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Science Fiction Fan, v. 5, issue 9, whole 56, April 1941
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18.............................................FAN gigantic wave of announcements ever perpetrated upon a gasping science-fiction fandom occurred. "Fantasy Magazine" had just rounded its fourth anniversary issue, and it had purportedly been distributed to some 2,000 SFL members, and as a result a number of new subscribers to "Fantasy Magazine" resulted, which subscribers in turn became active fans. Shepherd with the TFC Bulletin and Dollens with the Science Fiction Collector had shown fandom that you need not be a financial giant to issue a fan magazine, and particularly the Collector, The Planeteer, in its early format, the two Science Fiction Reviews, one published by Claire P Beck and the other by R.M. Holland, and also others had displayed to the fans that a fan editor might not only get far from a genius, but an inspired dope, and gradually, over the period of nine months instilled the idea into fans that anybody and everybody could issue a fan magazine if they wished. There was hell to pay. It seemed that deep down inside every "real" fan there was the gnawing urge to issue a fan magazine. It seems that the elaboracy of such publications as "Fantasy Magazine", "Fantasy Fan", "Marvel Tales", had instilled in them the idea that it was a rich man's pleasure. But, once it dawned upon them that they too, as well as some of their eminent contemporaries could also be a "big" fan and publish a fan magazine, that far from being possible, all it called for was a little work, a touch of egotism, and a fanatic attachment to fantasy---there was no stopping them. Then, not only ideas but actual fan mags, of every description and variety poured out of a hitherto clear sky in black, dense clouds of suffocating volume. It wasn't bad enough that there materialized some twenty-five projects, but fans had to also make their fellows dizzier than they already were, by broaching an endless stream of "maybe" projects. The fan mags actually published, combined with
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18.............................................FAN gigantic wave of announcements ever perpetrated upon a gasping science-fiction fandom occurred. "Fantasy Magazine" had just rounded its fourth anniversary issue, and it had purportedly been distributed to some 2,000 SFL members, and as a result a number of new subscribers to "Fantasy Magazine" resulted, which subscribers in turn became active fans. Shepherd with the TFC Bulletin and Dollens with the Science Fiction Collector had shown fandom that you need not be a financial giant to issue a fan magazine, and particularly the Collector, The Planeteer, in its early format, the two Science Fiction Reviews, one published by Claire P Beck and the other by R.M. Holland, and also others had displayed to the fans that a fan editor might not only get far from a genius, but an inspired dope, and gradually, over the period of nine months instilled the idea into fans that anybody and everybody could issue a fan magazine if they wished. There was hell to pay. It seemed that deep down inside every "real" fan there was the gnawing urge to issue a fan magazine. It seems that the elaboracy of such publications as "Fantasy Magazine", "Fantasy Fan", "Marvel Tales", had instilled in them the idea that it was a rich man's pleasure. But, once it dawned upon them that they too, as well as some of their eminent contemporaries could also be a "big" fan and publish a fan magazine, that far from being possible, all it called for was a little work, a touch of egotism, and a fanatic attachment to fantasy---there was no stopping them. Then, not only ideas but actual fan mags, of every description and variety poured out of a hitherto clear sky in black, dense clouds of suffocating volume. It wasn't bad enough that there materialized some twenty-five projects, but fans had to also make their fellows dizzier than they already were, by broaching an endless stream of "maybe" projects. The fan mags actually published, combined with
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