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In the US, Flipside and Slash were important punk zines for the Los Angeles scene, both debuting in 1977.

Starting earlier, in 1976, Punk was published in New York and played a major part in popularizing punk rock ( a term coined a few years earlier in Creem ) as the term for the music and the bands being written about.

Among later titles, Maximum RocknRoll is a major punk zine, with over 300 issues published.

As a result, in part, of the popular and commercial resurgence of punk in the late 1980s and after, with the growing popularity of such bands as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Fugazi, Bikini Kill, Green Day and The Offspring, a number of other punk zines have appeared, such as Punk Planet, Razorcake, Tail Spins, Sobriquet, Profane Existence and Slug and Lettuce.

The early American punkzine Search and Destroy eventually became the influential fringe-cultural magazine Re / Search.

Some punk fanzines from the 80s, like No Class fanzine, are experiencing a second life by placing all past content online for free and adding new content.