Scienti-Snaps
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Scienti-Snaps |
| Publisher: | Empress Publications |
| Editor(s): | Walter Marconette, Jack Chapman Miske |
| Type: | |
| Date(s): | 1938-1941 |
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| Fandom: | Science Fiction |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | Several issues hosted online by fanac.org |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Scienti-Snaps was a science fiction zine edited by Walter Marconette. In its last few years its name was changed to Bizarre and Jack Chapman Miske joined as editor.
About
SEND at once for that gala Summer issue of SCIENTI-SNAPS! You will find included in it a collection of the very best fan stories and articles by such writers as RICHARD WILSON JR., JAMES V. TAURASI, HENRY HASKEL HUNTER, etc. Plus many fine illustrations by Baltadonis and Marconette. Just 10c from the publisher, Walter E. Marconette...Ad placed in Imagination! #10 pg 5. July 1938.
The latest issue of SCIENTI-SNAPS is going fast, and you'd better hurry to get your copy. This month's copy contains page after page of well mimeoed drawings, stories, and articles, and sells for only a dime; three issues for twenty-five. This month you will find included: "The Incredible Olympian", a fine piece of Empress fiction by Balboa; a summary of the stfilms of '38 by Dick Wilson; an article on weird fiction by Harry Warner, Jr.; an important question asked by J. C. Miske, and many other great fan things. Write today for a trial issue to Walter E. Marconette...Ad placed in Spaceways #5 pg 23. May 1939.
Reviews
Fall, 1938. Undoubtedly one of the, if not the, neatest magazines in the fan field ever published. Features a stiff paper cover for protection, and consists of 26 hecktographed pages. The printing is absolutely perfect; in the copy received there was not a single word illegible, which is almost miraculous for the heckto. All illustrations are by Marconette; superb and very carefully done. In this issue there is very excellenct material by Hoy Ping Pong, Hunter, Jackson, Speer, Moskowitz, and Louis and Gertrude Kuslan, plus a readers' department.... Ten cents the copy, and published quarterly. Only needed improvement is a greater word count. Has even margins, same as SPACEWAYS.Among Our Neighbors!. Spaceways #2 pg. 18. Jan. 1939.
"Scienti-Snaps", nominally a bi-monthly, has been a little late in appearance lately due to personal difficulties of Editor Marconette. The magazine, however, ranks as the neatest-appearing fan pub on the American Rialto. It affected a tour-de-force this year by combining the best features of the mimeo and hectograph: a mimeographed format with hektographed illustration-sheets included, or neatly pasted in enclosed sections.In quality, it also ranks high. It has presented fiction, anylatical [sic] articles, poetry, reviews, and comment plus commendable art-work by the editor. Its policies are one of unrestrictivity and its judgment in selection of material has been wise. This publication should go on unhindered in the coming year.
Robert A. W. Lowndes in Scientifan issue 2 page 5 (January 1940)
14 mimeod pages, 10 cents Oc. '39Has added a capable fan, J. Chapman Miske as associate editor[.] Feature of latest number is the first part of "A. Merrit----His Life And Works" by Merrit and Miske. Charles Tanner, has a humorous poem "Chant of the Scientifiction Author." We wonder why Lowndes article which hardly even mentions the word science fiction,yet discusses it is included? Other material of [varying] quality by Harry Warner, Richard Wilson & Colburne Jones.
"The Manuscript Bureau" of New Fandom, issue 7 page 13 (April 1940)
Articles of Note
Bizarre
An August 1940 ad in Le Zombie announced Scienti-Snaps' change of name:
We are pleased to announce... that Scienti-Snaps, one of the oldest and best-known amateur fantasy magazines, will assume a deluxe, greatly-enlarged printed format with its October issue.Scienti-Snaps will change its name to BIZARRE. The new magazine will be twenty-four pages of the finest material imaginable. Each page will be nine by six inches, with one-third again as much wordage as the average professional magazine.
The covers will be of heavy, durable, white stock, and the interior stock will be absolutely the highest grade eggshell book-paper. Our typeface will be Caslon, famous for its neatness and readability. The edges are trimmed.
Le Zombie, issue 31 page 12 (August 1940)
Bizarre promised a three-color cover by "a famous professional fantasy artist", along with a Hannes Bok illustration. It was to be an all-purpose zine including articles and fiction, illustrated with bordered, full-page drawings. Jack Chapman Miske and Walter E. Marconette would continue editing. The "definite" contributors were to be:
The Thing in the Moonlight by H.P. LovecraftTo Write -- be Wrong! by John W. Campbell, Jr.
The Dwellers in the Mirage (end; reprinted from Argosy by permission) by A. Merritt
"An Unnamed Article" by E.E. Smith
Fantasy Footnotes by Harry Warner, Jr.
Imagi-Movies by Forrest J Ackerman
Stardust by "The Star-Treader" [Jack Chapman Miske]
Authors like David Keller, Ray Cummings, Ross Rocklynne and Robert E. Howard were lined up for later, but Bizarre ended after its first issue.