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Twilight Echoes, Winter 1944
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of 1940 of The California Mercury, which ran regularly through most of the year as the Pacific Coast's only newsmag. After that it was a hit and miss proposition with a couple of strictly gag issues for the helluvitall, no type of distribution barred. It did run fairly smoothly for a period in 1943. Speaking of gag issues there were such things as Spicy Tellus, The Oakventioneer, etc. And then there were such flimsy fly-by-nights as convention issues of Starlight, Comet, Mercury, etc. not to mention variously titled paraphrases on Twilight. (Even if this is boring the hell out of you I'm enjoying it all.) The Comet, which I helped Tom Wright to produce, was a nice specimen. Starlight is my pride and joy of all time, Wright assisting; much as is Dawn in Tom's estimation, myself assisting. There have been other odd issues, some of which I own no copies of myself, and a few of which I can't recall without searching through my files. They were all a lot of fun in the making. Scientifan and Starlight were the largest fanmags of their time, the latter being acclaimed the best at publication... 'Merk' I believe was the neatest all-around newsy ever put forth, the only one to give a complete coverage... And I'm as proud of the successful Comet and Dawn as if they had been my very own... "Hellfire" I believe to be the most sensational column of all fantime--and also at its outset the most distasteful. If I'm proud of nothing more in my fan career--starting the Golden Gate Fantasy Society, creating a few stream-lined ideas in publishing albeit not overly neat, writing, etc.--I'm glad I entered fandom and discovered Tom Wright, the best buddy I've ever known and the best artist fandom has ever had. He's stfandom's [?] forgotten fan, no doubt about that. What is all this? Name it and take it. I've got it off my chest, all those thoughts which went flashing through my mind at the completion of six years work in fandom, all those basic things for that warm glowing feeling I experienced at the realization, all that made me so happy for so many years. All I can say is that we are both glad it was six years of Li'l Joe and not six years of Reitrof. "SO ADIOS..." (Excerpts from Li'l Joe's letter of 10/10/44 which accompanied the material for this mag. --FTL) I've had in my mind a bit of blank verse, entitled "It's Autumn", for Sappho perhaps. And I've thought of continuing my features in the PSFS News, this time on the choice of fan club to make. For you I had envisioned a three-part article of "When Joe Fann Returns", but that will have to wait while I gather more material. "Suddenly it's Spring Again" was a nice title for an Endymion saga. Then there was a series partially done for Trailer Dust, a company journal I write for. Well, I had in mind all those things, but it's winter now--or will be soon--and while fading autumn finds me married in a week, the cold finds me still warm, in fact hot for overseas. I'm going on my last furlough tomorrow, so adios until I have a chance to get back pitching in the FAPA. A short note but time is shorter, and life is sweet. Happy Fapaping... Joe TWILIGHT ECHOES is this FAPA publication of Joseph J. Fortier (nee John Reitrof) and is published with facilities of the LASFS by the FTLaniac assisted by the Laney gale, Sandy and Quiggle. Typographical and other errors may be blamed on the two latter. Stencilled 10/15/44 --4--
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of 1940 of The California Mercury, which ran regularly through most of the year as the Pacific Coast's only newsmag. After that it was a hit and miss proposition with a couple of strictly gag issues for the helluvitall, no type of distribution barred. It did run fairly smoothly for a period in 1943. Speaking of gag issues there were such things as Spicy Tellus, The Oakventioneer, etc. And then there were such flimsy fly-by-nights as convention issues of Starlight, Comet, Mercury, etc. not to mention variously titled paraphrases on Twilight. (Even if this is boring the hell out of you I'm enjoying it all.) The Comet, which I helped Tom Wright to produce, was a nice specimen. Starlight is my pride and joy of all time, Wright assisting; much as is Dawn in Tom's estimation, myself assisting. There have been other odd issues, some of which I own no copies of myself, and a few of which I can't recall without searching through my files. They were all a lot of fun in the making. Scientifan and Starlight were the largest fanmags of their time, the latter being acclaimed the best at publication... 'Merk' I believe was the neatest all-around newsy ever put forth, the only one to give a complete coverage... And I'm as proud of the successful Comet and Dawn as if they had been my very own... "Hellfire" I believe to be the most sensational column of all fantime--and also at its outset the most distasteful. If I'm proud of nothing more in my fan career--starting the Golden Gate Fantasy Society, creating a few stream-lined ideas in publishing albeit not overly neat, writing, etc.--I'm glad I entered fandom and discovered Tom Wright, the best buddy I've ever known and the best artist fandom has ever had. He's stfandom's [?] forgotten fan, no doubt about that. What is all this? Name it and take it. I've got it off my chest, all those thoughts which went flashing through my mind at the completion of six years work in fandom, all those basic things for that warm glowing feeling I experienced at the realization, all that made me so happy for so many years. All I can say is that we are both glad it was six years of Li'l Joe and not six years of Reitrof. "SO ADIOS..." (Excerpts from Li'l Joe's letter of 10/10/44 which accompanied the material for this mag. --FTL) I've had in my mind a bit of blank verse, entitled "It's Autumn", for Sappho perhaps. And I've thought of continuing my features in the PSFS News, this time on the choice of fan club to make. For you I had envisioned a three-part article of "When Joe Fann Returns", but that will have to wait while I gather more material. "Suddenly it's Spring Again" was a nice title for an Endymion saga. Then there was a series partially done for Trailer Dust, a company journal I write for. Well, I had in mind all those things, but it's winter now--or will be soon--and while fading autumn finds me married in a week, the cold finds me still warm, in fact hot for overseas. I'm going on my last furlough tomorrow, so adios until I have a chance to get back pitching in the FAPA. A short note but time is shorter, and life is sweet. Happy Fapaping... Joe TWILIGHT ECHOES is this FAPA publication of Joseph J. Fortier (nee John Reitrof) and is published with facilities of the LASFS by the FTLaniac assisted by the Laney gale, Sandy and Quiggle. Typographical and other errors may be blamed on the two latter. Stencilled 10/15/44 --4--
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