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Voice of the Imagination (VOM), v. 1, issue 4, December 1939

VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION

stf. since 1934 and has a collection. However, I'm afraid there is no chance of making fans out of either of them. I will try tho. ~~~~ Its too bad there aren't any fans here in Albuquerque.I've met one fellow from L.A. but he probably doesn't know what stf means. I even met a boy I went to highschool with in N.Y. ~~ Please excuse the pen, but my typer as gone the way of many fan mags."
"Cheerio Chums," (U Just noe it's Tucker!) writes Pong-my-word from POBox 260, Bloomington, Ill, "History, and fan mags y'know, are made at night. (Anyway, that's history, & he's stuck with it.) Sully is out in the kitchen turning out LE ZOMBIE (Roberds must b heartless, turning out a poor zombie on a nite like twas. How'd U like to b put out just because U were dead & woudnt lie down? Woudnt U feel put out?), the canary is in the parlor attackting the problem of the square root of minus one for the nine hundred and forty-seventh time, and here I set whacking out a missle to you to get my name in print. ~~ But then, things are like that around the Tucker Prehistoric House (no relation to Wollheim). Some of the damdest things go on...and of...around here. LE ZOMBIE's, NOVA's, and D'JOURNAL's are always turned out atnight. That lousy (literally) canary always works hiser's mathamatics after dark. One evening I found the baby walking the floor trying to put the wife to sleep. Sully always chooses the darkest night to squat in the middle of the floor and think up poetry and new names for fan mags. And this night, I am thinking. I tried to get FANTASY NEWS to put out an extra over this bit of news, but it wouldn't, so I turn to you with my thoughts. They were prompted by issue #3 hich arrived tonight.....see! everything happens at night! ~~ Brother Youd is a piker. He is only going to put FANTAST out fortnightly, under Technocracy! I believe it is safe at this time to reveal the plans of Prehistoric House, and it's momentus policy it will follow under the glorious Cause!: D'JOURNAL will be turned out weekly, NOVA every other week, LE ZOMBIE will be published daily! And we have grander plans than this! We have found out that the Tecknate print shops will print a magazine for us if we can show or guarantee a certain circulation. well, we are pretty sure of about 100,000 readers, so we are going to publish a pro mag twice a month, large size like FANTASTIC, story level of ASTOUNDING, fan breezy like SCIENCE FICTION with four covers unlike AMAZING! The whole thing will only cost each reader a wee 1/4 erg or so. so we are assured of a tremendous circulation. I will be editor of course. That should but Bro. Youd in the shade. (I forgot to mention that LE ZOMBIE, NOVA, AND D'JOURNAL will all be printed, at our expense, and distributed free---just to show you where our heart is!) (I figure I can spare the erg.) (We resist the erg, at this point, to make a yolk about chickens & ergs.) ~~ In a letter from radbury the past week he mentioned that somebody or other was gathering at somebody's house to turn out three LASFL pubs, the job to take all day. Pray tell, what do you chaps do out there, roll dice between the printing of each stencil? (That's rite; we play "technocraps"--credit Tarcon Ceth in Fantasy Digest.) Working together, Sully and I usually get out, staple, fold and insert in envelopes a six page LE ZOMBIE in the spae of two hours, and we stop to make up science fiction songs between stencils! By the by, you should get a load of those alleged songs. When we left off last Sunday night (there it is again!) we had the opera version of Bob and Koso stranded on Venus looking for a word above this, and find out how to spell properly.....but leave it the way it is and it can't be worse than Trudy.) ~~ Thegreen ink you chums use may be pretty, symbolic and all that, but it isn't as easy of the eyes as the experts will have you believe. On a wall it looks nice, but when it comes to printing tiny hen scratches on a sheet of paper, I take and prefer good solid black ink, ~ At this paragraf, I must perform a duty, You see, Dick Wilson and I are engaging in a bit of diplomatic Gaston-ing; he manages to squeeze my name in every public letter he writes (or some obvious reference to me, such as his 'He, Zombie!' in this issue at hand) and I do the same by him, Whenever possible, we mention each other's fan maga-

