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The Alchemist, v.1, issue 3, Summer 1940

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doesn't take mimeo ink--it doesn't dry rapidly enough.
As for the contents: first of all, the illustrations are excellent. A little faint in my copy, but otherwise okay. I'm anxious too to see Hunt branch out into color work--the violent does get a little monotonous. Hunt's unquestionably one of the fienst fan artists at present, however.
The editorials are very good: as usual, I say they're quite essential to any magazine. Ditto the letter section, which is really more enjoyable than most fan mags'. (Just to be prophetic: I'd be willing to lay odds you don't get more than one contribution to your Black Arts department!)((I'm happy to say that your predictions were proven false with the help of Walt Dougherty, RWLowndas, and Morojo)) About the letters, though: no apology was necessary for the almost-duplication of the title of my feeble efforts in FD. I know how it goes; a couple of times I've almost done the same thing.
Dikty's article is a good one; better a bunch of fans chipping together than all of them getting the volume at all. I can't say so much for the two satires, though. Widner enjoyable; that is, in his articles. Sad to relate,  I didn't think his poem quite so hot. ((That night be partly my fault for leaving out the 11th line)) "The Carnivorous Tree": rather lousy.  "An Experiment in Alchemy" was somewhat better--though it can hardly be called fiction.
Ackerman enjoyable. As for McKeel's article: probably quite a few faces got red when reading it. My conscience is clear. Saving the best to the last, I like the Poet's Corner--very few fan mags are featuring verse now, and most of those that are use pretty darned lousy stuff. But you've managed to get together a decent colection of it this time. "The Past" was pretty good- itr eads a little awkward in spots, and isn't really fantastic, but the latter may be said for a lot of "weird" poetry.

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doesn't take mimeo ink--it doesn't dry rapidly enough. As for the contents: first of all, the illustrations are excellent. A little faint in my copy, but otherwise okay. I'm anxious too to see Hunt branch out into color work--the violent does get a little monotonous. Hunt's unquestionably one of the fienst fan artists at present, however. The editorials are very good: as usual, I say they're quite essential to any magazine. Ditto the letter section, which is really more enjoyable than most fan mags'. (Just to be prophetic: I'd be willing to lay odds you don't get more than one contribution to your Black Arts department!)((I'm happy to say that your predictions were proven false with the help of Walt Dougherty, RWLowndas, and Morojo)) About the letters, though: no apology was necessary for the almost-duplication of the title of my feeble efforts in FD. I know how it goes; a couple of times I've almost done the same thing. Dikty's article is a good one; better a bunch of fans chipping together than all of them getting the volume at all. I can't say so much for the two satires, though. Widner enjoyable; that is, in his articles. Sad to relate, I didn't think his poem quite so hot. ((That night be partly my fault for leaving out the 11th line)) "The Carnivorous Tree": rather lousy. "An Experiment in Alchemy" was somewhat better--though it can hardly be called fiction. Ackerman enjoyable. As for McKeel's article: probably quite a few faces got red when reading it. My conscience is clear. Saving the best to the last, I like the Poet's Corner--very few fan mags are featuring verse now, and most of those that are use pretty darned lousy stuff. But you've managed to get together a decent colection of it this time. "The Past" was pretty good- itr eads a little awkward in spots, and isn't really fantastic, but the latter may be said for a lot of "weird" poetry.