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Funtasy, v. 1, issue 1, Supplement 1, 1939
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FUNTASY Volume I No. 1 -1939- Supplement 1 EDITORIALLY SPEAKING To emulate Bob Tucker's inimitable "Le Zombie", I perhaps should begin this editorial by saying "Department of Profuse Thanks and Revelations", but being in a bit more serious frame of mind, I shall merely say what I have to say in the more usual editorial set-up. First of all, as everyone must know by now, FUNTASY has ceased to be a living, breathing, individual. This is due to a number of complex causes, and I think it only fair that you readers who received her first issue so well should know just why I have stopped publishing the mag. The prime fault, I think, lies in myself. I do not believe that I was fully equipped for editing a magazine in which humor was the theme. I simply haven't enough of those qualities which make for a magazine of FUNTASY's intended calibre. I hope that some day I may be able to prove otherwise, at least by trying my hand at a different type of publication. Secondly, living as I do in this part of the country, away from all sfn. activities and all sfn fans (active at least), it has been a terrifically hard and expensive task to carry out alone. The expense lies in the postage eaten up by having to send heavy stencils and instructions to my various printers, in addition to the usual costs confronting all fan mag. publishers. I don't wish to stymie the hopes of any prospective fan mag editors who may read this, but I can truthfully say that FUNTASY lost over five dollars on its initial appearance. And it would have continued to lose at that rate had I continued publishing. The receipts for second orders scarecly began to cover the price of the stencil alone. Add to those troubles that of failing to get more than a few A-1 manuscripts, and I think you'll be able to get a half-way inkling of the inevitable disaster facing me if I were to continue the venture. However, that is all a thing of the past, now. I'm not grumbling about my five or six bucks; in truth, I can think of no time when I have spent a five spot or more to better advantage, both in entertainment and knowledge. But I promised thanks along with the revelations, and so right here and now I want to thank (and I sincerely mean it) all you fellows who in any way contributed to TIZZY's well-being, whether in the way of literary material, money, advertising, or publicity. I think the rest of my story can be found in Bob's editorial in NOVA proper, for after this issue, FUNTASY will no longer be a separate entity, but will be incorporated into D'JOURNAL, her only rival during her brief career, successful in one sense of the word, but a dismal failure, perhaps, in another. Time alone will tell..... Sincerely, Jim Avery
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FUNTASY Volume I No. 1 -1939- Supplement 1 EDITORIALLY SPEAKING To emulate Bob Tucker's inimitable "Le Zombie", I perhaps should begin this editorial by saying "Department of Profuse Thanks and Revelations", but being in a bit more serious frame of mind, I shall merely say what I have to say in the more usual editorial set-up. First of all, as everyone must know by now, FUNTASY has ceased to be a living, breathing, individual. This is due to a number of complex causes, and I think it only fair that you readers who received her first issue so well should know just why I have stopped publishing the mag. The prime fault, I think, lies in myself. I do not believe that I was fully equipped for editing a magazine in which humor was the theme. I simply haven't enough of those qualities which make for a magazine of FUNTASY's intended calibre. I hope that some day I may be able to prove otherwise, at least by trying my hand at a different type of publication. Secondly, living as I do in this part of the country, away from all sfn. activities and all sfn fans (active at least), it has been a terrifically hard and expensive task to carry out alone. The expense lies in the postage eaten up by having to send heavy stencils and instructions to my various printers, in addition to the usual costs confronting all fan mag. publishers. I don't wish to stymie the hopes of any prospective fan mag editors who may read this, but I can truthfully say that FUNTASY lost over five dollars on its initial appearance. And it would have continued to lose at that rate had I continued publishing. The receipts for second orders scarecly began to cover the price of the stencil alone. Add to those troubles that of failing to get more than a few A-1 manuscripts, and I think you'll be able to get a half-way inkling of the inevitable disaster facing me if I were to continue the venture. However, that is all a thing of the past, now. I'm not grumbling about my five or six bucks; in truth, I can think of no time when I have spent a five spot or more to better advantage, both in entertainment and knowledge. But I promised thanks along with the revelations, and so right here and now I want to thank (and I sincerely mean it) all you fellows who in any way contributed to TIZZY's well-being, whether in the way of literary material, money, advertising, or publicity. I think the rest of my story can be found in Bob's editorial in NOVA proper, for after this issue, FUNTASY will no longer be a separate entity, but will be incorporated into D'JOURNAL, her only rival during her brief career, successful in one sense of the word, but a dismal failure, perhaps, in another. Time alone will tell..... Sincerely, Jim Avery
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