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Science Fiction Weekly, v. 1, issue 4, March 10, 1940
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Science Fiction Weekly THE NATIONAL FAN REVIEW Published every Monday at 2574 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Volume One Number Four; Whole Number Four. March 10, 1940. Five cents per single copy; three issues for ten cents; eight issues for twenty-five cents. Full page ads accepted at flat rate of seventy-five cents only; each time such ad is received, an extra page of reading matter is gaurenteed [sic]. We will air-mail SFW to any cross-continent fans who so desire, providing payment for such service is received in advance. In order that we may bring you all important news, SFW will excerpt from other current fanmags. Such excerpts will be labelled "exchange" and source given. Reciprocal courtesy is granted to our contemporaries with the understanding that all items taken from SFW will be clearly stated as such. SFW will exchange with any other fanmag gladly. Editor - in - Chief Robert W. Lowndes Associates Leslie Perri Dick Wilson ILLINOIS NOTES by TUCKER Bloomington 2/29: The IFF nowhas [sic] two charters, chartered for the purpose of inducing local activity and obtaining affiliations with the SF. One chapter exists in Chi; Sully and I here own the other charter. We are renting a room in the Ewing Theatre Building to be our HQ. (Theatre where we all three work.) *** Le Zombie, with its next issue (due in ten days after date of this letter) - changes its policy in favor of SFWeekly and Mid-West Fan News. It ceases to be so much of a news magazine and becomes more of the Lez it used to be in days of old with depts & comments aimed at your (fandom's) discomfort and laughter. It will abandon its strictly biweekly publication date, and like "that other ace magazine, Spaceways," will appear every time I take a notion, or, as will be stated officially: "Published whenever a Zombie awakens!" *** More about the squib I sent some days ago on Yearbook going on the newsstand. A chap here in town read the latest Science Fiction, and, while looking idly over the fanmags listed, spotted a Bloomington Ill., address. Becoming mildly interested, he returned to the newsstand where he purchased the mag., and requested a copy of Yearbook. The woman (who owns a chain of stands here) knows me very well and had heard from somebody that I published amateur booklets. Taking in the situation at a flash, she told the customer she had none in stock, but could get him one within a day. That night, on my daily rounds to the newsstand, she popped the joyous news that someone wanted a copy and suggested I bring up a few others; maybe she could sell them. A few? Brother, I showed up the next day with a dozen, and on to her shelves they went. Result: Yearbook is now on sale in certain Bloomington newsstands! COMET PUBLICATIONS SKYROCKET INTO BEING Oakland, Cal. Feb. 26: Plans are now under way into making a rapidfire [sic] company composed of Tom Wright and Joe Fortier. Plans are formed for proposed magazines: Mercury (5c) the only Pacificoast [sic] Newsy & Catch-All; Comet (10c), which now appears, and Dawn (15c) to be an annual, or perhaps a semi. It will be what is hoped the greatest fan mag ever to appear. These plans are tentative and schedule may change at any moment, at whim or fancy of editors. Tom Wright is going to do the publishing and head editorial work. Fortier will be assistant editor and engage in as much of the work as he is able to. WAILING WALL Hood River, Oregon, Feb. 26: Damon Knight writes: "A good subject for reporting would be the beautiful way Ziff-Davis ruined Paul's cover for the April Fantastic Adventures. If there's any excuse, I'd like to know about it, but I can't think of any possible justification offhand." PREVIEW OF FUTURE HEADLINES Science-fictionists, fan and boy, Visit the Chicon in Illinois. - - dick wilson - BOOST THE CHICON IN 1940!
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Science Fiction Weekly THE NATIONAL FAN REVIEW Published every Monday at 2574 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Volume One Number Four; Whole Number Four. March 10, 1940. Five cents per single copy; three issues for ten cents; eight issues for twenty-five cents. Full page ads accepted at flat rate of seventy-five cents only; each time such ad is received, an extra page of reading matter is gaurenteed [sic]. We will air-mail SFW to any cross-continent fans who so desire, providing payment for such service is received in advance. In order that we may bring you all important news, SFW will excerpt from other current fanmags. Such excerpts will be labelled "exchange" and source given. Reciprocal courtesy is granted to our contemporaries with the understanding that all items taken from SFW will be clearly stated as such. SFW will exchange with any other fanmag gladly. Editor - in - Chief Robert W. Lowndes Associates Leslie Perri Dick Wilson ILLINOIS NOTES by TUCKER Bloomington 2/29: The IFF nowhas [sic] two charters, chartered for the purpose of inducing local activity and obtaining affiliations with the SF. One chapter exists in Chi; Sully and I here own the other charter. We are renting a room in the Ewing Theatre Building to be our HQ. (Theatre where we all three work.) *** Le Zombie, with its next issue (due in ten days after date of this letter) - changes its policy in favor of SFWeekly and Mid-West Fan News. It ceases to be so much of a news magazine and becomes more of the Lez it used to be in days of old with depts & comments aimed at your (fandom's) discomfort and laughter. It will abandon its strictly biweekly publication date, and like "that other ace magazine, Spaceways," will appear every time I take a notion, or, as will be stated officially: "Published whenever a Zombie awakens!" *** More about the squib I sent some days ago on Yearbook going on the newsstand. A chap here in town read the latest Science Fiction, and, while looking idly over the fanmags listed, spotted a Bloomington Ill., address. Becoming mildly interested, he returned to the newsstand where he purchased the mag., and requested a copy of Yearbook. The woman (who owns a chain of stands here) knows me very well and had heard from somebody that I published amateur booklets. Taking in the situation at a flash, she told the customer she had none in stock, but could get him one within a day. That night, on my daily rounds to the newsstand, she popped the joyous news that someone wanted a copy and suggested I bring up a few others; maybe she could sell them. A few? Brother, I showed up the next day with a dozen, and on to her shelves they went. Result: Yearbook is now on sale in certain Bloomington newsstands! COMET PUBLICATIONS SKYROCKET INTO BEING Oakland, Cal. Feb. 26: Plans are now under way into making a rapidfire [sic] company composed of Tom Wright and Joe Fortier. Plans are formed for proposed magazines: Mercury (5c) the only Pacificoast [sic] Newsy & Catch-All; Comet (10c), which now appears, and Dawn (15c) to be an annual, or perhaps a semi. It will be what is hoped the greatest fan mag ever to appear. These plans are tentative and schedule may change at any moment, at whim or fancy of editors. Tom Wright is going to do the publishing and head editorial work. Fortier will be assistant editor and engage in as much of the work as he is able to. WAILING WALL Hood River, Oregon, Feb. 26: Damon Knight writes: "A good subject for reporting would be the beautiful way Ziff-Davis ruined Paul's cover for the April Fantastic Adventures. If there's any excuse, I'd like to know about it, but I can't think of any possible justification offhand." PREVIEW OF FUTURE HEADLINES Science-fictionists, fan and boy, Visit the Chicon in Illinois. - - dick wilson - BOOST THE CHICON IN 1940!
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