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Le Zombie, v. 4, issue 8, whole no. 43, October 1941

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THE AMATEUR PRESS DIGEST DEPT 	some new some old

HORNIG'S BULLETIN #1 (Chas. Horning, 831 N. Harvard, hollywood, Calif.) Alternately, we glee'd and weeped over this one. 
out copy is horrible:pages upside down, out of order, hectic. But it's free so we can't gripe overlong. Contents concern a case of emotional unbalance, upon wich horning wants the reader's advice. (He'll get it!)
INFINITE (Marlow & Degler, 5809 Beechwood, Indianapolis, Ind. 15c) This is a nwe one. And how we weeped; mostly over the stupid material therein. The boys whipped up 36 pages of fanzine; we found ourselves wishing they had spent the money instead on jelly beans or beer. Both we and they would have been better off. (Despite all this we became so incensed over an article we have already sent them a rebuttal.)
We can be wrong of course -- we remember the last time we were wrong: we turned "thumbs down" on Pluto! We suggest howevwer that the chaps (if they feel they simply must continue infinite) cut it to about ten pages per issue, and ise nothing but the best they have on hand. 
THE SENTINEL (Chris. E. Mulrain, jr. Box 205, Absecon, N.J. 5c) much better than the above, disregarding prices. offers better material page for page ( 15 of them) than any 15 chosen from Infinite. 
Again we suggest ten pages and the pick of material submitted. Somewhat hectic in make-up, which only time and experience can cure. We have had various other solutions to the ever-increasing fanzine problem tossed (or thrown) in our faces so many times we should know better, but: why not this "solution", voluntarily of course: the second-grade fanzines maintain a small number of pages and price, the "good" ones using all the pages they think necessary. Remeber, we said voluntarily; and yet we know full well that is the stumbling block. What editor will tell himself his fanzine is "B" product, and impose as small a burden as is possible upon his readers, until they, the readers, clearly let it be known he belongs to the "A" brackets? (oh well, we can dream can´t we?)
PEGASUS (Bob Jones, 281 14th Ave, Columbus, Ohio 10c?) The very best of the four nev---nes in bx260. Hektographed in nice pretty colors, find pictures and finer material, we glee'd over it many times. The duplication is perfect -- O wonder how many copies were made? The articles and columns herein could be no better if they were published in ---ell, name your favorite fanzine! we're thinking "of Spaceways and Fantasite.
VOICE OF THE IMAGIN-ATION (bX 6475,Met. Sta. los Angeles, 10c) Vom has changed it's size; now being 8 1/2 x7 instead of 8 12 x11 as of yore. This, they explain, allows them to use an entire stencil (two small pages to one spencil) instead of one page to one stencil and discarding the lower un-used portion of the waxed sheet. So they mut be using legal sizes stencils. Why, we wonder, don't they use the smaller, "letter size" stencil to save money and material? The stemcil we use is exactly the size of this sheet of paper; nothing is lost but a line or two of blank space at top and bottom. It is genuine A.B. Dick Mimeograph stencil and costs exactly 10c per sheet. We think that isdarn cheap, and the quality is of the best, what you paying, 4e & Co.?
MISCELLANEA: Was pleased to note the almost-professional appearance of Minn.) with it's lithographed cover and green-taped sping hidding staples. (*) A new one from Australia is Spaceward, a sort of club bulletin for the futurian gang down there. The second issue combines printing with the mimeo'ing, a rather pleasing effect. (Write for address) (*) pip pip.

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THE AMATEUR PRESS DIGEST DEPT some new some old HORNIG'S BULLETIN #1 (Chas. Horning, 831 N. Harvard, hollywood, Calif.) Alternately, we glee'd and weeped over this one. out copy is horrible:pages upside down, out of order, hectic. But it's free so we can't gripe overlong. Contents concern a case of emotional unbalance, upon wich horning wants the reader's advice. (He'll get it!) INFINITE (Marlow & Degler, 5809 Beechwood, Indianapolis, Ind. 15c) This is a nwe one. And how we weeped; mostly over the stupid material therein. The boys whipped up 36 pages of fanzine; we found ourselves wishing they had spent the money instead on jelly beans or beer. Both we and they would have been better off. (Despite all this we became so incensed over an article we have already sent them a rebuttal.) We can be wrong of course -- we remember the last time we were wrong: we turned "thumbs down" on Pluto! We suggest howevwer that the chaps (if they feel they simply must continue infinite) cut it to about ten pages per issue, and ise nothing but the best they have on hand. THE SENTINEL (Chris. E. Mulrain, jr. Box 205, Absecon, N.J. 5c) much better than the above, disregarding prices. offers better material page for page ( 15 of them) than any 15 chosen from Infinite. Again we suggest ten pages and the pick of material submitted. Somewhat hectic in make-up, which only time and experience can cure. We have had various other solutions to the ever-increasing fanzine problem tossed (or thrown) in our faces so many times we should know better, but: why not this "solution", voluntarily of course: the second-grade fanzines maintain a small number of pages and price, the "good" ones using all the pages they think necessary. Remeber, we said voluntarily; and yet we know full well that is the stumbling block. What editor will tell himself his fanzine is "B" product, and impose as small a burden as is possible upon his readers, until they, the readers, clearly let it be known he belongs to the "A" brackets? (oh well, we can dream can´t we?) PEGASUS (Bob Jones, 281 14th Ave, Columbus, Ohio 10c?) The very best of the four nev---nes in bx260. Hektographed in nice pretty colors, find pictures and finer material, we glee'd over it many times. The duplication is perfect -- O wonder how many copies were made? The articles and columns herein could be no better if they were published in ---ell, name your favorite fanzine! we're thinking "of Spaceways and Fantasite. VOICE OF THE IMAGIN-ATION (bX 6475,Met. Sta. los Angeles, 10c) Vom has changed it's size; now being 8 1/2 x7 instead of 8 12 x11 as of yore. This, they explain, allows them to use an entire stencil (two small pages to one spencil) instead of one page to one stencil and discarding the lower un-used portion of the waxed sheet. So they mut be using legal sizes stencils. Why, we wonder, don't they use the smaller, "letter size" stencil to save money and material? The stemcil we use is exactly the size of this sheet of paper; nothing is lost but a line or two of blank space at top and bottom. It is genuine A.B. Dick Mimeograph stencil and costs exactly 10c per sheet. We think that isdarn cheap, and the quality is of the best, what you paying, 4e & Co.? MISCELLANEA: Was pleased to note the almost-professional appearance of Minn.) with it's lithographed cover and green-taped sping hidding staples. (*) A new one from Australia is Spaceward, a sort of club bulletin for the futurian gang down there. The second issue combines printing with the mimeo'ing, a rather pleasing effect. (Write for address) (*) pip pip.