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This 1950s NYC Zine Covered The Black Community In Brooklyn That Establishment Media Ignored arrow Two issues of Tick Courtesy of the NYPL Zines have existed since at least the 1930s, when they became popular among science fiction fans who came together through shared fanzines ( fan magazines ). The form has been replicated in thousands of obscure zines across every subject matter imaginable, many of which are now lost to the sands of time. But the New York Public Library s Schomburg Center has two copies of one particularly interesting zine that briefly existed in Brooklyn in the mid-1950s: Tick: Brooklyn Community News, which published its first issue on May 25th, 1955. ....