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	Date	Pages	FAPA mailing	Notes
1 V1.1	December 1943	17	26
2 V1.2	June 1944	16	29
3 V1.3	September 1944	17	26
4 V1.4	December 1944	20	30A
5 V1.5	Winter 1944	32	30BV
6 V1.6	Spring 1945	32	31
7 V1.7	Summer 1945	34	32
8 V1.8	Fall 1945	36	33
9 V1.9	Winter 1945	34	34
10 V1.10	Spring 1946		35
11 V1.11	Spring 1946	36	36
12 V1.12	Fall 1946	28	37
13 V2.1	Winter 1946-47	26	38
14 V2.2	Spring 1947	34	39
15 V2.3	Summer 1947	36	40
16 V2.4	Fall 1947	36	41
17 V2.5	Winter 1948	38	42
18 V2.6	Spring 1948	38	43
19 V2.7	Summer 1948	40	44
20 V2.8	Fall 1948	40	45
21 V3.1	Winter 1948	34	46
22 V3.2	Spring 1949	30	47
23 V3.3	Summer 1949	30	48
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	169
31 V4.3	Winter 1981	68	173
32 V4.4	Winter 1982	72	177
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	76	201
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	217
43 V7.3	Spring 1992	84	219
44 V7.4	Fall 1992	84	225
45&46 V8.1&2	Winter 1993-94	148	229
47&48 V8.3&4	Fall 1995	150
49 V9.1	Fall 1996	80	240
50 V9.2	Fall 1997	80	243
51 V9.3	Fall 1998	76	247
52 V9.4	Spring 2000	76	253
53&54 V10.1&2	Winter 2001	138
55&56 V10.3&4	Spring 2003	138
57&58 V11.1&2	Summer 2004	176
59&60 V11.3&4	Spring 2011	163

• Fantasy Commentator online at fanac.org

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Publication

1943—2011

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