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FLAG, an Occasional Fanzine Published by Andy Hooper, Member Fwa, at 11032 30Th Ave This is issue #22 of FLAG, an occasional fanzine published by Andy Hooper, member fwa, at 11032 30th Ave. NE Seattle, WA 98125, email to [email protected]. This is a Drag Bunt Press Production. First copies shared March 13th, 2020. FLAG appears initially in printed form, and is available for trade, graphic artwork and cartoons, written contribution solicited by the editor and letters of comment. The next issue will appear. The large number of contributor credits for this issue has forced me to move their index to Page 27. Heroic UK Duplicator and Distributors: Mark Plummer & Claire Brialey. Typing and Proof-Reading Support by Carrie Root. Spirit Animal: Billy Wolfenbarger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I should like to confess now that I lied to you once, and only once, during my introduction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Hatch Opens One of the more important principles for a science fiction fan historian to understand is the role which inertia plays in the creation of fanzines, conventions and other concrete expressions of fan activity. Fanzines with a regular publishing schedule will tend to maintain that schedule until some opposing force acts to stop them. Fanzines which are not “in motion,” which have no intended deadline for publication, may remain inert in perpetuity. And there is no end to the opposing forces in the way of publishing any given fanzine. Jobs, kids, diseases, death. However, all these obstacles can be surmounted, as FLAG #22 is here to demonstrate. Like most fanzine publishers, I am overambitious, and commit to creating too many things at once. So, the honest reason that this fanzine comes more than a year and a half after #21 is that I could not make myself write another editorial explaining why issue #26 of CHUNGA had still not been published, or why the anthology of writing by the late Randy Byers, THY LIFE’S A MIRACLE, had not appeared after the Toronto Corflu as promised. I also have a multi-year tradition of monthly contribution to the Turbo-Charged Party-Animal Amateur Press Association (I know; it was the 1980s). In 2019, I began posting the title I publish there, CAPTAIN FLASHBACK, online through eFanzines.com, which finally exposed that work to a wider audience than the tiny membership of the TCPAAPA. As all of these long-standing obligations were resolved across the march of months, my commitment to FLAG contributors and correspondents finally became the most compelling unfulfilled promise, and thus was the inertia broken. Going forward, carl juarez has agreed to help me wind down CHUNGA with two more issues; it would be delightful to see #27 published before the end of 2020. I hope to present some little-known material by Randy, and to solicit further memories of him from some of his friends in andom. It has been over two years since he [Continued on page 2] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I can assure you, however, that I remain a reliable narrator. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Key to the linos published in FLAG #21: Page 1: “Oh Make me Over – I’m All I Wanna Be.” & Page 1: “A Walking Study in Demonology.” Lyrics, “Celebrity Skin” by Hole, 1998 Page 3: “Talking with Paul is like having an Out-of-Brain Experience.” Dialogue from ill-recalled reality TV program of two years in the past. Is this how you meant to spend your life? Page 4: “It is Wonderful how Preposterously the Affairs of this World are Managed.” Attributed to Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Page 5: “Playing is just about feeling. It isn’t necessarily about misery.” Attributed to American musician Janice Lyn Joplin (1943 – 1970). Page 6: “Great gathering, Jonas. It’s the leaky gazebo all over again.” Malcontent teen, “Uncle Teddy,” S4 Ep14, Bob’s Burgers & Page 7: “Of course, Royals wear more hats in general than we Americans.” Comment by an MSNBC reporter forced to cover a Royal Wedding. Page 8: “And mortal me, without a mortal bottle to slake my mortal thirst.” “Miles Hamilula” laments his situation in “Who Goes Where?” a play by Milton Rothman, circa 1950. Page 9: “…I devote my time to embarrassing our 3 or 4 15-year-old fringe fans who come to discuss Star Trek.” “How I Entered Fandom and Altered my Ego” Kay Anderson, SOUTH NORWALK Special All-Female Issue March, 1970. Page 10: “The movie is a fantastic trip in a way that totally puts 2001 to shame.” Excerpt from Ted White’s review of Frank Zappa’s film 200 Motels, from EGOBOO #16, August 1972 Page 11: “It’s crazy! Cavemen and doctors and disappearing bloody police boxes!” Waris Hussein (Sacha Dhawan) comments on the genesis of Dr. Who, An Adventure in Space in Time (2013) “I don’t sort things by color because I’m not a mouse in a European