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Vulcan, whole no. 5, January 1944
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Page 9 MEET THE FAN LIONEL INMAN SUBJECT: Lionel Inman, your editor SPECIFICATIONS: Five feet, ten inches tall; weight, 140 pounds; Grey eyes, light brown hair, 17 years old. LIKES: Science-fiction and fantasy prozines and fanzines, pool; editing a fan mag; trying to be an artist; Most fans. DISLIKES: "Wolves"; Claude Degler; messu mimeographing. General History I was born somewhere back in 1925 or 1926. I raise a hell of a racket at the time, but a guy's born only once, so you can afford this. I was considered a bright pupil in grammar school. When I was in the sixth grade, I wrote my first story. It was detective, involving some new kind of masked superman and very amateurish. I let some of the boys read it and they liked it. The poor dopes didn't know any better. Anyway, I hid it so no intelligent person would find it and use it to blackmail me. I started another, but didn't finish it. The next one that I completed was while I was in the eighth grade. I had just discovered stf, and, naturally, that was what it was. I kept the thing for a year or two before I showed it to anyone. When I showed it, it was hailed as a classic, of course. Of course! Honestly, though, it wasn't too bad as fan fiction. The story? It was "Robomageddon" the serial that was completed last issue. Since that I've written several more but just filed them away. Lately, I;ve been sending some to fan editors, who bury them instead of publishing them. I admit, though, that I've fooled an editor or two lately. I suppose the rest of this should concern the history of VULCAN in a condensed form. I conceived the whole idea while seeing what made the school hectograph tick. I reasoned: if those guys who call themselves fan editors can foor the readers, then why can't I? So I went to work on the first issue. I still remember the time I had writing nearly the whole thing by myself. Stanley Haynes helped out with his column "Are You Interested". When I was through, the whole thing amounted to about 13 pages. Only a few copies were made, as I wanted to try out my friends before I put my work up for the scorn of the cruel, impersonal public. As result, there are only a few copies of that first issue now in existence. I have only one copy myself. With the second issue, the number of pages was increased to 24. Also there was better duplication since I had bought a hecto of my own. There were twice as many copies made as of the first issue, but they soon sold out. I have only copy of this issue left. Well, the result is history-----how the number of subscribers and [missing] built up. Particularly am I indebted [illegible]
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Page 9 MEET THE FAN LIONEL INMAN SUBJECT: Lionel Inman, your editor SPECIFICATIONS: Five feet, ten inches tall; weight, 140 pounds; Grey eyes, light brown hair, 17 years old. LIKES: Science-fiction and fantasy prozines and fanzines, pool; editing a fan mag; trying to be an artist; Most fans. DISLIKES: "Wolves"; Claude Degler; messu mimeographing. General History I was born somewhere back in 1925 or 1926. I raise a hell of a racket at the time, but a guy's born only once, so you can afford this. I was considered a bright pupil in grammar school. When I was in the sixth grade, I wrote my first story. It was detective, involving some new kind of masked superman and very amateurish. I let some of the boys read it and they liked it. The poor dopes didn't know any better. Anyway, I hid it so no intelligent person would find it and use it to blackmail me. I started another, but didn't finish it. The next one that I completed was while I was in the eighth grade. I had just discovered stf, and, naturally, that was what it was. I kept the thing for a year or two before I showed it to anyone. When I showed it, it was hailed as a classic, of course. Of course! Honestly, though, it wasn't too bad as fan fiction. The story? It was "Robomageddon" the serial that was completed last issue. Since that I've written several more but just filed them away. Lately, I;ve been sending some to fan editors, who bury them instead of publishing them. I admit, though, that I've fooled an editor or two lately. I suppose the rest of this should concern the history of VULCAN in a condensed form. I conceived the whole idea while seeing what made the school hectograph tick. I reasoned: if those guys who call themselves fan editors can foor the readers, then why can't I? So I went to work on the first issue. I still remember the time I had writing nearly the whole thing by myself. Stanley Haynes helped out with his column "Are You Interested". When I was through, the whole thing amounted to about 13 pages. Only a few copies were made, as I wanted to try out my friends before I put my work up for the scorn of the cruel, impersonal public. As result, there are only a few copies of that first issue now in existence. I have only one copy myself. With the second issue, the number of pages was increased to 24. Also there was better duplication since I had bought a hecto of my own. There were twice as many copies made as of the first issue, but they soon sold out. I have only copy of this issue left. Well, the result is history-----how the number of subscribers and [missing] built up. Particularly am I indebted [illegible]
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