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FAN-ATIC
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FANZINE REVIEW
by Yehudi.

WAVELENGTH - Dime, quarterly. The second issue is a very great improvement over the first, but still needs much improvement. Art-work is terrible. So is the format. Some of the material is excellent, stuff by Pohl and de la Ree falls into that class as do some other pieces. Letter section is the worst in fandom. All-in-all; not too good now, but has chances of going places if the present rate of improvement is kept up. H. A. Ackermann. 5200 Maple Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland.

BONFIRE - Bi-monthly and free to all members of the National Fantasy Fan Federation (NFFF to you). Beautifully hektoed and mimeoed by Harry Warner Jr. Material and dummying by Art Widner, Jr. Contains Constitution of the NFFF, ballot, same Quiz for prospective members, letters, explanations by Widner and Kinght, etc. A.W. Jr. Box 122, Bryantville, Mass.

STARLIGHT - 15c quarterly. The first (and probably last) issue is one of the (if not the) best fanzines ever to appear. It would be cheap at 25c. Three color mimeoing, best paper procurable, 56 pages, and excellent material all combine to make it super-super. (Mimeoing is superb, by the way.) I don't know whether or not there are any copies left, but if there are it would be sheerest idiocy not to get one. There was only one thing, out of all those pages of excellent material that wasn't any good at all. Joe Fortier. 1836 39th Ave, Oakland, California.

FANTASEER - Dime, monthly. Neither outstandingly good or outstanding bad. The material ranges from excellent to lousy, as does the hektoing. Bronson does an excellent job on the cover. STRANGE NIGHT by 'Mariet Martin' walks away with the prize for lousiness, which SPEER'S SCRIBBLINGS are excellent, though I don't agree on all his points. There is a mix-up with some of Ackerman's VOM ad-paper that is disconcerting to a small extent. W. H. Groveman. 38 Maryland Avenue, Hempstead, N. Y.

SCORPIO - Dime, tri-yearly. Well mimeoed. We don't quite know how in the devil they did their cover; it's a very well done picture. The lines are formed of green dust or powder, wears off in time. Nice green paper for the interior, with heavier black paper for the cover. The material is quite good for a first issue. Especially, DR XANDER'S COTTAGE by M. D. Brown. If SCORPIO never falls below the level of this first issue it will never drop out of the top 10 or 15 mags. Don't miss this fans. Arthur L. Joquel, II. 1426 W. 38th St., Los Angeles, Cal.

SNIDE - Dime, comes out once-in-a-while. Two very excellent silk-screened covers; in red, silver, and dark blue on a light blue paper. The interior is fairly well hectographed. The material is funny. That's all I need to say about, but I will say more. The stuff doesn't try to be funny. It is funny, very funny. And the idiots who edit actually pay rates for material that they print! 1/25c per word, which totals up. SNIDE, "The Thud and Blunder Mag" is not to be missed by anybody in their wrong mind. Damon Knight. 803 Columbia St., Hook River, Oregon.

And that is all that I review for this month dear friend. There were several others that I wanted to review, but space was limited. For those who missed the announcement last issue, I only review fanzines which have not been reviewed in F TC before. Thus many excellent and well-known ones won't be mentioned here at all, now.

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FAN-ATIC 8 FANZINE REVIEW by Yehudi. WAVELENGTH - Dime, quarterly. The second issue is a very great improvement over the first, but still needs much improvement. Art-work is terrible. So is the format. Some of the material is excellent, stuff by Pohl and de la Ree falls into that class as do some other pieces. Letter section is the worst in fandom. All-in-all; not too good now, but has chances of going places if the present rate of improvement is kept up. H. A. Ackermann. 5200 Maple Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland. BONFIRE - Bi-monthly and free to all members of the National Fantasy Fan Federation (NFFF to you). Beautifully hektoed and mimeoed by Harry Warner Jr. Material and dummying by Art Widner, Jr. Contains Constitution of the NFFF, ballot, same Quiz for prospective members, letters, explanations by Widner and Kinght, etc. A.W. Jr. Box 122, Bryantville, Mass. STARLIGHT - 15c quarterly. The first (and probably last) issue is one of the (if not the) best fanzines ever to appear. It would be cheap at 25c. Three color mimeoing, best paper procurable, 56 pages, and excellent material all combine to make it super-super. (Mimeoing is superb, by the way.) I don't know whether or not there are any copies left, but if there are it would be sheerest idiocy not to get one. There was only one thing, out of all those pages of excellent material that wasn't any good at all. Joe Fortier. 1836 39th Ave, Oakland, California. FANTASEER - Dime, monthly. Neither outstandingly good or outstanding bad. The material ranges from excellent to lousy, as does the hektoing. Bronson does an excellent job on the cover. STRANGE NIGHT by 'Mariet Martin' walks away with the prize for lousiness, which SPEER'S SCRIBBLINGS are excellent, though I don't agree on all his points. There is a mix-up with some of Ackerman's VOM ad-paper that is disconcerting to a small extent. W. H. Groveman. 38 Maryland Avenue, Hempstead, N. Y. SCORPIO - Dime, tri-yearly. Well mimeoed. We don't quite know how in the devil they did their cover; it's a very well done picture. The lines are formed of green dust or powder, wears off in time. Nice green paper for the interior, with heavier black paper for the cover. The material is quite good for a first issue. Especially, DR XANDER'S COTTAGE by M. D. Brown. If SCORPIO never falls below the level of this first issue it will never drop out of the top 10 or 15 mags. Don't miss this fans. Arthur L. Joquel, II. 1426 W. 38th St., Los Angeles, Cal. SNIDE - Dime, comes out once-in-a-while. Two very excellent silk-screened covers; in red, silver, and dark blue on a light blue paper. The interior is fairly well hectographed. The material is funny. That's all I need to say about, but I will say more. The stuff doesn't try to be funny. It is funny, very funny. And the idiots who edit actually pay rates for material that they print! 1/25c per word, which totals up. SNIDE, "The Thud and Blunder Mag" is not to be missed by anybody in their wrong mind. Damon Knight. 803 Columbia St., Hook River, Oregon. And that is all that I review for this month dear friend. There were several others that I wanted to review, but space was limited. For those who missed the announcement last issue, I only review fanzines which have not been reviewed in F TC before. Thus many excellent and well-known ones won't be mentioned here at all, now.