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Science Fiction Collector, v. 5, issue 1, May 1939
Page 14
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Page Fourteen --- Science Fiction Collector -- issue and Bill Stanbery is helping me with the STF index." This editorial must have shamed dozens of fans into activity. Here, a comparative group of unknowns considered the Collector worthy of their endeavor, while for years they, in their exaggerated sense of importance, had considered the Collector as beneath their dignity. From this point on the history of the Collector is a distinguished tale of prestige and progress. The "First Anniversary Issue" was, speaking in comparison to past numbers, enormous. It was composed of twenty large-sized pages, illustrated remarkably well by Dollens, and contained fiction by Morris S. Dollens, Sam Moskowitz, articles and columns by Claire P. Beck, Glen F. Wiggins and John Chapman. This issue commanded more than casual respect in fan circles. It became perfectly obvious that by lending a modicum of their cherished co-operation, they could help change the Collector from a chimera of the fan world into a fan magazine to be proud of. The thirteenth issue brought forth a Collector as it should have been. A mature entertaining intelligent publication - holding its own, easily, with other publications in the field. The contents page read like a Who's Who in Fandom of that time. Material by Sam Moskowitz, Morris S. Dollens, Donald A. Wollheim, David A. Kyle, Claire P. Beck, John V. Baltadonis, John Chapman, Charles Stiles, and illlustrations by Dollens. Baltadonis, McPhail, Kyle, Stiles, and Miller. But as in all things, co-operation came too late, much too late. The thirteenth issue of the Collector contained a very sad note: it was entitled, "FAREWELL, a message from the editor." "Yes, it's really farewell (the article began)--to the SFC. After thirteen issues I am forced to stop publishing the magazine that from the first held the distinc-
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Page Fourteen --- Science Fiction Collector -- issue and Bill Stanbery is helping me with the STF index." This editorial must have shamed dozens of fans into activity. Here, a comparative group of unknowns considered the Collector worthy of their endeavor, while for years they, in their exaggerated sense of importance, had considered the Collector as beneath their dignity. From this point on the history of the Collector is a distinguished tale of prestige and progress. The "First Anniversary Issue" was, speaking in comparison to past numbers, enormous. It was composed of twenty large-sized pages, illustrated remarkably well by Dollens, and contained fiction by Morris S. Dollens, Sam Moskowitz, articles and columns by Claire P. Beck, Glen F. Wiggins and John Chapman. This issue commanded more than casual respect in fan circles. It became perfectly obvious that by lending a modicum of their cherished co-operation, they could help change the Collector from a chimera of the fan world into a fan magazine to be proud of. The thirteenth issue brought forth a Collector as it should have been. A mature entertaining intelligent publication - holding its own, easily, with other publications in the field. The contents page read like a Who's Who in Fandom of that time. Material by Sam Moskowitz, Morris S. Dollens, Donald A. Wollheim, David A. Kyle, Claire P. Beck, John V. Baltadonis, John Chapman, Charles Stiles, and illlustrations by Dollens. Baltadonis, McPhail, Kyle, Stiles, and Miller. But as in all things, co-operation came too late, much too late. The thirteenth issue of the Collector contained a very sad note: it was entitled, "FAREWELL, a message from the editor." "Yes, it's really farewell (the article began)--to the SFC. After thirteen issues I am forced to stop publishing the magazine that from the first held the distinc-
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