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Imagination!, v. 1, issue 9, whole 9, June 1938

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DALE HART, from whom we heard on the 2d letter of the column this mont, reviewing our April issue, writes again in time to have his voice heard twice same month, on the 2nd occasion commenting on our May Madge thus: "...a typyical issue, going neither below or above standard. (The standard is pretty hight.) The cover was the best yet--and I don't favor the females, but the thought behind it.... "Way out West" interesting as ever. What a place for an ad! "Flashes' very interesting. 'Among Our Moms' is always good. 'Filmart' fair. Eject all further 'Michelism' stuff: it's not worthwhile. Continue the words from personages in 'Imagi-nik-nax'. Erdstelulov okeh. 'Verse' okeh. Haeussler okeh. Best in the issue was 'Why Stf. Editors Go Nuts.' 'Resurrection' good. Shreyer wrote that in the proper spirit. Very glad to see the enlarged 'Voice of the Imagi-nation.'"
JACK CHAPMAN MISKE (see sig in May) of 5000 Train Av, Cleveland/O: "Dear Madge, I'm in a very moody state of mind today, so don't be surprised at anything I may say. I'm going to do this rag from one end to the other, sparing no one or no thing. (At the moment I feel terrible. I hate everybody, everything.....except me...and Poe....and--never mind, that's too personal) ~~ Now then. The first thing in the magazine concerns the cover. Russ gives us the interpretation of it, which is very beautiful - but the picture itself....it's not as bad as Wesso! (As long as we can secure covers that arent any worse than WESSO we shall b well-satisfyd!) ~~ WOW is all right, with the best thing being the opinion of Amazing's now whatchamaycallit. Stinks and how! ~~ Hey now, wait a minute! HOW old is Morojo? Have I been insulting a wife and mother, (An ex-wife, & old enuf to b thotful enuf to get a pain in the brain when U & Wiggy apologize to me upon learning I'm a woman with a son and old enuf to read stf. Urs r common "Crooked Road" reactions. Just consider me as a mind--if U don't mind! -- Morojo.) ~~ Wollheim's 'In Defense of Michelism' was rotten, and Freyer (Shreyer)'s reply was prefrect. `` Glasser's piece was terrible, as were Morrow's and Kline's. I was glad to hear from Morey. The next two pages I prefer to forget. I shudder at the thought of them. ~~ Very good, Coburn's piece. As good as the predecessor. ~~ How'd you know my name was Jack, not John, not Joseph, not James, etc.? (Use Ur imagination!) ~~ Advertisements are terrible. Can't you pop 'em up somehow?" (Yet Dale Hart wrote: "Intriguing ads. Guess I'll dig down!" Also: "The forecast was a highlight." Hope he likes the following as well... --"Madge".)

FORECAST: Time Will Fly & in JULY Chas D. Hornig will reminisce about just that Very Thing in a humorous article entitled "Tempus Certainly Does Fugit!".
NO MORE MICHELISMANUSCRIPTS By Anybody (& we do mean U!). ~~ "Dead Reckoning" by a bonafide ghoul (gravely recomendead to us by the GPU!--Ghouls' Protective Union). ~~ Way Down South--on B'way" by Dr Acula's Dawter. ~~ "If I had $100,000", Louis Kuslan.
It is fitting that in July, the month when fireworks fly, we should incept a pyrotechnicolumn treating, in the famous Freyor fashion, a topic generally tabooed by less imaginativ mags. ~~ & again IMAGINATION! will startle the Imagi-nation, with the introduction of a totally differentyp dept--definitely scientifictionl...intimate...exclusive...unique!
Ofcourse if we can't crowd all this in July, some the articles will appear in August. A new "Ether Eeries". ~~ "mathematica Minus" by our great English find, Archibald Bradbury. ~~ If we don't have rm the past quarter, we may just forget all about it. U probably woudnt have cared for it anyway... ~~ --F JA's Middle Name! by Weaver Wright. &: By Popular Acclaim...VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION will b increast again--to occupy 25% of our pgs.....!

