# Your Assistance Is Required

> The Onion seeks help recovering missing 270-year-old newspaper archives from readers.
- Title: Your Assistance Is Required · Mailchi | Shortify
- Summary: The Onion seeks help recovering missing 270-year-old newspaper archives from readers. The Onion needs readers to return pre-2012 newspaper issues to complete…
- Keywords: the onion, newspaper, archive, 270-year, pre-2012, missing issues, vol 14, vol 15, vol 16, vol 17, vol 18, vol 19
- Source: Mailchi — https://mailchi.mp/email.theonion.com/archivehunt
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- Topics: the onion, newspaper, archive, 270-year, pre-2012, missing issues, vol 14, vol 15, vol 16, vol 17, vol 18, vol 19
## Your Assistance Is Required
The Onion prides itself on being a self-sufficient entity, even making pens from interns' blood.
## Missing Issues
Certain issues of The Onion newspaper are mysteriously missing from its 270-year archive.
## Specific Issues Needed
The Onion needs all of Vol. 14 (1988) through Vol. 49 (2013) to complete its archive.
## Vol. 14 to Vol. 49
The Onion lists specific issues, including Vol. 14 (1988) and Vol. 49 (2013), as missing from its archive.
## Purchase Offer
Readers who have the missing issues can sell them to The Onion for archiving.
## How to Help
Complete the form to submit missing issues for potential purchase by The Onion.
## Instructions
Detailed instructions for identifying missing issues are available online.
## Contact
The Onion Membership Team contacts readers who may have the missing issues.
## Copyright
The Onion is a Chicago-based company with a 270-year archive and a 2026 copyright.
## Key takeaway

The Onion needs readers to return pre-2012 newspaper issues to complete its 270-year archive.