\" alt=\"helix13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix14.jpg\" alt=\"helix14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/helix15.jpg\" alt=\"helix15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/04\/26\/consulting-the-oracle\/\">Consulting the Oracle<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/03\/20\/gandalfs-garden-magazine\/\">Gandalf\u2019s Garden magazine<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/10\/27\/oz-magazine-online\/\">Oz magazine online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another underground magazine, this one originating in Seattle during the first wave of the counter-cultural publications that flourished from the mid-60s on. Wikipedia says that Helix managed 125 bi-weekly issues from 1967 to 1970; the Internet Archive has the first 42 issues which run to October 1968 (the uploader&#8217;s dates are out by a year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/02\/21\/helix-magazine-1967-1968\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Helix magazine, 1967\u20131968&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazines","category-politics","category-psychedelia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-6Vm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}