Moore and Paul Screeton (then editor of "The Ley Hunter"), both urged on the first few uncertain issues" and Moore would frequently join Rickard to "stuff envelopes and hand-write a few hundred addresses" to disseminate the early issues. Rickard also highlights amongst the key early "Fortean Times" advocates and supporters: Ion Alexis Will, who discovered "The News" in 1974 and became a "constant of valuable clippings, books, postcards and entertaining letters"; Janet and Colin Bord, later authors of "Mysterious Britain" (Janet also wrote for "Flying Saucer Review" and Lionel Beer's "Spacelink", while it was Colin's Fortean article in "Gandalf's Garden" that is particularly cited by Rickard as bringing him/them to his attention); Phil Ledger, a "peripatetic marine biologist", and "The News"' "first enthusiastic fan"; Ken Campbell, Fortean theatre director and playwright; John Michell; graphic designer Richard Adams and Dick Gwynn, who both helped with the evolving layout and typesetting of later issues; Chris Squire, who helped organise the first subscription database; Canadian "Mr. X"; Mike Dash and cartoonist Hunt Emerson. Emerson was introduced to Rickard in late 1974, when after seven issues, he "wanted to improve the graphics", which Emerson certainly did, providing around 30 headings for use in issues #8 onwards. (Emerson's still-on-going monthly "Phenomenomix" strip in "FT" had its prototype in #11's three-page "Fortean Funnies").