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Spacewarp, v. 4, issue 2, November 1948
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"Did you write any fan letters?" "No." "Do you belong to FAPA?" "No." "NAPA?" "No." "AAPA?" "NO." "Weird Tales Club?" "No." "Science-Fictioneers?" "No." "Science Fiction League?" "No." "SAPS?" "No." "YOU'RE NOT A FAN !!!" "I CAN JOIN, CAN'T i? I SENT IN MY APPLICATION TO NFFF. I SENT IN MY DOLLAR. I'M A FAN." "THEY'LL SEND YOUR DOLLAR BACK. YOU'RE TOO OLD TO BE A FAN. WHO EVER HEARD OF A BALD HEADED FAN!" Then the telephone rang and the lady next door said that we would have to be a little more quiet as the baby was asleep. Jim and his friend went off to a magazine shop without inviting me. Too old to be a fan -- who ever heard of anything like that? So I didn't save any magazines, so what? What if I do have to get out my reading glasses to read the letters in "Startling Stories," that doesn't stop me from being a fan. What if I am the only one alive who read the reprint of "When the Sleeper Wakes," by H.G.Wells, in an old "Amazing" quarterly; or who can remember "The Face in the Abyss," by Merritt, another Amazing reprint in the '30's? What's age got to do with it? I used to read "Weird Tales" back when a NEW Lovecraft story came along now and then and Howard was writing for it. I sweated out "Unknown Worlds" right along side John Campbell. I cried when it folded. I was there when the old "Amazing" introduced Dr. Keller. I saw the silent film, "Metropolis" when it ran at the old Royal Theater in Kansas City and I still think that it is the only real Science Fiction film ever made in spite of the fact that it was as pink as the inside of a rabbit's ear. I'm well grounded in H.G. Wells, Merritt, Lovecraft, and even Verne. I've read Hudson's "Green Mansions' and "The Crystal Age." By Golly, I'm a fan!! -- END -- TRADERS -- ACHTUNG! I GOT 'EM; U NEED 'EM? AMAZING Apr 41 ASTOUNDING Mar 47, Jun 47, Oct 47 FANTASY READER #1 STARTLING Wing 46, Spr 46, Jul 47 TWS Win 45, Sm 46 WEIRD TALES Jan 44 (poor), Mar 48 PLANET Wint 47 ARGOSY May 15, 1937 AVENGER Mar 40 POCKETBOOK: "Rocket To The Morgue" by H.H.Holmes -- murder strikes among stf authors and fans! I WANT THESE MAGS ASTOUNDING Jan Sep 44; May Sep 45; Jan 46; Apr May 47 FFM: Jun 46 PLANET: Sum 44; Sum 46 STARTLING: Fall 44; Win 45 TWS: Fall 44 And a great majority of all pre-1943 issues. Send me a list of your extras. This is a trade offer only; no sales; no buying. Let's swap!!! r-tRapp -- 2120 Bay Street -- Saginaw, Michigan 18
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"Did you write any fan letters?" "No." "Do you belong to FAPA?" "No." "NAPA?" "No." "AAPA?" "NO." "Weird Tales Club?" "No." "Science-Fictioneers?" "No." "Science Fiction League?" "No." "SAPS?" "No." "YOU'RE NOT A FAN !!!" "I CAN JOIN, CAN'T i? I SENT IN MY APPLICATION TO NFFF. I SENT IN MY DOLLAR. I'M A FAN." "THEY'LL SEND YOUR DOLLAR BACK. YOU'RE TOO OLD TO BE A FAN. WHO EVER HEARD OF A BALD HEADED FAN!" Then the telephone rang and the lady next door said that we would have to be a little more quiet as the baby was asleep. Jim and his friend went off to a magazine shop without inviting me. Too old to be a fan -- who ever heard of anything like that? So I didn't save any magazines, so what? What if I do have to get out my reading glasses to read the letters in "Startling Stories," that doesn't stop me from being a fan. What if I am the only one alive who read the reprint of "When the Sleeper Wakes," by H.G.Wells, in an old "Amazing" quarterly; or who can remember "The Face in the Abyss," by Merritt, another Amazing reprint in the '30's? What's age got to do with it? I used to read "Weird Tales" back when a NEW Lovecraft story came along now and then and Howard was writing for it. I sweated out "Unknown Worlds" right along side John Campbell. I cried when it folded. I was there when the old "Amazing" introduced Dr. Keller. I saw the silent film, "Metropolis" when it ran at the old Royal Theater in Kansas City and I still think that it is the only real Science Fiction film ever made in spite of the fact that it was as pink as the inside of a rabbit's ear. I'm well grounded in H.G. Wells, Merritt, Lovecraft, and even Verne. I've read Hudson's "Green Mansions' and "The Crystal Age." By Golly, I'm a fan!! -- END -- TRADERS -- ACHTUNG! I GOT 'EM; U NEED 'EM? AMAZING Apr 41 ASTOUNDING Mar 47, Jun 47, Oct 47 FANTASY READER #1 STARTLING Wing 46, Spr 46, Jul 47 TWS Win 45, Sm 46 WEIRD TALES Jan 44 (poor), Mar 48 PLANET Wint 47 ARGOSY May 15, 1937 AVENGER Mar 40 POCKETBOOK: "Rocket To The Morgue" by H.H.Holmes -- murder strikes among stf authors and fans! I WANT THESE MAGS ASTOUNDING Jan Sep 44; May Sep 45; Jan 46; Apr May 47 FFM: Jun 46 PLANET: Sum 44; Sum 46 STARTLING: Fall 44; Win 45 TWS: Fall 44 And a great majority of all pre-1943 issues. Send me a list of your extras. This is a trade offer only; no sales; no buying. Let's swap!!! r-tRapp -- 2120 Bay Street -- Saginaw, Michigan 18
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