Los Angeles, California: The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, May 1946 (whole number 30). Large octavo (8 1/2 x 11 inches), single issue, mimeographed, self wrappers, stapled. The club magazine of The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. The first issue, titled SHANGRI-LA, was dated March-April 1940. Following the third issue (dated July 1941), the magazine changed its name to SHANGRI-L'AFFAIRES (38 issues were published under this title between December 1941 and November 1947). The name reverted to SHANGRI-LA with the issue dated January-February 1948 (as did the numbering of the issues). This long-running fanzine was revived in the late 1950s as SHANGRI-L'AFFAIRES and was one of the most important of the amateur magazines published during the 1950s and 1960s. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 106-07. Warner, All Our Yesterdays, pp. 285-86. Text paper age-darkened, staples removed, holes punched in left margins for three-ring binder, a very good copy. (#92573).
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