The Helix was an American biweekly newspaper founded in 1967 after a series of organizational meetings held at the Free University of Seattle involving a large and eclectic group including Paul Dorpat, Tom Robbins, Ray Collins, and Lorenzo Milam.

A member of both the Underground Press Syndicate and the Liberation News Service, it published a total of 125 issues (sometimes as a weekly, sometimes as a biweekly) before folding on June 11, 1970.

[1][2] The first issue was produced by Dorpat with $200 in borrowed capital, out of a rented storefront on Roosevelt Way NE in Seattle's University District.

[2] Walt Crowley, soon to play a major role in the paper, was not in the initial group, but claimed to have been the first person to buy a copy.

On October 15 they opened their new office about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) south at 3128 Harvard Avenue E. on the other side of University Bridge, where they were to remain for the rest of the paper's existence.