Bill Venable

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Bill Venable, a Pennsylvania fan, was most active in the 1950s. He was President of the N3F in 1953, and part of Fanvariety Enterprises. He also wrote a few stories for the SF pulp magazines.

Gafia Poetry Leaflet Series #5 was devoted to a poem of his.

He was a fanartist, too; Harlan Ellison called him a “true ‘craftsman’ of the field” of fanzine art in Sol IX.

Venable used the Pendulum Press publishing house name.

Bibliography at ISFDB.

Fanzines and Apazines:

• Aleph-Null
• Cosmos
• Fanspeak [1951]
• Gostak
• Oat-Hulls
• Pendulum
• Teilchen

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