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'''SplatMe''' (also catalogued as '''Splat Me''') was an Australian paintball magazine published in Queensland during the early 1990s. It was one of the earliest specialist paintball magazines produced in Australia and preceded the launch of ''[[Australian Paintballer]]''.

== Publication history ==

A bibliographic guide to international paintball publications records that ''Splat Me'' began with issue number 0 in September 1990. The guide lists five issues, with the final issue appearing in July 1991, and describes the magazine as having a glossy cover.[1]

The Australian Paint archive identifies ''SplatMe'' as a Queensland publication and states that at least four issues were known to have been produced.[2] Its collection contains digitised copies of issues 2, 3 and 4.[3] Issue 2 was dated January–February 1991.[2]

The difference between the archive's statement of “at least four” issues and the five issues listed in the bibliographic guide can be explained by the recorded numbering beginning with issue 0. However, a complete surviving run has not been identified in the available online archive.

== Surviving issues ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Issue
! Date
! Archival status
|-
| 0
| September 1990
| Recorded in a bibliographic guide; no digitised copy identified
|-
| 1
| Not established
| No digitised copy identified
|-
| 2
| January–February 1991
| Digitised by the Australian Paint archive
|-
| 3
| 1991
| Digitised by the Australian Paint archive
|-
| 4
| 1991
| Digitised by the Australian Paint archive; recorded as the final issue in July 1991
|}

== Historical context ==

''SplatMe'' documents the emergence of specialist paintball publishing in Australia at the beginning of the 1990s. Its publication predates ''Australian Paintballer'', whose first issue appeared in 1992. No organisational relationship between the two magazines has been established.

Details concerning ''SplatMe'''s publisher, editorial staff, circulation and distribution have not been confirmed in the presently available sources.

== See also ==

* [[Australian Paintballer]]
* [[Paintball in Australia]]
* [[Paintball magazines]]

== References ==

# [https://www.worldpaintballlibrary.com/COMPLETE%20WHOLE%20Revised%20Guide%20DEC%208%202011%20Latest.pdf ''Paintball Magazines and Publications from Around the World''], World Paintball Library, revised 8 December 2011.
# [https://paintmagazine.com/paintball-archive/1991-splatme-no-2/ “1991 SplatMe No. 2”], ''Paint'' archive.
# [https://paintmagazine.com/paintball-archive/ “Paintball Archive”], ''Paint''.

== External links ==

* [https://paintmagazine.com/paintball-archive/ Australian Paintball Archive]

[[Category:Paintball magazines]]
[[Category:Australian magazines]]
[[Category:Paintball in Australia]]
[[Category:Paintball history]]