FFE seeks access to any and all fan-created or fan-related material from late 1920s through the mid-1940s. This includes fanzines, correspondence, convention programs, original art, photographs, club ephemera such as meeting minutes, stationary or membership cards… pretty much anything that can bring to life the story of early fandom.
We will consider offers to purchase physical items or collections. We also seek high-resolution digital copies of relevant artifacts with accompanying print and digital publication permissions. All contributed assets will be attributed as requested by the source.
Please contact us at info@firstfandomexperience.org if you’d like to participate in our sourcing process.
Our coverage of fanzines from the 1930s and early 1940s is extensive but incomplete. The remaining gaps are mostly the rarest-of-the-rare. We’d appreciate leads on where physical or high-resolution digital copies (300dpi+) of these items might be found:
- A (II), Jack Speer, 1939
- The Asteroid (I), Bay Street Science Club, any issues; 1930
- The Asteroid (II), George Hahn, any issues, 1936
- The Astronaut, Harry Turner, any issues, 1937-1938
- The Battle That Ended the Century, Lovecraft and Barlow, 1934
- Banshee, n1, n2; 1943
- Beyond (II), n3, September 1944
- British Fantasy Society Bulletin, n6, n12, n15, 1943-1944
- The Chainewsheet Monthly or The Chainzinette, any issues, 1942
- Comanche Comment, any issues, 1938
- Cosmic Stories / Cosmic Tales, any issues; c1930 by Jerry Siegel
- Cosmology, v2n2, Feb 1931; v2n6, Jul/Aug 1931
- Cthulhu the Mighty, 1942, any issues
- D’Journal (I), v1n2; Fall 1935 (may not exist)
- Detroit Slanewscard, any issues, 1944
- Erebus, v1n1, v1n2; Jan-Apr 1943
- FAPAzine, Elmer Perdue, Summer 1941;
“Produced via teletype punch tape” - Funtasy (II), Len Moffatt, any issues, 1942
- Gemini, Ron Lane, n2, Feb 1944
- The Hecto Experimenter, Alex Osheroff, 1938
- macVert, 1940s, any issues (Chan Davis for VAPA)
- Marianas Modicum, Donn Brazier, any issues, 1945
- Metalo-Mag, Mar 1943 (printed on dog-tags)
- The Meteor (I), any issues; 1931
- New Zealand Science Fiction Bulletin, any issues; 1935
- The Outsider (I), n1, May 1938
- Phantasphere, v1n1, Jan 1945; v1n2, 1945
- The Planetoid, v1n2, Jan 1933
- Pogorus, v1n2, Jun 1943
- Poll Kitten, n1, Jun 1944
- Pseudo-Science Romancer, v1n1, Jul 1936
- The Rebel, Wilson Shepherd, n1, Mar 1937
- The Science Fantasy Fan, Arthur F. Williams, v1n2, 1941
- The Science Fiction Fan, any issues after v5n10; 1941 (likely don’t exist)
- The Science Fiction Gazette, n1, Feb 1937; n5, Jul 1937;
New Series n2, Mar 1939 - Science Fiction News, any issues from 1931 – Nov 1935
- Science Fiction Review, R.M. Holland, Jr., v1n2, , v1n3, v1n4, v1n5, 1935
- The Science Fiction World (II), Dale Tarr, n1, Aug 1945
- Scientifooey Mag; T. Bruce Yerke, sole issue from 1937
- Scrap Bag Fantasy Mag / Her Scrapbag Fantasy, n1, n2, 1945
- The SF Democrat, Jack Speer, likely a tiny slip of paper, Mar 1944
- The S-F Fascist, Jack Speer, v2n1, Sep 1939
- Spacehounds (Australian), any issues, 1937;
only one copy of each issue was printed - Superfluous Stories, any issues EXCEPT n4, 1935-1936
- Tellus News, any issues; 1932
- Vadjong (II), v2n2, 1946
- Voice of the Vombus, v1n1, Nov 1938
- The Vombus, n1, Oct 29 1937, “10:30pm”
- Walt Daugherty’s Directory of Fandom, second edition, 1944
- YHOS, n6, Spring 1943
- Zeus (II), a spin-off from Zeus, Australian, any issues, 1940-1941
Also, a non-fanzine, purported to include a mention of fandom:
- The Saturday Review of Literature, November 25 1944
- Science Illustrated, v1n4, July 1946
Roman numerals in (parens) following the publication titles refer to their classification in the Pavlat-Evans Fanzine Index, without which projects like this would be well-nigh impossible. For a discussion of how we’re compiling a comprehensive list of relevant fanzines, please read Sam McDonald’s definitive blog post on the topic.