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 continues the theme of violence by focusing on the subject of militant activism in the seventies. Pieces by Rene Picard, Diego Cortez and Jean Genet revolve around the Baader-Meinhof group, with other pieces contributed by Kathy Acker, Jimmy de Sana and Tina Lhotsky. This volume in particular displays the deep mistrust Colab members reserved for the way in which mainstream media reported events associated with individuals in the underground political opposition.