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''(Did you mean [[Donald C. Thompson]], chairman of [[Denvention 2]], or [[Don Thompson (comics)|Donald A. Thompson]], the comics fan?)''


(January 25, 1904 – November 7, 1979)

'''Donald Burton Thompson''', a [[fan]] who lived in [[Louisiana]] during the early 1940s, was active beginning in the 1930s as a [[prozine]] [[letterhack]], and [[published]] the [[FAPAzine]] ''[[Phanny]]'' (later ''[[Phanteur]]''). He was often referred to in [[fandom]] as '''D. B. Thompson''', under which [[penname|sobriquet]] he sold a story, “Eccentric Orbit,” to the March 1941 ''[[Astounding]]''. 

He wrote extensively for ''[[Le Zombie]]'', where [[Tucker]] [[nicknamed]] him “'''Donna Belle'''”; Bob also [[tuckerized]] him in ''The Chinese Doll'' (1946). 

He originated the phrase “[[Fandom is a Way of Life]]” in [[FAPA]] in 1943.  

Thompson had a [[membership]] in [[Chicon]], the 1940 [[Worldcon]]. He was a charter member of the [[N3F]] in 1941.

He eventually moved to [[Nebraska]]. 

* Founding Member article in the [https://fanac.org/fanzines/TNFF/TNFF-7711.pdf November 2018 issue] of ''[[The National Fantasy Fan]]'', p. 6.
* [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?11987 Bibliography at ISFDB. ]
* [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74665812/donald-b-thompson Donald B. Thompson at FindaGrave.]

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* ''[[Phanny]]'' (for [[FAPA]])
* ''[[Phanteur]]'' (for FAPA)
* ''[[Phanteur Estivator]]'' [1948]


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