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Science Fiction Collector, v. 3, issue 5, September-October 1937

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------- Prediction:- A big success in cartooning for Dollens --- if he'll stop drawing people's cars down on their throats.... Remember when Don Wollheim drew cartoons for the I.O.? Poor line-work, but very amusing..... Bill Miller draws well... when and if you can draw it out of him (Some pun, no?) (No).... Kyle draws under the name of Jefferson Machamer --- or is it Duckwaddle? The only thing Dick Wilson draws in is his salary, which is better than Dock (just call him Harry) who only paints the town red once or so a week.... Sykore once drew too --- his surrealsms done absentmindedly during a boring ISA meeting were "Tres bon".... Pohl carves up bars. (We definitely do not mean bars of soap!).... Georgie Hahn has been drawing lately ---- indeed he has been drawing the ridicule and anger of fans for FANTASIA's delayed appearance......... Solitaire, Glophf the Firat. (If you've enjoyed this column you must be glophy also, Ed.)

[illustration of a gun?]

[handwritten]
This Changing Tendency Among Fan Magazines
by Sam Moskowitz

[typewritten]
It seems that everything is changing, and from this immutable law, science fiction fan magazines are not exempt. 

Take, for instance, the early COSMOLOGY, TIME TRAVELLER, SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST and others. All were dependent upon the whims of the professional science fiction magazines. 

Reviews and ratings of stories, predictions, biographies, exposes and general gossip was the accepted thing. It was generally conceded that a science fiction fan magazine, if it were to be successful, must be composed largely of departments, with an occasional interspersing of short stories and articles. The BROOKLYN REPORTER, 14 LEAFLET, FANTASY MAGAZINE, and to a lesser extent, FANTASY FAN, followed out this tradition to a "t". Particularly FANTASY MAGAZINE, which was able---through various connections --- to scoop all other magazines of its type. 

Recently, however, there has been a changing tendency among fan magazines. These publications are not definitely sure of the change themselves. Some of them follow the lead of the SCIENCE FICTION CRITIC and encourage intelligent discussion of all subjects scientifictional with an occasional book or story review. Others follow in the footsteps of TESSERACT and present material designed to aid the amateur author. Still another group copies the variety of stories, verse, articles-both of weird and science fictional nature, with few departments and a minimum of gossip. These fan magazines are steadily advancing, and becoming as a whole, an infinitely more intelligent group. One fact in particular is significent, and that fact is that the present day fan magazines are no longer parasitic. There are no longer the book reviews author biographies, and gossip of a former day. There remains no necessity for it. Undoubtedly, if all the newsstand publications were to suddenly cease publications, the fan magazines would ride serenely on their rocky course as heretofore --- affected not in the slightest by the gaping void.

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------- Prediction:- A big success in cartooning for Dollens --- if he'll stop drawing people's cars down on their throats.... Remember when Don Wollheim drew cartoons for the I.O.? Poor line-work, but very amusing..... Bill Miller draws well... when and if you can draw it out of him (Some pun, no?) (No).... Kyle draws under the name of Jefferson Machamer --- or is it Duckwaddle? The only thing Dick Wilson draws in is his salary, which is better than Dock (just call him Harry) who only paints the town red once or so a week.... Sykore once drew too --- his surrealsms done absentmindedly during a boring ISA meeting were "Tres bon".... Pohl carves up bars. (We definitely do not mean bars of soap!).... Georgie Hahn has been drawing lately ---- indeed he has been drawing the ridicule and anger of fans for FANTASIA's delayed appearance......... Solitaire, Glophf the Firat. (If you've enjoyed this column you must be glophy also, Ed.) [illustration of a gun?] [handwritten] This Changing Tendency Among Fan Magazines by Sam Moskowitz [typewritten] It seems that everything is changing, and from this immutable law, science fiction fan magazines are not exempt. Take, for instance, the early COSMOLOGY, TIME TRAVELLER, SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST and others. All were dependent upon the whims of the professional science fiction magazines. Reviews and ratings of stories, predictions, biographies, exposes and general gossip was the accepted thing. It was generally conceded that a science fiction fan magazine, if it were to be successful, must be composed largely of departments, with an occasional interspersing of short stories and articles. The BROOKLYN REPORTER, 14 LEAFLET, FANTASY MAGAZINE, and to a lesser extent, FANTASY FAN, followed out this tradition to a "t". Particularly FANTASY MAGAZINE, which was able---through various connections --- to scoop all other magazines of its type. Recently, however, there has been a changing tendency among fan magazines. These publications are not definitely sure of the change themselves. Some of them follow the lead of the SCIENCE FICTION CRITIC and encourage intelligent discussion of all subjects scientifictional with an occasional book or story review. Others follow in the footsteps of TESSERACT and present material designed to aid the amateur author. Still another group copies the variety of stories, verse, articles-both of weird and science fictional nature, with few departments and a minimum of gossip. These fan magazines are steadily advancing, and becoming as a whole, an infinitely more intelligent group. One fact in particular is significent, and that fact is that the present day fan magazines are no longer parasitic. There are no longer the book reviews author biographies, and gossip of a former day. There remains no necessity for it. Undoubtedly, if all the newsstand publications were to suddenly cease publications, the fan magazines would ride serenely on their rocky course as heretofore --- affected not in the slightest by the gaping void.