The Fan Record

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Title:	The Fan Record
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Editor(s):	Sully Roberds
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Date(s):	1940 (never released)
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Medium:	Audio
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Fandom:	Science Fiction
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Language:	English
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The Fan Record was to have been a science fiction fanzine in record format.

History

Sully Roberds published an advertisement in a December 1940 issue of Le Zombie, promising bi-monthly records containing articles, gossip, humor, club reports and so on, announced by a variety of fans. The first release was set for January 1941. There were two different subscription options available.

Down with the mimeo!; to heck with the heckto! We are readying the newest thing in fan publications! Platter-patter ... recorded in the groove! A phonograph or record-player will enable you to listen to the most extraordinarily differnt fan magazine in fan history!

Ad printed in Le Zombie, issue 35 pg. 12 (December 1940)

In January another ad said that advance subscriptions for the first issue had sold out.

We point with pride to the smallest circulation of any fan publication in existence. A circulation controlled to a desired number. We believe this in itself is un-natural fan history!

Ad printed in Le Zombie, issue 36 pg. 19 (January 1941)

The March issue of Le Zombie announced that the Fan Record had been cancelled due to poor reproduction, and offered subscribers their money back. Only one sub-par copy was produced.

An April issue of Fanfare (delayed due to the pseuicide of one of its editors, Earl Singleton) contained a late report on The Fan Record:

The time is fast approaching when a record player will be quite as indispensable to a fan as his typewriter. For example, Sully Roberds is recording a fanmag -- The Fan Record, which has been a complete sell-out for the first three issues, at forty pesosees a throw, or one buck for the set. And that very active group, the LASFS,recently made a record of one of their meetings which was sent all over the country, and made most fascinating listening.

Joe Gilbert in Fanfare, issue 6 pg. 15 (April 1941)