The Science Fiction Fan

(Did you mean a fan or a Bob Madle and John V. Baltadonis fanzine?)

A late-1930s, early-’40s fanzine published by Olon F. Wiggins, often called SFFan or just SFF. It was part of Cosmic Publications, and featured Sam Moskowitz, Don Wollheim, and Jack Speer as contributors. Many of Speer's IPO polls were distributed in SFFan. The contents tended to be mostly factual articles and essays, but there was some fiction. It was the largest fanzine of its era.

Both Wollheim and Moskowitz were listed as contributing editors through September 1938. Wiggins (living in Denver) seems to have tried to steer clear of the New York City feuds between them, though perhaps favoring the Moskowitz side, but in September, he announced that he would no longer by publishing anything by SaM and thereafter the fanzine was dominated by the Futurians.

A detailed, retrospective review by Jon D. Swartz of the May, 1940 (Volume 4, No. 10) issue was published in Scientifiction: The First Fandom Report for Fall, 2003.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	July 1936	10
2	August 1936	10
3	September 1936	12
4	October 1936	16
5	April 1937	10
6	May 1937	12
7	June 1937	16
8	July 1937	24
9	August 1937	20
10	September 1937	20
11	October 1937	20
12	November 1937	20
13	December 1937	20
14	January 1938	20
15	January 1938
16	January 1938
17	January 1938	24
18	February 1938	24
19	March 1938	24
20	April 1938	20
21	May 1938	24
22	1938
23	June 1938	20
24	July 1938	50
25	August 1938	20
26	September 1938	20
27	October 1938	20
28	November 1938	20
29	December 1938	20
30	January 1939	20
31	1939
32	March 1939	20
33	April 1939	20
34	May 1939	20
35	June 1939	20
36	July 1939	12
37	August 1939	18
38	September 1939	20
39	October 1939	22
40	November 1939	20
41	December 1939	20
42	January 1940	20
43	February 1940	16
44	March 1940	20
45	April 1940	20
46	May 1940	20
47	June 1940	20
48	July 1940	60
49	August 1940	20
50	September 1940	20
51	October 1940	20
52	November 1940	20
53	January 1941	24
54	1941
55	February 1941	20	Final issue

The Science Fiction Fan online at fanac.org

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Publication

1936—1941

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