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Masthead is edited, designed and made by Alison Croggon, with graphic designs by Laurence Peterson.  Consulting editors for print Issues 1 to 4 were Leonard Abrams, Daniel Keene, Emma Lew and Alaric Sumner.  Issues 1 to 7, plus the American Terror special issue, are archived at au.geocities.com/masthead_2/ . 

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Masthead is archived as an electronic journal by the National Library of Australia. its readership through the 12 months to August 2008 was 80,000 unique visitors, or just over 500,000 hits.

ISSN 1441-791X