Transcribe
Translate
Fanfare, issue 9, 1942
Page 27
More information
digital collection
archival collection guide
transcription tips
fantasy footnotes 27 for a total cost of five dollars per issue. I won't look like The Southern Star or Fantasite, but with proper care it should be readable. Supposing you want an edition of one hundred copies: use yellow second-sheets, the kind that sell for 25[[cent symbol]] a ream, for paper. That isn't wonderful, but Jenkins and Gilbert proved that it isn't too bad for mimeoing purposes. You'll need almost three reams. If you use this weight of paper, your postage will almost certainly be only one cent a copy, provided that you don't add weight by inserts and have twenty-four pages, said 24 pages being essential for the 1[[cent symbol]]-per-two-ounces mailing rate. Stencils at present cost about $2.50 per quire - by far your greatest expense. Ink will probably set you back between 50[[cent symbol]] and 75[[cent symbol]] per issue. That adds up to a little shy of five bucks; you can give the change to someone whose stapler you use to tack the magazine together. (Woolworth's has an excellent stapler for only two bits --yhos) Of course, if you haven't access to a mimeo, you'll have to buy one and probably won't be able to because of priorities. And there are one or two little additional costs, like two bits for a bottle of correction fluid now and then. But, if you put out a fanzine to those specifications, you'd be sure to sell enuf copies to make up at least half of your expenses,and still be able to get all other fanzines, without expense, by trading. Isn't it easy? And won't I feel foolish if three months after this sees print, 24-page, yellow paper, penny postage fanzines start arriving by the dozens, all inspired by this paragraph? The comic strips are still turning to fantasy, those that aren't concerned with the present war. Li'l Abner, in a Sunda page several months ago, had a really superb adventure: Some scientists come down to Dogpatch, and Hairless Joe with his little Indian friend,bring out some dinosaurs to show the scientists. Naturally, the scientists think they had a few too many, and the Dogpatchers have to herd the prehistoric monsters back in their cave. Then in the comic section distributed with the Hearst chain on Sundays, a new strip "Aladdin, Jr.", has begun. It isn't so bad, although the writers are able to make episodes drag out as long as do Brick Bradford's adventures. The Gumps were infected on Sundays with a dinosaur and lost world for a time, and a daily strip, "Invisible Scarlet O'Neill", does just what its title indicates. * A dispatch recently published in the newspapers must have made Heinlein feel good. It told how the British women who are serving in various wartime duties have decided upon the word "Service!" as their motto. Remember how Heinlein used that very word - especially in "If This Goes On" - ? * Fans should have listened to the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on Saturday afternoons last winter, to increase their knowledge of things fantastic.Half of the sixteen had fantasy plots - Wagner's Tannhauser, Lohengrin and The Valkyrie; Mozart's Don Giovanni and the Magic Flute; Verdi's The Masked Ball (which contains an old witch woman and magic potion, but is otherwise mundane); the music-lover's Superman, StSaens' Samson and Delilah; and Gounod's Faust. In addition there is a nice sinister curse running thru Rigoletto.... * Ben Hecht's latest play was a fantasy. Bentitled "Lily of the Valley", it had its setting in a morgue and told about the way corpses came back to life. It did a flop on Broadway. Eugene O'Neill's coming fantasy, "The Iceman Cometh", still hasn't been produced. (finis)
Saving...
prev
next
fantasy footnotes 27 for a total cost of five dollars per issue. I won't look like The Southern Star or Fantasite, but with proper care it should be readable. Supposing you want an edition of one hundred copies: use yellow second-sheets, the kind that sell for 25[[cent symbol]] a ream, for paper. That isn't wonderful, but Jenkins and Gilbert proved that it isn't too bad for mimeoing purposes. You'll need almost three reams. If you use this weight of paper, your postage will almost certainly be only one cent a copy, provided that you don't add weight by inserts and have twenty-four pages, said 24 pages being essential for the 1[[cent symbol]]-per-two-ounces mailing rate. Stencils at present cost about $2.50 per quire - by far your greatest expense. Ink will probably set you back between 50[[cent symbol]] and 75[[cent symbol]] per issue. That adds up to a little shy of five bucks; you can give the change to someone whose stapler you use to tack the magazine together. (Woolworth's has an excellent stapler for only two bits --yhos) Of course, if you haven't access to a mimeo, you'll have to buy one and probably won't be able to because of priorities. And there are one or two little additional costs, like two bits for a bottle of correction fluid now and then. But, if you put out a fanzine to those specifications, you'd be sure to sell enuf copies to make up at least half of your expenses,and still be able to get all other fanzines, without expense, by trading. Isn't it easy? And won't I feel foolish if three months after this sees print, 24-page, yellow paper, penny postage fanzines start arriving by the dozens, all inspired by this paragraph? The comic strips are still turning to fantasy, those that aren't concerned with the present war. Li'l Abner, in a Sunda page several months ago, had a really superb adventure: Some scientists come down to Dogpatch, and Hairless Joe with his little Indian friend,bring out some dinosaurs to show the scientists. Naturally, the scientists think they had a few too many, and the Dogpatchers have to herd the prehistoric monsters back in their cave. Then in the comic section distributed with the Hearst chain on Sundays, a new strip "Aladdin, Jr.", has begun. It isn't so bad, although the writers are able to make episodes drag out as long as do Brick Bradford's adventures. The Gumps were infected on Sundays with a dinosaur and lost world for a time, and a daily strip, "Invisible Scarlet O'Neill", does just what its title indicates. * A dispatch recently published in the newspapers must have made Heinlein feel good. It told how the British women who are serving in various wartime duties have decided upon the word "Service!" as their motto. Remember how Heinlein used that very word - especially in "If This Goes On" - ? * Fans should have listened to the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on Saturday afternoons last winter, to increase their knowledge of things fantastic.Half of the sixteen had fantasy plots - Wagner's Tannhauser, Lohengrin and The Valkyrie; Mozart's Don Giovanni and the Magic Flute; Verdi's The Masked Ball (which contains an old witch woman and magic potion, but is otherwise mundane); the music-lover's Superman, StSaens' Samson and Delilah; and Gounod's Faust. In addition there is a nice sinister curse running thru Rigoletto.... * Ben Hecht's latest play was a fantasy. Bentitled "Lily of the Valley", it had its setting in a morgue and told about the way corpses came back to life. It did a flop on Broadway. Eugene O'Neill's coming fantasy, "The Iceman Cometh", still hasn't been produced. (finis)
Hevelin Fanzines
sidebar
