Amazing, Thrilling, Sexy, Astounding, Analog, and Dry Dull Boring Scientific Fact Neffer Stories

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Amazing, Thrilling, Sexy, Astounding, Analog, and Dry Dull Boring Scientific Fact Neffer Stories Volume 1 Issue 1 was "Published by Fan Hillton, […] Los Angeles, California. Dated 10 June 1961, for the occasion of the Gala Southern California Neffer Party" or "Neffer Get-acquainted Pizza party". (The title page parodied pulp magazine covers, including the then-recent Astounding/Analog rename, and it is a bit hard to find in what order the words are supposed to read; however a transcription was helpfully provided inside; twice; including the punctuation; plus an initialism ATSAADDBSFNS). As Bob Lichtman, who provided much content, explained in the introduction: 

So we were all sitting around wondering what to do, and someone said, "Let's publish a one-shot fanzine!" […] Distribution promises to be rather strange. "Where shall we send it when we do it?" someone asked. "Oh, through N'APA" one person volunteered. That one person was sensible me. "No, let's do up enough copies ot send it to the whole N3F," another person volunteered.

The idea of another one-shot for an N3F audience, "currently planned for to be mailed our to the N3F as a whole; we're figuring it as a pre-mailing to the 17th N'APA Mailing, June, 1963, as well as a general entrippleff mag" was resurrected by Al Lewis and Ron Ellik under mutated title Amazing Thrilling Sexy Astounding Infamous Monsters of Nefferland and Dull Dry Monotonous Analogged Scientific Fact Neffer Stories Again / v1n2 (no commas this time; ATSAIMoN&DDMASFNSAgain). There was a dig at Forry and Famous Monsters of Filmland inside: 

we only ran 195 copies of that zine, in June of 1961, to circulate to the whole N3F. This is May of 1963---a shade less than two years later, and we're having to do a run of 345-50 in order to have enough copies to circulate to the entire membership of the club! If that's not progress, man, I'd like to have your idea of what is!

The second issue was put together at a Trimbles house/pool party: "5734 Parapet, home of Bjo and John Trimble […] until the first week of July when John's cousin gets back from Washington DC and wants his house back. That's OK. But he wants his swimming pool back, too. Fandom will miss it." Much pool-throwing happened reportedly.

Issue Date Pages Notes - titles varied as per above
1 June 10, 1961 18 ed. Robert Lichtman
2 May/June? 1963 26 ed. Ron Ellik with Al Lewis


Publication 1961—1963
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