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Le Zombie, v. 5, issue 4, whole no. 51, January 1943
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b4 LE ZOMBIE Number Fifty-one &1/2 some typical Tucker balderdash U haven't the slight- est idea what this is EXPLANATION DEPT: The following, dear reader of 1943, is an example of the kind of Le Zombie you would have today if we were still publishing that two-faced gossip sheet you've just finished reading. Read on then, oh merry escapist, and pretend that LeZ never expanded to the gigantic, tremendous, bombastic thing that it is today. Yeh, read: COMMENT DEPT: Just how and why it is that so many fanzine editors dislike H.C. Koenig is more than we can understand, in view of the fact that he is the outstanding advertiser of most every fanzine publishing ---and we mean his anti-hiss campaign. More than one humble fan zine has had its named lifted on high and shouted 'round the world because the Kernal found an unworthy hiss embedded in its ink-soiled pages. It is no secret that he keeps Amazing alive by such attacks. DELICATE SEX DEPT: One of the recent issues of Voice of the Imagination (we think it was the twentieth) carried on its cover the first effort in sex art (???) of a Michigan miss known as Abby Lu Ashley. (Positively not another pen-name of Ackerman). The thing in question was a scene showing "mother time" handing a match to "daughter time" and both figures were quite N U D E! Despite the fact that the picture was signed with a phony name ("Jack Wiedenbeck"), we know to whom it belongs. Oh Abby Lu, how cud U? To conclude our Michigan comment, we announce that you aren't likely to find any reprints from Nova in Spaceways' pages because Nova wont allow reprinting and Spaceways hasn't any pages anymore. We might add that Nova has taken over the S subscription list upon the completion of satisfactory financial arrangements between the two publishers, with Nova finding itself the richer thereby. More than a hundred cash customers at one swoop isn't hay! WEEKLY NEWS SHEET DEPT: It becomes our sad duty to inform all and sundry that e have no more weekly news sheets in fandom. Fantasy News appears once in a while, FFF Illustrated Weekly appears whenever boss Unger feels like it (usually a month late), and the Minneapolis sheet comes out whenever editor Gergen sobers up ... which isn't often. Tsk SUBTLE ADVERTISING DEPT: LeZ therefore rushes into the breech to announce a brand new, up-to-the-minute newspaper for fandom: Science Fiction Appleknocker Weekly, which will be printed, use photographs regularly, have trimmed edges, slick paper, no printing on the cover scene, sell for 3[[cent symbol]], and in order to get it to subscribers while the news remains hot, will send out each copy via airmail! The first issue will be out sometime in February (probably the 30th) and appear on the second Friday of each week thereafter. FLASH DEPT: The Bored of Directors have just met in secret session after the above paragraph went to press, and have decided to change the name of the newspaper. Please be advised therefore, that the new title is to be: Science Fiction Applepolisher Weekly. The streamline trend of this modern age is no doubt responsible for the change.
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b4 LE ZOMBIE Number Fifty-one &1/2 some typical Tucker balderdash U haven't the slight- est idea what this is EXPLANATION DEPT: The following, dear reader of 1943, is an example of the kind of Le Zombie you would have today if we were still publishing that two-faced gossip sheet you've just finished reading. Read on then, oh merry escapist, and pretend that LeZ never expanded to the gigantic, tremendous, bombastic thing that it is today. Yeh, read: COMMENT DEPT: Just how and why it is that so many fanzine editors dislike H.C. Koenig is more than we can understand, in view of the fact that he is the outstanding advertiser of most every fanzine publishing ---and we mean his anti-hiss campaign. More than one humble fan zine has had its named lifted on high and shouted 'round the world because the Kernal found an unworthy hiss embedded in its ink-soiled pages. It is no secret that he keeps Amazing alive by such attacks. DELICATE SEX DEPT: One of the recent issues of Voice of the Imagination (we think it was the twentieth) carried on its cover the first effort in sex art (???) of a Michigan miss known as Abby Lu Ashley. (Positively not another pen-name of Ackerman). The thing in question was a scene showing "mother time" handing a match to "daughter time" and both figures were quite N U D E! Despite the fact that the picture was signed with a phony name ("Jack Wiedenbeck"), we know to whom it belongs. Oh Abby Lu, how cud U? To conclude our Michigan comment, we announce that you aren't likely to find any reprints from Nova in Spaceways' pages because Nova wont allow reprinting and Spaceways hasn't any pages anymore. We might add that Nova has taken over the S subscription list upon the completion of satisfactory financial arrangements between the two publishers, with Nova finding itself the richer thereby. More than a hundred cash customers at one swoop isn't hay! WEEKLY NEWS SHEET DEPT: It becomes our sad duty to inform all and sundry that e have no more weekly news sheets in fandom. Fantasy News appears once in a while, FFF Illustrated Weekly appears whenever boss Unger feels like it (usually a month late), and the Minneapolis sheet comes out whenever editor Gergen sobers up ... which isn't often. Tsk SUBTLE ADVERTISING DEPT: LeZ therefore rushes into the breech to announce a brand new, up-to-the-minute newspaper for fandom: Science Fiction Appleknocker Weekly, which will be printed, use photographs regularly, have trimmed edges, slick paper, no printing on the cover scene, sell for 3[[cent symbol]], and in order to get it to subscribers while the news remains hot, will send out each copy via airmail! The first issue will be out sometime in February (probably the 30th) and appear on the second Friday of each week thereafter. FLASH DEPT: The Bored of Directors have just met in secret session after the above paragraph went to press, and have decided to change the name of the newspaper. Please be advised therefore, that the new title is to be: Science Fiction Applepolisher Weekly. The streamline trend of this modern age is no doubt responsible for the change.
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