Grue

A fanzine published by Dean Grennell and circulated through FAPA. It was nominated for the 1956 Best Fanzine Hugo.

Issue	Date	Pages	FAPA Mailing	Notes
1-14				The first 14 issues had a print run of 1 copy while Grennell was living in Germanstown
15	June 1953	6		"A truly horrid mmischmosch committed on a Rex-O-Graph, for which I should like to disclaim all responsibility."
18	Fall 1953	12		#s 1-17 were Letter substitutes
19	Winter 1953	24
20	Spring 1954	46	67
21	Summer 1954	46		In Psychotic 16, Dick Geis wrote: “This issue is noteworthy for the cover which is a picture of the creat­ure from the Black Lagoon wearing a propeller beanie and with the words "I am NOT Shelby Vick" lettered across his chest, a fascinating article by Bob Tucker which discusses Claude Degler, a fabulous fannish character of the past, a long and nicely written Midwestcon report by P. E. Economou titled "Bellefontaine Buffet"; a page long letter from Bob Bloch, a section of "nurrsery Rhymes," an account of a two week vacation trip to the West by Grennell Himself, a long and interesting letter column and ... photographs which were astonishingly put on a stencil by a process called stenofaxing. “Jim Bradley, a local Portland fan who edits a zine titled LYRIC, after seeing this issue went away muttering to himself. The absolutely per­fect mimeography in GRUE was a terrific shock to him, printed as it is in a pleasing blue. That was bad, but the stenciled photos were too much for him; his eyes glazed and he murmured the magic word 'Gestetner' as he staggered off in search of a bottle of beer.”
22	Autumn 1954	46	69
23	March 1955	53		includes short stories by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg
24	Summer 1955	30
25	November 1955	30	73
26	December 1955	22
27	February 1956	22	74
28	May 1956	50	75
29	April 1958	56	83	Last genzine issue
30	August 1962	8	100
31	August 1963	10	104
31B	August 1969			Labelled #31 -- duplicate number
32				...made up for by skipping #32
33	February 1970
34
35
36	November 1971
37	August 1973	8	144
38
NN	August 1974	1
39
40	November 1977	4
41	November 1977	4		Single-sided
42	February 1978	9		"
43	August 1979	10	168	"

There was also a joint issue with Tucker called Le Gruesome Zombie.

• Grue online at fanac.org

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959

(Grennell) Probably will prove one of the fanzines of history. Its complete genesis is worth quoting as a specimen: "In casting about for a fanzine title, I considered several: Stellar Stories, Fiasco, and Grue: The Fan's Magazine [quasi, True, The Man's Magazine, published about this time], were three I kept coming back to. I discovered that my sneaky subconscious had picked up the first from an ad in Other (ptui!) Worlds. I asked the advice of friend-and-mentor Bob Silverberg and he opined that either Fiasco or Grue would act as a deadly blight on a fanzine... in fact, why did I want to cast yet another effort into a field already sadly overcrowded? Despite this, perhaps even because of it, I clung to Grue as a title. Sometime in January of 1953 I drew up a tentative cover for it, bearing a picture of a little man in a spacesuit standing beside his rocket in a moon-crater, about to light a fuse trailing out the bottom of it. I stuck this to the wall for a while and later, as I finished writing a larger-than-usual letter to someone, I put the cover picture on the front of the letter, stapled it down the left margin, and so Grue was born. [Trumpets off.] "So went the first fourteen copies; all custom-made, with hand-drawn illos, tipped-in photos, etc. Number fifteen was a four-page kind of one-shot done on a spirit duplicator. 16&17 reverted to typed originals again and when I got into FAPA in the fall of 1953 I decided to keep the title as a FAPAzine, so it appeared there as #18. All issues since then have been consecutively published -- from 20 onwards with the use of Gestetner in blue on white. There have been a few custom issues of Grue since then, but these are given fractional numbers to fit them in between the published issues, as 'GRUE #25 1/2'." -- Dean Grennell.

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Publication

1953—1979

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