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Meet the fan THE VULCAN Page 12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- at me from all sides, leading to some embarrassment at times. At this time--1940--came my first correspondence with other fans and my first fan-magazine, all lendind as much fun to the game as anything else. Also in 1940 a man in Long Island was writing long, repititious letters avowing his destitution, his invalid state, and his willingness to sell a collection of 12,000 magazines containing files of all the magazines you and I have ever wanted to own----the rarities, the old Black Cat, and All-Story, Thrill Book, the old Cavalier, Argosy, and the files of the Street and Smith Pubs when they ran as weeklies---20 to 25 years of Detective story and Western Story magazines. There were the files, practically complete of Blue Book, Adventure, Short Stories, and every issue of Popular, the issues of Saturday Evening Post since 1898. What to do? I sent the address to friends, distributed it as widely as possible. But the thing was too big; that was three years ago and I don't know now the fate of this remarkable collection. In October of 1940 I received about 500 issues of Argosy and [illegible] from a new Jersey address---back to 1925. Slowly I was obtaining other magazines, the stf, Blue Book, Adventure, maintaining, meanwhile, a file of many current magazines, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, etc. In early '41 I obtained some Argosy back to 1905 and 100 1905-24 Popular, a magazine discontinued by Street and Smith in 1930, which rivaled Argosy in those days, and in its first few years of publication recorded 300 or more novels from its pages published in book form and probably had as many published until 1930, doubtlessly equalling the lists published in Argonotes, Dec. 30, 1933, and June 16, 1934. In popular were featured Rex Beach ("Going Some"), H.G. Wells with "Tono Bungay", Frank L. Packard with some of the top railroad short stories ever published ("On the Iron at Big Cloud") and "Doors of the night" in 1918---one of the greatest underworld stories. Jack London in 1912 and '13 with "Adventure" ans "The Abysmal Brute", Stewart Edward White, Emerson Hough, Zane Grey, Chas. Neville Buck and many others added to its laurels. Frances Lynde and B.M. Bower were published almost exclusively; Henry Herbert Knibbs, A.M. Chisholm, William Le Quex, Raymond S. Spears, G.W. Odgan and other prominent writers were featured. During the '20's Fred McIsaac contributed regularly such serials as "Senator Maguire", "The Last Atlantite" and "Tin Hate". In Blue Book of the '20's were, as today, the best writes of adventure----Zane Grey, Chas. Alden Seltzer, Burroughs from 1916 to the present, H. Bedford Jones (his remarkable series, "Arms and Men" and "Ships and Men", are a landmark in publishing history), and Clarence Herbert New. In 1924 Blue Book published Agathia Christie's "The Man in the Brown Suit"; a writer, Bigelow Neal, produced great outdoor stories and of the west. Raymond S. Speare with "The Mountain Sheriff", "Mississippi Magic and "Swamp Angel", wrote serials of their types [un?] excelled? In excellence of format, departments stories and all-over true value, the old Adventure probably stands alone. Edited by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman for nearly 20 years, it reached heights in the 20's few action magazines reach. H. Bedford Jones, Gordon Young, Hugh Pendexter, Leonard Nason, Brobeur, T.S. Stribling, Raymond S. SPearsm Harold Lamb, were contributors. The "Ask Adventure" and "Campfire" departments in those old magazines make as interesting reading today as when published. J. Frank Dobie and other writers on subjects of interest to adventurers has quoted "Ask Adventure" and "Campfire" among the bibliographies of their books. One of my favorite short stories in any magazine is Raymond S. Spears' "The Sheepherder" in a 1924 Adventure. Out of Argosy has come the bulk of my magazine reading of the past 4 years, however, its large circulation making the old copier comparatively easy to find To list the hundreds of fine stories would be repeating
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Meet the fan THE VULCAN Page 12 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- at me from all sides, leading to some embarrassment at times. At this time--1940--came my first correspondence with other fans and my first fan-magazine, all lendind as much fun to the game as anything else. Also in 1940 a man in Long Island was writing long, repititious letters avowing his destitution, his invalid state, and his willingness to sell a collection of 12,000 magazines containing files of all the magazines you and I have ever wanted to own----the rarities, the old Black Cat, and All-Story, Thrill Book, the old Cavalier, Argosy, and the files of the Street and Smith Pubs when they ran as weeklies---20 to 25 years of Detective story and Western Story magazines. There were the files, practically complete of Blue Book, Adventure, Short Stories, and every issue of Popular, the issues of Saturday Evening Post since 1898. What to do? I sent the address to friends, distributed it as widely as possible. But the thing was too big; that was three years ago and I don't know now the fate of this remarkable collection. In October of 1940 I received about 500 issues of Argosy and [illegible] from a new Jersey address---back to 1925. Slowly I was obtaining other magazines, the stf, Blue Book, Adventure, maintaining, meanwhile, a file of many current magazines, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, etc. In early '41 I obtained some Argosy back to 1905 and 100 1905-24 Popular, a magazine discontinued by Street and Smith in 1930, which rivaled Argosy in those days, and in its first few years of publication recorded 300 or more novels from its pages published in book form and probably had as many published until 1930, doubtlessly equalling the lists published in Argonotes, Dec. 30, 1933, and June 16, 1934. In popular were featured Rex Beach ("Going Some"), H.G. Wells with "Tono Bungay", Frank L. Packard with some of the top railroad short stories ever published ("On the Iron at Big Cloud") and "Doors of the night" in 1918---one of the greatest underworld stories. Jack London in 1912 and '13 with "Adventure" ans "The Abysmal Brute", Stewart Edward White, Emerson Hough, Zane Grey, Chas. Neville Buck and many others added to its laurels. Frances Lynde and B.M. Bower were published almost exclusively; Henry Herbert Knibbs, A.M. Chisholm, William Le Quex, Raymond S. Spears, G.W. Odgan and other prominent writers were featured. During the '20's Fred McIsaac contributed regularly such serials as "Senator Maguire", "The Last Atlantite" and "Tin Hate". In Blue Book of the '20's were, as today, the best writes of adventure----Zane Grey, Chas. Alden Seltzer, Burroughs from 1916 to the present, H. Bedford Jones (his remarkable series, "Arms and Men" and "Ships and Men", are a landmark in publishing history), and Clarence Herbert New. In 1924 Blue Book published Agathia Christie's "The Man in the Brown Suit"; a writer, Bigelow Neal, produced great outdoor stories and of the west. Raymond S. Speare with "The Mountain Sheriff", "Mississippi Magic and "Swamp Angel", wrote serials of their types [un?] excelled? In excellence of format, departments stories and all-over true value, the old Adventure probably stands alone. Edited by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman for nearly 20 years, it reached heights in the 20's few action magazines reach. H. Bedford Jones, Gordon Young, Hugh Pendexter, Leonard Nason, Brobeur, T.S. Stribling, Raymond S. SPearsm Harold Lamb, were contributors. The "Ask Adventure" and "Campfire" departments in those old magazines make as interesting reading today as when published. J. Frank Dobie and other writers on subjects of interest to adventurers has quoted "Ask Adventure" and "Campfire" among the bibliographies of their books. One of my favorite short stories in any magazine is Raymond S. Spears' "The Sheepherder" in a 1924 Adventure. Out of Argosy has come the bulk of my magazine reading of the past 4 years, however, its large circulation making the old copier comparatively easy to find To list the hundreds of fine stories would be repeating
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