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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 4, December 1941
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From the DUAL CONTROLS by [[underlined]] THE EDITORS [[/underlined]] Look at us, Friends, and shudder. Note how our hand quivers like a bowl of jelly in a model T headed over a rough road. Gaze with pity into our hollow staring eyes - eyes that have witnessed ultimate horror, that have viewed the sort of suffering that not even a Jack Williamson character undergoes. Note the way we spring shrieking into the air and clutch the chandelier when the doorbell rings, our high, hollow laughter and the fact that strange ravens we've never seen before follow us down the streets croaking "Nevermore!" All this fanzine editing has brought about. Once our merry laughter brought the plaster down from the walls and we went bounding about our daily work like a faun with the hotfoot. Then came the first issue of the STAR, with twenty-eight useless stencils to burn, the second with the soul-searing horror of the first-time mimeographing, the toid with the hideous Hilco fiasco, and for the fourth, wherein, after all our fair hopes, we find that we're late again, due to the delay in getting the money necessary for a new mimeo, the discovery that paper has gone up to a dollar and ten cents a ream, the sanity-shattering realization that Sears-Sawbuck sent us black ink instead of the blue we ordered, the shock of finding that lithoing had gone up three dollars and that the pics in this issue cost us seven bucks and a half - we weep, we weep . . . The next STAR'll have four and five color mimeographing onone page and there'll be artwork thruout; we want to make it as pleasing in appearance as Phil Bronson's FANTASITE or one of the other STARLIGHT pubs. Thanks to Harry Jenkins, Jr. for his kindness in stenciling Milty's "Denvention Daze", and we'd like to add our name to the list of fanzine editors indebted to Forry Ackerman - we, for his willingness to take a loss in lithoing the Denvention pics rather than to go back on his acceptance of the job when he discovered the rise in prices. You'll notice that author and expert graphologist Graph Waldeyer has taken over the Handwriting On The Wall department. We are grateful to him for agreeing to conduct this department, and are certain that the accuracy of his analyses will astonish youse; particularly since Graph is not acquainted with the fans he analyzes, an advantage the former writer of the department did not have. Dammit, how are we going to crowd all we want to say in one page? You like short sentences, hah-h-h-h? The next STAR will be the special DFF issues with a map of the South with DFF members in their proper positions (suggested by Theron Raines) a silk screen cover, four and five color mimeoing on one page, colored paper, and material by DFF members Schumann, Raymond Washingon, Jr., and Fischer-Fenton with another of their masterly speculative articles, "Man - The Robot", and a blood chilling article that we believe will be the sensation of '42, by a fan's wife. Don't miss it! The first part of the SOUTHERN STAR trilogy of space ships crowded out this issue will be presented, too. Usual forty pages, maybe more, price remains and will continue to remain a dime per issue despite frightfully high supply prices. If your subscription expires with this issue, you'd better renew right away; anniversary number coming up!
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From the DUAL CONTROLS by [[underlined]] THE EDITORS [[/underlined]] Look at us, Friends, and shudder. Note how our hand quivers like a bowl of jelly in a model T headed over a rough road. Gaze with pity into our hollow staring eyes - eyes that have witnessed ultimate horror, that have viewed the sort of suffering that not even a Jack Williamson character undergoes. Note the way we spring shrieking into the air and clutch the chandelier when the doorbell rings, our high, hollow laughter and the fact that strange ravens we've never seen before follow us down the streets croaking "Nevermore!" All this fanzine editing has brought about. Once our merry laughter brought the plaster down from the walls and we went bounding about our daily work like a faun with the hotfoot. Then came the first issue of the STAR, with twenty-eight useless stencils to burn, the second with the soul-searing horror of the first-time mimeographing, the toid with the hideous Hilco fiasco, and for the fourth, wherein, after all our fair hopes, we find that we're late again, due to the delay in getting the money necessary for a new mimeo, the discovery that paper has gone up to a dollar and ten cents a ream, the sanity-shattering realization that Sears-Sawbuck sent us black ink instead of the blue we ordered, the shock of finding that lithoing had gone up three dollars and that the pics in this issue cost us seven bucks and a half - we weep, we weep . . . The next STAR'll have four and five color mimeographing onone page and there'll be artwork thruout; we want to make it as pleasing in appearance as Phil Bronson's FANTASITE or one of the other STARLIGHT pubs. Thanks to Harry Jenkins, Jr. for his kindness in stenciling Milty's "Denvention Daze", and we'd like to add our name to the list of fanzine editors indebted to Forry Ackerman - we, for his willingness to take a loss in lithoing the Denvention pics rather than to go back on his acceptance of the job when he discovered the rise in prices. You'll notice that author and expert graphologist Graph Waldeyer has taken over the Handwriting On The Wall department. We are grateful to him for agreeing to conduct this department, and are certain that the accuracy of his analyses will astonish youse; particularly since Graph is not acquainted with the fans he analyzes, an advantage the former writer of the department did not have. Dammit, how are we going to crowd all we want to say in one page? You like short sentences, hah-h-h-h? The next STAR will be the special DFF issues with a map of the South with DFF members in their proper positions (suggested by Theron Raines) a silk screen cover, four and five color mimeoing on one page, colored paper, and material by DFF members Schumann, Raymond Washingon, Jr., and Fischer-Fenton with another of their masterly speculative articles, "Man - The Robot", and a blood chilling article that we believe will be the sensation of '42, by a fan's wife. Don't miss it! The first part of the SOUTHERN STAR trilogy of space ships crowded out this issue will be presented, too. Usual forty pages, maybe more, price remains and will continue to remain a dime per issue despite frightfully high supply prices. If your subscription expires with this issue, you'd better renew right away; anniversary number coming up!
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