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Fandango, v. 2, issue 3, whole no. 7, Winter 1944
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FAPA VARIETY. I'm afraid this matter of fan profiteering is a rather futile one to kick around, for so long as a demand exists for back number fanzines there will be persons willing to fulfill it for a consideration. I have aired my opinion of fan dealers rather publicly (in #3 The Knanve), and since writing this article have had a number of deals with Ackerman which have led me to revise my opinion a good deal. While his prices still seem rather high, I have found (and frankly, I was surprised) that the prices he pays for stock are in keeping with the prices he sells it for. I've traded 4e a large quantity of duplicates and other unwanted material, and have found that he makes far better swaps than more fans I've bartered with. Material which is usable for stock has fetched me around 80% of 4e's selling prices in trade, and those who know much about business realise that a 20% margin of profit (gross) is not a large one. I believe that your remarks on the West Coast "Nut Gallery" show too little apprehension of the facts of fan life out here. You must remember that we all spend the majority of our spare time either around the club or at least with other fans. As a result, idiosyncrasies that would ordinarily be ignored assume mountainous proportions. Add to this the fact that most of the LASFS coterie are high-strung fire balls, and it is slight wonder that we have such devastating explosions. The purported cause of these outbreaks is rarely the actual one; most of the rows occur through a building up of animosities and resnetments over a period of weeks or months. I'll agree with you that they are silly. ----oo0oo---- AN ANONYMOUS CIVILIAN. Kepner has his faults, a lot of them; but I for one am getting throughly fed up with the continual barrage coming his way from 1299 California. Why not pick on someone else for a chance, Willie? ----oo0oo---- MILTY'S MAG. The cover was not Milty engaging in a bit of ego boosting. Ackerman and I did this thing to the wroth man, and, stupidly, I forgot to amend one of the stencils to point out that the caricature was done from a photo by one of Ackie's slaves cut at Fort MacArthur. Stencll was by Crozetti. ----oo0oo---- THE PANTY RAISER. In the immortal words of Brown and Fern, "We just had to do it!" ----oo0oo---- CALIBAN #6. Perhaps you're right about total and near-total fans having never been in the real world at all; however, I think you may agree with me when I suggest that the microcosmos should be na real (in the sense of being a true segment of the macrocosmos and not a wholly different sort of life) as possible....I note your comment on "Poll Kitten" and should like you to take a few lines to point out the reasons for your "new anti-poll attitude". Please..... ----oo0oo---- THE MAD MUSE. Bravo! ----oo0oo---- JANUS. I thought Harry Warner was a poor mimeographer sometimes: ----oo0oo---- FFF PRESENTS: While it is nice to have this material in pamphlet form I am not at all in favor of activity requirements being fulfilled by reprints of material recently published in the general fan press. Things like Alicia, which are virtually unobtainable, are different, but somehow this thing of saving one's old stencils and re-running them for FAPA seems not quick cricket, even though it does give us something good like this in such a form we don't have to wade through a lot of outdated sheets to find it. --7--
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FAPA VARIETY. I'm afraid this matter of fan profiteering is a rather futile one to kick around, for so long as a demand exists for back number fanzines there will be persons willing to fulfill it for a consideration. I have aired my opinion of fan dealers rather publicly (in #3 The Knanve), and since writing this article have had a number of deals with Ackerman which have led me to revise my opinion a good deal. While his prices still seem rather high, I have found (and frankly, I was surprised) that the prices he pays for stock are in keeping with the prices he sells it for. I've traded 4e a large quantity of duplicates and other unwanted material, and have found that he makes far better swaps than more fans I've bartered with. Material which is usable for stock has fetched me around 80% of 4e's selling prices in trade, and those who know much about business realise that a 20% margin of profit (gross) is not a large one. I believe that your remarks on the West Coast "Nut Gallery" show too little apprehension of the facts of fan life out here. You must remember that we all spend the majority of our spare time either around the club or at least with other fans. As a result, idiosyncrasies that would ordinarily be ignored assume mountainous proportions. Add to this the fact that most of the LASFS coterie are high-strung fire balls, and it is slight wonder that we have such devastating explosions. The purported cause of these outbreaks is rarely the actual one; most of the rows occur through a building up of animosities and resnetments over a period of weeks or months. I'll agree with you that they are silly. ----oo0oo---- AN ANONYMOUS CIVILIAN. Kepner has his faults, a lot of them; but I for one am getting throughly fed up with the continual barrage coming his way from 1299 California. Why not pick on someone else for a chance, Willie? ----oo0oo---- MILTY'S MAG. The cover was not Milty engaging in a bit of ego boosting. Ackerman and I did this thing to the wroth man, and, stupidly, I forgot to amend one of the stencils to point out that the caricature was done from a photo by one of Ackie's slaves cut at Fort MacArthur. Stencll was by Crozetti. ----oo0oo---- THE PANTY RAISER. In the immortal words of Brown and Fern, "We just had to do it!" ----oo0oo---- CALIBAN #6. Perhaps you're right about total and near-total fans having never been in the real world at all; however, I think you may agree with me when I suggest that the microcosmos should be na real (in the sense of being a true segment of the macrocosmos and not a wholly different sort of life) as possible....I note your comment on "Poll Kitten" and should like you to take a few lines to point out the reasons for your "new anti-poll attitude". Please..... ----oo0oo---- THE MAD MUSE. Bravo! ----oo0oo---- JANUS. I thought Harry Warner was a poor mimeographer sometimes: ----oo0oo---- FFF PRESENTS: While it is nice to have this material in pamphlet form I am not at all in favor of activity requirements being fulfilled by reprints of material recently published in the general fan press. Things like Alicia, which are virtually unobtainable, are different, but somehow this thing of saving one's old stencils and re-running them for FAPA seems not quick cricket, even though it does give us something good like this in such a form we don't have to wade through a lot of outdated sheets to find it. --7--
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