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Fanfare, v. 1, issue 5, December 1940
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that story was published has praised this yarn. Ditto DeCamp's stories. Would you call his RETIREMENT tripe? Or his INVERSE VARIATIONS? Maybe you would. Probably you do. Thank goodness you're only one or two out of a thousand! I admit this: Most of the stories I have printed have been rejected by some professional house. But not all! Further -- many stories printed in professional magazines have been rejected by other houses first! Does this prove they are tripe? Example: Nelson Bond sold a 40,000 word novel to the BLUE BOOK magazine, at a damn good wage. Well believe it or not, but this story, Exiles In Time, was rejected by AMAZING STORIES!!!! So what!!! ---Strangers, go hide your heads in the pickle barrel... STARDUST, further say the boys from the back-room, publishes few fan articles for its fan audience. (They even go so far as to count the pages of fan material per issue. It's comical what poor mathematicians they prove to be. (One of them I understand, is a grad of MIT. Tsk, tsk.) Well, let's take this specific issue the math class pondered on: The November issue. They count 8 pages of material relating to fans. Just for the fun of it, take out the Nov. issue and let's analyze it. Turn to the contents page. How many items are slated for fans directly? 1. THE NEXT INVASION by Mort Weisinger. (I can't imagine who Mort wrote it for other than fandom!) 2. AT THE SUMMIT by Virgil Travis. (the mathematician de-luxe from MIT who counts eight pages) 3. CONCERNING PROFESSOR JAMESON by Neil R. Jones. (DId Neil write this for the Man-in-the-Moon?) 4. PALMER TEARS HIS HAIR...OUT AND DOWN..... by RAP of course. (In which Ray told off some of the wise wise babies who know so much all the time but never seem to accomplish anything.) 5. MEET THE FAN. 6. REMINISCENCE by Dale Tarr, a narrative article of fanmags of the future. Oh yes, the EDITORIAL... Well, count the pages devoted to these pieces. I'll eat the mold off your brains if you count less than twelve! This is more than three eights of the magazine. But so what? In the first place I never intended STARDUST to have 3/4 of the magazine devoted to idle chatter and gossip. Dammit, if you want that you can find it in any of the fifty odd other fan magazines! But now let's get to the big point. It is claimed that STARDUST circulation is composed of 200 active fans. In the first place I never knew there were that many active fans! Can you name them for me? But to continue, STARDUST's circulation is not dependent on fandom proper. If it were there wouldn't be any STARDUST. 4/5 of the big names aren't even on the sub lists! Who then is? Here gentlemen, are the facts: Most of you received my big printed circular some months back, advertising STARDUST 5,000 other people did too. Also I entered advertising in POPULAR MECHANICS, the free listings in STARTLING, etc., helped too. Also I continually send out circular postal cards. Well, the results of this advertising brought me my 1000 circulation! Too, I sell STARDUST on some major Chicago newsstands. (Bob Williams story CITY IN THE FAR OFF SKY was responsible for STARDUST selling over 30 copies of that issue on a single stand!) But this all leads up to the fact, say the Strangers, that shyster Hamling is trying to commercialize the smelly magazine! Soak your heads in the pickle barrel again. The truth of the matter is, that if I depending on the sole support of the active fans for the life of STARDUST, there would not be
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that story was published has praised this yarn. Ditto DeCamp's stories. Would you call his RETIREMENT tripe? Or his INVERSE VARIATIONS? Maybe you would. Probably you do. Thank goodness you're only one or two out of a thousand! I admit this: Most of the stories I have printed have been rejected by some professional house. But not all! Further -- many stories printed in professional magazines have been rejected by other houses first! Does this prove they are tripe? Example: Nelson Bond sold a 40,000 word novel to the BLUE BOOK magazine, at a damn good wage. Well believe it or not, but this story, Exiles In Time, was rejected by AMAZING STORIES!!!! So what!!! ---Strangers, go hide your heads in the pickle barrel... STARDUST, further say the boys from the back-room, publishes few fan articles for its fan audience. (They even go so far as to count the pages of fan material per issue. It's comical what poor mathematicians they prove to be. (One of them I understand, is a grad of MIT. Tsk, tsk.) Well, let's take this specific issue the math class pondered on: The November issue. They count 8 pages of material relating to fans. Just for the fun of it, take out the Nov. issue and let's analyze it. Turn to the contents page. How many items are slated for fans directly? 1. THE NEXT INVASION by Mort Weisinger. (I can't imagine who Mort wrote it for other than fandom!) 2. AT THE SUMMIT by Virgil Travis. (the mathematician de-luxe from MIT who counts eight pages) 3. CONCERNING PROFESSOR JAMESON by Neil R. Jones. (DId Neil write this for the Man-in-the-Moon?) 4. PALMER TEARS HIS HAIR...OUT AND DOWN..... by RAP of course. (In which Ray told off some of the wise wise babies who know so much all the time but never seem to accomplish anything.) 5. MEET THE FAN. 6. REMINISCENCE by Dale Tarr, a narrative article of fanmags of the future. Oh yes, the EDITORIAL... Well, count the pages devoted to these pieces. I'll eat the mold off your brains if you count less than twelve! This is more than three eights of the magazine. But so what? In the first place I never intended STARDUST to have 3/4 of the magazine devoted to idle chatter and gossip. Dammit, if you want that you can find it in any of the fifty odd other fan magazines! But now let's get to the big point. It is claimed that STARDUST circulation is composed of 200 active fans. In the first place I never knew there were that many active fans! Can you name them for me? But to continue, STARDUST's circulation is not dependent on fandom proper. If it were there wouldn't be any STARDUST. 4/5 of the big names aren't even on the sub lists! Who then is? Here gentlemen, are the facts: Most of you received my big printed circular some months back, advertising STARDUST 5,000 other people did too. Also I entered advertising in POPULAR MECHANICS, the free listings in STARTLING, etc., helped too. Also I continually send out circular postal cards. Well, the results of this advertising brought me my 1000 circulation! Too, I sell STARDUST on some major Chicago newsstands. (Bob Williams story CITY IN THE FAR OFF SKY was responsible for STARDUST selling over 30 copies of that issue on a single stand!) But this all leads up to the fact, say the Strangers, that shyster Hamling is trying to commercialize the smelly magazine! Soak your heads in the pickle barrel again. The truth of the matter is, that if I depending on the sole support of the active fans for the life of STARDUST, there would not be
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