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Science Fiction Collector, v. 5, issue 1, May 1939
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Page Eighteen — Science Fiction Collector down to fourteen, in an effort to get the magazine out monthly. Therefore, for the seventeenth and eighteenth issues, the Collector became a staff written journal. It featured material exclusively by its select staff, mentioned elsewhere in this article. It gives me pleasure to say that the standard of interest was maintained even in those two numbers. However, the pace was beginning to tell upon Baltadonis. He had been virtually the most active fan of his tlme. He was connected with a thousand and one legitimate fan activities and was still maintaining a standard of quality in school that won for him a scholarship to college. It would have been necessary for him to have been composed of iron to keep up the pace. Therefore, he began searching about for means of cutting down on his work without losing any prestige. He changed the magazine back to small size again; but in the process, the edge of interest was lost. Those intimate contacts which had constantly brought to his mailbox the choicest items in fandom had been dropped due to excess work. With the May 1938 issue, the Collector resumed small size again, just as it had taken up large size an even year ago. It passed its second anniversary inconspicuously. In fact, the editor had overlooked the fact. Marconette, Asquith, Whiteside, Rothman, Saari, Speer, Train, and Madle were represented in the first small-sized number. Already, new fans were becoming suspicious. A new era in fandom was about to dawn. June-July 1938 issue twenty, & more new names - Dale Hart, etc, A write-up of "The First National Science Fiction convention," the finest effort of a decaying fandom. Wilson was sending through a parting shot on one of my more argumentative articles. The Convention had also kept me from maintaining my threat of having an article in every issue of the Collector.
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Page Eighteen — Science Fiction Collector down to fourteen, in an effort to get the magazine out monthly. Therefore, for the seventeenth and eighteenth issues, the Collector became a staff written journal. It featured material exclusively by its select staff, mentioned elsewhere in this article. It gives me pleasure to say that the standard of interest was maintained even in those two numbers. However, the pace was beginning to tell upon Baltadonis. He had been virtually the most active fan of his tlme. He was connected with a thousand and one legitimate fan activities and was still maintaining a standard of quality in school that won for him a scholarship to college. It would have been necessary for him to have been composed of iron to keep up the pace. Therefore, he began searching about for means of cutting down on his work without losing any prestige. He changed the magazine back to small size again; but in the process, the edge of interest was lost. Those intimate contacts which had constantly brought to his mailbox the choicest items in fandom had been dropped due to excess work. With the May 1938 issue, the Collector resumed small size again, just as it had taken up large size an even year ago. It passed its second anniversary inconspicuously. In fact, the editor had overlooked the fact. Marconette, Asquith, Whiteside, Rothman, Saari, Speer, Train, and Madle were represented in the first small-sized number. Already, new fans were becoming suspicious. A new era in fandom was about to dawn. June-July 1938 issue twenty, & more new names - Dale Hart, etc, A write-up of "The First National Science Fiction convention," the finest effort of a decaying fandom. Wilson was sending through a parting shot on one of my more argumentative articles. The Convention had also kept me from maintaining my threat of having an article in every issue of the Collector.
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