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Eclipse, v. 1, issue 1, whole no. 1, February 1941
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ECLIPSE 11 SUPERSTITIONS IN THE PULPS collectors may make up a larger percentage of a pulp fantasy magazine's buyers than most people suspect. The only reason why a year shouldn't be on a spine I've been able to think of is that it would mean a bit more crowding; but that hardly seems logical when you glance over a row of magazines' spines and see the large amount of unprinted surface on each. Buy why go on? Superstitions like these will continue; continue indefinitely unless editors finally realize one thing; that the fiction in a magazine devoted to fiction the one factor -- virtually the only factor -- that makes or breaks it. Changes in format may make a few more readers, but they're just as likely to lose a few. Standardness with all other pulp magazines doesn't help the least bit. If format must be tampered with try to tamper so that the magazine stands out from the rest -- be decent covers, different size, different arrangement of inside pages -- anything. But in the end the stories sell the magazine; therefore, why not make all other details as pleasing as possible, instead of otherwise? ............................................ ADUMB LINX MEETS AUNTY SCIENCE (CONCLUDED) or circle of zero, is detonated in the subetheric stratum of the space-time continuum, &, according to the Ely Culbertson theory, disintegrates all matter in its path! Pandemonium pan-continental! The World in Flames! As the amoeba eats up one half the earth, the 8u2 devours the other! & as Ahto von Rednib, alias Count Miaut, stood on the last speck of terra infirma, atomic disintegration giving him one hot foot, the ameoba nibbling at the other, he shouted -- that all the other workds of the universe might hear & beware: "STOP SCIENCE!" & to himself he mumbled, "Oh, Rob -- I meddled with things metal shoud leave alone..." ............................................ THE COLONIZATION OF MICHIGAN (CONCLUDED) print their tales, and of the other fans (readers) who publicly discuss such subjects. The next meeting of the Galactic Roamers has been set for Friday evening, February 7th, of the current year, at Battle Creek, and a post card to Evans will give the place and directions for reaching it from other cities. The March meeting will again be held in Jackson (date not set yet), and a card to Millard at Jackson will return you the information a to that meeting. All Space Pups who may be interested are urged to contact either of these men regarding becoming members of the colonizing groups.
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ECLIPSE 11 SUPERSTITIONS IN THE PULPS collectors may make up a larger percentage of a pulp fantasy magazine's buyers than most people suspect. The only reason why a year shouldn't be on a spine I've been able to think of is that it would mean a bit more crowding; but that hardly seems logical when you glance over a row of magazines' spines and see the large amount of unprinted surface on each. Buy why go on? Superstitions like these will continue; continue indefinitely unless editors finally realize one thing; that the fiction in a magazine devoted to fiction the one factor -- virtually the only factor -- that makes or breaks it. Changes in format may make a few more readers, but they're just as likely to lose a few. Standardness with all other pulp magazines doesn't help the least bit. If format must be tampered with try to tamper so that the magazine stands out from the rest -- be decent covers, different size, different arrangement of inside pages -- anything. But in the end the stories sell the magazine; therefore, why not make all other details as pleasing as possible, instead of otherwise? ............................................ ADUMB LINX MEETS AUNTY SCIENCE (CONCLUDED) or circle of zero, is detonated in the subetheric stratum of the space-time continuum, &, according to the Ely Culbertson theory, disintegrates all matter in its path! Pandemonium pan-continental! The World in Flames! As the amoeba eats up one half the earth, the 8u2 devours the other! & as Ahto von Rednib, alias Count Miaut, stood on the last speck of terra infirma, atomic disintegration giving him one hot foot, the ameoba nibbling at the other, he shouted -- that all the other workds of the universe might hear & beware: "STOP SCIENCE!" & to himself he mumbled, "Oh, Rob -- I meddled with things metal shoud leave alone..." ............................................ THE COLONIZATION OF MICHIGAN (CONCLUDED) print their tales, and of the other fans (readers) who publicly discuss such subjects. The next meeting of the Galactic Roamers has been set for Friday evening, February 7th, of the current year, at Battle Creek, and a post card to Evans will give the place and directions for reaching it from other cities. The March meeting will again be held in Jackson (date not set yet), and a card to Millard at Jackson will return you the information a to that meeting. All Space Pups who may be interested are urged to contact either of these men regarding becoming members of the colonizing groups.
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