Fantasy Commentator

A sercon fanzine edited by A. Langley Searles. It was published in two series, the first in the 40s and 50s, and the second starting in 1978.

In the first series he published The Immortal Storm, Sam Moskowitz' pioneering history of fandom between 1945 and 1952. It was also the venue for publication of Searles' bibliographies of topics such as "Science Fiction in Blue Book" and "Science Fiction in the Munsey Magazines".

Following its 1978 revival, he published it annually until 1990 and semi-annually thereafter. This later incarnation of the Commentator was noted for the series of articles which eventually became two works on the genre by Eric Leif Davin, Pioneers of Wonder: Conversations With the Founders of Science Fiction, in 1999, and Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965, 2006.

Fantasy Commentator was nominated for the 1946 Best Fanzine Retro Hugo at L.A.con III in 1996.

Issue	Volume	Date	Pages
1	V1.1	1943
2	V1.2	June 1944	16
3	V1.3	September 1944
4	V1.4	December 1944	20
5	V1.5	Winter 1944	32
6	V1.6	Spring 1945	32
7	V1.7	Summer 1945	34
8	V1.8	Fall 1945	36
9	V1.9	Winter 1945	34
10	V1.10	Spring 1946
11	V1.11	Spring 1946	36
12	V1.12	Fall 1946	28
13	V2.1	Winter 1946-47	26
14	V2.2	Spring 1947	34
15	V2.3	Summer 1947	36
16	V2.4	Fall 1947	36
17	V2.5	Winter 1948	38
18	V2.6	Spring 1948	38
19	V2.7	Summer 1948	40
20	V2.8	Fall 1948	40
21	V3.1	Winter 1948	34
22	V3.2	Spring 1949	30
23	V3.3	Summer 1949	30
24	V3.4	Winter 1949	30
25	V3.5	Winter 1951	36
26	V3.6	Spring 1952	36
27	V3.7	Spring 1953	30
28	V3.8	Fall 1953	30
29	V4.1	Winter 1978-79	48
30	V4.2	Winter 1979-80	76
31	V4.3	Winter 1981	68
32	V4.4	Winter 1982	72
33	V5.1	Winter 1983	76
34	V5.2	Winter 1984	76
35	V5.3	Fall 1985	76
36	V5.4	Fall 1986	78
37	V6.1	Fall 1987
38	V6.2	Fall 1988	80
39	V6.3	Summer 1989	80
40	V6.4	Winter 1989	80
41	V7.1	Fall 1990	76
42	V7.2	Fall 1991	84
43	V7.3	Spring 1992	84
44	V7.4	Fall 1992	84
45&46	V8.1&2	Winter 1993-94	148
47&48	V8.3&4	Fall 1995	150
49	V9.1	Fall 1996	80
50	V9.2	Fall 1997	80
51	V9.3	Fall 1998	76
52	V9.4	Spring 2000	76
53&54	V10.1&2	Winter 2001	138
55&56	V10.3&4	Spring 2003	138
57&58	V11.1&2	Summer 2004	176

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