Avatar is first published.

[July-Walsh] An “underground,” 16-page newspaper, it is published initially from offices at 145 Columbia Road in Cambridge. Its first editors are Lew Crampton, Wayne Hanson and David Wilson. Mel Lyman writes a column entitled, “To All Who Would Know.” After a controversy over obscenity charges arises, the paper moves to 37 Rutland Street in October 1967. A conflict among the staff leads to a split into two publications in May 1968.* Both subsequently move to Fort Hill in Roxbury. The last of the original paper’s 25 issues are published in 1969. The obscenity case is finally resolved in 1971.*