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(February 21, 1915 – September 30, 1996)

'''Duane Weldon Rimel''' was a [[fan]], [[poet]] and [[author]] of [[SF]], [[fantasy]], detective fiction and erotica. He bylined some of his [[fiction]] '''Rex Weldon'''. He discovered [[Lovecraft fandom]] growing up in Asotin, [[Washington State|Washington]], along with [[F. Lee Baldwin]]. (He was a semi-invalid due to inflammatory rheumatism in his early teens.) 

He was a friend of [[H. P. Lovecraft]], who helped him with his early work.  They nearly [[published]] a [[fanzine]] together, but it failed because because they couldn't make arrangements for [[repro]].  Rimel and [[Emil Petaja]] collaborated to [[publish]] the ''[[The Fantaisiste's Mirror]]'', intending to continue serializing Lovecraft's essay "[[Supernatural Horror in Literature]]" where ''[[The Fantasy Fan]]'' left off, but the [[zine]] never made it to print.

He made many linoleum cuts for ''[[The Fantasy Fan]]'' and ''[[Fantasy Magazine]]''. An interest in jazz got him acquainted with [[F. T. Laney]] and he became a contributing [[editor]] to ''[[The Acolyte]]''.

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