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Atres Artes, v. 1, issue 3, 1946

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Although this is the third issue of Atres Artes, it could well be called the first. This is due to the fact that the first two issues had a very limited circulation of 30 because they were hectographed[?] by inexperienced hands. This issues circulation is over a hundred as it is being dittoed.
Thusly, I believe a word of history would be appropriate here. The first issue had been growing in our mind for some time before we bought our hecto pads and carbons in December of last year. We planned to edit a small sized mag of a dozen or so pages to appear quite frequently. With some hastily gathered material, Atres Artes made its appearance about the end of January. It was small size, hecto was good in that it was readable-if you knew what was written beforehand. The contents aside from our inspired, brilliant end corney editorial were strictly from hunger. In the last issue, #2 a great improvement was wrought.. We switch to a large size, evened up the edges, and added some blueprinted artwork by Cockroft. We made some foolish mistakes alright. One was printing the same number of copies the second time as we did the first and with half a dozen more contributors to send complimentary copies to. The net result was the several fans went without #2. They're recieving #3 of course.
Well about this issue-----our feature is a 5,000 word article on fantasy, stf, and weird fiction by Fred Howland, a fan from Kenmore, N.Y. Next we have an article we had considered not using. You see, we had aways pleaded for fantasy exclusively in fanzines. Well, this isn't at all fantasy. But we liked it, we hope you do too. It's Pvt. Russ Whitman's A Visit To Karachi. There's an article by Kent Bone on fandom; a book review by Inman, a Lovecraft article by Geo T. Wetzel and 3 undescribable something-or-others by him that we happen to like. Kennedy has an article (the first thing he's sent us that was good enough to sign his real name to). We also have some poems to use as the occasion arises. Laney has sent us a piece of Fiction called Kharesh, The Visionary. We don't understand it--will some one who does please write and tell us what it's all about. Two articles, one by Kessel and another by Sneary, can be considered as something special we accepted in order to make this a big issue for reasons we'll discuss later. There's two or three dittoed pics besides the two or three blueprints that we hope duplicate ok. Unless we get some late contributions I guess that that's all, except for a few things we're sticking in. The first is an article describing our trip to New York and Newark. The other I haven't written yet when you see it you'll know what it is.

You know, an editor's lot is a funny one. He may believe that his fanzine reflects his personality but he's just deluding himself. Take this mag, Atres Artes, for instances. We are primarily science fiction fans, then fantasy and weire fans. However we find that Atres artes has become a veritible poor mans Acolyte. How did this happen? Well in the first issue we were short of material. So we had to write it ourselves. We found that stf is a lot harder to write in short stores than weird stuff. "Master" was the result. The result was that the issue was given a fantasy appearance. When fen and the mss. bureau sent in stuff they thought we wanted weird stuff. So for No. 2 we had three weird pics to one stf and two longer weird stories. This gave k#2 a distinct fantasy outlook. With this issue staring them in teh face could a fan send in stf material--no  To them ATres Artes (even its name is weird!) was a mag specializing in the occult and fantastic. The results are evient. This issue has a ratio of about 5 to 1 in favor of weird and fantastic.

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Although this is the third issue of Atres Artes, it could well be called the first. This is due to the fact that the first two issues had a very limited circulation of 30 because they were hectographed[?] by inexperienced hands. This issues circulation is over a hundred as it is being dittoed. Thusly, I believe a word of history would be appropriate here. The first issue had been growing in our mind for some time before we bought our hecto pads and carbons in December of last year. We planned to edit a small sized mag of a dozen or so pages to appear quite frequently. With some hastily gathered material, Atres Artes made its appearance about the end of January. It was small size, hecto was good in that it was readable-if you knew what was written beforehand. The contents aside from our inspired, brilliant end corney editorial were strictly from hunger. In the last issue, #2 a great improvement was wrought.. We switch to a large size, evened up the edges, and added some blueprinted artwork by Cockroft. We made some foolish mistakes alright. One was printing the same number of copies the second time as we did the first and with half a dozen more contributors to send complimentary copies to. The net result was the several fans went without #2. They're recieving #3 of course. Well about this issue-----our feature is a 5,000 word article on fantasy, stf, and weird fiction by Fred Howland, a fan from Kenmore, N.Y. Next we have an article we had considered not using. You see, we had aways pleaded for fantasy exclusively in fanzines. Well, this isn't at all fantasy. But we liked it, we hope you do too. It's Pvt. Russ Whitman's A Visit To Karachi. There's an article by Kent Bone on fandom; a book review by Inman, a Lovecraft article by Geo T. Wetzel and 3 undescribable something-or-others by him that we happen to like. Kennedy has an article (the first thing he's sent us that was good enough to sign his real name to). We also have some poems to use as the occasion arises. Laney has sent us a piece of Fiction called Kharesh, The Visionary. We don't understand it--will some one who does please write and tell us what it's all about. Two articles, one by Kessel and another by Sneary, can be considered as something special we accepted in order to make this a big issue for reasons we'll discuss later. There's two or three dittoed pics besides the two or three blueprints that we hope duplicate ok. Unless we get some late contributions I guess that that's all, except for a few things we're sticking in. The first is an article describing our trip to New York and Newark. The other I haven't written yet when you see it you'll know what it is. You know, an editor's lot is a funny one. He may believe that his fanzine reflects his personality but he's just deluding himself. Take this mag, Atres Artes, for instances. We are primarily science fiction fans, then fantasy and weire fans. However we find that Atres artes has become a veritible poor mans Acolyte. How did this happen? Well in the first issue we were short of material. So we had to write it ourselves. We found that stf is a lot harder to write in short stores than weird stuff. "Master" was the result. The result was that the issue was given a fantasy appearance. When fen and the mss. bureau sent in stuff they thought we wanted weird stuff. So for No. 2 we had three weird pics to one stf and two longer weird stories. This gave k#2 a distinct fantasy outlook. With this issue staring them in teh face could a fan send in stf material--no To them ATres Artes (even its name is weird!) was a mag specializing in the occult and fantastic. The results are evient. This issue has a ratio of about 5 to 1 in favor of weird and fantastic. page 4