Futurian War Digest

The Futurian War Digest (FWD) was a fanzine published by J. Michael Rosenblum during World War II from October, 1940 to March, 1945. It was affectionately called FIDO. It gained an extraordinary amount of notice by being regularly published for 39 issues under the most trying of times and with major paper and supply shortages. Often other fanzines were bound and mailed with FIDO. These were mostly single sheet zines that other fen published with whatever resources they could muster. Some were done on one side only - the other side possibly on printed second sheets sent by US fans or forms and flyers that were acquired by whatever means.

A review of Futurian War Digest by Harry Warner

Included fanzines:

• Bibliofan
• British Fantasy Society Bulletin
• Cosmos -- J. Edward Rennison
• Dawn Shadows -- James Parkhill Rathbone
• Delirium Tremens -- Dennis Tucker
• Fan Dance -- Sam Youd
• Galaxy -- Terry Overton
• The Gentlest Art -- Douglas Webster
• He Said -- Ron Holmes
• Interplanetary News -- Dennis Tucker
• Lamppost
• Mighty Atom -- R. Rowland Johnson
• Moonshine -- John F. Burke
• Review Section -- Ron Holmes
• Sands of Time -- Ted Carnell
• Tin Tacks -- Donald J. Doughty
• Trivia -- J. E. Rennison
• Zenith -- Harry Turner and Marion Eadie

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	October 1940	4
2	November 1940	6
3	December 1940	4
4	January 1941	7
5	February 1941	5
6	March 1941	5
7	April 1941	6
8	May 1941	6
9	June 1941	9
10	July 1941	8
11	August 1941	10
12	September 1941	7
13	October 1941	8	V2.1 (Volume numbering begins here, but is sometimes mis-numbered)
14	November 1941	6
15	December 1941	6
16	January 1942	8
17	February 1942	8
18	March 1942	8
19	April 1942	8
20	May 1942	6
21	July 1942	10
22	August 1942	7
23	October 1942	8
24	November 1942	6
25	January 1943	6
26	February 1943	9
27 V3.5	April 1943	8
28	May 1943	6
29	July 1943	10
30	August 1943	10
31	October 1943	11
32	December 1943	12
33	February 1944	12
34	April 1944	10
35 V4.5	June 1944	12
36 V4.6	August 1944	14
37 V5.1	October 1944	18
38 V5.1	December 1944	20
39	March 1945	18	Final issue

• Futurian War Digest online at fanac.org
• website=https://eFanzines.com/FWD/FWD.htm

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Publication

1940—1945

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