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En Garde, whole no. 17, April 1946
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page 21. EXPOSÉ! TRUTH REARS FROM PAST TO CONFOUND TUCKER! CONFRONTED, NUMBER ONE FAN FACE FALLS FLAT ON IT! "OLIVER KING SMITH CO., Flight-A-Feud Service. Are you bored with fandom? Has the fan world become too safe and secure for your enemies? Are you bogged down in a war of words? .....Disruptions of friendships a specialty!" "OLIVER KING SMITH GHOST WRITING AGENCY, Suicides Our Specialty. Are you tired of fandom? Want to"break clean"? Assorted "last letters" mailed, and collections disposed of at a profit. Bridges burned free of charge......We carry in stock a complete line of dummy fans to be hurled over cliffs and tossed into swirling waters. .....We can engineer almost any coup de grace in fandom for you." "OLIVER KING SMITH CO., Home Study By Mail. We talked with the Holy Klono. (Yes we did, Actually and Literally!) And as a result of that talk a great power came into our life......Lend us 15 minutes a day and we'll make a new fan of you.....The world is your oyster, you have but to pry it open. Let us furnish the ice pick.....What are the weird mysteries of Mu, Atlantis and Missouri? You too can soar after reading our new sealed book, 'How to be Happy with Dandruff'." "OLIVER KING SMITH CO., 'We Also Walk Fans'. Do you want the next fan convention in your home town?? Do you crave Money, Glory, Everlasting Popularity, Fun, Prestige?.....For a $10 down payment, we: Get popular endorsement; swing pubic opinion.....Crush opposition.....Insure a record attendance.....Tie up all loose ends, such as auditing a net loss into your books, concealing a net profit into your pockets.....Make a martyr of you until your final monthly payment." Do you remember the above advertisements which appeared on back covers of Bob Tucker's LE ZOMBIE magazine? Do you remember the "Singleton Hoax" and the letters announcing his suicide, signed by Oliver King Smith, which name was loudly termed "an obvious pseudonym"? Well, whom do you supposed walked into the LASFS clubroom the
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page 21. EXPOSÉ! TRUTH REARS FROM PAST TO CONFOUND TUCKER! CONFRONTED, NUMBER ONE FAN FACE FALLS FLAT ON IT! "OLIVER KING SMITH CO., Flight-A-Feud Service. Are you bored with fandom? Has the fan world become too safe and secure for your enemies? Are you bogged down in a war of words? .....Disruptions of friendships a specialty!" "OLIVER KING SMITH GHOST WRITING AGENCY, Suicides Our Specialty. Are you tired of fandom? Want to"break clean"? Assorted "last letters" mailed, and collections disposed of at a profit. Bridges burned free of charge......We carry in stock a complete line of dummy fans to be hurled over cliffs and tossed into swirling waters. .....We can engineer almost any coup de grace in fandom for you." "OLIVER KING SMITH CO., Home Study By Mail. We talked with the Holy Klono. (Yes we did, Actually and Literally!) And as a result of that talk a great power came into our life......Lend us 15 minutes a day and we'll make a new fan of you.....The world is your oyster, you have but to pry it open. Let us furnish the ice pick.....What are the weird mysteries of Mu, Atlantis and Missouri? You too can soar after reading our new sealed book, 'How to be Happy with Dandruff'." "OLIVER KING SMITH CO., 'We Also Walk Fans'. Do you want the next fan convention in your home town?? Do you crave Money, Glory, Everlasting Popularity, Fun, Prestige?.....For a $10 down payment, we: Get popular endorsement; swing pubic opinion.....Crush opposition.....Insure a record attendance.....Tie up all loose ends, such as auditing a net loss into your books, concealing a net profit into your pockets.....Make a martyr of you until your final monthly payment." Do you remember the above advertisements which appeared on back covers of Bob Tucker's LE ZOMBIE magazine? Do you remember the "Singleton Hoax" and the letters announcing his suicide, signed by Oliver King Smith, which name was loudly termed "an obvious pseudonym"? Well, whom do you supposed walked into the LASFS clubroom the
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