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Vulcan, whole no. 5, January 1944
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Meet the fan THE VULCAN Page 11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [action?] or phase of their career at any particular time. By many and devious means I obtained them----the aviation and air-war, the miscellaneous adventure magazine. In like proportion was a heterogeneous representation of slick magazines, boys' books, mythology, fairy tales, "David Copperfield", "Robinson Crusoe", the best sellers, "Les Miserables", histories and texts, the Book of Wonder and Book of Knowledge in a great many volumes. In short, the supply never equaled the demand; I read for the joy of reading, rater than for interest derived from the matter itself in a great many cases, and I read everything that came to hand. One of the thrilling experiences of this time was the reading of "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire", while for years I read and saved every Buck Rogers strip. A serious interest, too, was the following of the many character series in Wild West Weekly-----thrilling indeed to a small boy living in the world of space-ships, miracles, of infinite variety, beauty and wonder. G-8 and his Battle Aces were always engrossing; Battle Birds, Dare-Devil Aces, and the Lone Eagle were studied as carefully as the World War I planes at a time when I could not distinguish between any of the more common makes of cars. Fokker D-7's, Albatross's, Pfalz's and Spandau Machineguns were terms as commonplace to me as the modern [lane?] today. 1932 provided new fields and interests . I acquired a new neighbor with the proverbial garage full of Argosy, Blue Book and others. I read "When Worlds Collide", reams of Max Brand when he was writing for Street and Smith's Western Story, Detective Fiction Weekly, Railroad Man's and always---Argosy. "Spawn of the Comet", Chao Alden Seltzer, the "radio" stories, Gillian Hazeltine, Bill and Jim, A. Merritt, Burroughs, Fred [] Isaac (what a writer!), "The Hothouse World", "He Rules Who Can", F. Can Wyck Mason; endless is the list of stories and authors enjoyed from the pages of hundreds of Argosies that year and the next. About this time, too, I remember a Rider Haggard serial in some old mag; title and story hardly a memory----and some splendid stories in Ace-High and other magazines of western, of which probably few copies are in existence today. Between 1933 and early 1939 I read, as before, the magazines, more books, having gained access to a library with Jules Verne, Burroughs, [], Zane Grey, and other types and authors by scores, but no Argosy, thought I can't give a plausible reason. I thrilled to Louis Tracy's "Wings of the Morning", "The Jungle"---[though?] recent re-readings reveal much I did not, could not, grasp then. [Rex?] Beach was outstandind as an author of adventure---"The Ne-er-do-well", "Heart of the Sunset", "Going Some", "The Net", "The Rainbow's End". [My?] list is so long any attempt to mention a part would be superfluous. In the first months of 1989 I received a pleasant shock when in [] number shop I came across some 1938 Argosies containing "Carson of Venus", "Trouble Wagon", and an excellent fantasy novelette by Richard [] about the little man who gained strength through chemicals----"[]fingers", I believe. Soon I was piecing together from here and there the parts to fill [] "Ship of the Line", "The Living Ghost", "The Man With the Magic Face", reading meanwhile, "Synthetic Men of Mars", "Minions of the Moon", and [] Dr. Kildare stories. But some weeks elapsed before the germs of the [new?] idea----to whole-heartily adopt magazine collecting as a hobby----manifested themselves. It was slow work at first----fewfew pre-1937 Argosies were obtainable [and?] I read them all as fast as I collected them----faster. But soon con[] began to materialize and I was hard-put to go to school, do the [] things and raise the money to pay for the magazines offered me
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Meet the fan THE VULCAN Page 11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [action?] or phase of their career at any particular time. By many and devious means I obtained them----the aviation and air-war, the miscellaneous adventure magazine. In like proportion was a heterogeneous representation of slick magazines, boys' books, mythology, fairy tales, "David Copperfield", "Robinson Crusoe", the best sellers, "Les Miserables", histories and texts, the Book of Wonder and Book of Knowledge in a great many volumes. In short, the supply never equaled the demand; I read for the joy of reading, rater than for interest derived from the matter itself in a great many cases, and I read everything that came to hand. One of the thrilling experiences of this time was the reading of "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire", while for years I read and saved every Buck Rogers strip. A serious interest, too, was the following of the many character series in Wild West Weekly-----thrilling indeed to a small boy living in the world of space-ships, miracles, of infinite variety, beauty and wonder. G-8 and his Battle Aces were always engrossing; Battle Birds, Dare-Devil Aces, and the Lone Eagle were studied as carefully as the World War I planes at a time when I could not distinguish between any of the more common makes of cars. Fokker D-7's, Albatross's, Pfalz's and Spandau Machineguns were terms as commonplace to me as the modern [lane?] today. 1932 provided new fields and interests . I acquired a new neighbor with the proverbial garage full of Argosy, Blue Book and others. I read "When Worlds Collide", reams of Max Brand when he was writing for Street and Smith's Western Story, Detective Fiction Weekly, Railroad Man's and always---Argosy. "Spawn of the Comet", Chao Alden Seltzer, the "radio" stories, Gillian Hazeltine, Bill and Jim, A. Merritt, Burroughs, Fred [] Isaac (what a writer!), "The Hothouse World", "He Rules Who Can", F. Can Wyck Mason; endless is the list of stories and authors enjoyed from the pages of hundreds of Argosies that year and the next. About this time, too, I remember a Rider Haggard serial in some old mag; title and story hardly a memory----and some splendid stories in Ace-High and other magazines of western, of which probably few copies are in existence today. Between 1933 and early 1939 I read, as before, the magazines, more books, having gained access to a library with Jules Verne, Burroughs, [], Zane Grey, and other types and authors by scores, but no Argosy, thought I can't give a plausible reason. I thrilled to Louis Tracy's "Wings of the Morning", "The Jungle"---[though?] recent re-readings reveal much I did not, could not, grasp then. [Rex?] Beach was outstandind as an author of adventure---"The Ne-er-do-well", "Heart of the Sunset", "Going Some", "The Net", "The Rainbow's End". [My?] list is so long any attempt to mention a part would be superfluous. In the first months of 1989 I received a pleasant shock when in [] number shop I came across some 1938 Argosies containing "Carson of Venus", "Trouble Wagon", and an excellent fantasy novelette by Richard [] about the little man who gained strength through chemicals----"[]fingers", I believe. Soon I was piecing together from here and there the parts to fill [] "Ship of the Line", "The Living Ghost", "The Man With the Magic Face", reading meanwhile, "Synthetic Men of Mars", "Minions of the Moon", and [] Dr. Kildare stories. But some weeks elapsed before the germs of the [new?] idea----to whole-heartily adopt magazine collecting as a hobby----manifested themselves. It was slow work at first----fewfew pre-1937 Argosies were obtainable [and?] I read them all as fast as I collected them----faster. But soon con[] began to materialize and I was hard-put to go to school, do the [] things and raise the money to pay for the magazines offered me
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