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Fantasite, v. 1, issue 5, September 1941
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that's why we printed it. Readers are clamoring for fiction, but we won't print stories just for the sake of variety, unless they are good.)) Nice pic accompanying the story, and this time the colors matched O.K. 8 points for the illustration, SOME NOTES ON THE IMMORTALS...8. Darned interesting. More articles like this wouldn't hurt any fanzine. The next item, the only about why the Solar-oids abandoned the Newarkon, was pretty boring. Why can't the boys just forget anybody ever mentioned such a conference, without trying to throw the blame for the idea on everyone else? If you want a rating on it, give it a 4. The biogs on MFS members continues to be one of your best features. 8 for the pair this time. ((Squanchfoot is quite the popular dog, these days.)) Lew Martin's brief article is a six pointer. Nothing in it that hasn't been said more than once before this. AMONG THE HAMS AND PROS, 9. The way Gilbert and Jenkins are handling it, this is the best review column is fandom, or anywhere else. ((Are you listening, fellas'?)) Not overly long, but still long enough to do a complete job of reporting. I didn't agree with everything the boys said, of course, for instance, Jenkins' rating of my column. And just for the record, Editorations does not appear in YHOS. Not that I'm complaining, but Widner might get mad about the error. ((Sorry! the error was purely typographical.)) Oh, yes, just one thing missing from ATHAP. Where was the review of the second SOUTHERN STAR? ((Another oversight on our part.)) BLUEBEARD I didn't care much for. No definite reason, it just didn't go over. 6. MFS NOTES...7. FANTA-SCRIPTS...7. And that concludes things for this time. The duplication job wasn't quite up to that of the third issue, but was still well above the fanzine average. Technically, FANTASITE is right at the top, and your material, too, is generally well above average. 7730 Pitt, Apt. 7, Detroit, Michigan ---------------------- Next in line is that chess friend from Virginia, with a few brief comments: L. R. CHAUVENET I liked your fourth issue of Fantasite. I cannot take time to comment on it at length because I have to analyze and send moves in another 40 correspondence chess games -- the cards piled up while I was away. Cover is marvelous, except for a slight "familiarity" in choice of subject, which reduces the score to 9. To tell the truth, I thought...((Censored by request!))...was the best thing in the issue, although I forbid you to publish this opinion in your readers' column. Russell's story brought to mind a tale I read in one of the later, small-sized Gernsback Wonders, "The Accursed Galaxy," on a quite similar scheme. I think "Among the Hams and Pros" is tediously long and drawn out. I question the advisability of continuing it. Wait a minute -- I'm thinking of the previous issue. Three pages for this issue would still have been preferable to four. I think. The Honorable Mention dept. is the most interesting part. I rise to remark that Sardonyx ((FAPA magazine.)) is as colorful as any fanzine now being published. There is at least a certain interest in comparing the opinions of Joe and Harry. Youse is a wunnaful wif a mimeo: Esmont, Virginia. --------------------------- We again delve into the correspondence and produce the editor of "Fan-Atic": CHARLES (CAD) BELING Latest FANTASITE, though not quite as good as No. 3, was excellent. Liked best Russell's and de la Ree's contributions. Cover would have been better on pink paper, where blue would have shown up better. Drawing excellent, though. Harrington Pk., N.J. --------------------------
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that's why we printed it. Readers are clamoring for fiction, but we won't print stories just for the sake of variety, unless they are good.)) Nice pic accompanying the story, and this time the colors matched O.K. 8 points for the illustration, SOME NOTES ON THE IMMORTALS...8. Darned interesting. More articles like this wouldn't hurt any fanzine. The next item, the only about why the Solar-oids abandoned the Newarkon, was pretty boring. Why can't the boys just forget anybody ever mentioned such a conference, without trying to throw the blame for the idea on everyone else? If you want a rating on it, give it a 4. The biogs on MFS members continues to be one of your best features. 8 for the pair this time. ((Squanchfoot is quite the popular dog, these days.)) Lew Martin's brief article is a six pointer. Nothing in it that hasn't been said more than once before this. AMONG THE HAMS AND PROS, 9. The way Gilbert and Jenkins are handling it, this is the best review column is fandom, or anywhere else. ((Are you listening, fellas'?)) Not overly long, but still long enough to do a complete job of reporting. I didn't agree with everything the boys said, of course, for instance, Jenkins' rating of my column. And just for the record, Editorations does not appear in YHOS. Not that I'm complaining, but Widner might get mad about the error. ((Sorry! the error was purely typographical.)) Oh, yes, just one thing missing from ATHAP. Where was the review of the second SOUTHERN STAR? ((Another oversight on our part.)) BLUEBEARD I didn't care much for. No definite reason, it just didn't go over. 6. MFS NOTES...7. FANTA-SCRIPTS...7. And that concludes things for this time. The duplication job wasn't quite up to that of the third issue, but was still well above the fanzine average. Technically, FANTASITE is right at the top, and your material, too, is generally well above average. 7730 Pitt, Apt. 7, Detroit, Michigan ---------------------- Next in line is that chess friend from Virginia, with a few brief comments: L. R. CHAUVENET I liked your fourth issue of Fantasite. I cannot take time to comment on it at length because I have to analyze and send moves in another 40 correspondence chess games -- the cards piled up while I was away. Cover is marvelous, except for a slight "familiarity" in choice of subject, which reduces the score to 9. To tell the truth, I thought...((Censored by request!))...was the best thing in the issue, although I forbid you to publish this opinion in your readers' column. Russell's story brought to mind a tale I read in one of the later, small-sized Gernsback Wonders, "The Accursed Galaxy," on a quite similar scheme. I think "Among the Hams and Pros" is tediously long and drawn out. I question the advisability of continuing it. Wait a minute -- I'm thinking of the previous issue. Three pages for this issue would still have been preferable to four. I think. The Honorable Mention dept. is the most interesting part. I rise to remark that Sardonyx ((FAPA magazine.)) is as colorful as any fanzine now being published. There is at least a certain interest in comparing the opinions of Joe and Harry. Youse is a wunnaful wif a mimeo: Esmont, Virginia. --------------------------- We again delve into the correspondence and produce the editor of "Fan-Atic": CHARLES (CAD) BELING Latest FANTASITE, though not quite as good as No. 3, was excellent. Liked best Russell's and de la Ree's contributions. Cover would have been better on pink paper, where blue would have shown up better. Drawing excellent, though. Harrington Pk., N.J. --------------------------
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