Date: 2007-09-11 01:09 am (UTC)
I'd add Star Trek to that list: it has a long history of fanzines, licensed novels*, RPG supplements treated as source material by later novelists and series writers, and even "official source material" of debatable canon status.

Just as one example, The Animated Series officially Doesn't Count, but references to it continually show up not only in licensed novels, but in the "real" shows itself. When they did the (brilliant) digital remastering of "Amok Time", they added the Vulcan city from the TAS episode "Yesteryear" in the background.

Meanwhile, nobody acknowledges the fifth movie.


*Thinking about it, "Running the Asylum" is really Snark's Second Law of Fanfic. The first dates back thirty years: "Star Trek novels exist because Paramount realized they weren't making any money on fanzines."
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