Samurai Errant (Buckaroo Banzai Fanzine)

Samurai Errant

Editor : Julie "Stew" Bozz

"There was SAMURAI ERRANT, an Australian Banzai zine. As a word of caution, there was adult material including some homosexual situations in the zines (I know of four issues).

Samurai Errant 1 (1988)

Table of Contents

• Buckaroo's First Recruit by Stew
  Rawhide is alone and bored, bar-tending in Chicago when in walks Buckaroo...
  
  
• And Emerged a Better Man by Bepo
  Perfect Tommy is thrown out of Cambridge, so what else is there to do but join the Foreign Legion?
  
  
• Hopes and Dreams by Stew
  Alone with Buckaroo on a mission to Cuba, Rawhide reflects on his feelings for his best friend.
  
  
• Going Errant by Stew
  Buckaroo and the Cavaliers drop into the 13th century and have tea with King Pellinore and Oolong.
  
  
• Auda by Stew
  Buckaroo and Reno are on a mission in Arabia.
  
  
• 'Find the Jetcar' Said the President A Buckaroo Banzai Thriller by Tim Howe
  A Banzai adventure in comic book form.
  
  
• Irregular Happenings Down Under by the Oz BBIs
  Join Arcane Annie, Buckskin Brenda, Downtown, Faux Pas, Question Mark, Stew, Squash and Tolkien as they rid Australia of the last insidious nest of Red Lectroids on behalf of Buckaroo.
  
  
• Oh Give Me A Home, Where the Cantaloupes Roam by Anne Murphy
  The funniest solution ever to the watermellon mystery.
  
  
• The Vampyre Morgan by Stew
  Morgan concentrates his seductive charms on Buckaroo and the wary Rawhide. Meanwhile, unconcerned, Perfect Tommy makes his best move on Billy's fiance Felicia.
  
  
• Living Many Secret Lives Among You by Stew
  Buckaroo finds something disturbingly familiar about the dark figure leading him through the sordid streets of New York.
  
  
• The Andersson Report (leaked to an expectant public by Arcane Annie)
  Learn the truth behind the Penny Paradox.
  
  
• Broken Leg Blues by Stew
  Rawhide, incapacitated and irritable, tries to solve the age-old cat-up-a-tree problem.

Samurai Errant 2 (1989)

Table of Contents

• Stone Cold Crazy by Arcane Annie
  On the bus to school, Buckaroo's study is interrupted by a kid playing an energetic version of the Magnificent Seven.
  
  
• When Numbers Get Serious by Stew and Arcane Annie
  Buckaroo is bringing "someone special" home from Oxford...but his best friend Rawhide reacts in ways unexpected.
  
  
• Rawhide Was Somewhere Else... by Downtown
  The Institute just doesn't seem right one day--one of their number has vanaished.
  
  
• Perfect Fit by Dreamspinner
  Perfect Tommy endeavors to keep his perfect image in shape, despite having a rotten morning.
  
  
• The Most Disagreeable Week by Stew
  Rawhide and Reno are rescued from their thermos chest floating off the coast of Japan after sharing a week of despair.
  
  
• Sabbatical and The Rectification of Names by Arcane Annie
  Rawhide and Perfect Tommy each recount their adventures in Nepal.
  
  
• Find the Jet Car Said The President: A Buckaroo Banzai Thriller by Tim Howe
  the adventure continues...
  
  
• Mrs. Rawhide by Buckskin Brenda
  On learning of Rawhide's death, Jenny McKern tells the story of their marriage and separation.
  
  
• Banzai Haiku by Stew
  (on behalf of Buckaroo)
  
  
• The Rocky Horror Banzai Show by Downtown
  Buckaroo and Peggy's Superthunderjetcar has a flat battery...but help is available from the castle down the road...or is it?
  
  
• A Perfect Ending by Ratbag
  BBI Tasy has had a rotten day, mainly because Perfect Tommy neglected to fill the Saab with gas.
  
  
• Jason by Tolchin
  Perfect Tommy has been allowed to drive the bus, with unhappy results. Until Rawhide spots something on the road that Tommy almost ran over...
  
  
• Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You by Arcane Annie and Stew--BBI Kira recountsher and Tommy's adventures, as they try to do something about what they believe in despite controversy from both within and outside the Institute.
  
  
• Tear Drops by Stew
  Tommy asks Reno for help with some poetry he's writing...

Samurai Errant 3 (1989)

Table of Contents

• Ginger and the Brat by Stew
  The 14 year-old Buckaroo is on his way home when he runs into the local school bully.
  
  
• Faerie Tale by L.J. Whorfin
  Mourning Peggy, Buckaroo wanders through the Institute gardens and into another world.
  
  
• Growth and Rebirth by Berkana
  A soldier of fortune in Latin America is betrayed by her fellow mercenaries.
  
  
• Debugging by Stew
  Rawhide, uh, gets it on with another member of the Institute.
  
  
• Find the Jetcar Said The President--A Buckaroo Banzai Thriller by Tim Howe.
  
  
• Sidhe-Devil by L.J. Whorfin
  Perfect Tommy is freezing his butt off monitoring the weather in Ireland when...there is a soft rustle of movement nearby...
  
  
• A State of Mind by Stew
  Rawhide takes advantage of an offer of employment at CSIRO in Canberra, Australia to get out of a rut--and finds that the Institute does not hold a monopoly on mad scientists.
  
  
• Let Us Cling Together by Tim Howe
  more comix stuff!
  
  
• Climb Every Mountain by Wookie
  New Jersey comes to on the side of a Bolivian mountain and finds his companions have vanished.
  
  
• Let's Rock and Roll! by Buckskin Brenda
  Mrs. Rawhide is slowly fitting into the Banzai Institute, until Buckaroo corners her...
  
  
• A Slight Case of Nerves by Downtown
  Pinky knew he wouldn't even be in this situation, if it wasn't for the blonde juvenile...
  
  
• The Tibetan Connection by Buckskin Brenda
  The mystery of Pecos explained.
  
  
• One Hath Wounded Me by Stew
  If you didn't believe that the Kurgan had been hiding out as Rawhide, then you won't believe that the Kurgan beat the Highlander and won the Prize...or will you?
  
  
• Hoboken Crunch by Stew
  Buckaroo discovers a new Cause...the quest for the ultimate ice cream.

Samurai Errant 4 (1990)

Table of Contents

(No flyer for this one, so it's titles and authors only)

• Shanghai'd by Berkana
  
  
• The Missing Link by Stew
  
  
• The Banzai Saga by Tim Howe
  
  
• Gatorbait by Shadowcat
  
  
• Extracts From the Journal of a Lover by Berkana
  
  
• Find the Jetcar Said the President--the Tragic Conclusion by Tim Howe
  
  
• Eulogy by Arcane Annie
  
  
• You're Keen on Bugs by Dreamspinner
  
  
• Death Destruction and Criminal Devastation by Berkana
  
  
• Ladies' Night by Dreamspinner
  
  
• The Death of Innocence by Stew
  
  
• The Bizarre Bazaar by Dreamspinner
  
  
• The Oddest Couple by Downtown

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