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D'Journal, v. 1, issue 1, January 1939
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Post Card Comments (For the best Postcard Comments in each issue we will give one - way tickets good for an upper berth on a Mars-bound sleeper Rocket ) ------------------------------ "Hooray for D'JOURNAL! It condons Communism!"- Don Cottombeam. "Hooray for D'JOURNAL! It favors Fascism!" - Zack Sneer . "Hooray for D'JOURNAL! It desires Democracy!'-Post 77, American Leg. "Hooray for D'JOURNAL! It pushes old age pensions!" - Doc Sensen. (HOORAY FOR D'JOURNAL! - Editors.) "The new D'JOURNAL is delightfully suberb! Screamingly humerous! Too funny for words. Why dont you double your price? Enclosed find 50¢, rush five more copies." - Harold Hersheybar "Your rag stinks! Refund my dime." - Bob Hilltop "I would like to see some humerous Weird stories in D'JOURNAL soon." - D.J.R. "I would like to see some humerous science stories in D'JOURNAL soon" - Milton J. "I would like to see some [underline]humerous[end underline] stories in D'JOURNAL soon." - Mac Gordon (We would like to see you Mac.) - Editors. "May we expect a series of articles on "Why Gravity Gravatates" soon, preferably written by Willie Gea[name?]?" - E.S. Musslebound (You may not! - Editors) "Dear Sir: Inside you will find 1 funny story fer your mag. Jernal. I wrote it. My father sez that I am a good funny writer. My sister red one of my funny stories to her class once and they all laughed. Its about a space ship. How much do you pay?" - Tony Capeki -- its time to (END) EMBARRASSING QUESTIONS [unclear symbol] 701: "Have you, in your capacity as either editor, publisher or fan author, ever heard of a fan-author being paid for his material in a fan (non-professional) magazine?" Harry Warner Jr: "Definitely no, and stuff." Walter Fleming: "Trying to be a funny-man?" Jim Avery: "A definite "no"." Walter Marconetee: "No, [underline]I[end underline] have [underline]never[end underline] heard . . . . . Of course, that isnt saying it hasnt happened, or could not happen." Jack Speer: "Paying for stories is just too too. I seem to have heard somewhere that Unique did it." Olon F. Wiggins: "Yes. F.J.A., during the time of the printed SF FANS, asked for and got paid for his Esperanto column in "FAN". Not only did he demand cash, but wanted free unlimited advertising as well and free copies containing his stuff, and 15 or 20 excerpts from the mag containing his Esperanto material. Rather unreasonable, eh what?" [symbol] Yes, O.F., that is rather unreasonable, when the popular consensus seems to be: A fan mag does well to pay for its paper, much less the material; some fan authors feel like heels to accept 'pay'; and free copies of the issue ones material appears in has been accepted as standard 'pay' from fan magazines. [symbol] In our next issue, we should like you, the readers, to answer this Question: "Have YOU ever corresponded with a distant person for a period of time, only to ultimately foind [sp?] out, to your embarrassment, that your correspondant was far differnt from who you thought he (she) was?" (Now take that question in the most literal form, and send in your answer at once. Even if you once corresponded with a horse under a fancy name, let us hear about it!) Read the answers to Question 702 in our April first issue. (END)
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Post Card Comments (For the best Postcard Comments in each issue we will give one - way tickets good for an upper berth on a Mars-bound sleeper Rocket ) ------------------------------ "Hooray for D'JOURNAL! It condons Communism!"- Don Cottombeam. "Hooray for D'JOURNAL! It favors Fascism!" - Zack Sneer . "Hooray for D'JOURNAL! It desires Democracy!'-Post 77, American Leg. "Hooray for D'JOURNAL! It pushes old age pensions!" - Doc Sensen. (HOORAY FOR D'JOURNAL! - Editors.) "The new D'JOURNAL is delightfully suberb! Screamingly humerous! Too funny for words. Why dont you double your price? Enclosed find 50¢, rush five more copies." - Harold Hersheybar "Your rag stinks! Refund my dime." - Bob Hilltop "I would like to see some humerous Weird stories in D'JOURNAL soon." - D.J.R. "I would like to see some humerous science stories in D'JOURNAL soon" - Milton J. "I would like to see some [underline]humerous[end underline] stories in D'JOURNAL soon." - Mac Gordon (We would like to see you Mac.) - Editors. "May we expect a series of articles on "Why Gravity Gravatates" soon, preferably written by Willie Gea[name?]?" - E.S. Musslebound (You may not! - Editors) "Dear Sir: Inside you will find 1 funny story fer your mag. Jernal. I wrote it. My father sez that I am a good funny writer. My sister red one of my funny stories to her class once and they all laughed. Its about a space ship. How much do you pay?" - Tony Capeki -- its time to (END) EMBARRASSING QUESTIONS [unclear symbol] 701: "Have you, in your capacity as either editor, publisher or fan author, ever heard of a fan-author being paid for his material in a fan (non-professional) magazine?" Harry Warner Jr: "Definitely no, and stuff." Walter Fleming: "Trying to be a funny-man?" Jim Avery: "A definite "no"." Walter Marconetee: "No, [underline]I[end underline] have [underline]never[end underline] heard . . . . . Of course, that isnt saying it hasnt happened, or could not happen." Jack Speer: "Paying for stories is just too too. I seem to have heard somewhere that Unique did it." Olon F. Wiggins: "Yes. F.J.A., during the time of the printed SF FANS, asked for and got paid for his Esperanto column in "FAN". Not only did he demand cash, but wanted free unlimited advertising as well and free copies containing his stuff, and 15 or 20 excerpts from the mag containing his Esperanto material. Rather unreasonable, eh what?" [symbol] Yes, O.F., that is rather unreasonable, when the popular consensus seems to be: A fan mag does well to pay for its paper, much less the material; some fan authors feel like heels to accept 'pay'; and free copies of the issue ones material appears in has been accepted as standard 'pay' from fan magazines. [symbol] In our next issue, we should like you, the readers, to answer this Question: "Have YOU ever corresponded with a distant person for a period of time, only to ultimately foind [sp?] out, to your embarrassment, that your correspondant was far differnt from who you thought he (she) was?" (Now take that question in the most literal form, and send in your answer at once. Even if you once corresponded with a horse under a fancy name, let us hear about it!) Read the answers to Question 702 in our April first issue. (END)
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