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fanmag en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈfæn.mæɡ/

Etymology

Blend of fan (“an admirer or aficionado”) + magazine.

Meanings

1. (dated, slang) Magazine produced by amateurs for readers with a specific shared interest.
   • The advertising value of fanzines to promags is negligible, for the simple reason that anyone in sufficient contact with STF to read fanmags knows all about the prozines. 1952 November, Algis Budrys, Planet Stories, volume 5, number 9, page 111:
   • People who put out worthless fanmags and try and soak the unwary fan 25¢ for them, people who sell back issue magazines at outrageous prices, people who put out offset, super-duper printed professional type fanzines ... all give me a large pain in the neck. 1955 January, Bob Stewart, “Abstractions”, in Abstract, number 9, page 38:
   • The first issue of a fanmag from the southern-most post of Australian science fiction is good. 1941 April 6, Futurian Observer, number 33, page 1:
   • LeZ plans, in the future, to print these Cullings regularly, from foreign fanmags, or American mags of small circulation, in the belief that you might otherwise not see the material. 1940 April, Wilson "Bob" Tucker, “Cullings”, in Le Zombie, number 27, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2013, page 3:
   • Arthur Widner Jr., editor of the Strangers Club's FANFARE, is plugging the word "fanzines" to take the place of the Philadelphian's "fanag" and the usual "fanmag". Incidentally, FANFARE is the neatest, most legible, and cleanest of any hectographed fanzine I have yet seen. In two colors too, into the bargain. 1941 March, Leslie A. Croutch, “Clippings from Canada”, in Futurian War Digest, volume 1, number 6, page 4:

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Synonyms

fanzine