Grue

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

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
15	June 1953	6
18	Fall 1953	12	#s 1-17 were Letter substitutes
19	Winter 1953	24
20	Spring 1954	46	in FAPA 67
21	Summer 1954	46
22	Autumn 1954	46	in FAPA 69
23	March 1955	53
24	Summer 1955	30
25	November 1955	30	in FAPA 73
26	December 1955	22
27	February 1956	22	in FAPA 74
28	October 1956	50
29	April 1958	56	Last genzine issue; in FAPA 83
30	August 1962	8	in FAPA 100
31	August 1964
31b	August 1969
33	February 1970
34
35
36	November 1971
37
38
39
40
41	November 1977	4	Single-sided
42	Fabruary 1978	9	"
43	Agust 1979	10	"

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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