Fantasy Advertiser, later abbreviated to FA, was a British fanzine

Fanzine

A fanzine is a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particular cultural phenomenon for the pleasure of others who share their interest...

 which discussed comic books. It was initially edited by Frank Dobson, essentially as an advertising service for comic collectors, and when Dobson emigrated to Australia in 1970 he handed it on to two contributors, Dez Skinn

Dez Skinn

Derek "Dez" Skinn is a British comic and magazine editor, and author of a number of books on comics. As head of Marvel Comics' operations in England in the late 1970s, Skinn reformatted existing titles, launched new ones, and acquired the BBC license for Doctor Who Weekly...

 and Paul McCartney, to continue. Skinn and McCartney expanded the magazine to include more articles and artwork. Regular contributors included Dave Gibbons

Dave Gibbons

Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything"...

, Steve Parkhouse

Steve Parkhouse

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, Paul Neary

Paul Neary

Paul Neary is a British comic book artist, writer and editor.His first work was for Warren Publishing in the 1970s before working with Dez Skinn at Marvel UK as well as work for 2000 AD...

, Jim Baikie

Jim Baikie

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 and Kevin O'Neill

Kevin O'Neill

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. Skinn left in 1976.

Martin Lock became editor at some point afterwards, before handing it over to Martin Skidmore in 1984. Skidmore shortened the name to FA (he didn't want it to "sound like a sexual contacts mag", and wanted to move away from the equation of comics with fantasy, expanding coverage of different genres) and made the magazine more provocative and political. In 1988 it was taken over by Trident Comics

Trident Comics

Trident Comics was a comic book publishing company based in Leicester, UK, specializing in black and white comics created by new British talent...

, but was cancelled when Trident went bankrupt in 1991.

In October 2010 Skidmore relaunched FA as an online zine, including reviews, articles, interviews and original comics.

Awards

• 1986: Nominated for "Favourite Specialist Comics Publication" Eagle Award