The Damn Thing
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| Zine | |
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| Title: | The Damn Thing |
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| Editor(s): | T. Bruce Yerke |
| Type: | |
| Date(s): | 1940-1942 |
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| Fandom: | Science fiction |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | Online at Fanac.org |
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The Damn Thing was a science fiction zine published from 1940 to 1942 by T. Bruce Yerke.
About
Forrest J Ackerman financed the zine, but stated in his own zine, Voice of the Imagi-Nation, that he hadn't been aware Yerke would print his name on the cover. He also said that the first issue had quoted him saying several things he'd never said, and that he outright disagreed with one of the articles printed, but that he didn't intend to withdraw his financial support.
If I may interrupt in the first person for a moment (4e) shoud like to set a few things strate. Now when I told TB I'd finance the DT for him, it was to be as a silent supporter. I honestly had no idea he was going to stick my name on the cover as Financer, feature an article on me & include me in editorial remarks. In some cases Bruce quoted me as saying things I never did, OK in a way because I'd told him he coud make the mag .just what he wanted—need not employ Ack'ese, plug Esp, run articles by Weaver Wright or get my approval on the dummy....I merely wisht to make it possible for Bruce to express himself as a publisher like most every other fan in LA. Lo, tho, he has proved a young Stankenfrein monster, insofaras he publisht a no. of things I do not approve—at my expense! Frinstance, an avowd pro-scientist, my funds finance an attack on the antiscience attack soc'y! Ofcorse, knight's article woud had to've apeard in the Voice otherwise, but it’s rather ironical. U'll agree, however, it woud be petty of me abruptly to refuse further monetary assistance for Bruce because of the circumstances.
Voice of the Imagi-Nation issue 10, page 3 (December 1940)
Reviews
What fandom needs is variety, and that is precisely what fandom is not getting right now. FANFARE is doing its part and some of the others like the DAMN THING help out a lot...Joe Gilbert: Letter printed in Fan-Atic Vol. 1 #3, pg. 23. May 1941.
#5 - May - 15 pp - 10¢ 3/25. Virulent and vitriolic affair. Passed.Louis Russell Chauvenet in Fantasy Fiction Field issue 36, page 3 (June 1941)