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Cosmic Tales, v. 2, issue 1, Summer 1939
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[[sticker]] SMASHING PUBLICATIONS Publishing Editor, J. J. Fortier] 1836 -- 39th Avenue OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA [[end sticker text]] 42 COSM of crazy ideas, the whole thing flopped. We lost too much money on that issue to be able to continue it, and the makeup of the magazine was lousy, including the mimeoing. I learned plenty from that issue, and that it doesn't pay to get cheap material. I learned to mimeo too, and best of all, I learned that one can't do good work with fellows that have different ideas. Today, if I didn't have FANTASY NEWS, I [[underline]]could[[end underline]] put out a 40 page, completely mimeographed COSMIC TALES and make it [[underline]]pay[[end underline]]. With the friends i now have helping me, it would be as simple as rolling off a log, but I [[underline]]do[[end underline]] have FANTASY news to publish, and that, to me, is something I wouldn't give up, not even for my first love, COSMIC TALES. But to continue with having the story of COSMIC TALES. Having lost most of my spare cash in the 4th issue, I was forced to go back to the old format of 20 pages and hectographed. This issue was good but lacked the punch of the first three issues. I fell sick in the middle of it, and for a while it looked as if publishing fan mags was out of my line for some time to come. However, I did manage to finish the issue and mail it out. I then gave the complete rights to my associate editor, Robert Thompson, who was to publish it from then on. But Thompson, being young and not a practical fellow, fell thru with the deal, but we can't blame that on him. For months nothing happened, and I began publishing FANTASY NEWS. Then Lou said he'd like to take it (Cosmic Tales) over, and since Thompson was willing, the deal was closed. the 6th and 1st issue under the new editorship appeared that fall. The magazine was almost ruined when it appeared in the FAPA, but it has now been withdrawn due to pressur brot on by myself and others. In closing, i wish to say to you, Lou, that you've done a fine job with COSMIC TALES, a better job probably, than I could have done. I have enjoyed reading COSMIC TALES, and writing and illustrating for it. I wish you could continue publishing it, but College comes first. I expect to see you publish another great fan magazine when you return from college. -FINIS- ONE CAN NEVER KNOW (con't from page 13) the moon burned silently over all, alone-- One can never know....... FINIS SPEER'S SCRIBBLINGS con't from 39 the article "Is Jack Speer a Facist?" in a Wollheim sheet, which charged me with about everything in the books and stated that its proof lay in my private correspondence with the communist fans, which they knew I wouldn't let them publish. I have now offered them means for utilizing this material in support of the article in question, if they can as a test case. If they fail to prove the greater part of their statements in the article in question, I shall take it that other allegations by them are similarly not to be given credence. Yours truly is on the FAPA Laureate Committee which offers occasion to remark that if I were choosing awards for the whole fanmag field of the past year, I think publishing laureate should go to Wally Marconette for the last heckto'd Scienti-Snaps, literary laureate to Dick Wilson for True Terror Tale in Nell, poetry laureate to JC Miske for "Ysta" in FD, and the palm for the most perfectly rounded sentence to the same Miske for the remark, in SaL, "May you go to Hell soon". Tho the Futurians and their fellow travelers are planning some general fan org--[[underline]]anything[[end underline]]--in competition to New Fandom, we have it on good authority that they have forgotten the Futurian Federation of the World so much bruited about by F Pohl, the Great Beginner of Things Unfinished. On which sour nous faisons nos adieux. Don't forget to send YOUR version of the round-robin in soon!
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[[sticker]] SMASHING PUBLICATIONS Publishing Editor, J. J. Fortier] 1836 -- 39th Avenue OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA [[end sticker text]] 42 COSM of crazy ideas, the whole thing flopped. We lost too much money on that issue to be able to continue it, and the makeup of the magazine was lousy, including the mimeoing. I learned plenty from that issue, and that it doesn't pay to get cheap material. I learned to mimeo too, and best of all, I learned that one can't do good work with fellows that have different ideas. Today, if I didn't have FANTASY NEWS, I [[underline]]could[[end underline]] put out a 40 page, completely mimeographed COSMIC TALES and make it [[underline]]pay[[end underline]]. With the friends i now have helping me, it would be as simple as rolling off a log, but I [[underline]]do[[end underline]] have FANTASY news to publish, and that, to me, is something I wouldn't give up, not even for my first love, COSMIC TALES. But to continue with having the story of COSMIC TALES. Having lost most of my spare cash in the 4th issue, I was forced to go back to the old format of 20 pages and hectographed. This issue was good but lacked the punch of the first three issues. I fell sick in the middle of it, and for a while it looked as if publishing fan mags was out of my line for some time to come. However, I did manage to finish the issue and mail it out. I then gave the complete rights to my associate editor, Robert Thompson, who was to publish it from then on. But Thompson, being young and not a practical fellow, fell thru with the deal, but we can't blame that on him. For months nothing happened, and I began publishing FANTASY NEWS. Then Lou said he'd like to take it (Cosmic Tales) over, and since Thompson was willing, the deal was closed. the 6th and 1st issue under the new editorship appeared that fall. The magazine was almost ruined when it appeared in the FAPA, but it has now been withdrawn due to pressur brot on by myself and others. In closing, i wish to say to you, Lou, that you've done a fine job with COSMIC TALES, a better job probably, than I could have done. I have enjoyed reading COSMIC TALES, and writing and illustrating for it. I wish you could continue publishing it, but College comes first. I expect to see you publish another great fan magazine when you return from college. -FINIS- ONE CAN NEVER KNOW (con't from page 13) the moon burned silently over all, alone-- One can never know....... FINIS SPEER'S SCRIBBLINGS con't from 39 the article "Is Jack Speer a Facist?" in a Wollheim sheet, which charged me with about everything in the books and stated that its proof lay in my private correspondence with the communist fans, which they knew I wouldn't let them publish. I have now offered them means for utilizing this material in support of the article in question, if they can as a test case. If they fail to prove the greater part of their statements in the article in question, I shall take it that other allegations by them are similarly not to be given credence. Yours truly is on the FAPA Laureate Committee which offers occasion to remark that if I were choosing awards for the whole fanmag field of the past year, I think publishing laureate should go to Wally Marconette for the last heckto'd Scienti-Snaps, literary laureate to Dick Wilson for True Terror Tale in Nell, poetry laureate to JC Miske for "Ysta" in FD, and the palm for the most perfectly rounded sentence to the same Miske for the remark, in SaL, "May you go to Hell soon". Tho the Futurians and their fellow travelers are planning some general fan org--[[underline]]anything[[end underline]]--in competition to New Fandom, we have it on good authority that they have forgotten the Futurian Federation of the World so much bruited about by F Pohl, the Great Beginner of Things Unfinished. On which sour nous faisons nos adieux. Don't forget to send YOUR version of the round-robin in soon!
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