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F A N T A S Y F I C T I O N F I E L D Volume 6 --- Illustrated Newsweekly --- Number 9 September 16, 1942 The National Fantasy Review Whole Number 98 FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES' FUTURE INSECURE As flashed in the last FFF Weekly, all the "rights, titles and interest" in the Munsey chain of pulp magazines have been sold, to Popular Publications, who put out the Fictioneer chain, including Astonishing and SupersScience. As yet, no definite information as to the future of Famous Fantastic Mysteries, which was among the sold group, is available. Some thirty magazines, only six of which are currently being published, were included in the deal. How many of these will be issued by Popular Pubs, which already have thirty-two magazines in their chain, is unknown. If reprinting rights to the old issues of Argosy, All-Story, Cavalier, and the other magazines from which FFM has been republishing didn't go along with the transaction, of course the continuance of FFM as a reprint magazine is impractical. Further, Popular Publications have an iron-clad policy against the use of reprints; they might, of course, make an exception in this case. And there is the possibility that FFM may be retained as a title, but its contents changed to new fiction. Mary Gnaedinger, editor of FFM, is said to be the only employee of Munsey's to get a position with Popular Pubs, as a result of the switch. Al Norton, who is editor of Astonishing and Super Science, has been charged with editing Argosy, and let us hope bringing back something of its former excellence. The January Argosy will be a special, 60th Anniversary, Number. hw TOM DANIELS SPONSORS PIC Pic this issue: foto of the cover of the Dec., 1942 issue of Future and Fantasy Fiction. It's sponsored by Tom Daniels, who in turn received an original Forte from Doc Lowndes, [?] editor. Error in last FFF anent pics sent out: Virgil Utter received three small Rogers to sponsor Dec. Astounding, not Astonishing. We regret that last two sets of pics were sent out kinda late. We apologize and promise it won't happen again--after all, we only have one appendix, and that's out now, thank goodness. (Oh yeah? HW still owns his!) Dalvan Coger is latest fictim to sponsor a Super Science cover--and here's Virgil Utter again with two more sponsored pics--the March, 1945, FFM and the Jan., 1945, Astounding. Don't know yet what we'll do on the FFM fotos, but will check with Norton soon and let you fellows know everything. ju GILBERT SPEAKS! Joe Gilbert has turned up at last! His complete and accurate address is as follows: United States Maritime Service Training Station, Platoon [?], Division 1, St. Petersburg, Florida. Don't write him at his Columbia address. He corrects some misconceptions: he wasn't rejected from the army, and was really trying to get away from being drafted into it. Then the navy rejected him, and the merchant marines wasn't so picky, for which he's very happy now because he says "it's a darnice set-u[ to be in". He wants mail: fan news, letters, fanzines, and anything else that the postal authorities will accept, just so it's mail. Josephus emphatically denies the way TWS made it look as if he wrote "Conquest", in its last issue. The story was editorially re-written "completely, entirely, and without mercy; without exaggeration, there's hardly a word in the story that belongs to me in the published version". Joe's "Eternal Quest" wasn't exactly printed sic, either, but he doesn't mind so much about it. He's [?] his typewriter to detective and merchant marine fiction for the present, to return to fantasties later. jg&hw
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F A N T A S Y F I C T I O N F I E L D Volume 6 --- Illustrated Newsweekly --- Number 9 September 16, 1942 The National Fantasy Review Whole Number 98 FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES' FUTURE INSECURE As flashed in the last FFF Weekly, all the "rights, titles and interest" in the Munsey chain of pulp magazines have been sold, to Popular Publications, who put out the Fictioneer chain, including Astonishing and SupersScience. As yet, no definite information as to the future of Famous Fantastic Mysteries, which was among the sold group, is available. Some thirty magazines, only six of which are currently being published, were included in the deal. How many of these will be issued by Popular Pubs, which already have thirty-two magazines in their chain, is unknown. If reprinting rights to the old issues of Argosy, All-Story, Cavalier, and the other magazines from which FFM has been republishing didn't go along with the transaction, of course the continuance of FFM as a reprint magazine is impractical. Further, Popular Publications have an iron-clad policy against the use of reprints; they might, of course, make an exception in this case. And there is the possibility that FFM may be retained as a title, but its contents changed to new fiction. Mary Gnaedinger, editor of FFM, is said to be the only employee of Munsey's to get a position with Popular Pubs, as a result of the switch. Al Norton, who is editor of Astonishing and Super Science, has been charged with editing Argosy, and let us hope bringing back something of its former excellence. The January Argosy will be a special, 60th Anniversary, Number. hw TOM DANIELS SPONSORS PIC Pic this issue: foto of the cover of the Dec., 1942 issue of Future and Fantasy Fiction. It's sponsored by Tom Daniels, who in turn received an original Forte from Doc Lowndes, [?] editor. Error in last FFF anent pics sent out: Virgil Utter received three small Rogers to sponsor Dec. Astounding, not Astonishing. We regret that last two sets of pics were sent out kinda late. We apologize and promise it won't happen again--after all, we only have one appendix, and that's out now, thank goodness. (Oh yeah? HW still owns his!) Dalvan Coger is latest fictim to sponsor a Super Science cover--and here's Virgil Utter again with two more sponsored pics--the March, 1945, FFM and the Jan., 1945, Astounding. Don't know yet what we'll do on the FFM fotos, but will check with Norton soon and let you fellows know everything. ju GILBERT SPEAKS! Joe Gilbert has turned up at last! His complete and accurate address is as follows: United States Maritime Service Training Station, Platoon [?], Division 1, St. Petersburg, Florida. Don't write him at his Columbia address. He corrects some misconceptions: he wasn't rejected from the army, and was really trying to get away from being drafted into it. Then the navy rejected him, and the merchant marines wasn't so picky, for which he's very happy now because he says "it's a darnice set-u[ to be in". He wants mail: fan news, letters, fanzines, and anything else that the postal authorities will accept, just so it's mail. Josephus emphatically denies the way TWS made it look as if he wrote "Conquest", in its last issue. The story was editorially re-written "completely, entirely, and without mercy; without exaggeration, there's hardly a word in the story that belongs to me in the published version". Joe's "Eternal Quest" wasn't exactly printed sic, either, but he doesn't mind so much about it. He's [?] his typewriter to detective and merchant marine fiction for the present, to return to fantasties later. jg&hw
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