Operation Fantast Handbook

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Annual guide to the fandom and SF world published by Ken Slater as part of Operation Fantast in 1951 through 1953.

Issue / Date Pages Notes
1951 24 (?) Year abbreviated as '51 on the cover (art by Alan Hunter, head of Fantast's starting Fanart Club, see p. 19; small inner art by Peter Ridley and "American fan-artist Mrs. A. G. Archer"); "compiled in May, 1951 […] by Capt. K. F. Slater". 20 inner pages, numbered nonstandardly from "(2)" on first recto to "(21)" on last verso, plus covers (advertisement on the back for Cansfield Bros (Maps) Ltd., Litho & Letterpress Printers, "productions similar to this", Planet Works, Bradford; inner sides empty). Mistakenly listed as 13-page at Fanac.org as the scan is by double-page spreads due to little format.
1952 40
1953 68 (Uannounced) final issue; for contents see below; numbering standard from contents on 1 to last verso 64; "compiled in Feb-March 1953 […] by K. F. Slater", but "Capt." retained in the "Editorial Address" as it was to his military unit. Cover by Ken McIntyre, inner art Les Chapman, David Wood. Similar Cansfield/Planet advert on bacover.

Issue 3 contained (some items of the contents page are not listed below, and some pages were taken up by adverts):

  • Operators' address list, p. 3
  • Clubs and societies, pp. 6–11
  • Conventions, p. 14
  • A Word about Fanzines by Walter A. Willis, p. 16
  • Society and Amateur Publications, p. 17–21
  • Literary Agents, p. 27
  • Operation Fantast Trading Bureau, p. 29
  • Current magazines, pp. 30–5
  • Dead magazines, pp. 36–7
  • Dealers, pp. 48–9
  • Libraries, p. 50
  • Science fiction book clubs, p. 62

Operation Fantast Handbook online at fanac.org


Publication 19511953
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