Shangri L'Affaires

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Shangri L'Affaires (frequently known by its nickname Shaggy) began as a one-sheet page of news and publicity for LASFS, started in 1940.

During the ’40s, it was edited by a series of very well-known fans, including Forry Ackerman, Walter and Eleanor Daugherty, Francis Towner Laney, and Charles Burbee. The page count gradually increased, including material other than news, becoming a genzine. By end of 40s, its name had been shortened to Shangri-LA and during the ’50s, it was mainly known by the nickname Shaggy, though it had become sporadic.

The fanzine started in 1940 to replace Imagination! which had ceased publication. Initially, it was a communal affair with no one listed as editor, then with Walt Daugherty as editor. Three issues were published, then it disappeared in 1942, claiming that it had changed its name to Shangri-L'Affaires. After the first 38 issues of Shangri-L'Affairs, Walt Daugherty became the editor and changed the name to Shangri-LA for the next 35 issues, before it once again changed back to "Shangri-L'Affaires".

It was revitalized under Bjo Trimble aided by a group of L.A. fans who pooled some money and bought a new Gestetner mimeograph, solving a continuing production problem. The last issue of 50s, a Christmas 1959 issue, featured a large art supplement, and Bjo's fan fiction "The Littlest Fan". By the mid ’60s, Shaggy was edited by Ted Johnstone.

In 1965, new policies set up that restricted its availability. It was no longer available for trade with other fanzines: contribution, subscription, or LoC were the only ways for outsiders to get an issue. It was still free to LASFS members, but only if they picked up their copy within two meetings of publication.

In late ’60s, Shaggy was edited by Ken Rudolph and it enjoyed widespread popularity, due to its wide circulation and Rudolph's ability to produce elaborate and impressive issues.

Shaggy was nominated for the 1946 Best Fanzine Retro Hugo at L.A.con III in 1996.

Shangri-La (Series 1, 1940-41)

Published semi-annually.

Issue	Date	Pages	Editor	Notes
1	March–April 1940	22	Combined effort, with no one listed as editor
2	October 1940	30	Walter Daugherty	One page Ray Bradbury SF fandom parody fiction "FAN-TASTIC". Half page drawing of Ray Bradbury. Full page drawing of 4SJ ACKERMAN.
3	July 1941	24	Walter and Eleanor Daugherty	Final issue

Shangri-L'Affaires (Series 1, 1941)

A "roving fanzine" bundled with various fanzines produced in L.A. Bi-weekly

Issue	Date	Pages	Editor	Notes
1	March 1941	1	Forrest J Ackerman	Bound with VoM 12
2	March 1941	2	"
3	April 1941	1	"	Bound with VoM 13
4	April 1941	2	"
5	May 1941	1	"	Bound with VoM 14
6	May 1941	2	"
7	May 1941			Bound with Damn Thing 5. One source says "June 1941"
8	June 1941	2	Ackerman and Morojo	Bound with VoM 15
9	June 1941			Bound with Polaris, V2 #2.
10	July 1941	1	Ackerman and Morojo
11	July 1941	1	Ackerman	Bound with VoM 16
12	1941	2	"
13	November 1941	1		Bound with VoM 19/

Shangri-L'Affaires (Series 2, 1941-1947)

This was a standalone fanzine. Some of the attributions to Charles Burbee below may be in error, since he was also the publisher during this time, and some sources may incorrectly also list him as editor.

Issue	Date	Pages	Editor	Notes
1	December 1941	1	Forrest J Ackerman
2	January 1942	2	"
3	February 1942	2	"
4	July 1942	4	Gus Willmorth
5	August 1942	8	Gus Willmorth, Arthur Louis Joquel
6	September 1942	2	Forrest J Ackerman
7	December 1942	4	Arthur Louis Joquel
8	January 1943	6	Arthur Jean Cox
9	February 1943		Phil Bronson
10	May 1943		"
11	August 1943	10	Walt Daugherty
12	September 1943	12	"
13	April 1944	11	Arthur Louis Joquel
14	May 1944	9	Charles Burbee
15	June 1944	10	"
16	July 1944	13	"
17	August 1944	16	"
18	September 1944	20	"
19	October 1944	20	"
20	November 1944	18	"
21	December 1944	18	"
22	January 1945	13	"
23	February 1945	26	"
24	March 1945	18	"
25	April 1945	38
26	July 1945	18	Gerald Hewett	Cover by Joe Gibson
27	October 1945	20	"
28	February 1946	28	Arthur Louis Joquel
29	April 1946	22	Charles Burbee	Cover by Hannes Anderson
30	May 1946	24	"
31	July 1946	22	"
32	September 1946	32	"	Pacificon reports
33	October 1946	26	"
34	December 1946	26	"
35	March 1947	26	"
36	June 1947	19	"
37	August 1947	20	"
Philcon Edition	September 1947	6	"
38	November 1947	20	Charles Burbee	include 1-page supplement

Shangri-La (Series 2, 1947-90)

The title is changed back to "Shangri-La", and numbering continues from that of the 1940-41 series. Later, the title returns to Shangri L'Affaires. Issue 13, April 1944, uses the longer name. Issue 14 (mislabeled as issue 10 on the cover, but correct on the table of contents), October 1949, uses the shorter name. Some issues used the shortened name exclusively. Editors included Dave Ossman and Bill Mosleigh

Continues numbering from the end of Shangri-La Series 1.

