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Science Fiction Collector, v. 5, issue 4, November-December 1939

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The readers' department is entitled "The Analysis" - a rather apt title, we think. However, if more length were added to this department, it would probably be more interesting. This issue it barely took over half a page. Especially since it seems that the editor has taken up about half that space in answering the brief comments from the readers. .... Anthony Corvais contributes "Return from Death" -- a well written and well told tale. .... The editor comes back again with "Convention Notes, wherein he fives descriptions or rather, impressions of scientifictionists he met at the convention and then some. Some of the "impressions cawt short" were very appropriate and amusing. We though the one of Kornbluth quite the thing. ..... And finally, on the back cover, an item, "Local League Life The issue contains twenty pages. The address: 3054 1/2 W. 12 St., Los Angeles, California.

FANFARE- December, 1939. Volume One, Number One. This fan magazine sells for ten cents is mimeographed, and contains eighteen pages in its first issue. The editorial stage of the magazine consists of the following: Francis Paro, editor, William Zimmer, Assistant Editor, and Howard V. Gruhn, Art Editor. The latter, incidentally, does all the illustration work of the issue (including the cover) except for the title heading of Hoy Ping Pong's article, this being drawn by the editor. Paro. ..... Contents of the issue include: an editorial; "Unreal Realities" by Nils H. Frome; A Funtasy Fanorama, by A. Joseph Kerr; Please Give Though Sam Moskowitz; More Eras, by Bob Tucker; Notes Upon Witnessing Dracula Frankenstein, by Harry Warner, Jr.; and the Dastardly Crime, by Hoy Ping Pong. Various cartoon work by Gruhn is scattered through the magazine. One full page of them is on the inside of the back cover. The address of the magazine is: 125 West Sixth St., South Boston, Massachusetts.

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Page Twenty Science Fiction Collector The readers' department is entitled "The Analysis" - a rather apt title, we think. However, if more length were added to this department, it would probably be more interesting. This issue it barely took over half a page. Especially since it seems that the editor has taken up about half that space in answering the brief comments from the readers. .... Anthony Corvais contributes "Return from Death" -- a well written and well told tale. .... The editor comes back again with "Convention Notes, wherein he fives descriptions or rather, impressions of scientifictionists he met at the convention and then some. Some of the "impressions cawt short" were very appropriate and amusing. We though the one of Kornbluth quite the thing. ..... And finally, on the back cover, an item, "Local League Life The issue contains twenty pages. The address: 3054 1/2 W. 12 St., Los Angeles, California. FANFARE- December, 1939. Volume One, Number One. This fan magazine sells for ten cents is mimeographed, and contains eighteen pages in its first issue. The editorial stage of the magazine consists of the following: Francis Paro, editor, William Zimmer, Assistant Editor, and Howard V. Gruhn, Art Editor. The latter, incidentally, does all the illustration work of the issue (including the cover) except for the title heading of Hoy Ping Pong's article, this being drawn by the editor. Paro. ..... Contents of the issue include: an editorial; "Unreal Realities" by Nils H. Frome; A Funtasy Fanorama, by A. Joseph Kerr; Please Give Though Sam Moskowitz; More Eras, by Bob Tucker; Notes Upon Witnessing Dracula Frankenstein, by Harry Warner, Jr.; and the Dastardly Crime, by Hoy Ping Pong. Various cartoon work by Gruhn is scattered through the magazine. One full page of them is on the inside of the back cover. The address of the magazine is: 125 West Sixth St., South Boston, Massachusetts.