Shades of Sherlock

This site contains pdf files of the fan-magazine, Shades of Sherlock, published by the scion society The Three Students Plus starting in 1966 through 1972. A variety of duplicating machines was used for producing the issues, depending on what was available. This was well before the days of desk-top publishing, and the production quality is sometimes shockingly low. The early issues were produced on a spirit duplicating machine (sometimes called a ditto machine). These issues have purple ink on white paper. Other issues were produced on an A.B.Dick model 90 mimeograph machine. These issues have smudgy black ink on a variety of paper.

The pdf files of the issues were made by scanning the paper issues on a flat-bed scanner and then using Photoshop to improve the image quality. Sometimes, even with improvements, the results are poor. The images were then imported into Adobe Acrobat to create the complete issue.

Click on the tab SOS Issues to download the issues.

Download any issues that interest you and save them to your hard disk. There are no long-range plans for this site, and it may vanish without notice.

Baker Street Collecting was a short-lived publication created by Gayle Lang and printed along with Shades of Sherlock using the same ex-Savlation Army ditto machine. Issues were mailed along with issues of SOS.