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VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION stf. since 1934 and has a collection. However, I'm afraid there is no chance of making fans out of either of them. I will try tho. ~~~~ Its too bad there aren't any fans here in Albuquerque.I've met one fellow from L.A. but he probably doesn't know what stf means. I even met a boy I went to highschool with in N.Y. ~~ Please excuse the pen, but my typer as gone the way of many fan mags." "Cheerio Chums," (U Just noe it's Tucker!) writes Pong-my-word from POBox 260, Bloomington, Ill, "History, and fan mags y'know, are made at night. (Anyway, that's history, & he's stuck with it.) Sully is out in the kitchen turning out LE ZOMBIE (Roberds must b heartless, turning out a poor zombie on a nite like twas. How'd U like to b put out just because U were dead & woudnt lie down? Woudnt U feel put out?), the canary is in the parlor attackting the problem of the square root of minus one for the nine hundred and forty-seventh time, and here I set whacking out a missle to you to get my name in print. ~~ But then, things are like that around the Tucker Prehistoric House (no relation to Wollheim). Some of the damdest things go on...and of...around here. LE ZOMBIE's, NOVA's, and D'JOURNAL's are always turned out atnight. That lousy (literally) canary always works hiser's mathamatics after dark. One evening I found the baby walking the floor trying to put the wife to sleep. Sully always chooses the darkest night to squat in the middle of the floor and think up poetry and new names for fan mags. And this night, I am thinking. I tried to get FANTASY NEWS to put out an extra over this bit of news, but it wouldn't, so I turn to you with my thoughts. They were prompted by issue #3 hich arrived tonight.....see! everything happens at night! ~~ Brother Youd is a piker. He is only going to put FANTAST out fortnightly, under Technocracy! I believe it is safe at this time to reveal the plans of Prehistoric House, and it's momentus policy it will follow under the glorious Cause!: D'JOURNAL will be turned out weekly, NOVA every other week, LE ZOMBIE will be published daily! And we have grander plans than this! We have found out that the Tecknate print shops will print a magazine for us if we can show or guarantee a certain circulation. well, we are pretty sure of about 100,000 readers, so we are going to publish a pro mag twice a month, large size like FANTASTIC, story level of ASTOUNDING, fan breezy like SCIENCE FICTION with four covers unlike AMAZING! The whole thing will only cost each reader a wee 1/4 erg or so. so we are assured of a tremendous circulation. I will be editor of course. That should but Bro. Youd in the shade. (I forgot to mention that LE ZOMBIE, NOVA, AND D'JOURNAL will all be printed, at our expense, and distributed free---just to show you where our heart is!) (I figure I can spare the erg.) (We resist the erg, at this point, to make a yolk about chickens & ergs.) ~~ In a letter from radbury the past week he mentioned that somebody or other was gathering at somebody's house to turn out three LASFL pubs, the job to take all day. Pray tell, what do you chaps do out there, roll dice between the printing of each stencil? (That's rite; we play "technocraps"--credit Tarcon Ceth in Fantasy Digest.) Working together, Sully and I usually get out, staple, fold and insert in envelopes a six page LE ZOMBIE in the spae of two hours, and we stop to make up science fiction songs between stencils! By the by, you should get a load of those alleged songs. When we left off last Sunday night (there it is again!) we had the opera version of Bob and Koso stranded on Venus looking for a word above this, and find out how to spell properly.....but leave it the way it is and it can't be worse than Trudy.) ~~ Thegreen ink you chums use may be pretty, symbolic and all that, but it isn't as easy of the eyes as the experts will have you believe. On a wall it looks nice, but when it comes to printing tiny hen scratches on a sheet of paper, I take and prefer good solid black ink, ~ At this paragraf, I must perform a duty, You see, Dick Wilson and I are engaging in a bit of diplomatic Gaston-ing; he manages to squeeze my name in every public letter he writes (or some obvious reference to me, such as his 'He, Zombie!' in this issue at hand) and I do the same by him, Whenever possible, we mention each other's fan maga-