THE WICKED MESSENGER, UK

   A4, by Ian Woodward; was begun in December 1980 as SOME NOTES ON DYLAN (4 issues only) and initially circulated privately.
   When THE TELEGRAPH started in November 1981, THE WICKED MESSENGER was included as loose-leaf inserts until November 1985 (# 1 to # 238), then as the main part of the ROLLING TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT until November 1988 (# 239 to # 429).
   For a period, there was parallel publication of THE WICKED MESSENGER in LOOK BACK.
   Since December 1988, THE WICKED MESSENGER has been an integral part of ISIS magazine (from # 430). The last issue was No. 2271, which is dated in January 2009.
   THE WICKED MESSENGER ran for just over 28 years, which is slightly more than 80 issues a year on average or a little over 3 issues every two weeks!  (Information Ian Woodward).

   In 1982, the first 30 issues of THE WICKED MESSENGER were (re-)published by Hobo Press as FREQUENTLY BOB DYLAN - VOLUME 1 OF THE COLLECTED WICKED MESSENGERS.

   The very first issue was published in December 1980; the first issues were called 'SOME NOTES ON DYLAN', it became 'THE WICKED MESSENGER' after four issues.

   Below are some representative issues:

1st issue, December 1980	#23, 21 June 1981	#73, 10 October 1982
#106, 10 July 1983	#136, 11 March 1984	#174, 1st January 1985
#238, 27 November 1985 (last issue as a loose-leaf)	Index. The index is a guide to issues 1-10 of THE TELEGRAPH and 1-86 of THE WICKED MESSENGER. It was supposed to be published every 10 issue but this was the only one.