Mona Ceniceros, as a student intern from California State University, Chico, becomes Phantasm's feature editor.

Editor/publisher Larry Jackson discontinues Phantasm's policy of publishing subscribers only.

Noel Peattie, Collection Development librarian at the University of California, Davis, Shields Library becomes the first paid writer for Phantasm--receiving five dollars for his guest column in this issue.

Phantasm becomes a member of COSMEP, the Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers.