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Science Fiction Collector, v. 5, issue 1, May 1939
Page 9
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Third Anniversary Issue--Page Nine outsider, Burton DuMount (pen-name of Bill Miller), on collecting, which was featured in the seventh number. How Dollens ever cajoled Kirby into submitting the over~due copy for Fantasy Fiction Digest is a distinct mystery. It is, however, significant to note that Kirby never again could be Induced to turn out another number of the FFD. It was against his philosophy. Regardless, the combine was In effect for but one issue, the eighth. This issue contained twenty-four hectographed pages (small size), of which eight were submitted by Kirby. It was the signal, as it were, for fans to release a dozen or more amateur efforts of little or no literary worth through the medium of the hectograph. It proved the hectograph to be a suitable method for the issuing of fan magazines. Purple, Deep Purple, became the by-word. It is always interesting to note the journey of an idealist. Disillusion is ever his forte, but he is always a true soldier. Always he believes that the fellow who gave him a dirty deal was the exception and that others thought and believed as he did. So It is little wonder that Dollens, as a supreme example of that type, was given the proverbial run-around. His magazine was going into Its ninth issue and, so far, the only aid he had received was a few hundred words of putrid articles by a couple of fans who felt sorry for him; and a run-around by Hayward S. Kirby. The Fantasy Fiction League was plunked into Dollens' already overcrowded lap, to carry it on as best as he could, after its originator had proved incompetent. This information came out with the publication of the ninth issue. An issue which for the first time showed more than casual promise that the Collector might, just possibly, develop into something worthwhile. Dollens, himself, said of it, when summing up the history of the magazine in his heart
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Third Anniversary Issue--Page Nine outsider, Burton DuMount (pen-name of Bill Miller), on collecting, which was featured in the seventh number. How Dollens ever cajoled Kirby into submitting the over~due copy for Fantasy Fiction Digest is a distinct mystery. It is, however, significant to note that Kirby never again could be Induced to turn out another number of the FFD. It was against his philosophy. Regardless, the combine was In effect for but one issue, the eighth. This issue contained twenty-four hectographed pages (small size), of which eight were submitted by Kirby. It was the signal, as it were, for fans to release a dozen or more amateur efforts of little or no literary worth through the medium of the hectograph. It proved the hectograph to be a suitable method for the issuing of fan magazines. Purple, Deep Purple, became the by-word. It is always interesting to note the journey of an idealist. Disillusion is ever his forte, but he is always a true soldier. Always he believes that the fellow who gave him a dirty deal was the exception and that others thought and believed as he did. So It is little wonder that Dollens, as a supreme example of that type, was given the proverbial run-around. His magazine was going into Its ninth issue and, so far, the only aid he had received was a few hundred words of putrid articles by a couple of fans who felt sorry for him; and a run-around by Hayward S. Kirby. The Fantasy Fiction League was plunked into Dollens' already overcrowded lap, to carry it on as best as he could, after its originator had proved incompetent. This information came out with the publication of the ninth issue. An issue which for the first time showed more than casual promise that the Collector might, just possibly, develop into something worthwhile. Dollens, himself, said of it, when summing up the history of the magazine in his heart
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