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Leprechaun, v. 1, issue 1, March 1942
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10, LEPRECHAUN Musings from Muscantine by Harry Schnarje There is something going on in the editorial policies of most fanzines.I disapprove. ('I want my lawyer'... shout Tucker and a score of other faneds.) What, you may ask in utter amazement. Imagine, a stfan being amazed. They say, Remember the eds of these mags are, for the most part, mere lads in high school. (Can you imagine Tucker in Bloomington High School?) If there is something juvenile about the fanzines, we can be broad minded and overlook such details.' (Witness the Solaroid Club and the old Sun Spots.) 'Tripe', 'droolings', etc... are what the No. 1 Florida Excentrist would call some fanzines. However, it is not the paid material I am speaking of, (WHAT paid material'?) but it is some which you would never suspect of being unconventional and a waste of space and time. I refer to the letter section in fanzines. (QUICK, some bicarbonate Tucker, Shaw, and a score of other prominent fans have just passed out from the shock.) If an editor would only stop to think, (with what?) he would know that there is no justification for typing out stencils, which cost 20c, of just readers' letters, which may be entertaining, but unconventional. Don't get me wrong. I favor the readers' sections in pro mags (if you read them) for these mags could stand a little comment, and have so much other material to offset these letters that it doesn't make much difference. And it also provides publicity; witness the cases of D.B. Thompson and C. Hidley. A pro ma prints letters, and I don't make cracks. But, in a fanzine.. Do comic mags have letter sections? No? Then why do fanmags? (or just why ARE fan mags?) Of course, you see the letter section, just one page, in ESQUIRE. BUt it's for the more literary minded gentlemen to air his views in an Esquirely manner. Do you see sophistication in a stf mag like AMAZING or FUTURE? By the by, how would the 500 stfans like to see stf in a slick format like the NEW YORKER, for instance? But no, instead of drooling about a slick stf mag in the readers' sections of various stf mags , you fans just drool about how much the mag stinks, shines. or what have you? Why doesn't Ticker do something beside just writer about either (a) himself, or (be) someone else? What was the reason for Thompson's letter-blitz in the pro mags just a short time ago? Why didn't you see much by him in the fanzines? Why did I write the fanzines? (To get a little publicity, you dope.) Now, don't get me wrong. You don't have to take this seriously. The letter section has a place -- in VOM. But if you don't agrees with what I have said, you know what you can go. Write an article in direct opposition with what I say. Start a feud with me. Anything. But get even. I thank you. (the end) Opposite page: "MAD ROBOT"... by Harry W. Shavo
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10, LEPRECHAUN Musings from Muscantine by Harry Schnarje There is something going on in the editorial policies of most fanzines.I disapprove. ('I want my lawyer'... shout Tucker and a score of other faneds.) What, you may ask in utter amazement. Imagine, a stfan being amazed. They say, Remember the eds of these mags are, for the most part, mere lads in high school. (Can you imagine Tucker in Bloomington High School?) If there is something juvenile about the fanzines, we can be broad minded and overlook such details.' (Witness the Solaroid Club and the old Sun Spots.) 'Tripe', 'droolings', etc... are what the No. 1 Florida Excentrist would call some fanzines. However, it is not the paid material I am speaking of, (WHAT paid material'?) but it is some which you would never suspect of being unconventional and a waste of space and time. I refer to the letter section in fanzines. (QUICK, some bicarbonate Tucker, Shaw, and a score of other prominent fans have just passed out from the shock.) If an editor would only stop to think, (with what?) he would know that there is no justification for typing out stencils, which cost 20c, of just readers' letters, which may be entertaining, but unconventional. Don't get me wrong. I favor the readers' sections in pro mags (if you read them) for these mags could stand a little comment, and have so much other material to offset these letters that it doesn't make much difference. And it also provides publicity; witness the cases of D.B. Thompson and C. Hidley. A pro ma prints letters, and I don't make cracks. But, in a fanzine.. Do comic mags have letter sections? No? Then why do fanmags? (or just why ARE fan mags?) Of course, you see the letter section, just one page, in ESQUIRE. BUt it's for the more literary minded gentlemen to air his views in an Esquirely manner. Do you see sophistication in a stf mag like AMAZING or FUTURE? By the by, how would the 500 stfans like to see stf in a slick format like the NEW YORKER, for instance? But no, instead of drooling about a slick stf mag in the readers' sections of various stf mags , you fans just drool about how much the mag stinks, shines. or what have you? Why doesn't Ticker do something beside just writer about either (a) himself, or (be) someone else? What was the reason for Thompson's letter-blitz in the pro mags just a short time ago? Why didn't you see much by him in the fanzines? Why did I write the fanzines? (To get a little publicity, you dope.) Now, don't get me wrong. You don't have to take this seriously. The letter section has a place -- in VOM. But if you don't agrees with what I have said, you know what you can go. Write an article in direct opposition with what I say. Start a feud with me. Anything. But get even. I thank you. (the end) Opposite page: "MAD ROBOT"... by Harry W. Shavo
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