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Vampire, whole no. 7, September 1946
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The magazine should have an appealing name, and it could be circulated to the newsstands via the various news companies. If it were to be on sale at the newsstands, however, there would be the added expense of having a cover printing or lithographed in color, which the fan printers probably would not know how to do if they had the equipment. The material, then, would perforce have to consist chiefly of fiction, with a section devoted to fandom, if it were to appeal to the casual reader. The authors in fandom could help by donating fiction, until the magazine could get on its financial feet and pay for the stories. The Acolyte and other top-grade fanzines manage quite well without payment. This would be a means, too, for new authors to break into print. You might object that when the magazine begins to devote so much of the issue to fiction it is no longer a fanzine, which is what we started out to publish. You may be right. But consider this: how much of the material published in the fanzines now is of any real value? Not over 10%, I should say. The remainder is simply space filler which the editor accepts simply because he wants to publish a fanzine and does not have much choice material. By rejecting inferior material, the literary standard of fan articles could be raised immeasurably. The fanzine section, besides serving fandom, would also acquaint new readers with fandom and possibly convert hundreds of new fans. Fandom would be all the better for it, for once we get a large following we are likely to be recognized by the public as more than mere crackpots. The staff would, of course, have to be elected, and there would likely be a lot of rivalry, but we will not go into that in this article. Would such a magazine work? Set forth your ideas. I do not have the whole thing planned out; I only hope to arouse interest so that something may come of it. I do not even have the exact figures on the cost of the equipment, but surely there is enough cash in fandom to buy a broken-down press and a typesetter. Of course, these two items are not all the equipment necessary, but they are the most important and the most expensive. Maybe I have not outgrown the bright-eyed-thirteen-year-old stage, but let me have your ideas, for or against the proposition. ------ A NOTE FROM VAMP'S EDITOR: Well, folks, what do you think of Inman's idea? From an editorial standpoint, it may not be an overly desirable practice to throw cold water on a contributor's statements along with his own article, but there are a few points in the foregoing piece that we can't resist commenting on. In the first place -- it's a -21-
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The magazine should have an appealing name, and it could be circulated to the newsstands via the various news companies. If it were to be on sale at the newsstands, however, there would be the added expense of having a cover printing or lithographed in color, which the fan printers probably would not know how to do if they had the equipment. The material, then, would perforce have to consist chiefly of fiction, with a section devoted to fandom, if it were to appeal to the casual reader. The authors in fandom could help by donating fiction, until the magazine could get on its financial feet and pay for the stories. The Acolyte and other top-grade fanzines manage quite well without payment. This would be a means, too, for new authors to break into print. You might object that when the magazine begins to devote so much of the issue to fiction it is no longer a fanzine, which is what we started out to publish. You may be right. But consider this: how much of the material published in the fanzines now is of any real value? Not over 10%, I should say. The remainder is simply space filler which the editor accepts simply because he wants to publish a fanzine and does not have much choice material. By rejecting inferior material, the literary standard of fan articles could be raised immeasurably. The fanzine section, besides serving fandom, would also acquaint new readers with fandom and possibly convert hundreds of new fans. Fandom would be all the better for it, for once we get a large following we are likely to be recognized by the public as more than mere crackpots. The staff would, of course, have to be elected, and there would likely be a lot of rivalry, but we will not go into that in this article. Would such a magazine work? Set forth your ideas. I do not have the whole thing planned out; I only hope to arouse interest so that something may come of it. I do not even have the exact figures on the cost of the equipment, but surely there is enough cash in fandom to buy a broken-down press and a typesetter. Of course, these two items are not all the equipment necessary, but they are the most important and the most expensive. Maybe I have not outgrown the bright-eyed-thirteen-year-old stage, but let me have your ideas, for or against the proposition. ------ A NOTE FROM VAMP'S EDITOR: Well, folks, what do you think of Inman's idea? From an editorial standpoint, it may not be an overly desirable practice to throw cold water on a contributor's statements along with his own article, but there are a few points in the foregoing piece that we can't resist commenting on. In the first place -- it's a -21-
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