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Fantasy Digest, v. 1, issue 6, August-September 1939
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FANTASY DIGEST 15 pile of magazines, the topmost one having a cover illustrating "Scientific Hoaxes", by Matt Weisinger and Julius Schwartz. You may be sure I lost no time looking through them and when I found what they really were, magazines having biographies of my favorite authors, Harl Vincent, P. Schuyler Miller, etc. I carted them home then and there, leaving with their former proproitor 35c (I counted the pennies!). There followed a week of joy. I had known Elmer Weinman about a could years before this, but got well enough to be intimate, and I kept the discovery to myself for awhile. But he soon knew and in a short while I had traded him the complete year of 1934-Jan. '35 Fantasy Magazine for the duplicates he had of the first and only issues of Miracle, Science and Fantasy Stories, to which he introduced me in turn. To get back to my "find": I have never to this day found out who originally owned those "Fantasy Magazines". Could Schwartz tell me? (Could it have been Neil R. Jones? I hear he lives somewhere near.) At the present I have big plans for the future. I have now reached a point where there is little to nothing of items I lack for having one of the world's best collections of science fiction, but I am not stopping there, but will go ahead with the collection as a foundation for THE FANTASY COLLECTOR (the only all-around strictly collectors mag in fandom) and SCIENCE FICTION FANDOM, about which you will hear more presently. Among other credentials: the fact that I've had printed (and not in a fan mag either, so far!) my first science fiction story, "Into the Inscrutable", and an essay titled "The Riddle of Infinity." When I find time, also, I hope to complete for a s-f magazine my first long story, now one third done, a scientific fantasy called "Worlds of Oblivion". I'd better finish now before Ted calls it to a halt. (He had better publish this complete in one issue, and not just this part!) Here are some of the items and sets which are part of the gigantic (and yet modest, when you realize I could not keep at any one time, for want of room, complete sets of the "big three".) collection of stf and fantasy complete issues and excerpts of all Weird Tales, Munsey mags from 1896 Argosy to Famous Fantastic Mysteries (how I'd like to omit such a magazine!) Blue Book, Red Book, Golden Book, Science & Invention, Wonder, Amazing, Astounding, the Annual, and countless out-of-the-way items, such as the "Unique Items for the Collector" which you saw listed in the first Fantasy Collector, and book reviews from countless sources, among them being newspapers form 1840 to 1880 which at present it is my job to [illegible]. There is the famous "Darkness and Dawn" trilogy by G. A. England, "Etidorhba, or the End of Earth" by John Uri Lloyd, "The Pallid Giant" by Pierrepont B. [illegible] autographed by the author (one I really prize and not because the autograph or scarcity--it isn't), "The Messiah of the Cylinder" by Victor Rousseau, both the book and the very rare original, from 1917 "Everybody's", purchased from Henry Hasse. But the real treasures in my estimation are the sets of "The Black Cat" and "The Thrill Book". These I had for sale recently, of the former, were but odd copies, mostly duplicates, of my sets and not of each other. Then come the fan mags. Perhaps I should have mentioned these first. I now have (it's about time) complete sets of Science Fiction Digest, The Time Traveller, Fantasy Magazine, The Fantasy Fan, Brooklyn Reporter, Fourteen Leaflet, Arcuturus, Science Fiction Critic, and innumerable others (very few for which I have paid or would pay over face value for.) Those sets which are incomplete by one to three issues are The Planet (publication of the Scienceers), Tesseract (pub. of
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FANTASY DIGEST 15 pile of magazines, the topmost one having a cover illustrating "Scientific Hoaxes", by Matt Weisinger and Julius Schwartz. You may be sure I lost no time looking through them and when I found what they really were, magazines having biographies of my favorite authors, Harl Vincent, P. Schuyler Miller, etc. I carted them home then and there, leaving with their former proproitor 35c (I counted the pennies!). There followed a week of joy. I had known Elmer Weinman about a could years before this, but got well enough to be intimate, and I kept the discovery to myself for awhile. But he soon knew and in a short while I had traded him the complete year of 1934-Jan. '35 Fantasy Magazine for the duplicates he had of the first and only issues of Miracle, Science and Fantasy Stories, to which he introduced me in turn. To get back to my "find": I have never to this day found out who originally owned those "Fantasy Magazines". Could Schwartz tell me? (Could it have been Neil R. Jones? I hear he lives somewhere near.) At the present I have big plans for the future. I have now reached a point where there is little to nothing of items I lack for having one of the world's best collections of science fiction, but I am not stopping there, but will go ahead with the collection as a foundation for THE FANTASY COLLECTOR (the only all-around strictly collectors mag in fandom) and SCIENCE FICTION FANDOM, about which you will hear more presently. Among other credentials: the fact that I've had printed (and not in a fan mag either, so far!) my first science fiction story, "Into the Inscrutable", and an essay titled "The Riddle of Infinity." When I find time, also, I hope to complete for a s-f magazine my first long story, now one third done, a scientific fantasy called "Worlds of Oblivion". I'd better finish now before Ted calls it to a halt. (He had better publish this complete in one issue, and not just this part!) Here are some of the items and sets which are part of the gigantic (and yet modest, when you realize I could not keep at any one time, for want of room, complete sets of the "big three".) collection of stf and fantasy complete issues and excerpts of all Weird Tales, Munsey mags from 1896 Argosy to Famous Fantastic Mysteries (how I'd like to omit such a magazine!) Blue Book, Red Book, Golden Book, Science & Invention, Wonder, Amazing, Astounding, the Annual, and countless out-of-the-way items, such as the "Unique Items for the Collector" which you saw listed in the first Fantasy Collector, and book reviews from countless sources, among them being newspapers form 1840 to 1880 which at present it is my job to [illegible]. There is the famous "Darkness and Dawn" trilogy by G. A. England, "Etidorhba, or the End of Earth" by John Uri Lloyd, "The Pallid Giant" by Pierrepont B. [illegible] autographed by the author (one I really prize and not because the autograph or scarcity--it isn't), "The Messiah of the Cylinder" by Victor Rousseau, both the book and the very rare original, from 1917 "Everybody's", purchased from Henry Hasse. But the real treasures in my estimation are the sets of "The Black Cat" and "The Thrill Book". These I had for sale recently, of the former, were but odd copies, mostly duplicates, of my sets and not of each other. Then come the fan mags. Perhaps I should have mentioned these first. I now have (it's about time) complete sets of Science Fiction Digest, The Time Traveller, Fantasy Magazine, The Fantasy Fan, Brooklyn Reporter, Fourteen Leaflet, Arcuturus, Science Fiction Critic, and innumerable others (very few for which I have paid or would pay over face value for.) Those sets which are incomplete by one to three issues are The Planet (publication of the Scienceers), Tesseract (pub. of
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