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18 DALE HART, from whom we heard on the 2d letter of the column this mont, reviewing our April issue, writes again in time to have his voice heard twice same month, on the 2nd occasion commenting on our May Madge thus: "...a typyical issue, going neither below or above standard. (The standard is pretty hight.) The cover was the best yet--and I don't favor the females, but the thought behind it.... "Way out West" interesting as ever. What a place for an ad! "Flashes' very interesting. 'Among Our Moms' is always good. 'Filmart' fair. Eject all further 'Michelism' stuff: it's not worthwhile. Continue the words from personages in 'Imagi-nik-nax'. Erdstelulov okeh. 'Verse' okeh. Haeussler okeh. Best in the issue was 'Why Stf. Editors Go Nuts.' 'Resurrection' good. Shreyer wrote that in the proper spirit. Very glad to see the enlarged 'Voice of the Imagi-nation.'" JACK CHAPMAN MISKE (see sig in May) of 5000 Train Av, Cleveland/O: "Dear Madge, I'm in a very moody state of mind today, so don't be surprised at anything I may say. I'm going to do this rag from one end to the other, sparing no one or no thing. (At the moment I feel terrible. I hate everybody, everything.....except me...and Poe....and--never mind, that's too personal) ~~ Now then. The first thing in the magazine concerns the cover. Russ gives us the interpretation of it, which is very beautiful - but the picture itself....it's not as bad as Wesso! (As long as we can secure covers that arent any worse than WESSO we shall b well-satisfyd!) ~~ WOW is all right, with the best thing being the opinion of Amazing's now whatchamaycallit. Stinks and how! ~~ Hey now, wait a minute! HOW old is Morojo? Have I been insulting a wife and mother, (An ex-wife, & old enuf to b thotful enuf to get a pain in the brain when U & Wiggy apologize to me upon learning I'm a woman with a son and old enuf to read stf. Urs r common "Crooked Road" reactions. Just consider me as a mind--if U don't mind! -- Morojo.) ~~ Wollheim's 'In Defense of Michelism' was rotten, and Freyer (Shreyer)'s reply was prefrect. `` Glasser's piece was terrible, as were Morrow's and Kline's. I was glad to hear from Morey. The next two pages I prefer to forget. I shudder at the thought of them. ~~ Very good, Coburn's piece. As good as the predecessor. ~~ How'd you know my name was Jack, not John, not Joseph, not James, etc.? (Use Ur imagination!) ~~ Advertisements are terrible. Can't you pop 'em up somehow?" (Yet Dale Hart wrote: "Intriguing ads. Guess I'll dig down!" Also: "The forecast was a highlight." Hope he likes the following as well... --"Madge".) FORECAST: Time Will Fly & in JULY Chas D. Hornig will reminisce about just that Very Thing in a humorous article entitled "Tempus Certainly Does Fugit!". NO MORE MICHELISMANUSCRIPTS By Anybody (& we do mean U!). ~~ "Dead Reckoning" by a bonafide ghoul (gravely recomendead to us by the GPU!--Ghouls' Protective Union). ~~ Way Down South--on B'way" by Dr Acula's Dawter. ~~ "If I had $100,000", Louis Kuslan. It is fitting that in July, the month when fireworks fly, we should incept a pyrotechnicolumn treating, in the famous Freyor fashion, a topic generally tabooed by less imaginativ mags. ~~ & again IMAGINATION! will startle the Imagi-nation, with the introduction of a totally differentyp dept--definitely scientifictionl...intimate...exclusive...unique! Ofcourse if we can't crowd all this in July, some the articles will appear in August. A new "Ether Eeries". ~~ "mathematica Minus" by our great English find, Archibald Bradbury. ~~ If we don't have rm the past quarter, we may just forget all about it. U probably woudnt have cared for it anyway... ~~ --F JA's Middle Name! by Weaver Wright. &: By Popular Acclaim...VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION will b increast again--to occupy 25% of our pgs.....!