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Fantasy Digest, v. 1, issue 6, August-September 1939
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FANTASY DIGEST 17 One of the recent occasions together saw him and Elmer trying to please Eric Frank Russell's story in the first UNKNOWN with one in an old WEIRD they could not recall the title of which was, as you now know, "The Earth Owners", by Edmond Hamilton. Another occasion is when we were three, Leon's brother this time, who is a talented oil painter and graduate of an art school, went to the Loew's and saw "Lost Horizon", that great stf movie I might have missed otherwise. BERNARD A. SEUFERT Did I say Bernard is a real stf fan? Well, I underestimated him at the time, having as recourse only the letter headed "Collects Fan Magazines", which he had in Brass Tacks, and his fan mag, "The Asteroid", meant to be published for the First National Stf Convention. It was through his letter, incidentally, that I first met him. He is of very friendly disposition and a real friend once he gets to know you. You would not believe it at first if he had told you his age so well has he lived up to his codes. His interest in the fan field has waned to almost nil; he thinks the tops of UNKNOWN; but at present, believe it or not, he is writing some fan articles and a story for my coming publication. I was quite surprised to find a couple months ago that he had begun a second issue of "The Asteroid" about August, 1938, entirely without my knowledge, front and back cover and some interior pages. However, he still has his favorite fan mags which are, outside of "The Kodak City", Fantascience Digest and Spaceways. His first and only published fan article called "Whither Science Fiction?" appeared in the Fantasy Herald last year. Yet he has been a fan from the days of "The Brooklyn Reporter" and before, having started with Amazing in 1927. He was a member of the ILSF and subscriber to "Tesseract"; a favorite of his in those days was "The Fourteen Leafleft" which was in his own words, "the apple of his eye"; "Brooklyn Reporter", publication of the first chapter of the SFL and innumerable others. Other facts: Anti-Michelist, which to us is synonymous to anti-communist or wolf-in-sheep's-clothing. Strangely, the only out of town fans we have seen personally have been Wilson, Michel and the great Don, who tried to prove that unbeknowns to your scribe he is the country's most perfect example of a Michelist! ELMER E. WEINMANN Inevitably we wind up with the bringer of glad tidings. That's the postman, "E. E." ! He has been, perhaps longer than any other individual, the world's biggest and most ambitious collector of stf. But the quantity of books and magazines and excerpts and rarities has now grown to such proportions that he finds it necessary to sell a large portion of his collection. He is 26, blond, tall and husky. Is one of the first members of the SFL, no. 278. He has read stf since the first issue of AMAZING and has read all issues of all stf mags though he did not being collecting until 1929. Favorite authors are Morritt, Smith (E.E.), and England. Several times we have gone on trip to other cities in quest of old and rare mags and have come back each time with the car packed. A note to OFW: Who do you think delivered the postal with the info on "1000 Degrees Below Zero" that you so kindly sent? This ends up another "Who's Who in Rochester". LBF. THE END
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FANTASY DIGEST 17 One of the recent occasions together saw him and Elmer trying to please Eric Frank Russell's story in the first UNKNOWN with one in an old WEIRD they could not recall the title of which was, as you now know, "The Earth Owners", by Edmond Hamilton. Another occasion is when we were three, Leon's brother this time, who is a talented oil painter and graduate of an art school, went to the Loew's and saw "Lost Horizon", that great stf movie I might have missed otherwise. BERNARD A. SEUFERT Did I say Bernard is a real stf fan? Well, I underestimated him at the time, having as recourse only the letter headed "Collects Fan Magazines", which he had in Brass Tacks, and his fan mag, "The Asteroid", meant to be published for the First National Stf Convention. It was through his letter, incidentally, that I first met him. He is of very friendly disposition and a real friend once he gets to know you. You would not believe it at first if he had told you his age so well has he lived up to his codes. His interest in the fan field has waned to almost nil; he thinks the tops of UNKNOWN; but at present, believe it or not, he is writing some fan articles and a story for my coming publication. I was quite surprised to find a couple months ago that he had begun a second issue of "The Asteroid" about August, 1938, entirely without my knowledge, front and back cover and some interior pages. However, he still has his favorite fan mags which are, outside of "The Kodak City", Fantascience Digest and Spaceways. His first and only published fan article called "Whither Science Fiction?" appeared in the Fantasy Herald last year. Yet he has been a fan from the days of "The Brooklyn Reporter" and before, having started with Amazing in 1927. He was a member of the ILSF and subscriber to "Tesseract"; a favorite of his in those days was "The Fourteen Leafleft" which was in his own words, "the apple of his eye"; "Brooklyn Reporter", publication of the first chapter of the SFL and innumerable others. Other facts: Anti-Michelist, which to us is synonymous to anti-communist or wolf-in-sheep's-clothing. Strangely, the only out of town fans we have seen personally have been Wilson, Michel and the great Don, who tried to prove that unbeknowns to your scribe he is the country's most perfect example of a Michelist! ELMER E. WEINMANN Inevitably we wind up with the bringer of glad tidings. That's the postman, "E. E." ! He has been, perhaps longer than any other individual, the world's biggest and most ambitious collector of stf. But the quantity of books and magazines and excerpts and rarities has now grown to such proportions that he finds it necessary to sell a large portion of his collection. He is 26, blond, tall and husky. Is one of the first members of the SFL, no. 278. He has read stf since the first issue of AMAZING and has read all issues of all stf mags though he did not being collecting until 1929. Favorite authors are Morritt, Smith (E.E.), and England. Several times we have gone on trip to other cities in quest of old and rare mags and have come back each time with the car packed. A note to OFW: Who do you think delivered the postal with the info on "1000 Degrees Below Zero" that you so kindly sent? This ends up another "Who's Who in Rochester". LBF. THE END
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