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Fantasia, v. 1, issue 3, July 1941

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FANTASIA

JOE J. FORTIER
1836 39th Ave.
Oakland, Calif

Declares: "Aw, common an' do it again. You left me breathless with the second issue of Fantasia up until this moment...No use rating the magazine, because everything is well done. In fact, your magazine now rates third with me. No other can rate higher. Why? Heh, heh. I rate my two magazines as 1st and 2nd best. If I didn't kid myself along, I'd quit publishing...Your best illustration was the cover, but the litho work rated a damn close second. Best department is Djinn Fizz, which is really a killing affair. Best story was Epic. The best article was Let There Be Art. Found Wanting was the best piece of poetry. Finn's department has the most outstanding lettering. When it comes to format, take a bow."

JOSEPH GILBERT
3600 Grand St.
Columbia, S.C.

A voice from the deep souf: "I particularly like your sane, wholesome outlook on things; such maturity of viewpoint on the part of a fanzine publisher is not only unusual but most refreshing...The fiction this time was not up to that in the first issue. Nothing struck me as being as good as Plurality in the January issue. But then I didn't care for Hyman's tale in that number at all, and now everybody seems to be raving over it. Ah, well...The cover rates a round juicy 9, and the contents page, ditto. Remember? was rather good on the whole, but had some crude spots in it: 8. Epic had the makings of an outstanding story, but somehow the basic idea of a poet in such a situation is a bit absurd, and makes the whole a little too ridiculous to be impressive: 8, though. Rendezvous, 8. As a writer, meindt friend, you've got what it takes. (Heraus mit das Deutschesprache!) The litho pictorial was excellently done to the tune of a 9. By all means continue it, if possible. Let There Be Art takes a 7, tho Elliot has the wrong idea about the thing, it seems to me. Can you visualize Bok or Cartier in TWS? Hell, no, they just don't fit the magazines. What Standard & Ziff-Davis mags want are action pics of men flexing their biceps, and women in an intriguingly ungarbed state...I like Elliot's involved but amusing style...Didn't particularly care for Waldeyer's article, despite the fact that it was unquestionably better than average: 7...I enjoyed that Mickey Finn thing in the first Fantasia more than I've enjoyed any single bit of humor in any fanzine for a long time. Hope you continue it as a regular feature; I thought the second not quite as good as the first, but worth 8 1/2."

CHANDLER DAVIS
309 Lake Avenue,
Newton Highlands, Mass

Comments: "Fantasia received with a shout and read from cover to cover without a let-down. Unless someone's robbed the mails, enclosed find forty cents. (Duly noted. Thankee.) Acting completely on principle, I would ask you to cut out the fiction and stick more to fan-features -- articles, etc.; but the fiction's so darn good I can't bring myself to do it. If you can keep up that standard, by heck it's OK by me!"

FRANK McCOURT
516 W 140th St
New York, N.Y.

With plenty of questions: "Are there then really better fanzines than Fantasia? It doesn't seem possible; it tops any amateur effort I have seen, in makeup and content. And still, the comments ran: One of the best first issues I have seen -- As first issues go, you have a good first issue...Making me wonder what they expect for a dime, Curls?...Well, I am a neophyte stefan, interested as a Fortean (Lo! & behold) so maybe I'm not in a position to judge -- for out of ten fan-mags written for (not too recently & enclosing dimes in addition), I have received only yours and two others. (This is a bad situation. Perhaps its solution will eventually lie with the NFFF) As for Goldstone, he can write, really write, he can actually rhyme, smoothly and well, and he can draw...Incidentally, I wonder what the magazine costs to produce -- the more subscriptions, the more money you lose, maybe? (Fantasia #2 cost just under twenty dollars to publish, and this issue will have cost about the same amount. The more subs, the less money we lose) You should have ads." (No soap. Ads would not bring any appreciate number of new subs, and exchanges would mess up our makeup.)

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22 FANTASIA JOE J. FORTIER 1836 39th Ave. Oakland, Calif Declares: "Aw, common an' do it again. You left me breathless with the second issue of Fantasia up until this moment...No use rating the magazine, because everything is well done. In fact, your magazine now rates third with me. No other can rate higher. Why? Heh, heh. I rate my two magazines as 1st and 2nd best. If I didn't kid myself along, I'd quit publishing...Your best illustration was the cover, but the litho work rated a damn close second. Best department is Djinn Fizz, which is really a killing affair. Best story was Epic. The best article was Let There Be Art. Found Wanting was the best piece of poetry. Finn's department has the most outstanding lettering. When it comes to format, take a bow." JOSEPH GILBERT 3600 Grand St. Columbia, S.C. A voice from the deep souf: "I particularly like your sane, wholesome outlook on things; such maturity of viewpoint on the part of a fanzine publisher is not only unusual but most refreshing...The fiction this time was not up to that in the first issue. Nothing struck me as being as good as Plurality in the January issue. But then I didn't care for Hyman's tale in that number at all, and now everybody seems to be raving over it. Ah, well...The cover rates a round juicy 9, and the contents page, ditto. Remember? was rather good on the whole, but had some crude spots in it: 8. Epic had the makings of an outstanding story, but somehow the basic idea of a poet in such a situation is a bit absurd, and makes the whole a little too ridiculous to be impressive: 8, though. Rendezvous, 8. As a writer, meindt friend, you've got what it takes. (Heraus mit das Deutschesprache!) The litho pictorial was excellently done to the tune of a 9. By all means continue it, if possible. Let There Be Art takes a 7, tho Elliot has the wrong idea about the thing, it seems to me. Can you visualize Bok or Cartier in TWS? Hell, no, they just don't fit the magazines. What Standard & Ziff-Davis mags want are action pics of men flexing their biceps, and women in an intriguingly ungarbed state...I like Elliot's involved but amusing style...Didn't particularly care for Waldeyer's article, despite the fact that it was unquestionably better than average: 7...I enjoyed that Mickey Finn thing in the first Fantasia more than I've enjoyed any single bit of humor in any fanzine for a long time. Hope you continue it as a regular feature; I thought the second not quite as good as the first, but worth 8 1/2." CHANDLER DAVIS 309 Lake Avenue, Newton Highlands, Mass Comments: "Fantasia received with a shout and read from cover to cover without a let-down. Unless someone's robbed the mails, enclosed find forty cents. (Duly noted. Thankee.) Acting completely on principle, I would ask you to cut out the fiction and stick more to fan-features -- articles, etc.; but the fiction's so darn good I can't bring myself to do it. If you can keep up that standard, by heck it's OK by me!" FRANK McCOURT 516 W 140th St New York, N.Y. With plenty of questions: "Are there then really better fanzines than Fantasia? It doesn't seem possible; it tops any amateur effort I have seen, in makeup and content. And still, the comments ran: One of the best first issues I have seen -- As first issues go, you have a good first issue...Making me wonder what they expect for a dime, Curls?...Well, I am a neophyte stefan, interested as a Fortean (Lo! & behold) so maybe I'm not in a position to judge -- for out of ten fan-mags written for (not too recently & enclosing dimes in addition), I have received only yours and two others. (This is a bad situation. Perhaps its solution will eventually lie with the NFFF) As for Goldstone, he can write, really write, he can actually rhyme, smoothly and well, and he can draw...Incidentally, I wonder what the magazine costs to produce -- the more subscriptions, the more money you lose, maybe? (Fantasia #2 cost just under twenty dollars to publish, and this issue will have cost about the same amount. The more subs, the less money we lose) You should have ads." (No soap. Ads would not bring any appreciate number of new subs, and exchanges would mess up our makeup.)