Issue	Date	Pages	Editor	Notes
4	January-February 1948	21	Dale Hart
5	March-April 1948	20	"
6	May-June 1948	22	"
7	July-August 1948	21	"
8	September-October 1948	24	Arthur Jean Cox
9	November-December 1948
10	January 1949	36	Walt Daugherty
11	March 1949	42	Forrest Ackerman
12	June 1949	36	Eph Konigsberg	Commemorative Reprint Issue.
13	August 1949		Louise Leipiar
14	October 1949	32	Forrest Ackerman	Misnumbered as #10 on cover
15	November 1949	52	Anna Moffatt and Len Moffatt
16	December 1949	34	E. E. Evans
17	January 1950	28	Walt Daugherty
18	February 1950	35	Freddie Hershey
19	April 1950	28	Dave Lesperance	The editor is credited as "AUD-DEL"
20	1950	17	Arthur Jean Cox & Dave Lesperance
21	July 1950	24	Jessie Wilt, Ira Rosen
22	September 1950	35
23	November 1950	30	Helene Mears	Cover by Rotsler
24	November 1950	22	John Van Couvering	Junior Member Issue. Misnumbered as #23
25	January 1951	26	ed. Rory Faulkner & Alan Hershey
26	February 1951	28	Rick Sneary
27	March 1951	22	Al Lewis
28	1951
29	September 1951	32	Ed Connor
30	December 1951	20	Anna Moffatt and Len Moffatt
31	March 1952	34	Audrey Clinton and Ed Clinton
	Summer 1952	26+	Ed Clinton, Dave Fox, Eph Konigsberg, Jim Wilson. Art Editor: Con Pederson
32	Fall 1952	26	Jim Wilson
	Summer 1953	12	Hern Hutter
	Fall/Winter 1953	26	Dave Ossman and Bill Mosleigh
	[Summer] 1956	18	Pete Vorzimer, Ron Ellik, Paul Turner
	[Fall] 1956?, [[May 1957?]	16	Paul Turner
38	Fall 1957	16	George Fields

(There appears to be one missing issue from our list for these final years.)

Shangri L'Affaires (Series 3, 1958-1987)

Next, the title was changed back to Shangri L'Affaires. This third series continued the numbering from "Shangri L'Affaires", Series 2.

Issue	Date	Pages	Editor	Notes
39	October-November 1958	30	Charles Burbee & Djinn Faine
40	December 1958	30	Djinn Faine
41	February 1959	34	Djinn Faine	Cover lists title as "Shaggy"; inside it's "Shangri-L'Affaires"
42	April 1959	36	Al Lewis
43	1959	36	"
44	July 1959	50	"
45	1959	46	"
46	October 1959	51	"
47	December 1959	52	"
48	January 1960	34	John Trimble
49	February-March 1960	32	"	Titled "L'Affaires Shangri Fact & Friction"?
50	April 1960	46	"
51	July 1960	44	"
52	September 1960	48	"
53	October-December 1960	34	John Trimble & Bjo Trimble
54	January-February 1961	30
55	March-April 1961	32
56	May 1961	32
57	July 1961	32
58	September 1961	28
59	November-December 1961	28	Fred Patten
60	December 1962	34	Al Lewis & Ron Ellik?
61	June 1962	32	a committee of Al Lewis (Editor-Who-Writes-The-Editorial), Fred Patten (Editor-Who-Writes-The-Letter-Column), Ron Ellik (Editor-Who-Handles-The-Mailing-List), John Trimble (Editor-Who-Edits), & Bjo Trimble (Editor-Who-Selects-The-Artwork).	TAFF Progress Report #3 inserted
62	November 1962	46	"	Front cover by Bjo Trimble
63	January 1963	32	Steve Tolliver
64	March 1963	30	"
65	May 1963		"
66	September 1963	30	"
67	November-December 1963	32	Redd Boggs
68	January 1964	37	"
69	May-June 1964	30	"
70	January 1965	28	Ted A. Johnstone
71	July 1965	44	"
72	April 1968	52	Ken Rudolph
73	June 1968	92	"
74	September 1968	68	"	Cover by Tim Kirk, Reduced in size from 8.5 X 11 (AQ) to 7 X 10 (A5); switched duplication to Xerox.
75	December 1968	72	"	Goes on hiatus for a decade
76	June 1980		Marty Cantor & Mike Gunderloy	Titled "Shaggy"
77	October 1980		Marty Cantor & Mike Glyer	Titled "Shaggy"
78	1982		Cantor & Mark R. Sharpe	Titled "Shaggy"
79	1983		Mark R. Sharpe

Shangri L'Affaires (Series 3, commonly called "Volume C", 1985-1997)

After a year-and-a-half, a final series was created containing another 8 issues.

Issue	Date	Pages	Editor	Notes
Vol C #1	Christmas, 1985
Vol C #2	Spring 1986	24	Charles Lee Jackson II
Vol C #3	1986	24	"
Vol C #4	Summer 1987	36	"
Vol C #5	Autumn 1988	28	"
Vol C #6	1989		"
Vol C #7	Winter 1992	24	"
Vol C #8	Autumn 1997	24	"

A single issue labeled Series 3, No. 1, was published by Ed Cox in the mid-’60s, apparently just to throw archivists off.

Shangri L'Affaires (Special Issues)

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
Pacificon edition	July 1946	6
Meretritious (Christmas Art Supplement #1)	December 1959		ed. Bjo Trimble. Multi-color printing.
Christmas Art Supplement #2	December 1960		ed. Ron Ellik. Art & fiction
Holiday Art Supplement #3	December 1961		"
1961 Calendar Supplement	1961		ed. Bjo Trimble
1963 Christmas Art Supplement	1963
1968 Christmas Art Supplement	1968		ed. Ken Rudolph and Jim Schumacher
Shangri L'Affaires Art Supplement	n.d.		ed. Ron Ellik

• Shangri L'Affaires online at fanac.org
• Shangri-LA online at fanac.org

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