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VOLUME 4 NUMBER 6 . JANUARY 28, 1940 AtoUlaxb MiiViDBn 84 WEI RD TALES & FARNSWO R T H WRIGHT PART COMPANY

WAS EDITOR OF WEIRD SINCE 1924' It is with deep regret that we RALPH MILNt FARLEY [NTLRTMNS announce that Farnsworth Wright Is no longer connected with WEIRD MUMIKEEFICFIONEERS TALES.* At the time of going to On Wed. Jan. 17th, Ralph Milne press, we have been unable to de­ Farley, well-known soienoefiotion termine whether Mr. Wright was author, entertained ’’The Milwaukee fired, or whether he resigned be­ Fiotioneers”, a group of well-known cause of ill health, although from pulp mag authors,! at his home in. a reliable source we learn* that he South Milwaukee, Among the promin­ was "toesed out”. ent stf personalities present were; Ray Palmer, editor of AMAZINS STORIES This will- cqme as .a* shook and Robert B loch, Jerry K. Westerfield, a bitter .disappointment to thous­ Leo A. Schmidt,, and Arthur R. Tofte. ands of Mr. • right’s admifers vho A novel feature of the gather­ have strung along with him on ing was a rebus game played by those WEIRD since he began editing the’ present. The game consisted in magazine in 1924. Mr. dis­ guessing what magazine was represen­ covered such fantasy, favorites as ted by each of various groups of August ,W. Derleth, C.L. Moore, ‘ objects. For example, a stick of Edmond Hamilton, Robert' Bloch, Hen­ wood in the bathtub represented the ry Kuttner, Manly Wade ’Jellman, SATURDAY EVENING POST, and two lead and. m any, many others. 4 soldiers on horseback on a toy stove represented RANGE RISERS. Ernest It is expected that these au­ Brent,won the first, prize, a gilt thors will protest the action of food-inspection medal on a piece of WT ’ s' publishers in fi ring Mr. Harvard Lampoon hat-band1 for a rib­ Wright. FANTASY NEWS likewise bon; and Robert Bloch won the second joins this protest and urges its' prize, a Junior G-Man budge. Ernest readers to deluge the publishers guessed 16, and Bob 15., titles out of WEIRD TALES with letters deman­ of 28. Palmer failed to guess the ding the return of Mr. Wright. title of his own magazine, represen­ FIVE.,, WELS," WTMY ~f or Na? ch ~1940 ted by the letters ”MA”, .a picture >f a man singing, and a’skyscraper. will, feature a fantastic adventure Tone could guess MARVEL TALES, rep­ of the 23rd century titled ’^Vandals resented by a china dachshund with Of the Sky” by John Murray Reynolds, two Marvel cigarets where the -tale Earth and Mars battle to rout crea­ should be. tures of outer space planning to Farley’s story, ’’Caves Of Ocean” rob Mars of its oxygen, destroy it, is running currently in THE VOICE, and then occupy Earth. An stf yard a South Milwaukee newspaper. in a non-stf mag.(Frank-.Litz) Page Two ______FANTASY NEWS FANTASY NY'WS"1 1 s pub!is he d eve ry SCIENCE FICTION week by THE FANTASY NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY at 31-51 41st Street, Long [FANMAG. REVIEW by Harry Warner, Jr. Island City, N.Y. * Editor: Will Sykora BOLDEN ATOM: Vol. 1, no.4, Jan’40. Associates: Jimmy Taurasi , Sam Mos­ 3'4 1g mimeod pp, fteavy colored cov­ ers, Much improved material, in­ kowitz, Mario Racic, jr, cluding check list of Rochester fan Rates: 3 issues 100, 9 issues 300, mags. Still leans a little too 30 issues. 41.00, 52 issues (1 yr.) heavily on reviews, tho, 100 from $>1.50,. (NO STAMPS PLEASE) : 57J Lyndhurst St, Rochester, N.Y. LE ZOMBIE: Vol. 2, no, 9. 8 mime-' EDITORIAL by Will Sykora. o'dl pp, Excerpt from ill-fated Nova In the upper right-hand corner of this issue of Fantasy News will, and gossip, • 3 for JO0 from Bob be found a ’’poster stamp” illustra­ Tucker, Box 260, Bloomington, Ill. ting some species of dinosaur or SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTOR; Vol.5, other ancient reptile. Every other no.4. 