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Science Fiction Collector, v. 5, issue 1, May 1939
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Third Anniversary lssue —~ Page Seventeen came one of the staff. Donald A. Wollhelm and Jack Speer were among the more regular contributors. Issue fifteen of the Collector blossomed out with a new readers' department on experiment in fiction by Frome, while Kyle and Paschall returned. However, it was not until the sixteenth issue that the Collector can really claim to have reached its peak of achievement. This issue, after considerable delay, appeared with four more pages than the usual twenty. It was a marvel of interest. Dollens had returned to do his last cover for the magazine. Wollheim had an article on the Philly convention, titled "Conventionotes." I had turned out my longest article to that date with "Are There Any More Weinbaums Among Us?" Azygous [?] made his first disconcertlng appearance; Ted Carnall, Bob Madle, Milt Rothman, Laurance Paschall were all present with departments, as well as the wandering Oswald Train. The additional fan mag review, readers' department, and editorial reached new heights of interest. The position of the Collector among fan magazines was secure. Around this time hectographed fan magazines were emerging in full glory. There was Helios, Fantascience Digest, Science Fiction News Letter, Cosmic Tales, Fantasgmagoria, Science Fiction Fan, etc. All were hectographed, and all were published with astonishingly regular irregularity. The Collector Poll came to represent the hectographing period in science fiction. At that time, Baltadonis received his greatest compliment. Julius Schwartz wrote him saying that he believed the Collector to be the best fan magazine since Fantasy and that he would be happy to contribute his famous column The Science Fiction Eye. This appeared in the seventeenth issue of the Collector. Baltadonis wished to hasten up publication so he cut the number of pages
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Third Anniversary lssue —~ Page Seventeen came one of the staff. Donald A. Wollhelm and Jack Speer were among the more regular contributors. Issue fifteen of the Collector blossomed out with a new readers' department on experiment in fiction by Frome, while Kyle and Paschall returned. However, it was not until the sixteenth issue that the Collector can really claim to have reached its peak of achievement. This issue, after considerable delay, appeared with four more pages than the usual twenty. It was a marvel of interest. Dollens had returned to do his last cover for the magazine. Wollheim had an article on the Philly convention, titled "Conventionotes." I had turned out my longest article to that date with "Are There Any More Weinbaums Among Us?" Azygous [?] made his first disconcertlng appearance; Ted Carnall, Bob Madle, Milt Rothman, Laurance Paschall were all present with departments, as well as the wandering Oswald Train. The additional fan mag review, readers' department, and editorial reached new heights of interest. The position of the Collector among fan magazines was secure. Around this time hectographed fan magazines were emerging in full glory. There was Helios, Fantascience Digest, Science Fiction News Letter, Cosmic Tales, Fantasgmagoria, Science Fiction Fan, etc. All were hectographed, and all were published with astonishingly regular irregularity. The Collector Poll came to represent the hectographing period in science fiction. At that time, Baltadonis received his greatest compliment. Julius Schwartz wrote him saying that he believed the Collector to be the best fan magazine since Fantasy and that he would be happy to contribute his famous column The Science Fiction Eye. This appeared in the seventeenth issue of the Collector. Baltadonis wished to hasten up publication so he cut the number of pages
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