Pacificon Combozine

Publisher:		Organising Committee Fourth World Science Fiction Convention, Los Angeles.
Date of publication:		March 1946.
Binding:		Softcover.
Number of pages:		81 Pages.

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Pacificon Combozine was a science fiction fanzine collection issued for the Pacificon Convention in July 1946.

Includes art work by Virgil Finlay, Ray Harryhausen, Alva Rogers, and Jack Riggs.

Pacificon was the 4th Worldcon, held July 4 to the 7th, 1946. Pacificon Combozine, the Fourth World Sci-Fi Convention Combozine, i.e. program and magazine, was created specially for the occasion. Each fanzine editor was requested in Pacificon Convention News #1 to submit 4 to 6 pages, plus covers, of a special edition of their fanzine, either new material or reprints, on 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper, to be assembled alphabetically with the other fanzines, with a special commemorative cover.

Pacificon Combozine comprised 22 zines.

• The Atomic Age, by Arthur Louis Joquel II.
• Atres Artes, by Harold W. Cheney, Jr.
• Black Flames, by Jim-E. (Virginia) Daugherty.
• Chanticleer, by Walt Leibscher.
• En Garde, by Abby Lu Ashley and Al Ashley.
• Fan, by Walter J. Daugherty.
• Fanews, by Walt Dunkelberger.
• Five Fingers.
• Guteto, by Myrtle Douglas (Morojo).
• Ichor, by Dale Hart.
• Lethe, by Jack Riggs.
• Le Zombie, by Wilson 'Bob' Tucker.
• Martian News Letter.
• Matters of Opinion, by Jack Speer.
• Phanteur, by D.B. Thompson.
• Plenum, by Milton A Rothman.
• Psycho.
• Shangri L'Affaires, published by LASFS.
• The Timebinder, by E. Everett Evans.
• 2B or Not 2B by Ron Maddox.
• Vombozine, by Forrest J Ackerman and Myrtle Douglas (Morojo).
• Wolf Fan.

Featured also are short stories and fan fiction by Ray Bradbury (Futuria Fantasia), Jay Edwards, Jack Riggs, and E.J. Wyers, and poetry by Chan Davis, James Russell Gray, Dale Hart, and Philip Schumann (Frontier), with reprints of work by William Blake.

Reference:
Pacificon Convention News #1.