Comet

(Did you mean a different Comet?)

A genzine published by Tom Wright with Joe Fortier in 1940–1.

The Denventioneer issue is not numbered or dated, but Fanac.org says "presumed to be issue 5 based on Pavlat Evans list" (those in 1952 added a note "One report says this issue not distributed, another (in ’’Twighlight Echoes,” [sic!] Win 44, p4) calls it a convention issue.") and dates it March 1941. This corresponds to the internal evidence:

• On p. 3 Wright says he "meant to send out a small hectoed issue of THE COMET as a Xmas greeting, but (…) the hecto didn't work" and thanks "all those that sent me greetings"
• He also starts the editorial "I suppose for many of you this is the first glimpse at THE COMET" and plugs the Denvention, listing "quite a few fans from the bay district here in California" who would attend, and asks "Will I see you there?"
• On the contents page he says "Since THE COMET has gone quarterly, the next (spring) issue will be the First Anniversay Issue" with extra length and production values but dependent on advertising. Clearly, this never materialised, so the zine ceased completely instead.

All this would also suggest that the The Denventioneer, at least as planned by that time, was not supposed to be a combozine distributed at the Denvention itself, but by mail some time in advance. Of course, more research is required.

Issue	Date	Pp	Notes
1	January 1940	24
2	March 1940	24
3	May-June 1940	20	switched from hecto to mimeo. Pp. 5–12 Harry Warner Jr.'s story "Horror's Cellar"
4	October? 1940	30	number and month in parentheses in the Evans-Pavlat
The Denventioneer Comet	March? 1941	6	cover Bob Studley, illos Jack Fields, Tom Wright and W. T. Bell. "PAGE FOUR" (numbers spelled out in the running header) has a brief humorous article by Ray Bradbury on Martians, pp. 5–6 a story by Robert G. Thompson, "concluded on page 3"

• Comet (Wright) online at fanac.org

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Publication

1940—1941

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