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Fantasite, v. 1, issue 4, July 1941
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THE FANTASITE 22 "Odd, isn't it, that all the human beings he created were female and blonde haired?" I dropped the comb, scissors, and my lowers nearly popped out on the floor. "Then I came into being. I won't go into the details of my electro-education, nor the sensations of my awakening, nor the burst of reason that exploded in my brain. I learned of all the others he had made, and it thrilled me greatly that he considered me perfection. I hasten to assure you that no one would dispute her last statement, for if all the rest of this story be pure poppycock, she, at least, was the most perfect being I have ever seen. Bluebeard must have thought so too, for she went on: "He fell in love with me, as he did not with the others, and that is why I am here this morning. Naturally, since he created a woman, he created a woman's curiosity, and I inquired into the fate of the others. The truth was shown to me, and it was quite horrible. In a large room near the top of the house, a room which was always kept under heavy padlock, hung the bodies of the others! Yes, they hung there by their hair on long nails pounded into the wall. Row upon row of them, all blonde, and all hanging by their knotted hair!" I no longer believed her crazy story, but she went on, speaking seriously and soberly, in a very pretty voice. "I held back with a shudder when I saw those dangling bodies. Bluebeard - even I called him that now - was mad; I could see that now. He was a genius, but quite mad. I resolved then and there that I would not be similarly hung in that upper room; and so,barber, get on with this haircut, and be sure to cut it close!" ------O----- You've been to the planets of the solar system in your own private rocket ships. Now hop aboard the SOUTHERN STAR and visit Atzor located far beyond the reaches of sight in the realm of imagination, where the star Mira and her six planets Atzor, Samarkland, Bophal, Sthor, Atabalkand, and Zoltan have risen from the fertile imagination of a Lincoln,Nebraska boy to the point where they attained nation-wide recognition in LIFE magazine. Life gave only a few paltry details. Read the STAR for the inside dope. A most unusual article by ART R. SEHNERT in the third----S O U T H E R N S T A R And that's not all that's in this special Denvention issue, either. (The STAR is fandom's unique fanzine in that its special Denvention issue won't be out before the Devnention ! It will be out early in July, tho--we hope!) There's a fascinating debate between FRED W. FISCHER and GEORGE FENTON, "Life Everlasting"; a humorous MUTANT article by JACK SPEER, "The Preposterous Prophesying of Tim P. O'Nautisshan"; fiction by HARRY JENKIN, JR., "The Voice Out of Space"; more humor by KLINGBIEL; and an article that will be, we predict, the most sensational of 1941: "I was a Fan's Wife" -- the lurid, red-hot confession of a Southern fan' s soul-mate, unexpurgated, and precisely as it was rejected by "Marvel Tales" for being too hot to print. Plus features like America's No. 1 column, "From the Starport", by Fred W. Fischer; the outstandingly popular, "Munsey Panorama" by Panurge; analyses of HARRY WARNER, JR. and FORREST J.ACKERMAN's handwriting; Bob Tucker's great new column "Mumblings"; pro news direct from New York by Morley; a swap column; th elongest reader section in fandom; all the latest news about the southern fans; biographies of DIXIE FANTASY FEDERATION members, and uh, a batch. of other junk we can't remember offhand. Art by Jenkins, Calewaert, and Schumann. Better send in a quarter now for this "Dixie Press" publication, and make sure you don't miss any of 'em. Future issues will have forty pages. Be a nice sucker and send in your two bits for three to Joseph Gilbert, 1100 Bryan St., Columbia South Carolina.
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THE FANTASITE 22 "Odd, isn't it, that all the human beings he created were female and blonde haired?" I dropped the comb, scissors, and my lowers nearly popped out on the floor. "Then I came into being. I won't go into the details of my electro-education, nor the sensations of my awakening, nor the burst of reason that exploded in my brain. I learned of all the others he had made, and it thrilled me greatly that he considered me perfection. I hasten to assure you that no one would dispute her last statement, for if all the rest of this story be pure poppycock, she, at least, was the most perfect being I have ever seen. Bluebeard must have thought so too, for she went on: "He fell in love with me, as he did not with the others, and that is why I am here this morning. Naturally, since he created a woman, he created a woman's curiosity, and I inquired into the fate of the others. The truth was shown to me, and it was quite horrible. In a large room near the top of the house, a room which was always kept under heavy padlock, hung the bodies of the others! Yes, they hung there by their hair on long nails pounded into the wall. Row upon row of them, all blonde, and all hanging by their knotted hair!" I no longer believed her crazy story, but she went on, speaking seriously and soberly, in a very pretty voice. "I held back with a shudder when I saw those dangling bodies. Bluebeard - even I called him that now - was mad; I could see that now. He was a genius, but quite mad. I resolved then and there that I would not be similarly hung in that upper room; and so,barber, get on with this haircut, and be sure to cut it close!" ------O----- You've been to the planets of the solar system in your own private rocket ships. Now hop aboard the SOUTHERN STAR and visit Atzor located far beyond the reaches of sight in the realm of imagination, where the star Mira and her six planets Atzor, Samarkland, Bophal, Sthor, Atabalkand, and Zoltan have risen from the fertile imagination of a Lincoln,Nebraska boy to the point where they attained nation-wide recognition in LIFE magazine. Life gave only a few paltry details. Read the STAR for the inside dope. A most unusual article by ART R. SEHNERT in the third----S O U T H E R N S T A R And that's not all that's in this special Denvention issue, either. (The STAR is fandom's unique fanzine in that its special Denvention issue won't be out before the Devnention ! It will be out early in July, tho--we hope!) There's a fascinating debate between FRED W. FISCHER and GEORGE FENTON, "Life Everlasting"; a humorous MUTANT article by JACK SPEER, "The Preposterous Prophesying of Tim P. O'Nautisshan"; fiction by HARRY JENKIN, JR., "The Voice Out of Space"; more humor by KLINGBIEL; and an article that will be, we predict, the most sensational of 1941: "I was a Fan's Wife" -- the lurid, red-hot confession of a Southern fan' s soul-mate, unexpurgated, and precisely as it was rejected by "Marvel Tales" for being too hot to print. Plus features like America's No. 1 column, "From the Starport", by Fred W. Fischer; the outstandingly popular, "Munsey Panorama" by Panurge; analyses of HARRY WARNER, JR. and FORREST J.ACKERMAN's handwriting; Bob Tucker's great new column "Mumblings"; pro news direct from New York by Morley; a swap column; th elongest reader section in fandom; all the latest news about the southern fans; biographies of DIXIE FANTASY FEDERATION members, and uh, a batch. of other junk we can't remember offhand. Art by Jenkins, Calewaert, and Schumann. Better send in a quarter now for this "Dixie Press" publication, and make sure you don't miss any of 'em. Future issues will have forty pages. Be a nice sucker and send in your two bits for three to Joseph Gilbert, 1100 Bryan St., Columbia South Carolina.
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