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Imagination, v. 1, issue2, whole no. 2, November 1937

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IMAGINATION! #2 Nov 37     17

[title underlined] VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION! (These are messages to our magazine. Some gave us melancholy moments--those that cme in the mourning mail; others, more than compensated for our tears that fell--or was it rain...what! in Southern California??--by their appreciative expressions which gave us a number of enjoyable lafternoons. [sic] We run, this time, all the comments we can accommodate in 2 pages of our smallest type, still leaving quite a bit of interesting correspondence unquoted: Would you like this dept enlarged? Our policy will be to publish praise & pan alike, in the writer's individual style; i.e., unretoucht by inhuman hand; & in the rotation in which we receive the remarks.)
[title and introductory text underlined] OUR FIRST FAN LETTER: From ROBERT L. CUMNOCK, Hollywood, who informaly signd himself: [signed] Bob L. ; in an envelope employing the super green & brown "typewriterribbon" which is startling the Imagi-nation, & embellisht by no less than 4 Esperanto seals; came these encouraging words: "Justgot Thru reading IMAGINATION! I think its just as good as The Critic....the best since FANTASY....in fact its [underlined] my favorite. Lets go in for [underlined] even more abbreviations. ~~~ Is my name supposed to be among Ur payng well-wishrs? If it it supposed to be in the mag I sure Can't find it maybe I didn't look hard enuf... [response underlined] (Comrad Comnock's Congratulations apeard pg 3, line 15.) Ratings for Imagination!: Fool....osophy by T.B.Y. Al hectograf job fair its even better than FANTASMAGORIA. Fantascience Filmart [underlined] truly an art. So Ur artist is [underlined] Vodoso oh I saw a few drawings & printings that lookt distincly [underlined] Ackermanish! [response underlined] (Printings, perhaps. But VODOSO did cover, "Flashes", "Esp", "Filmart", "Introduc", "Coming", & "Look!".) On Tablets of Pure Neutronium IT Wisely is Written that all good letters must come to an end so adiau... [response underlined] ("Adiau" is Esp for "So Long".) Sciencerely Urs for [underlined] more abbreviating."
[introductory text underlined] From CARROLL WYMACK, San Francisco/Cal: Receiving your mag. was a real surprise. After reading its contents can realize how busy you & co-workers have been. There is one criticism I have to make-- Ye Ed. asks for it. No doubt you have readers around the tender ages from 11 to 14, which some of the articles will be different for them to grasp. Maybe some of them will be your best critics. ~~~ Wish you all the luck in the world, in this new project."
[Introductory text underlined] Next came kind words from WEIRD TALES' Wonder Woman--CATHERINE L. MOOR, Indiana/Indianapolis--who autograft herslef in Tomoro's Tongue [signed] Kolomo : Thanks for sending me the first issue of IMAGINATION, which really shows imagination and should grow into something really fine. The perfect fan magazine has yet to be produced--maybe this is it." 
[Introductory text underlined] Conflicting comments containd in communications from [signed] Richard Wilson Jr., ATOM Ed--Richmond/NY. In letters to IMAGINATION!'s Ed Yerke, Co-Ed Morojo. To Yerke: "Congratulations on your good luck in selling out the first issue of IMAGINATION! with such rapid rapidity. How many copies, may I inquire, were printed? [response underlined] (See editorial.) Any how, here's my dime for the second issue - reserve it for me now, so I'll be sure to get it. ~~~ I'm still spellbound - perhaps dumbfounded in the more apt term. In the first place the whole thing is rendered into some sort of a farce by the idiotic superspelling (?) of 4SJ. But since you apologize so nicely for what he did without your sanction, I very magnanimously forgive you. Generous, ain't i? ~~~ The cover is only fair, reminding me of an opium-eater's conception of Coney Island and several oxygen tanks, with a red-tailed Japanese beetle thrown in for good measure---don't tell me that's a rocket-ship! ~~~ I don't see how you rooked those others, et al., into paying 15c to have their good wishes printed in the initial number. [response underlined] (All credit to our Advertising Agent Ackerman. 15c wasn't standard sum, however-- Friendly expressions of interest in our endeavor appreciatedly are acceptable at any time by us at Classify-Ad Rates. Or quarter pg--as bought by ARTHUR J. BURKS--25c.) The editorial is to the point and witty enough. "Plans for the Future" was illegible. Page six was LOUSY, Especially the right hand side. "Way out West" is good. Flashes are newsy. Esperanto...fooy. FJA's stuff would be okay--he goets a lot of good material

