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Fantasy Aspects, issue 2, November 1947
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FROM the FAPAZINE H. CHENEY JR. COLLETING By H. Cheney, jr. To many fantasy fans, and indeed to nearly all neophytes, an important aspect of fanning is that of collecting fantasy prozines. Every new fan dreams of the time when he may at last have a "complete file." The exotic names of past classics and the exciting recollections of old time stfists only serve to whet the appitites of those who enjoy fantasy literture. Upon embarking upon his plan for a collection of fantastic magazines, the fan soon runs up against the three principal means of procuring old fantasy magazines: (1) The back-issue magazine stores, which fall into two rough classes; the "ignorant" type who have no knowlege of the prices being paid for magazines of a fantasy or weird nature. To him all old mags are the same and he charges cover price for them all. Usually this type has a very poor assortment of stf magazines, mostly recent ones with the name strips or whole covers torn off. These dealers never build up large stocks of magazines as they are picked clean by eagle-eyed fen as soon as anything shows up. In extremely rare cases, you may find a place like this, untouched by slannish hands, this would be a gold mine. Then we have the second type, those who re "in the know." These are the type who, upon being asked if they have any stf, will slyly wink and lead you into their back room and show you a dissorderly heap of colorful old fantasy mags. This type usually has at least a hundred stf mags, and sometimes as many as fife hundred. However, they are at the extreme as far as prices go. Prices usually start at 50¢ for the newest mags and go up to $2.00 or $2.50 for the old stuff. Their weakness lies in the fact that "a little learning is a dangerous thing" because they rate all mags by age, not by name. They have heared that suckers will pay huge prices for fantasy mags, and so they carefully sort out their stock and seperate the stf from the rest and slap high prices on them all. They'll price a 1936 Astounding the same as a TWS of the same date. They charge as much for a 1930 Amazing as for a 1930 Ast. Then too, with a few exceptions, the quality of their mags is low, mint copies being almost unknown. there are few in-between grades, but back-ish mag dealers fall pretty generally into these two classes. (2) We have next the fan dealers. These fellows are very well acquainted with the current market and their prices, though high, are usually on a comprehensive scale, all prices in proportion. They usually start at about 35¢ for the recent mags and scale back to from $3.00 to $5.00 for ---- (Page 15) ----
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FROM the FAPAZINE H. CHENEY JR. COLLETING By H. Cheney, jr. To many fantasy fans, and indeed to nearly all neophytes, an important aspect of fanning is that of collecting fantasy prozines. Every new fan dreams of the time when he may at last have a "complete file." The exotic names of past classics and the exciting recollections of old time stfists only serve to whet the appitites of those who enjoy fantasy literture. Upon embarking upon his plan for a collection of fantastic magazines, the fan soon runs up against the three principal means of procuring old fantasy magazines: (1) The back-issue magazine stores, which fall into two rough classes; the "ignorant" type who have no knowlege of the prices being paid for magazines of a fantasy or weird nature. To him all old mags are the same and he charges cover price for them all. Usually this type has a very poor assortment of stf magazines, mostly recent ones with the name strips or whole covers torn off. These dealers never build up large stocks of magazines as they are picked clean by eagle-eyed fen as soon as anything shows up. In extremely rare cases, you may find a place like this, untouched by slannish hands, this would be a gold mine. Then we have the second type, those who re "in the know." These are the type who, upon being asked if they have any stf, will slyly wink and lead you into their back room and show you a dissorderly heap of colorful old fantasy mags. This type usually has at least a hundred stf mags, and sometimes as many as fife hundred. However, they are at the extreme as far as prices go. Prices usually start at 50¢ for the newest mags and go up to $2.00 or $2.50 for the old stuff. Their weakness lies in the fact that "a little learning is a dangerous thing" because they rate all mags by age, not by name. They have heared that suckers will pay huge prices for fantasy mags, and so they carefully sort out their stock and seperate the stf from the rest and slap high prices on them all. They'll price a 1936 Astounding the same as a TWS of the same date. They charge as much for a 1930 Amazing as for a 1930 Ast. Then too, with a few exceptions, the quality of their mags is low, mint copies being almost unknown. there are few in-between grades, but back-ish mag dealers fall pretty generally into these two classes. (2) We have next the fan dealers. These fellows are very well acquainted with the current market and their prices, though high, are usually on a comprehensive scale, all prices in proportion. They usually start at about 35¢ for the recent mags and scale back to from $3.00 to $5.00 for ---- (Page 15) ----
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