Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) used to describe a type of magazine, e.g. fanzine, teenzine.

1965		New Yorker 21 Aug. 24: The fanzines, or fan magazines [...] do a great deal of research on the Golden Age [...] Some zines specialize – like ERB-dom, which caters to the fans of Edgar Rice Burroughs – but most of them concentrate on the fantasy adventure or superhero comics.
1980		H. Ellison All the Lies in Shatterday (1982) 139: Among the batches of fanzines I traded for Visitations by mail, I’d received an ineptly hektographed crudzine called Uranium-236.
1991		D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 126: Youth-generated fanzines and street sheets. [Ibid.] 199: Almost everyone has a friend who puts out a ’zine.
1999		Guardian Guide 22–28 May 5: It began life as a campus ’zine.
2005		(con. 1960s) Guardian Weekend 2 Apr. 26: The literary equivalent of all this was the fanzines.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

1999

Guardian Editor 29 Oct. 21: The best online zine shop we’ve found, with hundreds of fanzines.