The magazine which was to continue Charles Fort's work documenting the unexplained was founded by Robert JM "Bob" Rickard in 1973 as his self-published bi-monthly mail order "hobbyish newsletter" miscellany "The News" — "A Miscellany of Fortean Curiosities". The title is said to be "a contraction taken from Samuel Butler's "The News from Nowhere"", (although Rickard may be conflating/confusing Butler's "Erewhon" and William Morris' ""News from Nowhere""). "The News" saw fairly regular bi-monthly publication for 15 issues between November 1973 and April 1976. Debuting at 35p (£1.80/$4.50 for a year of 6 issues) for 20 pages, "The News" was produced on Rickard's typewriter, with headings created with Letraset, during (as Rickard says in #2) the late-1970s blackouts. The first issue featured a cover (which would become briefly the unofficial logo of "The News") drawn by Rickard from a Selfridges advert originally created by Bernard Partridge. From the second issue, pictures and photographs from various newspapers were interpolated within the text. The price was raised slightly for #6 — which also saw the page count upped to 24pg — due in large part to rising postal and paper costs.