The Fantasy Amateur

The Fantasy Amateur is the name of the quarterly FAPA ("Fantasy Amateur Press Association") Official Organ. It began in Spring 1938 issue edited by Donald Wollheim and Frederik Pohl. It includes the official material of FAPA: Election results, ToCs, the reports of the Official Critics, etc.

Mailing	Issue	Date	OE	Pages	Notes
1		Fall 1937	John Michel
2		Winter 1937	"
3a	V1.1	Spring 1938	Fred Pohl	7
3b,4		May 1938	"
4,5		June 1938	"
6		August 1938	Don Wollheim
emergency		October 1938	"
7		Winter 1938	Milton Rothman
8		Spring 1939	"
9		Summer 1939	Milton Rothman & Bob Madle
10		Fall 1939	Walter E. Marconette
11		Spring 1940	Jack Agnew
12		Summer 1940	"
13		Fall 1940	Elmer Perdue
14		Winter 1940	"
15		Spring 1941	"
16		Summer 1941	"
17		September 1941	Louis Russell Chauvenet
18		December 1941	"
19		March 1942	"
20	V5.4	June 1942	"	10
21	V6.1	September 1942	Al Ashley	10
22	V6.2	December 1942	"	10
22		December 1942	"	1	The FA Lean-To (an addendum)
23	V6.3	March 1943	"	11
23		March 1943	"	3	FA Lean-To Annex #1
23		March 1943	"	1	FA Lean-To V1#2
24	V6.4	June 1943	"
24		July 1943	"	1	FAL-T Annex #2
24		June 1943	"	2	FA Lean-To V1#3'
25	V7.1	September 1943	"	8
26	V7.2	December 1943	R. D. Swisher	10
27	V7.3	March 1944	"
28	V7.4	June 1944	"	12
29	V8.1	September 1944	Larry Shaw	20
30	V8.2	November 1944	"	4
34	V9.2	Winter 1945	Jack Speer	6
38	V10.2	Winter 1947	Elmer Perdue	8
41	V12.1	Fall 1947	Charles Burbee	7
V33.1	November 1969	Bob Pavlat	5

• The Fantasy Amateur online at fanac.org

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Publication

1937—

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