THE FANS' OWN MAGAZINE
Editor: Charles D. Hornig
(Managing Editor: Wonder Stories)
| Published | 10 cents a copy |
| Monthly | $1.00 per year |
137 West Grand Street, Elizabeth, New Jersey
| Volume 1 | January, 1934 | Number 5 |
IT'S UP TO YOU!
The time has come when we must ask you a very important question. Doyou want The Fantasy Fan to remain a monthly, or would yourather have a bi-monthly or a quarterly instead? Now, don't answerthis question by sending in a written reply. The only way you cananswer it is by mailing to us a dollar for a year's subscription.Since the inception of The Fantasy Fan it has been running at agreat loss. The cost of having the magazine printed is not small andthe subscriptions do not pay for one quarter of the total cost. Thisfact may astound you, but it is the truth. The Fantasy Fan isyoung and not many of the fans know of its existence, chiefly becauseof the lack of a good advertising mediums for the most part, and therefusal of Weird Tales, the only really good medium for advertisingsuch a fan magazine, to accept our ad for the second time. Perhaps youdo not find our magazine worth a dollar a year, and that weird fictionwould get along just as well without a fan magazine. In this case, youneed pay no attention to this editorial. But there are those of us whoreally like our magazine and would not like to see it go bi-monthly orquarterly and yet have not subscribed. Of course, those of our readerswho have, have all done their part and are under no obligation. Theeditor has created a considerable sinking fund for the cost ofpublication, and although the sinking fund is practically exhausted,we are not sunk! As long as he has an income, the editor is willing tosacrifice a portion of it to keep The Fantasy Fan alive—but healone cannot keep it a monthly. You cannot lose by the deal. You willget full value for your money. Our magazine will not fail, but if itdid, every subscriber on our list would get back his money for thosenumbers he would not receive. So if the success of our magazine meansanything to you, subscribe at once—each dollar sent in will insure ashorter period between issues. If you have already subscribed, try toget some of your friends interested. Give subscriptions for yourfantasy fan friends. If your subscription runs out in a month or two,renew it now, ahead of time. Please send only dollar bills or moneyorders—no checks or stamps. Are you faithful to fantasyfiction?—then let's see action. I'm doing my part—are you doingyours? The February number will be the regular monthly issue, andprobably March, but future numbers will be bi-monthly unless you whohave not sent in your subscriptions do so at once! If you could foreseethe many rare treats we have in store for you, you would not hesitatea moment.
Here's hoping we have many faithful readers.
—The Editor
INFORMATION
Through the courtesy of Ralph Milne Farley, Donald A. Wollheim, DavidStolaroff, Ted Lutwin, and several other of our readers, we are ableto present this additional list of stories written by Edgar RiceBurroughs as an addenda to the list presented last month: