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Science Fiction Weekly, v. 1, issue 3, April 1, 1940

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The Automat, April 2: On our way to this rendezvous of the elite we passed a stationery store before which a group of young yeggs were clustered, ogling with awe a string of comic magazines longer than your arm. "Jeez!" said one. "Lookit Science!"

We've been thinking for quite a while that Something Ought to be Done about the deluge of comic books that is slowly but surely driving completists crazy. There are now over 70 of this pseudo - scientific, save- the universe type of child-scarer, with ore on their supermanic way.

Something has been done about it by Sun Publications. (Harry Stephen Keeler -- 10 Story Book). They have dusted off their sleeves and are laughing hilariously up them with Vol. 4 # 9 of their Sun Fun Magazine, subtitled Gus the Goon Comics. The hero is Spineless Sam, the Schlemiel, or Super-Sam, a most amazing character combining the more spectacular qualities of Superman, Mandrake, Chandu, Tarzan, The Shadow, and other comparative softies. Sam gets that way by eating Cornies: "Here is Spineless Sam's sensational secret. Every morning on rising, Spineless Sam looks like the figure in the left panel on the preceding page, but without taking a plunge in a cold shower (he bathes every Saturday night) our hero rushes to the breakfast table where he partakes of a big bowl of crispy, crunchy, Cornies, wit [sic] milk or cream and sugar and his favorite fruit, usually green persimmons or some other tangy fruit; and when he finished with this breakfast of Schlemiels, he finds himself with new strength, new vigor -- unimagined powers are his, and, in a flash he becomes the champion he really is, just as you see him in the right panel, on the reverse page. You too can be like Spineless Sam -- all you have to do is to eat the breakfast of schlemiels every morning -- reach for that familiar heliotrope and saffron box."

BOOST THE CHICON

Go West, young man, go west;
For vacations, the Chicon's best.
- -  H. Greeley Wollheim

THE HIGHWAY MAGAZINE, March, 1940, has two articles and a number of pictures about the 200 incher ((telescope)). The problem of buildinf [sic] a road up to the top of the mountain that would stand up under the tremendous weight of some of the parts (65 tons one piece weighed) was the question of proper drainage culverts to stand up under the weight. (Donn Brazier).

FRONTIER SOCIETY FORMED
Milwaukee, April 3: Paul Klingbiel and Donn Brazier have united forces to form a new society which they describe as "a league of serious minded fans gathered together to probe into the Frontiers of existing knowledge." It will be known as the Frontier Society Letters have been dispatched to the various magazines announcing its formation.

Mr Kilngbiel, a student of science, philosophy, and religion, as well as fantasy, has collected two meaty volumes of typewritten notes to show what science does not know and for what it fumbling [sic]. Mr Brazier is now gathering notes for a book of a similar nature.

"The big idea of the society" says Mr Brazier, "is this: imagine a large group of fellows all collecting notes of a similar nature; imagine a central headquarters where, at the end of the year, all of these notes could be parred and organized into a marvelous yearbook that would be a treasure for research (or for stf writers); imagine the number of books and magazines that all these people could read and cover; think of the wealth of material waiting for a determined group to pick it to pieces and save the best. That, we hope, will be the Frontier Society."

Further information can be obtained through writing to Paul Klingbiel, 627 South 7th Street, West Bend, Wisconsin.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FUTURIANS FORMED
Mercury exchange: The long- proposed stf club for Northern Californians has at last come into being, the name finally decided upon as the Northern California Futurians.

It is the intent of the membership to affiliate, at the earliest possible moment, with the Science Fictioneers, ye Illini Fantasy Fictioneers, and the Futurian League.

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dick wilson's STRICTLY PUBLIC The Automat, April 2: On our way to this rendezvous of the elite we passed a stationery store before which a group of young yeggs were clustered, ogling with awe a string of comic magazines longer than your arm. "Jeez!" said one. "Lookit Science!" We've been thinking for quite a while that Something Ought to be Done about the deluge of comic books that is slowly but surely driving completists crazy. There are now over 70 of this pseudo - scientific, save- the universe type of child-scarer, with ore on their supermanic way. Something has been done about it by Sun Publications. (Harry Stephen Keeler -- 10 Story Book). They have dusted off their sleeves and are laughing hilariously up them with Vol. 4 # 9 of their Sun Fun Magazine, subtitled Gus the Goon Comics. The hero is Spineless Sam, the Schlemiel, or Super-Sam, a most amazing character combining the more spectacular qualities of Superman, Mandrake, Chandu, Tarzan, The Shadow, and other comparative softies. Sam gets that way by eating Cornies: "Here is Spineless Sam's sensational secret. Every morning on rising, Spineless Sam looks like the figure in the left panel on the preceding page, but without taking a plunge in a cold shower (he bathes every Saturday night) our hero rushes to the breakfast table where he partakes of a big bowl of crispy, crunchy, Cornies, wit [sic] milk or cream and sugar and his favorite fruit, usually green persimmons or some other tangy fruit; and when he finished with this breakfast of Schlemiels, he finds himself with new strength, new vigor -- unimagined powers are his, and, in a flash he becomes the champion he really is, just as you see him in the right panel, on the reverse page. You too can be like Spineless Sam -- all you have to do is to eat the breakfast of schlemiels every morning -- reach for that familiar heliotrope and saffron box." BOOST THE CHICON Go West, young man, go west; For vacations, the Chicon's best. - - H. Greeley Wollheim THE HIGHWAY MAGAZINE, March, 1940, has two articles and a number of pictures about the 200 incher ((telescope)). The problem of buildinf [sic] a road up to the top of the mountain that would stand up under the tremendous weight of some of the parts (65 tons one piece weighed) was the question of proper drainage culverts to stand up under the weight. (Donn Brazier). FRONTIER SOCIETY FORMED Milwaukee, April 3: Paul Klingbiel and Donn Brazier have united forces to form a new society which they describe as "a league of serious minded fans gathered together to probe into the Frontiers of existing knowledge." It will be known as the Frontier Society Letters have been dispatched to the various magazines announcing its formation. Mr Kilngbiel, a student of science, philosophy, and religion, as well as fantasy, has collected two meaty volumes of typewritten notes to show what science does not know and for what it fumbling [sic]. Mr Brazier is now gathering notes for a book of a similar nature. "The big idea of the society" says Mr Brazier, "is this: imagine a large group of fellows all collecting notes of a similar nature; imagine a central headquarters where, at the end of the year, all of these notes could be parred and organized into a marvelous yearbook that would be a treasure for research (or for stf writers); imagine the number of books and magazines that all these people could read and cover; think of the wealth of material waiting for a determined group to pick it to pieces and save the best. That, we hope, will be the Frontier Society." Further information can be obtained through writing to Paul Klingbiel, 627 South 7th Street, West Bend, Wisconsin. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FUTURIANS FORMED Mercury exchange: The long- proposed stf club for Northern Californians has at last come into being, the name finally decided upon as the Northern California Futurians. It is the intent of the membership to affiliate, at the earliest possible moment, with the Science Fictioneers, ye Illini Fantasy Fictioneers, and the Futurian League.