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IMAGINATION! #2 Nov 37 17 [title underlined] VOICE OF THE IMAGI-NATION! (These are messages to our magazine. Some gave us melancholy moments--those that cme in the mourning mail; others, more than compensated for our tears that fell--or was it rain...what! in Southern California??--by their appreciative expressions which gave us a number of enjoyable lafternoons. [sic] We run, this time, all the comments we can accommodate in 2 pages of our smallest type, still leaving quite a bit of interesting correspondence unquoted: Would you like this dept enlarged? Our policy will be to publish praise & pan alike, in the writer's individual style; i.e., unretoucht by inhuman hand; & in the rotation in which we receive the remarks.) [title and introductory text underlined] OUR FIRST FAN LETTER: From ROBERT L. CUMNOCK, Hollywood, who informaly signd himself: [signed] Bob L. ; in an envelope employing the super green & brown "typewriterribbon" which is startling the Imagi-nation, & embellisht by no less than 4 Esperanto seals; came these encouraging words: "Justgot Thru reading IMAGINATION! I think its just as good as The Critic....the best since FANTASY....in fact its [underlined] my favorite. Lets go in for [underlined] even more abbreviations. ~~~ Is my name supposed to be among Ur payng well-wishrs? If it it supposed to be in the mag I sure Can't find it maybe I didn't look hard enuf... [response underlined] (Comrad Comnock's Congratulations apeard pg 3, line 15.) Ratings for Imagination!: Fool....osophy by T.B.Y. Al hectograf job fair its even better than FANTASMAGORIA. Fantascience Filmart [underlined] truly an art. So Ur artist is [underlined] Vodoso oh I saw a few drawings & printings that lookt distincly [underlined] Ackermanish! [response underlined] (Printings, perhaps. But VODOSO did cover, "Flashes", "Esp", "Filmart", "Introduc", "Coming", & "Look!".) On Tablets of Pure Neutronium IT Wisely is Written that all good letters must come to an end so adiau... [response underlined] ("Adiau" is Esp for "So Long".) Sciencerely Urs for [underlined] more abbreviating." [introductory text underlined] From CARROLL WYMACK, San Francisco/Cal: Receiving your mag. was a real surprise. After reading its contents can realize how busy you & co-workers have been. There is one criticism I have to make-- Ye Ed. asks for it. No doubt you have readers around the tender ages from 11 to 14, which some of the articles will be different for them to grasp. Maybe some of them will be your best critics. ~~~ Wish you all the luck in the world, in this new project." [Introductory text underlined] Next came kind words from WEIRD TALES' Wonder Woman--CATHERINE L. MOOR, Indiana/Indianapolis--who autograft herslef in Tomoro's Tongue [signed] Kolomo : Thanks for sending me the first issue of IMAGINATION, which really shows imagination and should grow into something really fine. The perfect fan magazine has yet to be produced--maybe this is it." [Introductory text underlined] Conflicting comments containd in communications from [signed] Richard Wilson Jr., ATOM Ed--Richmond/NY. In letters to IMAGINATION!'s Ed Yerke, Co-Ed Morojo. To Yerke: "Congratulations on your good luck in selling out the first issue of IMAGINATION! with such rapid rapidity. How many copies, may I inquire, were printed? [response underlined] (See editorial.) Any how, here's my dime for the second issue - reserve it for me now, so I'll be sure to get it. ~~~ I'm still spellbound - perhaps dumbfounded in the more apt term. In the first place the whole thing is rendered into some sort of a farce by the idiotic superspelling (?) of 4SJ. But since you apologize so nicely for what he did without your sanction, I very magnanimously forgive you. Generous, ain't i? ~~~ The cover is only fair, reminding me of an opium-eater's conception of Coney Island and several oxygen tanks, with a red-tailed Japanese beetle thrown in for good measure---don't tell me that's a rocket-ship! ~~~ I don't see how you rooked those others, et al., into paying 15c to have their good wishes printed in the initial number. [response underlined] (All credit to our Advertising Agent Ackerman. 15c wasn't standard sum, however-- Friendly expressions of interest in our endeavor appreciatedly are acceptable at any time by us at Classify-Ad Rates. Or quarter pg--as bought by ARTHUR J. BURKS--25c.) The editorial is to the point and witty enough. "Plans for the Future" was illegible. Page six was LOUSY, Especially the right hand side. "Way out West" is good. Flashes are newsy. Esperanto...fooy. FJA's stuff would be okay--he goets a lot of good material