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Fanfare, v. 1, issue 3, August 1940

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FANFARE     19

that could be used for other material. Thus, I pass Weiner's story. . . .  I'll be happy, of course, to swap LeZ with you. In fact, I have been doing it, mostly. Keep the FANFAREs rolling, and Lez will appear at your doorstep each issue ((ditto.))

JERRY MEADER: This first issue under the Strangers was fairly good. Cover good, though I like the symbolic ones much better than the action. Grade of paper way ahead of the mags, which is a good feature. Editorial gives a fine clear report of your club and its plans for the future of the mag. Contest, good, but seems to me as though the prizes aren't much incentive for a fella. See our contest in this next issue, and the prizes. I think this si something new in fanmag contests, and surely must be a new high in prizes, certainly the first ones. Let's have your story. Jim's short article was good, I shall have to give him a calling-down for ignoring his BULLETIN, blasted blighter. But very good. LOOKING OVER THE FAN MAGS very good, well written, Keep up this feature, and by the way, you might do the next issue of MSA BULL! Subtle, ain't I???

RAJOCZ: You know, for a while I thought I would never see another issue of FANFARE, but, oh joy, I was wrong. As I remember it, one of the main faults of the first FANFARE was the mimeographing. On the whole, the mimeographing of the second issue was an improvement over that of the first issue. The paper of the second issue also seems more adapted for mimeoing than the paper you used in the first issue. You have a good cover for this issue, and, perhaps, I will write a story around it if I'm not too lazy. . . . I think your policy of featuring new writers is a good idea, and I will keep your mag in mind, when I write a little something or other. . . . Avery's contribution was good proof that the fans are wise in demanding the "super-colossal sum of ten cents owed to them". . . . On the whole, most fan fiction, to state it plainly, lousy; but of late quite a bit of the fan-fiction has been rather surprisingly good. "The Message of the Manuscript" is in the class of recently good fan stories. . . ."Looking Over the Fanmags" was one of the better features of the second blast of FANFARE.

DICK KRAFT: Yes, definitely, I do like the cover of FANFARE. Much better than the one on Harry's mag I feel. Also congrats on the issue generally, not at all bad for a starter, though naturally it should be longer, and it certainly can stand a little polishing up. . . . The best thing in the mag, I think, was the biography of Art, and the editorial was not to bad either.

SAMUEL D. RUSSELL: The June issue was quite promising in respect to the quality you claim to be striving for in your material. I hope you won't have to back down in this. Reiner's story was one of the better fan stories I've read, gaining in effectiveness from the dignity and importance of its protagonist and subject-matter, though losing somewhat from trying to cover so much time in so many little scenes. I trust you will have more than one major article or story in coming issues.

TOM WRIGHT: FANFARE OK. Should have a colored cover, and maybe a little larger. Bet you don't get many answers to that cover contest. I had one similar in the first COMET, but as many told me, anybody---no matter how good the author---who wrote around that type of drawing, could turn out what is generally called a "hack".

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FANFARE 19 that could be used for other material. Thus, I pass Weiner's story. . . . I'll be happy, of course, to swap LeZ with you. In fact, I have been doing it, mostly. Keep the FANFAREs rolling, and Lez will appear at your doorstep each issue ((ditto.)) JERRY MEADER: This first issue under the Strangers was fairly good. Cover good, though I like the symbolic ones much better than the action. Grade of paper way ahead of the mags, which is a good feature. Editorial gives a fine clear report of your club and its plans for the future of the mag. Contest, good, but seems to me as though the prizes aren't much incentive for a fella. See our contest in this next issue, and the prizes. I think this si something new in fanmag contests, and surely must be a new high in prizes, certainly the first ones. Let's have your story. Jim's short article was good, I shall have to give him a calling-down for ignoring his BULLETIN, blasted blighter. But very good. LOOKING OVER THE FAN MAGS very good, well written, Keep up this feature, and by the way, you might do the next issue of MSA BULL! Subtle, ain't I??? RAJOCZ: You know, for a while I thought I would never see another issue of FANFARE, but, oh joy, I was wrong. As I remember it, one of the main faults of the first FANFARE was the mimeographing. On the whole, the mimeographing of the second issue was an improvement over that of the first issue. The paper of the second issue also seems more adapted for mimeoing than the paper you used in the first issue. You have a good cover for this issue, and, perhaps, I will write a story around it if I'm not too lazy. . . . I think your policy of featuring new writers is a good idea, and I will keep your mag in mind, when I write a little something or other. . . . Avery's contribution was good proof that the fans are wise in demanding the "super-colossal sum of ten cents owed to them". . . . On the whole, most fan fiction, to state it plainly, lousy; but of late quite a bit of the fan-fiction has been rather surprisingly good. "The Message of the Manuscript" is in the class of recently good fan stories. . . ."Looking Over the Fanmags" was one of the better features of the second blast of FANFARE. DICK KRAFT: Yes, definitely, I do like the cover of FANFARE. Much better than the one on Harry's mag I feel. Also congrats on the issue generally, not at all bad for a starter, though naturally it should be longer, and it certainly can stand a little polishing up. . . . The best thing in the mag, I think, was the biography of Art, and the editorial was not to bad either. SAMUEL D. RUSSELL: The June issue was quite promising in respect to the quality you claim to be striving for in your material. I hope you won't have to back down in this. Reiner's story was one of the better fan stories I've read, gaining in effectiveness from the dignity and importance of its protagonist and subject-matter, though losing somewhat from trying to cover so much time in so many little scenes. I trust you will have more than one major article or story in coming issues. TOM WRIGHT: FANFARE OK. Should have a colored cover, and maybe a little larger. Bet you don't get many answers to that cover contest. I had one similar in the first COMET, but as many told me, anybody---no matter how good the author---who wrote around that type of drawing, could turn out what is generally called a "hack".