32 small, well-hectoed pp. oopy of Fantasy News contains a dif­ Eso’ellent format, good contents, ferent st amp,s o ;th at only half are worth a dime from 1700 Frankford duplicated in ariy given number of Ave, Philadelphia, Pa.. copies. These • p i chute s ? ar b've ry THE COMET: first issue, Jan 1940. reminiscent of. the famous stfilm 24 lg, hectod pp, uneven■material ’’The Lost World” .which was adapted but some very good ideas, & good, from Sir A. Conan Doyle4s book of illustrations and makeup* It is going places. 100 from RFD # 1, the same name. No doubt the new (hw) film ”1.000,000 B.C.” will also Box 129, Martinet Calif feature' realistic life size models SPACEWAYS: Vol.2, no » 2» 25 lg- of these ancient creatures. we11-mimeod pp. Art!olo of unusual ■ ;. Luckily, we were fortunate in interest by Moskowitz. Interesting being.able to obtain a limited num­ material by Reinsberg, Warner, ber of these/set*® for the readers Haggard. 100 from Harry Warner,Jr, of this newpaper. They were, orig­ 303 Bryan Place, Hagerstown, Md.(sm) inally distributed by gasoline dealers who' obtained them from the THE TIME STREAM by Sam Moskowitz. Sinclair Refining Company, but they The appearance of WEIRD TALES are now no longer available from on Jan 17th instead of Feb 1st, this source and are becoming quite when it should have appeared accord­ rare. There are twenty-four (24) ing io its bi-monthly schedule, different stamps to each set, each gives hope that it may possibly pub- stamp picturing, a different species lish>two six-weekly numbers and of ancient reptile in various stri­ then resume monthly publication as king poses. “As a means of decora­ has happened in the past...Both Bob ting and individualizing personal Mudie, editor of:Fantascience Di­ letters and other correspondence, gest ,333 E. Belgrade St, Phila, Pa, they are unsurpassed. and Wally Marconette, editor of Believing that readers of FN, Scienti-Snaps, 2709 East 2nd St, who are -all active stfans engaged Day ton, Ohio, would greatly appre­ in corresponding with other fans, ciate any complimentary advertise­ would like to use these stamps on - ments they could get for the 2nd Anniversary numbers of their publi­ their letters., we supplying them cations, which will be of unusual to. our subscribers at ten cents (100)'size and excellence, and of course per set of 24 different stamps. expense. Your name printed promin­ Any reader, who desires to ently for as low as ten cents. Why avail himself of this service ,should•not help?...’’The Dweller”, poem by send‘100 (coin preferred) to Poster’ 1. P. Lovecraft, in latest -WEIRD Stamp Service, % Fantasy News at IaLES originally appeared in the the above address. You may obtain Nov .-Deo.f 35. issue of The Phantagrap as many sets as you wish while the’ i^be Oshinsky has published a first supply lasts. issue of International'Con /.'?;4,3 2) page Three FANTASY NEWS______, -■11-1111 HITTT.—.Trr—nrm—T.- tt- .rirn-r -..it ■■wmii r m ,niKi-iinTTnm- rm ■ —iJ&k ..y i—im 1 OFF T RAIL;by ” Jriiin ’ Giunta? jHORNIG TO LEAVE M YQM CT FEBRUARY The Feb issue of BLUE'BOOK ! “ Charles H or nig, popular editor, features a fantasy-novelet, "Why will leave New York right after at­ the FitzaldenS Are Web-toed", by tending the Feb Queens SFL meeting. ,Hugh Fullerton, It concerns the . He,will then journey to California Irish superstitions about elves, • where he will open a critic bureau and it takes place in.