Chas Balun's DEEP RED #1 — Complete issue, 1986

I met Chas Balun, dressed in his bloody apron and wielding a meat cleaver, at the 1986 San Diego Comic-Con. He couldn't fool me with his costume, because he was also wearing a big smile on his face.

Balun had a particular love for gory horror movies, and published a professional-looking fanzine called DEEP RED. I scanned the 20-page first issue from 1986, and am presenting it in honor of Halloween Week, and the memory of Chas Balun, who died at age 61 in 2009.