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Funtasy, v. 1, issue 1, Supplement 1, 1939
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FUNTASY READER REACTIONS First of all, let's get the following missive (and the word missive is used maliciously) over with tight here at the start. If our machine could print in red, the following remarks would surely be in that virile color! .... Dear Sir: It was very nice of you to send me a copy of the 1st FUNTASY and I appreciated it, but I am afraid I didn't quite like it. Though your printing is very neat, especially the adv. of NELL, and your embellishment for the Editorial Staff, that is about the only worth while thing in the magazine. Neatness and precision and order are things that should be abided in fan mags. and having editorials plastered inadvertently throughout the issue, needless profanity, and alleged humour, does not put your magazine over with me. Your jokes may be funny after a fashion, but not the fashion I appreciate. Your editorial digs seem petty (those at Wollheim, Michel, and later on Tucker). FUNTASY left an unpleasant taste in my mouth. Sorry!.....John Hollis Mason. (WellI guess that set us back on our Ishtar, but perhaps we needed it. But there are a few things I'd like to set Mr. Mason straight upon. I was not aware that I was taking [any] editorial digs at anyone, least of all Bob Tucker. And as for that Wollheim poem, there's no hard feelings on this side of the fence at least. It just happened that Michel rimed [rhymed] beautiful with some hidden thot [thought], that for the moment seemed funny. It doesn't now at all.....jsa. ....Opened next was this communication from my good pal Louis Kuslan, (tho he's one of those awful Foo-foos). He sez: Have received TIZZY and here's a review: TIZZIE (not change of spelling) was swell! Gosh ding it! I use that word too much. "The Alien Rah-Rah" was tops in humor. I read it in WON and laughed then, too! Sullivan's article was also excellent. However, I deny the charge that I was ready Mushy Science-Fiction Love Stories. I wouldn't read that cheap MSFLS. I only read hi-class hacquerie. As for the girl--well! Png's yarn was very readable, as was your's. The revelation of MARVELS's sex policy was rather a let down. I had expected much and received little. The Phiz-Quiz was excellent. Keep it up. (Glad you liked it. Bob will continue it as a regular feature of D'J. But come on fellas and send some good snappy q's in.) .... To keep the happy aura which surrounded me, Bob himself came through with a "Cheerio Jim:" Well, your brainchild FUNTASY arrived Monday, I believe the cover was the most interesting...well, hell (here, here, Mr. Tucker), you MUST watch your language. Tsk, tsk. Needless profanity! But as Mr. Mason won't be buying a copy of this issue, and none of the other readers seem to give a particular damn, we won't censor your lines)...the snappiest best thing about your whole mag. And not because my picture was on it either. You might tell Marconette that Pong recently had those handlebars under his nose clipped off about six inches. Curse ye, sir, you get careless and left off part of a sentence at the bottom of page 4, second col...that paragraph should read as follows: "We will need them later, he explained smilingly to the astonished on--lookers. "They otta make good rockets thrusts." (TIZ apologizes for gyping its readers out of such perfectly thrilling words!) You might put in a squawk to Congress for me; I didn't receive my 44c last week. I think somebody
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FUNTASY READER REACTIONS First of all, let's get the following missive (and the word missive is used maliciously) over with tight here at the start. If our machine could print in red, the following remarks would surely be in that virile color! .... Dear Sir: It was very nice of you to send me a copy of the 1st FUNTASY and I appreciated it, but I am afraid I didn't quite like it. Though your printing is very neat, especially the adv. of NELL, and your embellishment for the Editorial Staff, that is about the only worth while thing in the magazine. Neatness and precision and order are things that should be abided in fan mags. and having editorials plastered inadvertently throughout the issue, needless profanity, and alleged humour, does not put your magazine over with me. Your jokes may be funny after a fashion, but not the fashion I appreciate. Your editorial digs seem petty (those at Wollheim, Michel, and later on Tucker). FUNTASY left an unpleasant taste in my mouth. Sorry!.....John Hollis Mason. (WellI guess that set us back on our Ishtar, but perhaps we needed it. But there are a few things I'd like to set Mr. Mason straight upon. I was not aware that I was taking [any] editorial digs at anyone, least of all Bob Tucker. And as for that Wollheim poem, there's no hard feelings on this side of the fence at least. It just happened that Michel rimed [rhymed] beautiful with some hidden thot [thought], that for the moment seemed funny. It doesn't now at all.....jsa. ....Opened next was this communication from my good pal Louis Kuslan, (tho he's one of those awful Foo-foos). He sez: Have received TIZZY and here's a review: TIZZIE (not change of spelling) was swell! Gosh ding it! I use that word too much. "The Alien Rah-Rah" was tops in humor. I read it in WON and laughed then, too! Sullivan's article was also excellent. However, I deny the charge that I was ready Mushy Science-Fiction Love Stories. I wouldn't read that cheap MSFLS. I only read hi-class hacquerie. As for the girl--well! Png's yarn was very readable, as was your's. The revelation of MARVELS's sex policy was rather a let down. I had expected much and received little. The Phiz-Quiz was excellent. Keep it up. (Glad you liked it. Bob will continue it as a regular feature of D'J. But come on fellas and send some good snappy q's in.) .... To keep the happy aura which surrounded me, Bob himself came through with a "Cheerio Jim:" Well, your brainchild FUNTASY arrived Monday, I believe the cover was the most interesting...well, hell (here, here, Mr. Tucker), you MUST watch your language. Tsk, tsk. Needless profanity! But as Mr. Mason won't be buying a copy of this issue, and none of the other readers seem to give a particular damn, we won't censor your lines)...the snappiest best thing about your whole mag. And not because my picture was on it either. You might tell Marconette that Pong recently had those handlebars under his nose clipped off about six inches. Curse ye, sir, you get careless and left off part of a sentence at the bottom of page 4, second col...that paragraph should read as follows: "We will need them later, he explained smilingly to the astonished on--lookers. "They otta make good rockets thrusts." (TIZ apologizes for gyping its readers out of such perfectly thrilling words!) You might put in a squawk to Congress for me; I didn't receive my 44c last week. I think somebody
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