The first Colab-sponsored publication, X Magazine (also known as X-Motion Picture Magazine) emerged in 1977 as a newsprint journal that published social satire, art and political commentary. The magazine was founded by Betsy Sussler, Eric Mitchell and Andrew McLard, who collectively assembled the first issue by hand. The three-issue collection quickly lodged itself in the nexus of the punk zine culture that was emerging at the time, initiating techniques that served as a touchstone for self-publishing. Although X Magazine terminated publication in 1978, the journal serves as an impressive cache of anti-establishment sentiment, and is a seminal example of the raw cut-and-paste aesthetic of New York punk and no-wave in the seventies.

This issue of X Magazine, published in 1978, explores punk techniques and dark themes of S & M, torture chambers, and renegade street gangs. This combined second and third issue also includes a transcribed talk between Rosa Von Praunheim and Lindzee Smith, a written piece by Jeremy Lipp, and a show review by Terence Sellers. Other contributors include Kathy Acker, Charlie Ahearn, Leandro Katz, Jacki Ochs, and Duncan Smith.