Holmes for the Holidays

Duration: October 1989 to July-September 1994, twenty-five issues, six years
Frequency: Bimonthly
Editor: Michael W. McClure
Club Affiliation:The Chester Baskerville Society

Here's a journal that stands unique in the annals of Sherlockian publishing -- a Sherlock Holmes journal for kids. I don't know how many kids subscribing were actually Sherlockian collectors in disguise, but with a respectable six year run, kids of some age must have been reading. A number of kids also contributed to this journal for the young, as did Bob Weber, the creator of nationally syndicated comics character Slylock Fox, and about every Sherlockian cartoonist you can think of. Puzzles, stories, games, coloring pictures, and all sorts of youthful entertainments filled every issue.

It will be very interesting in years to come to see how many former readers of Holmes for the Holidays enter the Sherlockian world as full-grown Sherlockians. This one was truly a noble effort on the part of Michael McClure, and deserves a place of respect among Sherlockian publications, even if the contents were a bit . . . well, juvenile. Because that was the point, exactly.

-- BAK