Our research of the three magazines we purchased on Ebay led us to Master Scott Shamblin

 I have some information regarding the magazines you mentioned.  I have those 3 issues and, I believe 3 were all that were published.  (I could be mistaken, but I don't think so.)  They were published by National Paper Book Company out of Knoxville, and they were to be follow up publications to The Dynamics of Isshinryu Karate book series by Masters Long and Wheeler.  They were to be a quarterly magazine.  Master Wheeler told me once that the idea was to print about a years worth and see how the sales went, and then to switch to a more expensive (color) standard magazine cover and better quality grade paper.  That, of course, never happened.

In Master Wheeler's book, In His Own Words, he talked a little bit about the magazine and the story behind it.  It goes along with what I remember about it as well...

"In addition to the series of books we wrote we had a little Isshinryu magazine that came out, I believe was every quarter, the least I can remember.  It was like a newsletter and Steve Condry (Steve was a student at Master Wheeler's dojo - Scott) and I actually put it out.  Steve Condry was one of Mr. Carroll's (James Carroll - owner of National Paper Book Company - Scott) employees and he was an English major.  He taught English in high school and so we had him doing the editing and research on a lot of the stuff that we were putting in the books and this little Isshinryu Newspaper or magazine. I believe it was more a magazine than a newspaper.  Steve and I were the ones that did the bulk of the work.

When Mr. Long and Master Wheeler split up, so went the magazine.   So that's the story behind the magazine.  I am glad that you asked because very few of our folks around here remember it, or put much value to the historical significance of it.  Granted, it wasn't very good, but it is a part of our history...and I hate to see it simply forgotten.

Thanks, Scott