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Science Fiction Collector, v. 5, issue 1, May 1939
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Third Anniversary Issue -- Page Seven [line break] The third issue incepted a second color of hectograph ink -- red. It also incepted many of the errors common with hectographed magazines, including light hectographing in parts, misnumbering of pages, misplacement of pages, some blank pages, etc. etc. Yes, the [title underlined] Collector was improving, but it would sound ironical to say that it was improving at a phenomenal rate. Issue number four was a land-m[a]rk in the history of the [title underlined] Science Fiction Collector. First of all, the magazine was hectographed in four colors: purple, red, green, and blue. For the very first time, specially written features by others than the editor made their appearance. The[s]e were two fan mag bibliographies of the [underlined] Planeteer and the S-F News contributed individually by Bill Miller, Jr. and Dan McPhail. By the fourth issue fans were realizing a significant fact. Morris S. Dollens was an idealist. He was the sort of fellow who bent over backward to do another fan a favor. A fellow who admitted freely his own shortcomings, and was never known to display the slightest trace of jealously to ward fans who were doing a bit better than he in their endeavors. "Too bad you can't print or mimeograph the magazine" Those were the most frequent words to torment the mind of a hectograph[ic] magazine editor. How it must have rankled Morris S. Dollens, one of the pioneers of hectography as a method of reproduction of fan magazines, to hear that same old complaint. It is doubtfull that he realized how fully he had squelched his critics with the appearance of the fifth issue of his magazine. He unconsciously proved that for a limited audience, with limited funds, a hectographed fan magazine was _superior_ to a printed, mimeographed, or multigraphed publication. Issue
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Third Anniversary Issue -- Page Seven [line break] The third issue incepted a second color of hectograph ink -- red. It also incepted many of the errors common with hectographed magazines, including light hectographing in parts, misnumbering of pages, misplacement of pages, some blank pages, etc. etc. Yes, the [title underlined] Collector was improving, but it would sound ironical to say that it was improving at a phenomenal rate. Issue number four was a land-m[a]rk in the history of the [title underlined] Science Fiction Collector. First of all, the magazine was hectographed in four colors: purple, red, green, and blue. For the very first time, specially written features by others than the editor made their appearance. The[s]e were two fan mag bibliographies of the [underlined] Planeteer and the S-F News contributed individually by Bill Miller, Jr. and Dan McPhail. By the fourth issue fans were realizing a significant fact. Morris S. Dollens was an idealist. He was the sort of fellow who bent over backward to do another fan a favor. A fellow who admitted freely his own shortcomings, and was never known to display the slightest trace of jealously to ward fans who were doing a bit better than he in their endeavors. "Too bad you can't print or mimeograph the magazine" Those were the most frequent words to torment the mind of a hectograph[ic] magazine editor. How it must have rankled Morris S. Dollens, one of the pioneers of hectography as a method of reproduction of fan magazines, to hear that same old complaint. It is doubtfull that he realized how fully he had squelched his critics with the appearance of the fifth issue of his magazine. He unconsciously proved that for a limited audience, with limited funds, a hectographed fan magazine was _superior_ to a printed, mimeographed, or multigraphed publication. Issue
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