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Science Fiction Collector, v. 5, issue 1, May 1939
Page 19
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Third Anniversary Issue -- Page Nineteen The end was in sight now. Baltadonis found college work too much for hlm. He couldn't participate in fandom and college work both. He had to drop one; and, naturally, fandom was the goat. So, with the twenty-first issue, August-September 1938, the Collector became defunct. However, Baltadonis had contributed two more facts to the edification of fandom. First, the use of the Film-o-graph, and second, the use of "intense* hectograph carbon paper. The Collector had, to all intents and purposes, died appropriately enough, at the dawn of a new era. In my article, "Not So Long Ago", I predicted the change of the era as inevitable. Michelism had experienced an admitted set-back, and Wollheim was definitely unpopular. Months passed, and the Collector seemed to be quite dead. However, I couldn't bear to see the magazine die. It seemed ridiculous that the publication should kick the bucket without even attempting to reach its third anniversary number. I harped on the subject to its editor. I mentioned it publicly in a couple of places, 1 made a few cracks about the editor, Whether or not my one-man campaign did any good is a matter of conjecture. The fact remains that Baltadonis quite impulsively decided that it would be nice if his magazine should drag its way through to a third anniversary number. So far, two small twenty page issues have been turned out. Both of them woefully lacking in quality or atmosphere, The third, however, contained a fragment of hope. Twenty-four pages, with items of more interest confronted the readers' eyes. In the stretch now; this is being published in the third
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Third Anniversary Issue -- Page Nineteen The end was in sight now. Baltadonis found college work too much for hlm. He couldn't participate in fandom and college work both. He had to drop one; and, naturally, fandom was the goat. So, with the twenty-first issue, August-September 1938, the Collector became defunct. However, Baltadonis had contributed two more facts to the edification of fandom. First, the use of the Film-o-graph, and second, the use of "intense* hectograph carbon paper. The Collector had, to all intents and purposes, died appropriately enough, at the dawn of a new era. In my article, "Not So Long Ago", I predicted the change of the era as inevitable. Michelism had experienced an admitted set-back, and Wollheim was definitely unpopular. Months passed, and the Collector seemed to be quite dead. However, I couldn't bear to see the magazine die. It seemed ridiculous that the publication should kick the bucket without even attempting to reach its third anniversary number. I harped on the subject to its editor. I mentioned it publicly in a couple of places, 1 made a few cracks about the editor, Whether or not my one-man campaign did any good is a matter of conjecture. The fact remains that Baltadonis quite impulsively decided that it would be nice if his magazine should drag its way through to a third anniversary number. So far, two small twenty page issues have been turned out. Both of them woefully lacking in quality or atmosphere, The third, however, contained a fragment of hope. Twenty-four pages, with items of more interest confronted the readers' eyes. In the stretch now; this is being published in the third
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