1984 FORREST J ACKERMAN letter on WEIRD TALES letterhead when he was the editor!

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Vintage original 30 May 1984 letter from FORREST J ACKERMAN on his then new WEIRD TALES stationary! 8 1/2 x 11, one page. Formerly folded in thirds but stored flat for many years. A piece of history which should have been!
In 1984 there was a revival of WEIRD TALES magazine. It lasted only two issues and the man who actually printed those issues told me himself that there were only 2500 copies printed of #1 and 1200 of #2 (which is why #2 is so hard to find). But the story behind the magazine is even more amazing. The publisher was a local Los Angeles distributor (not even a national distributor) and although Forry Ackerman was originally to be the editor (he helped put the revival together) the publisher abruptly decided that because Forry's name was associated with FAMOUS MONSTERS (which had recently ceased publication) that he wasn't suited for a classy magazine like WEIRD TALES, so instead they fired Forry and replaced him with someone no one ever heard of as the editor, and he managed the magazine so poorly that it collapsed after two issues. I heard this all first hand from Forry Ackerman himself and from Robert Weinberg who (along with a partner) owned the WEIRD TALES trademark and who didn't even know a second issue had been published until I told him about it (Weinberg was supposed to be paid a fee when each issue was published). I wrote about all this in an issue of LOCUS way back when and I also revealed that the cover of issue #2 was an art swipe from a photo in a Victoria's Secret catalog (a fact revealed to me by artist Dave Stevens, who collected those catalogs). But before Forry was unceremoniously dismissed as editor, he wrote letters like the one here.
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