^George Wash­ for stf and other authors* He will ington* s time; ‘ „•: : . :also do stf cartoon scenarios, hav- The Jan 1940 WRITERS’, . DIGEST > Ing- al ready worked on‘some for features an article, "The Sky’s Np- Gernsbi.ck’s proposed comic mag. He Limit" by Jerry- K< Westerfield, will still edit SCIENCE FICTION and assistant editor of AMAZING STORIES..FUTURE FICTION by .remote control. To ^uote some of■ his phrasesthe The Queens SFL will give their old writer doing successful fantasy­ friend Charlie a great send-off, stories LIVES them while he is wri-’ AROUND TOV.lt by J'immy' TauraSl. ting them, .,s"our printer runs apn “ The' Jan 20th NS7 YORKER had a proximately 100,000 of .each .issue., two page• article titled ^'Captain "our expenses are: total bill paid . Future, Block That Kick" by S. J, for stories is around $650; 'other ; Perelman,, a:humorous Commentary on costs-paper, $1500; engr'aving, .$250M jthe stf/mQg CAPTAIN-FUTURE* The’ printing, $1500;- art,. $175; edit-: proofs of the second. CF and coming orial salaries^. $200; editorial of­ THRILLING BONDER STORIES 'were seen; fice supplies, $100;. total, $4375, -they-are m$re ,than good; ’ • OF* s 2nd plus general overhead, about $40,0; ‘ 'issue is again beautifully illustra­ net profit, $10y5.-^*"don’t get/,-, ted' by Wesso, The character novel swell-headed about this quotation, is so-, long that one department had gang I."stf pulps have a big ad- . •to.be; omitted, ■ ’■ ■ ■ • • . •-•■ vantage pye(r other pulp mags’in th The third FUTURE FICTION will that the readers are loyal and are Ie dated June 1940, published bi­ far above, the average pulp reader/ monthly on the dot. after that,This in I ,Q,."number one .stf writer .. i;. ’delay is so that FF will appear be-' •is probably Eandb (Otto) Binder,’ tween-SCIENCE FICTION,' so there will Otto turns, out" some 30,000, words be a BLUE RIBBON mag" on the stands per month. He averages about 1J^ • price a month. Your reporter's FAN­ a word and nets. arourid; $4500., M<- TASY TIMES coibumn will have a full V/ Wellman runs Binder a close ,sec page starting in June. ■ A history of ond by pounding out some 200,000 a local club will be. giveri in each words a year, averaging.$2000,,,?An ‘issue. Club secretaries should send stf convention attracted some 200 '■ these in and 'they, will'be4 printed in fans. Fan Will Sykora f?rom Astoria^the Order received; ..ALL clubs are L.I. struck4 the keynote of the con­ welcome to, contribute* vention when he said, "Let us all Stll WIRADIO , by Millie Y auras.!. ■ work to' swrihat the things we read. ' Itie play "The Man From Tester- . in sciencefiction become realities" /day" will be hsard over. WaF- (NBC) - The article is well worth reading, ‘on Wednesday, Jbh 31, : _____ Westerfield practically.., covers ev- . OUT’7THIS WEEK by will Sykora, erything of ” interest ;in stf in his . ASTOUNDING• S-F with daring religious- efforts to get new writers. He* 1 tells how we fans* work., our deep in? political satire by Heinlein* A NOVA. terest in stf,. our conventions, he •SH. AD QW , CO MI OS, a high class stf com­ describes briefly.the events’taking, ic *mag ('first edition) by STREET & place at--the WO RID,.CONVENTION and SMITH., ODD-, THE UNIQUE MAGAZINE, says, "the Mitnheiists, as a matter 1a nori- st f * mag ’’ h i gh ly re dome nd e d to of fact, were literally-, thrown out-" stfansj. Contains an .article hbout and1 mentions the . coming Chicago • ’ the Fourth dimension and'other i- Convention of this year. tems of... interest, .Blurbs are:"Proof Full details of a new stf mag ’Of the Impossible";»*Assurance Of scheduled , to appear soon will be the, Improbable" e Not to be talzen given in this column in a future is-.