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FUNTASY Page 8 THE ALIEN HAH-RAH By Richard G. Kerlin -From WONDER STORIES for Dec., 1935- With its first issue, FUNTASY inaugurates its reprint-of-past-classics series, the first of which is presented below. Because THE ALIEN HAH-RAH is typical of fan stories of several years back, and because it was one of the best of the lot, we have selected it to be the first on our reprint pages. What favorites of by-gone days have you? What old-timers would you like to see in print once again. Let us know..... A strange communication came into my possession last year, at which time I was a member of that well-known exploration party, the Ackerman-Darrow Scientifictionic Expedition. As you know, we were then investigating those missiles resembling meteorites, of which we have so often read in your magazine. These seeming meteorites, as everyone knows, are always really hollow containers of unknown metals, and they always contain either poisonous gases which kill everyone in the world, or a monster which kills everyone, or the seeds of a new life whose growth eventually dooms mankind, or, as in the majority of cases, a message written on a number of ultra thin, indestructible, peculiar sheets of substance which of course defies analysis. I need not tell you (but I will) how we found such a meteorite. Toiling along wearily one day, we came upon a great pile of rocks which obstructed the trail which we were following. Of course we recognized them at once for what they were: hollow containers filled with poisonous gases, etc. (see preceeding paragraph) which had arrived here from outer space. The first one we picked up gurgled as we shook it, so, fearing that it contained some virulent liquid whose release would spell mankind's doon, we threw it away. (This missile was later found to be cocoanut) The next one, upon being shaken responded with a faint rustle, as of manuscript's pages. This we opened after an hour's application of our electro-disintergrator and a subsequent three-second application of our old can-opener. An old copy of WONDER STORIES fall out. (You all remember the great panic that followed our discovery as thousands of SFN. collectors from all over the world rushed to thee Gobi Desert to prospect for these meteoric missiles.) The following message was written on the edges of the pages:
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FUNTASY Page 8 THE ALIEN HAH-RAH By Richard G. Kerlin -From WONDER STORIES for Dec., 1935- With its first issue, FUNTASY inaugurates its reprint-of-past-classics series, the first of which is presented below. Because THE ALIEN HAH-RAH is typical of fan stories of several years back, and because it was one of the best of the lot, we have selected it to be the first on our reprint pages. What favorites of by-gone days have you? What old-timers would you like to see in print once again. Let us know..... A strange communication came into my possession last year, at which time I was a member of that well-known exploration party, the Ackerman-Darrow Scientifictionic Expedition. As you know, we were then investigating those missiles resembling meteorites, of which we have so often read in your magazine. These seeming meteorites, as everyone knows, are always really hollow containers of unknown metals, and they always contain either poisonous gases which kill everyone in the world, or a monster which kills everyone, or the seeds of a new life whose growth eventually dooms mankind, or, as in the majority of cases, a message written on a number of ultra thin, indestructible, peculiar sheets of substance which of course defies analysis. I need not tell you (but I will) how we found such a meteorite. Toiling along wearily one day, we came upon a great pile of rocks which obstructed the trail which we were following. Of course we recognized them at once for what they were: hollow containers filled with poisonous gases, etc. (see preceeding paragraph) which had arrived here from outer space. The first one we picked up gurgled as we shook it, so, fearing that it contained some virulent liquid whose release would spell mankind's doon, we threw it away. (This missile was later found to be cocoanut) The next one, upon being shaken responded with a faint rustle, as of manuscript's pages. This we opened after an hour's application of our electro-disintergrator and a subsequent three-second application of our old can-opener. An old copy of WONDER STORIES fall out. (You all remember the great panic that followed our discovery as thousands of SFN. collectors from all over the world rushed to thee Gobi Desert to prospect for these meteoric missiles.) The following message was written on the edges of the pages:
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