Bibliophan

The Bibliophan was a fanzine published by R. G. Medhurst in the UK. It was issued as a rider with Futurian War Digest in 1941–2 with the first two issues distributed with FWD and the last three bound with it.

In its first issue Medhurst said:

What I want to talk about is stf in book form. At least, that's the central idea, though I may wander, now & then. Fans (and fannettes) don't seem to realise that magazine stf is a more trickle off the main stream of book stf. Tales of Atlantis, of the moon-trip, of the mighty promise of science, were familiar enough to the Greeks, and since then they have been thrust upon a not always appreciative world in ever-growing numbers. In the three large collections in the country, those of Bert Lewis, Michael Rosenblum, and myself, there are between seven and eight hundred different titles (my own is, at the moment, up to its 641st. volume!), and I am reasonably sure that we have merely skimmed the surface. 

Issue	Date	Pages	FWD mailing	Notes
1	August 1941	4	11
-	October 1941	4	13	called Shocking The Bibliophan
2	November 1941	6	14
3	January 1942	4	16
4	June 1942	2	21	called Genus Bibliophanus Leodenesius; final issue

• Bibliophan online at fanac.org

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Publication

1941—1942

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