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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 3, August 1941
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from the DUAL CONTROLS by... THE EDITORS 'Ollo! Suprised to see us out so early? Well, frankly, so are we Not that we're exactly on time, of course, because it was our fond intention to be out in time for the Denvention. But that was an impossibility for us as well as for several other fanzine editors we know, so we had to content ourselfs with simply coming out when we were ordinarily due, a feat, we're sure you'll agree, quite sufficient in itself. (Loud guffaws from the peanut gallery. Vulgar riffraff, aren't they?) Neither did we have only the promised thirty pages this time, but that is something we trust no one will object to very strongly. In the future the STAR will be out on time, circumstances permitting. That we promise you. (Mad applause, and wild cheering from the peanut gallery. Hmm, come to think of it, they are intelligent-looking young men at that.) On the covers this issue is an artist well deserving the title. Phil Schumann. His front cover was so good we sent it to Ackerman's Assorted Services for mimicrayoning, and are very happy about the whole thing now. Phil, incidentally, is a native-born Georgian, tho living in Wisconsin, and these two covers are the first artwork he has ever done for any fanzine. So not only do we have the honor of presenting a new fan artist with genuine ability on our covers, but a Southern fan artist at that. We are the discoverer! (The time would seem to just right for a bit of chest thumping here, only the last time we tried that, they had to fill up the bathtub and dump us in it, before we came to. So we'll simply have to content ourselves with playing an astonishingly inaccurate version of the triumphal march from "Aida" on our mouthorgan. Quite seriously, we owe a debt of thanks here to both Schumann and Leslie Perri. In moving, Gilbert lost a cover and short story by Perri, and the back cover on this issue by Schumann. Phil not only did the back cover over, but contributed a batch of other excellent stuff. And Leslise said it was okay about the cover and offers us an article in the near future. So now we think Fred Pohl is a lucky sonuvagun, and that Phil Schumann is what we lowbrows affectionately term a darn good egg. Thank you both sincerely for the way in which you took one of life's most annoying accidents. Incidentally, Gilbert's moved again. Monotonously persistent sort of dope, isn't he? Everytime the contents page in this fmg appears Gilbert has a new address in it. The only solution we can think of is to abolish contents pages. Beginning in our next issue is a feature of which we are proud and
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from the DUAL CONTROLS by... THE EDITORS 'Ollo! Suprised to see us out so early? Well, frankly, so are we Not that we're exactly on time, of course, because it was our fond intention to be out in time for the Denvention. But that was an impossibility for us as well as for several other fanzine editors we know, so we had to content ourselfs with simply coming out when we were ordinarily due, a feat, we're sure you'll agree, quite sufficient in itself. (Loud guffaws from the peanut gallery. Vulgar riffraff, aren't they?) Neither did we have only the promised thirty pages this time, but that is something we trust no one will object to very strongly. In the future the STAR will be out on time, circumstances permitting. That we promise you. (Mad applause, and wild cheering from the peanut gallery. Hmm, come to think of it, they are intelligent-looking young men at that.) On the covers this issue is an artist well deserving the title. Phil Schumann. His front cover was so good we sent it to Ackerman's Assorted Services for mimicrayoning, and are very happy about the whole thing now. Phil, incidentally, is a native-born Georgian, tho living in Wisconsin, and these two covers are the first artwork he has ever done for any fanzine. So not only do we have the honor of presenting a new fan artist with genuine ability on our covers, but a Southern fan artist at that. We are the discoverer! (The time would seem to just right for a bit of chest thumping here, only the last time we tried that, they had to fill up the bathtub and dump us in it, before we came to. So we'll simply have to content ourselves with playing an astonishingly inaccurate version of the triumphal march from "Aida" on our mouthorgan. Quite seriously, we owe a debt of thanks here to both Schumann and Leslie Perri. In moving, Gilbert lost a cover and short story by Perri, and the back cover on this issue by Schumann. Phil not only did the back cover over, but contributed a batch of other excellent stuff. And Leslise said it was okay about the cover and offers us an article in the near future. So now we think Fred Pohl is a lucky sonuvagun, and that Phil Schumann is what we lowbrows affectionately term a darn good egg. Thank you both sincerely for the way in which you took one of life's most annoying accidents. Incidentally, Gilbert's moved again. Monotonously persistent sort of dope, isn't he? Everytime the contents page in this fmg appears Gilbert has a new address in it. The only solution we can think of is to abolish contents pages. Beginning in our next issue is a feature of which we are proud and
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