children’s book.” Rick Sanchez defends his filing system, “Morty’s Mind Blowers,” S3 Ep8, Rick and Morty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Hatch Opens, continued: FLAG #22 proves is that that quality and volume of he left us; frankly, that’s not very long. But it might correspondence alone is a sufficient reason to go on be long enough that the sorrow and the sheer publishing a paper fanzine. unfairness of his death can give way to the deep The Return of Johnny Toronto pleasure of having been his friend, and the gift of his It is not entirely accurate to say that it has taken me eloquent fannish voice. If you want to contribute more than five years to read Richard Toronto’s book something to the “KaleidoByers Randyscope” (or to War over Lemuria, issued by Macfarland Publishing talk me out of using that title), please do! in 2013. There were many points in my assault on And thus, what of CAPTAIN FLAGBACK? FLAG this history of the principle players in the notorious is still primarily composed to be a paper fanzine, “Shaver Mystery” when I set the book aside for presented in a traditional format come down to us weeks and months in vexation or exhaustion. After from our pioneer forebears and their mighty leaving off my third attempt to read the book around Selectrics. CAPTAIN FLASHBACK is usually the 100-page mark in 2017, I was determined to limited to a printed edition of 20, and routinely finish it and read several chapters on the flight to sprawls out for 20 pages or more. I think the only Detroit before the Toronto Corflu in the Spring of way that they can co-exist is if the monthly schedule 2018. I complained to hospitality suite listeners that of CF is occasionally interrupted by an issue of at the current point in the narrative, Toronto had FLAG. What CAPTAIN FLASHBACK has proven, issued a blanket indictment of the Futurian Society like innumerable online fanzines before it, is that as Communist malcontents and pilloried fandom in readers do not respond to electronic-only fan activity general for its failure to see either the genius of in the way that they reply to a paper fanzine. What Richard Shaver or the primacy of Amazing Stories 2 under the direction of Raymond A. Palmer. Falling into the wild-eyed fanaticism that assails everyone who becomes embroiled in this saga, I opined that Ray Palmer had lived decades ahead of his time; he would have been completely at home in the era of fake news and pseudo-science. “Who the Hell is Johnny Toronto?” asked Mark Olson, approaching from the other side of the room. I hastened to correct the author’s name, but it was too late; thanks to incorrigible types like Nigel Rowe and Danny McGrath, references to the “Further Adventures of Johnny Toronto” were scattered into conversation for the rest of the weekend. However, I made no further progress on the book, and ended up bringing it along on our trip to Brooklyn and Silver Spring for Corflu 36. I finished Toronto’s last chapter, “The Inner Circle’s Last Stand” on the flight home from Maryland and spent a few more days muttering over his notes after I got home. Richard Shaver’s “mythos” of ancient civilizations and languages, malign subterranean forces and War over Lemuria is composed of at least three impossibly advanced technology is a masterwork of major narratives: The life and work of Richard S. science fiction, and the question of its objective Shaver, ditto the story of Raymond A. Palmer, and reality somewhat tangential to its place in the history that of Amazing Stories, most venerable of science of the genre. Toronto is fairly rigorous in his fiction pulp magazines, after it passed into the hands observation of the delusional nature of Shaver’s of Ziff-Davis Publications, and moved its editorial stories, or at least the lack of evidence to support offices to Chicago. Most of Toronto’s primary them; but he seems just as contemptuous of source material was obtained through interviews and fandom’s reaction to the Shaver Mystery as Ray correspondence with the members of the Ziff-Davis Palmer was in his editorials on the subject. In “Inner Circle,” including William L. Hamling, Toronto’s estimation, both fandom and critics as Chester S. Gaier and Howard Browne. He also leans mundane as Cleveland Amory were unforgivably heavily on material originally published in the pages closed-minded toward Shaver, and the proliferation of SHAVERTRON, an online fanzine that began as of pranks, refutations and denunciations of his work a xeroxed newsletter in 1979. One might, in fact, call were little better than bullying. Richard Toronto the heir to or at least the executor of the Shaver Mystery; he has certainly devoted Following Richard Sharpe Shaver’s life story, it is more energy and a higher word count to the subject difficult not to develop a genuine sympathy for him.
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