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Fanfare, v. 2, issue 2, whole no.8, February 1942
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26 their own petard FROM "MFS MEMBERS" IN "FANTASITE" VOL. 1, NO. 4 "He's a very severe art critic, and if a story doesn't appeal to him, it's likely that the accompanying yarn will go unread." That's what I call an innovation. Two-for-one. With every story you get an accompanying yarn. Omigosh, I hope not. FROM AN EDITORIAL BLURB IN "COSMIC TALES" VOL. 2, NO. 3 Re "In the Days of the Giants" by T.S. Gardner. "You have waited five years for this story - Cosmic is presenting it to you - your five years of waiting is over." Oh, Lord! Why did daylight every come? -- Believe me, Jimmy, I could have waited ten years longer, and never missed a thing. Be honest, James; wasn't it pretty terible? FROM "THRILLING WONDER STORIES" OCTOBER 1941 "On the cover: The cover painting by Rudolph Pelarski depicts a scene from Manly Wade Wellman's novel, 'Island in the Sky.'" The cover painting depicts a scene from "Island in the Sky"? Man, oh, man - that's handling the truth with penurious frugality. The picture shows a man, with a girl in one arm and a gun in his hand, fighting two gorillas. As written, the man fights and kills one gorilla with a sword as the girl watches from the stand. Either Atist Belarski can't read or Author Wellman can't see. It's one of the silliest bits of alleged co-operation I have seen in months. And, another illustration of how seriously the Editor takes his job - or his readers. FROM "INVISIBLE MEN OF MARS" BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS IN "AMAZING STORIES" OCT 1941 "Motus wore a strange glass helmet....He rushed at me liek a madman, but I side-stepped him, and as he turned I took off one of his ears as neatly as surgeon could have done it . . ." Gentlemen: I give you Edgar Rice Burroughs, hack-writer and surgeon extraordinary. And, by Gar, don't return him. The text states and the cover illustration shows that Motus wore a glass helmet; and yet dear old Edgar neatly slices off one of his ears. Boy oh boy, that's a feat of surgery - I should say, legerdemain - to cop the front page, eh, what? f i n i s
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26 their own petard FROM "MFS MEMBERS" IN "FANTASITE" VOL. 1, NO. 4 "He's a very severe art critic, and if a story doesn't appeal to him, it's likely that the accompanying yarn will go unread." That's what I call an innovation. Two-for-one. With every story you get an accompanying yarn. Omigosh, I hope not. FROM AN EDITORIAL BLURB IN "COSMIC TALES" VOL. 2, NO. 3 Re "In the Days of the Giants" by T.S. Gardner. "You have waited five years for this story - Cosmic is presenting it to you - your five years of waiting is over." Oh, Lord! Why did daylight every come? -- Believe me, Jimmy, I could have waited ten years longer, and never missed a thing. Be honest, James; wasn't it pretty terible? FROM "THRILLING WONDER STORIES" OCTOBER 1941 "On the cover: The cover painting by Rudolph Pelarski depicts a scene from Manly Wade Wellman's novel, 'Island in the Sky.'" The cover painting depicts a scene from "Island in the Sky"? Man, oh, man - that's handling the truth with penurious frugality. The picture shows a man, with a girl in one arm and a gun in his hand, fighting two gorillas. As written, the man fights and kills one gorilla with a sword as the girl watches from the stand. Either Atist Belarski can't read or Author Wellman can't see. It's one of the silliest bits of alleged co-operation I have seen in months. And, another illustration of how seriously the Editor takes his job - or his readers. FROM "INVISIBLE MEN OF MARS" BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS IN "AMAZING STORIES" OCT 1941 "Motus wore a strange glass helmet....He rushed at me liek a madman, but I side-stepped him, and as he turned I took off one of his ears as neatly as surgeon could have done it . . ." Gentlemen: I give you Edgar Rice Burroughs, hack-writer and surgeon extraordinary. And, by Gar, don't return him. The text states and the cover illustration shows that Motus wore a glass helmet; and yet dear old Edgar neatly slices off one of his ears. Boy oh boy, that's a feat of surgery - I should say, legerdemain - to cop the front page, eh, what? f i n i s
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