-3Q.ri0USiYi_ it t ______FANTASY NEWS Page Four ______'SOlWTlFlLMS by Mari? Racic, Jr. the one £n A. Merritt1s, "The Ship" 1TThe "Bluebird" 1939, 20TH CENTURY* Of Ishtar".) Finally, still without FOX. 80 Minutes: the bluebird, they return home, Fantasy film starring Shirley where Light leaves them by disap­ Temple , from the &ovel and play by pearing into the morning sun’s rays. Maurice Maeterlinck, In Technico­ When the children wake up they can lor. The allegorical story of the not believe that it was all a dream. child who looked everywhere for Downstairs they find "The Bluebird" "The Bluebird", the symbol of hap­ in a cage, a‘bird which the day be­ piness, only to find it right in fore had been an ordinary bird that her homo. Mytyl (Shirley Temple) is Mytyl had caught in the Royal Forest. selfish and unkind to her parents, The film is a beautiful fantasy with ^eY cannot have the luxu- excellent technicolor sequences, i^-“~iXHsJ'Tike that of some of the definitely recommended to science q^l^_y^oePt£y- homes that she had glimpses and fantasy fans. —‘^Sl^Tght night, (in a dream, for . Arthur Lubin, young director, lira-tris the fantasy part) the Fairy has created a new kind of horror Be.rylune sends Mytyl and her little film by making a horror picture with­ brother, Tyltyl to search for the out bring horrid, and he is current­ bluebird. Before they go, the ly filming such for UNIVERSAL. Kar­ Fairy changes their dog, Tylo(Eddie loff and Lugosi are co-starred, and Collins) and the cat (Gale S onder- what a teaml No hunchbacks, no gard) to human beings, who then ac­ leers, no club feet, no sliding pan­ company them. At this time appears els, no scars or putty noses. Just the Spirit Of Light (Helen Ericson) their natural selves. "And", says who guides them and lights the way Lubin, "it will be the most horror- for them. The first stop is the filled picture ever made." Land Of the Past, reached via the Adolphe Menjou and William Gar- oemetary, where Granny Tyl and gan have been signed for prominent Grandpa Tyl are buried. After a roles in HAL ROACH’S production of short visit with their departed Thopne (Topper) Smith’s "Turnabout", grandparents in "the otherworld", starring John Hubbard. .. . they return without the bluebird. Sabu, the famous Indian star Li^it again appears and leads them 'of "Elephant Boy" and "Drums" will to the Land Of Luxury, where they arrive in N.Y. Feb 1st.for a person­ are so busy fighting over their new al appearance tour in connection with found luxuries that they cannot the release of his latest picture, find time to search for any blue­ Alexander Korda’s "The Thief Of -Hag­ bird. Again Light returns and dad", the spectacular romantic fan­ leads them through the Great Forest tasy film in technicolor, After oom­ where the Spirits Of Oak, Pine, :Elm pleting his tour he will go to Holly and the rest of the trees try to wood. ’The film also stars Conrad frighten the children into turning Veldt and June Dupres and introduce backwith fire and lightning, but John Justin, the new Korda discovery. they escape and Light le$ds them REVIVALS: Amphy t ryon, Fren ch Fan t a sy to the Land Of the Future. Up in nhnT937) at the ALDEN, B’way-67 ST. the clouds, where they find all Feb. 1, 2, 3rd. "The Man Who Could the children of the future who are Work Miracles" H.G. Wells fantasy yet to be born, Mytyl and Tyltyl starring Roland Young at the SUTTON find their little sister-to-be? 57th St, between 2nd & 3rd Aves , who tells them that after she is January 30th and 31st. bom she will have to leave again very soon. Fa ther Time appears TIME STREAM Cont’d. Astronomical and calls several names, all those Society tfews,' official organ of an to be sent to earth that day. This astronomical society he heads. ..’’Re­ is done via a beautiful swan-shaped quiem" ,a yarn in the Jan. ASTOUNDING sail boat which.sails.through the has same title and blurb used.by this clouds. (In some of the posters, reporter in a story he has written advertising the film, this boat for FANTASY NEWS Quarterly...Inter­ resembles very much(Pont.next col.) esting items in SFColleotor by