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Le Zombie, v. 5, issue 4, whole no. 51, January 1943

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The suddeness with which all this took place left EEE little chance to plan for his absence. However, he did express certain wishes. Chiefly, it is his hope that the fans will all cooperate to carry forward the various programs he had started. 
His mail now goes to Al Ashley and future communications are to be addressed to 86 Upton ave., Battle Creek, Michigan."

And so we can only hope that this issue of LeZ catches him somewhere, as it will so many dozens of other fans at home and abroad; that all may share with us this gleeful birthday as we begin our fifth year of publication. Only the future of the nation and the whims of our draft board can determine if we are to finish this fifth year. Meanwhile, LeZ notifies one and all that publication of the magazine is subject to termination without notice, for obvious reasons. 
On our past birthdays we sold booster ads; pages in which our well-wishers could tell us so for a nickle a whack. This has been discontinued and in its place are pages of thank-you's...that is, we are presenting our complete circulation list, past and present, for the purpose of thanking each suscriber publicy for the past support he has extended us. In addition, we have placed an asterisk (*) beside the names of those who have been with us since the beginning. That is, since issue number ten (August 5, 1939), which was the first issue one could suscribe to. Previous to issue number ten the ghazette was given away free with various other fanzines, mainly Fantasy News. 
We became quite sentimental in our editorial in the 2nd anniversary issue two years ago, and have been reminded of the fact ever since. This year we intend to keep a stiff upper lip and a stern eye. But we would like to pause and doff our hats to two former suscribers now dead: Joe Hatch and Al McKeel, jr.
The first issue of LeZ was nothing but a two-page advertising sheet, ballyhooing another fanzine of ours which didn't last long. The second issue blossomed forth as a "news" sheet --mostly Tucker's news and comment. You'll find that second issue reprinted in full in the second section of this issue. It was on thin blue paper and exuded the effervescent ebulliency of youth.
On the cover of our tenth issue we reproduced by mimeo-photo process a picture of Ted Carnell. Recently Fantasite experimented with this process, and Nova is intending to do so. In issue #14 we took our first poll and discovered ourselves in third place; it was only last year in a Widner poll that another fanzine nosed us out of that position, forcing us into fourth place. People who insinuate that we doctored that first poll in our favor aren't at all nice. Away with them! 
Issue #16 went with us to the 1939 Philadelphia Conference & was mailed from there. #17 ran the first Damon Knight cartoon... Pro editors saw it and begged him to illustrate for them ... yeah. #20 saw the first LeZ calendar. Another Knight cartoon cover on #21. On #24 was another, which to this day, many, many readers haven't "gotten". It was that subtle, and yet we thought it very funny. It merely pictured a man in space holding a star in his hand, a dumbfounded expression on his pan. Tsk, tsk, we thought our readers brighter than that. 
But our favorite crack in all the fifty issues is this little gem by Reinsberg in issue #12: "All fans are morons -- except you, of course, Tucker." We concur. We glee. 
(small dividing dot) - Bob Tucker

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3 The suddeness with which all this took place left EEE little chance to plan for his absence. However, he did express certain wishes. Chiefly, it is his hope that the fans will all cooperate to carry forward the various programs he had started. His mail now goes to Al Ashley and future communications are to be addressed to 86 Upton ave., Battle Creek, Michigan." And so we can only hope that this issue of LeZ catches him somewhere, as it will so many dozens of other fans at home and abroad; that all may share with us this gleeful birthday as we begin our fifth year of publication. Only the future of the nation and the whims of our draft board can determine if we are to finish this fifth year. Meanwhile, LeZ notifies one and all that publication of the magazine is subject to termination without notice, for obvious reasons. On our past birthdays we sold booster ads; pages in which our well-wishers could tell us so for a nickle a whack. This has been discontinued and in its place are pages of thank-you's...that is, we are presenting our complete circulation list, past and present, for the purpose of thanking each suscriber publicy for the past support he has extended us. In addition, we have placed an asterisk (*) beside the names of those who have been with us since the beginning. That is, since issue number ten (August 5, 1939), which was the first issue one could suscribe to. Previous to issue number ten the ghazette was given away free with various other fanzines, mainly Fantasy News. We became quite sentimental in our editorial in the 2nd anniversary issue two years ago, and have been reminded of the fact ever since. This year we intend to keep a stiff upper lip and a stern eye. But we would like to pause and doff our hats to two former suscribers now dead: Joe Hatch and Al McKeel, jr. The first issue of LeZ was nothing but a two-page advertising sheet, ballyhooing another fanzine of ours which didn't last long. The second issue blossomed forth as a "news" sheet --mostly Tucker's news and comment. You'll find that second issue reprinted in full in the second section of this issue. It was on thin blue paper and exuded the effervescent ebulliency of youth. On the cover of our tenth issue we reproduced by mimeo-photo process a picture of Ted Carnell. Recently Fantasite experimented with this process, and Nova is intending to do so. In issue #14 we took our first poll and discovered ourselves in third place; it was only last year in a Widner poll that another fanzine nosed us out of that position, forcing us into fourth place. People who insinuate that we doctored that first poll in our favor aren't at all nice. Away with them! Issue #16 went with us to the 1939 Philadelphia Conference & was mailed from there. #17 ran the first Damon Knight cartoon... Pro editors saw it and begged him to illustrate for them ... yeah. #20 saw the first LeZ calendar. Another Knight cartoon cover on #21. On #24 was another, which to this day, many, many readers haven't "gotten". It was that subtle, and yet we thought it very funny. It merely pictured a man in space holding a star in his hand, a dumbfounded expression on his pan. Tsk, tsk, we thought our readers brighter than that. But our favorite crack in all the fifty issues is this little gem by Reinsberg in issue #12: "All fans are morons -- except you, of course, Tucker." We concur. We glee. (small dividing dot) - Bob Tucker