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FANTASY FICTION FIELD 5 ILLUSTRATED NEWS WEEKLY 5 Volume 2 Number 1 April 1, 1941 Whole Number 24 [PHOTO OF TWO COSTUMED PEOPLE] (This foto, sent to us by a friend, shows ye boys in palmier days, before puns became punches and Ackerman gave Bradbury a couple of socks to wear on his nose. Editor) ACKERMAN BEATS BRADBURY TO A PULP! April 1, 1941 — Eyewitness account: A low-flying, longstanding feud between the two would-be fun-rulers of Shangri-LA, Ray Bradbury and Forrest J Ackerman, broke into the open here late on the night of March 27 with serious injuries sustained by Bradbury — tangle occurred after a Club meeting — when Bradbury and FJA were leaving Cliftons and walked around the corner toward the newsstand. Each was playing the perennial game of trying to out-pun the other, when the now S̲t̲i̲r̲r̲i̲n̲g̲ ̲S̲c̲i̲e̲n̲c̲e̲ ̲S̲t̲o̲r̲i̲e̲s̲ was simultaneously spotted, Both fans leaped forward to secure the issue, Ackerman getting there first. So it was that Ackerman beat Bradbury to a pulp. The Romance of the Ever-Changing "Wonder", (continued) besides several other purely scientific publications. S̲c̲i̲e̲n̲c̲e̲ ̲W̲o̲n̲d̲e̲r̲ ̲S̲t̲o̲r̲i̲e̲s̲' initial iss. (cont. pg two) o THE ROMANCE OF HIE EVER CHANGING "WONDER" by Julius Unger (see photo below) In April 1929, Hugo Gernsback, his connection severed with the sixteen year old Experimenter Publishing Company, immediately organized a rival publishing firm and in quick succession issued Science Wonder Stories, Air Wonder Stories, Science Wonder Quarterly, and Scientific Detective — (continued below) [Photo of magazine cover] A reproduction of the first cover--ten years ago
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FANTASY FICTION FIELD 5 ILLUSTRATED NEWS WEEKLY 5 Volume 2 Number 1 April 1, 1941 Whole Number 24 [PHOTO OF TWO COSTUMED PEOPLE] (This foto, sent to us by a friend, shows ye boys in palmier days, before puns became punches and Ackerman gave Bradbury a couple of socks to wear on his nose. Editor) ACKERMAN BEATS BRADBURY TO A PULP! April 1, 1941 — Eyewitness account: A low-flying, longstanding feud between the two would-be fun-rulers of Shangri-LA, Ray Bradbury and Forrest J Ackerman, broke into the open here late on the night of March 27 with serious injuries sustained by Bradbury — tangle occurred after a Club meeting — when Bradbury and FJA were leaving Cliftons and walked around the corner toward the newsstand. Each was playing the perennial game of trying to out-pun the other, when the now S̲t̲i̲r̲r̲i̲n̲g̲ ̲S̲c̲i̲e̲n̲c̲e̲ ̲S̲t̲o̲r̲i̲e̲s̲ was simultaneously spotted, Both fans leaped forward to secure the issue, Ackerman getting there first. So it was that Ackerman beat Bradbury to a pulp. The Romance of the Ever-Changing "Wonder", (continued) besides several other purely scientific publications. S̲c̲i̲e̲n̲c̲e̲ ̲W̲o̲n̲d̲e̲r̲ ̲S̲t̲o̲r̲i̲e̲s̲' initial iss. (cont. pg two) o THE ROMANCE OF HIE EVER CHANGING "WONDER" by Julius Unger (see photo below) In April 1929, Hugo Gernsback, his connection severed with the sixteen year old Experimenter Publishing Company, immediately organized a rival publishing firm and in quick succession issued Science Wonder Stories, Air Wonder Stories, Science Wonder Quarterly, and Scientific Detective — (continued below) [Photo of magazine cover] A reproduction of the first cover--ten years ago
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