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Midge, whole no. 3, 1944

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MIDGE   PACIFIC COAST NEWS CARD  No. #3


will have to grow up or something. Anyone who's had experience with hectography knows the time it takes to turn out 100 copies of a single page and the attendant inconveniences of hecto publishing. After two issues Jike and I bogged down in the gelatin.  (We just got out of it.) So Midge changes form and process. Price on new subs goes up: 2/5. 30 for 65¢ applies henseforth. 
Ron Clyne announces a portfolio of 10 illustrations by Wallace Smith, from Ben Hecht's Fantazius Mallare, published only in a 2000 copy limited edition in 1922. This litho'd collection will sell for $1 and Ron pledges to refund your money if you are not satisfied with the pix.
Full details on this courageous and noteworthy fan publication will be found in the latest Voli (the mag 4sj and Morojo publish for Jike), currently in the mail or available from 4e, Box 6475. Metro Station, LA-14, 15¢ or 7 for a dollar. Pete Slusarski now at Camp Haan. Daughterty buys new ditto machine. 
Recent visitors to Shangri-La include Dal Coger and Bob Hoffman (who's furloughing while on route to Texas.) LASFS Xmas party O.K; Mag notes: Mel Brown busy on FANSLANTS #2; Mike Fern breaks away from FS and plans his own fmz: ICONOSCOPE paka IKE, to be published on a when-and-if basis. FANFARE size, but the pages, articles and humor only, rugged edges a lá Acolyte, and for the same reason. 
Andy Anderson's CENTAURI #2 will be in the mail in early January, he says. Bruce Yerke and Mel Brown are wrapped up in the BEDSIDE FASSBENDER, a collection of previously unpublished off brail fiction from the noted pen of Carlson J. Fassbinder. They ask two-bits.

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MIDGE PACIFIC COAST NEWS CARD No. #3 will have to grow up or something. Anyone who's had experience with hectography knows the time it takes to turn out 100 copies of a single page and the attendant inconveniences of hecto publishing. After two issues Jike and I bogged down in the gelatin. (We just got out of it.) So Midge changes form and process. Price on new subs goes up: 2/5. 30 for 65¢ applies henseforth. Ron Clyne announces a portfolio of 10 illustrations by Wallace Smith, from Ben Hecht's Fantazius Mallare, published only in a 2000 copy limited edition in 1922. This litho'd collection will sell for $1 and Ron pledges to refund your money if you are not satisfied with the pix. Full details on this courageous and noteworthy fan publication will be found in the latest Voli (the mag 4sj and Morojo publish for Jike), currently in the mail or available from 4e, Box 6475. Metro Station, LA-14, 15¢ or 7 for a dollar. Pete Slusarski now at Camp Haan. Daughterty buys new ditto machine. Recent visitors to Shangri-La include Dal Coger and Bob Hoffman (who's furloughing while on route to Texas.) LASFS Xmas party O.K; Mag notes: Mel Brown busy on FANSLANTS #2; Mike Fern breaks away from FS and plans his own fmz: ICONOSCOPE paka IKE, to be published on a when-and-if basis. FANFARE size, but the pages, articles and humor only, rugged edges a lá Acolyte, and for the same reason. Andy Anderson's CENTAURI #2 will be in the mail in early January, he says. Bruce Yerke and Mel Brown are wrapped up in the BEDSIDE FASSBENDER, a collection of previously unpublished off brail fiction from the noted pen of Carlson J. Fassbinder. They ask two-bits.