Sully Roberds
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| Name: | Clarence "Sully" Roberds |
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Sully Roberds was a science fiction fan and member of the Illini Fantasy Fictioneers.
He helped in the planning stages of Chicon I and edited the Fantasy Fictioneer for four issues. After that he became frustrated by infighting in the IFF, ended the Fantasy Fictioneer, and refused to attend the Chicon at all.[1] He helped Bob Tucker cut together a fan film called Monsters of the Moon that was shown at the convention.[2]
Roberds stapled together Tucker's zine Le Zombie, and during a brief recording craze in fandom he planned to create The Fan Record, a recorded science fiction fanmag slated for January 1941. The Fan Record had to be canceled after issues with reproduction, and only one copy was ever created.[3] Roberds was later drafted in WWII.
References
- ^ Bob Tucker: The First Chicon, pg. 4. Tau Ceti Reprints no. 2, May 1965.
- ^ Bob Tucker: The First Chicon, pp. 9-10: "One highlight of the first day was the movie swept up off a cutting room floor and stuck together by Roberds and myself, (("Monsters of the Moon," consisting of scores of very short clips of experimental film..." Tau Ceti Reprints no. 2, May 1965. Paraphrased from his own reports in Milty's Mag, Fall 1940 issue.
- ^ Bob Tucker in Le Zombie, issue 37 pg. 4 (March/May 1941)