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Fan-Atic, v. 2, issue 1, whole no. 4, July 1941
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FAN-ATIC 15 COMPLIMENTS AND OTHERWISE by You This is where you suckers who bought or traded this lousy fanzine tell us editors (Beling and Yehudi) how good it is and how badly it stinks. All comments are extremely welcome, compliments even more so. So write in now. Yes, all of you. Pogo ((Mary C. Gray)) 3967 1/4 Brunswick, Los Angeles, California. Dear Charles, FAN-ATIC arrived, and thanks ever so much. Absolutely the best five cent pub I've ever seen. For a change I liked the four color ((paper)) arrangement which adds variety if nothing else. The quiz by Tiger and Feldman will come in handy for persons like myself who aren't really up on the vital statistics of STF. ((We too)) Personally, I'm rather tired of this Yehudi and Yngvi business and think it's being carried just a bit too far. I assure you that Yngvi isn't a louse. He's just a dope. ((We've toned it down a lot this issue, hope you like it better.)) "As the Wind Listeth..." was very interesting, and if I were rating I'd give him a 9.99. Acky's Esperanto article was okay, only I didn't read it. I don't like the idea of mixing business with play, nor science fiction with my Esperanto. The short bit on "Magic" was read with interest and I'd like to see an addition make to the article. ((We'll ask Miller)) Tucker is always swell and I like his reviews much better than Ackerman's. "Hell's Corner" is a good idea and should prove interesting. We all have pet hates and perhaps the method you have taken for airing them will help straighten matters a lot. ((We've asked Pogo to do the next HC, but have no answer as yet)) Sir Archer Cusp deserves 10 plus. And as usual I rave about Gilbert. He's my candidate for the best fan writer there is at the present time...and from the looks of things he'll keep improving. I have but three complaints. (1) I don't think it's necessary to put "Vol 1, No 3" at the top of every page. Just once in the mag is enough. (2) I don't like even edges! I guess my pet hate is all the foolishness some people go to trying to make a neat looking page when all they really do is make a person feel like they have a new kind of eye trouble, seeing as those blank spaces. It's uneven edges for me. ((The even edges last issue, as stated in the editorial, were for only one issue. It was an experiment mostly.)) (3) I don't like the way the articles have been cut up and "continued on last page". Which just about covers this issue of FAN-ATIC. Thanks again for sending it. And, don't publish this letter in the reader's department...I'm allergic to such things. ((Don't worry, readers. We asked her permission to print it.)) Robert W. Lowndes. 142 W. 103rd St., New York City. Dear CAB: -- The 3rd FAN-ATIC struck me as being very good. Particularly did I enjoy the Quiz, DBThompson's column, and Fojak's Esperanto course. Glad to see you are keeping the Reader's column within reasonable limits. Not that I dislike reader's columns -- after all, I think "Station X" is just wonderful; or don't you think so? -- but some fanzine editors let it run away with them. ((We're awfully sorry, Doc, but our finances don't let us explore the mysteries of "Station X". UNKNOWN is the only mag we buy, and that leaves us broke.)) (((COMPLIMENTS AND OTHERWISE is continued on the next page. -- eds.))) JOIN THE NFFF
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FAN-ATIC 15 COMPLIMENTS AND OTHERWISE by You This is where you suckers who bought or traded this lousy fanzine tell us editors (Beling and Yehudi) how good it is and how badly it stinks. All comments are extremely welcome, compliments even more so. So write in now. Yes, all of you. Pogo ((Mary C. Gray)) 3967 1/4 Brunswick, Los Angeles, California. Dear Charles, FAN-ATIC arrived, and thanks ever so much. Absolutely the best five cent pub I've ever seen. For a change I liked the four color ((paper)) arrangement which adds variety if nothing else. The quiz by Tiger and Feldman will come in handy for persons like myself who aren't really up on the vital statistics of STF. ((We too)) Personally, I'm rather tired of this Yehudi and Yngvi business and think it's being carried just a bit too far. I assure you that Yngvi isn't a louse. He's just a dope. ((We've toned it down a lot this issue, hope you like it better.)) "As the Wind Listeth..." was very interesting, and if I were rating I'd give him a 9.99. Acky's Esperanto article was okay, only I didn't read it. I don't like the idea of mixing business with play, nor science fiction with my Esperanto. The short bit on "Magic" was read with interest and I'd like to see an addition make to the article. ((We'll ask Miller)) Tucker is always swell and I like his reviews much better than Ackerman's. "Hell's Corner" is a good idea and should prove interesting. We all have pet hates and perhaps the method you have taken for airing them will help straighten matters a lot. ((We've asked Pogo to do the next HC, but have no answer as yet)) Sir Archer Cusp deserves 10 plus. And as usual I rave about Gilbert. He's my candidate for the best fan writer there is at the present time...and from the looks of things he'll keep improving. I have but three complaints. (1) I don't think it's necessary to put "Vol 1, No 3" at the top of every page. Just once in the mag is enough. (2) I don't like even edges! I guess my pet hate is all the foolishness some people go to trying to make a neat looking page when all they really do is make a person feel like they have a new kind of eye trouble, seeing as those blank spaces. It's uneven edges for me. ((The even edges last issue, as stated in the editorial, were for only one issue. It was an experiment mostly.)) (3) I don't like the way the articles have been cut up and "continued on last page". Which just about covers this issue of FAN-ATIC. Thanks again for sending it. And, don't publish this letter in the reader's department...I'm allergic to such things. ((Don't worry, readers. We asked her permission to print it.)) Robert W. Lowndes. 142 W. 103rd St., New York City. Dear CAB: -- The 3rd FAN-ATIC struck me as being very good. Particularly did I enjoy the Quiz, DBThompson's column, and Fojak's Esperanto course. Glad to see you are keeping the Reader's column within reasonable limits. Not that I dislike reader's columns -- after all, I think "Station X" is just wonderful; or don't you think so? -- but some fanzine editors let it run away with them. ((We're awfully sorry, Doc, but our finances don't let us explore the mysteries of "Station X". UNKNOWN is the only mag we buy, and that leaves us broke.)) (((COMPLIMENTS AND OTHERWISE is continued on the next page. -- eds.))) JOIN THE NFFF
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