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Science Fiction Collector, v. 4, issue 4, whole no. 22, September 1938
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10 SFC I realize that the opinions expressed herein are but personal at their best, but I offer them to you in the hope that you, the reader, may concur. * * * There are a multitude of evils which beset the modern fantasy magazine, but none of them wreaks, and has wrought, quite as much damage as has commersialism[?]. Perhaps the first necessity is that we qualify that statement, which, in view of the fact that it is so obvious, is hardly in very dire need of qualification. There are at the moment five magazines of fantastic fiction being sold. The purpose of these magazines is supposedly to provide us, the readers, with stories of the fantastic type solely -- as opposed to the many magazines publishing semi-fantasy or an occasional fantastic story. These magazines, for some reason I have never been quite able to fathom, command, all of them, higher prices than ordinary pulps. Keeping that in mind, we might be reasonably able to assume that the material published by those five magazines would be of a higher caliber than that ordinarily found in pulps. However, we find them paying no more for stories than any cheap dime [[?]] thus pocketing the [[?]] And, as a matter of fact, until two years ago, two of the then three sfn. magazines were [[?]] but [[?]] present rate. Yet we pay a higher price as I have said, [[?]], logically--and that's about all--except superior reading matter. However, of the five fantasy magazines, perhaps two can be appointed as [[?]] doing. The other three are
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10 SFC I realize that the opinions expressed herein are but personal at their best, but I offer them to you in the hope that you, the reader, may concur. * * * There are a multitude of evils which beset the modern fantasy magazine, but none of them wreaks, and has wrought, quite as much damage as has commersialism[?]. Perhaps the first necessity is that we qualify that statement, which, in view of the fact that it is so obvious, is hardly in very dire need of qualification. There are at the moment five magazines of fantastic fiction being sold. The purpose of these magazines is supposedly to provide us, the readers, with stories of the fantastic type solely -- as opposed to the many magazines publishing semi-fantasy or an occasional fantastic story. These magazines, for some reason I have never been quite able to fathom, command, all of them, higher prices than ordinary pulps. Keeping that in mind, we might be reasonably able to assume that the material published by those five magazines would be of a higher caliber than that ordinarily found in pulps. However, we find them paying no more for stories than any cheap dime [[?]] thus pocketing the [[?]] And, as a matter of fact, until two years ago, two of the then three sfn. magazines were [[?]] but [[?]] present rate. Yet we pay a higher price as I have said, [[?]], logically--and that's about all--except superior reading matter. However, of the five fantasy magazines, perhaps two can be appointed as [[?]] doing. The other three are
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