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'''The Timebinder''' was a science fiction fanzine by E.E. Evans.
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[[Image:Timebinder_EEEvans_1945_Vol1No2_copy.jpg‎|right|frame|'''The Timebinder'''<br/>Volume 1, No. 2 1945]]
  
Published in the 1940s, ''The Timebinder'' was a mimeographed fanzine.  
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'''The Timebinder''' was a mimeographed science fiction fanzine edited and published by E. Everett Evans from Battle Ground, Michigan, U.S.A, and later from Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
  
The first issue was published in 1944 in Battle Creek, Michigan, U.S.A. Volume 1 #2, and #3 were released in Battle Creek in 1945. Contributors of writing to issue 3 included Helen Wesson ([[The (Unspeakable) Thing]]).  
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Seven issues were published from 1944 to 1946, though the first and last issues each had a variant edition.
  
Volume 2, #3 appeared from Tendril Towers in Los Angeles, California, in 1946. Contributors of writing included Charles Hornig, and Gus Willmorth. The cover was off-set printed with art by Jack Weidenbeck.  
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The first issue appeared in late 1944 and consisted of 26 pages of sercon prose by Evans. A second edition of this first issue appeared in early 1945.
  
Contributors to other issues included [[Louis Russell Chauvenet]], among others.
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Issue #1.2 appeared in April 1945 and contained nonfiction by Donn P. Brazier ([[Frontier]]) and Mrs. David Newton, and poetry by Willis A. Boughton and William Ernest Henly. It also printed letters from [[Joe Kennedy]] ([[Joe's Jottings]]), [[Louis Russell Chauvenet]], Dale Tarr ([[The Science Fiction World]]), Raymond Washington Jr. ([[Scientifun]]), David Newton, Boughton, and others.
  
Along with [[Atres Artes]], [[Black Flames]], [[Chanticleer]], [[En Garde]], [[Guteto]], [[Ichor]], [[Le Zombie]], [[Lethe]], [[Nova (1940s)|Nova]], [[Shangri L'Affaires]], and [[Voice of the Imagi-Nation]], ''The Timebinder'' was included in the anthology fanzine [[Pacificon Combozine]] for the 1946 Pacificon Fourth World Science-Fiction Convention.  
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Issue #1.3 came out in July of 1945. Contributors of writing included Helen Wesson ([[The (Unspeakable) Thing]]). The fourth issue was released by the end of 1945.
  
From 1941 till 1943, E.E. Evans was one of the co-editors of [[Nova (1940s)|Nova]], along with Abby Lu and Al Ashley, and Jack Weidenbeck. In 1945 he became the first editor of [[The National Fantasy Fan]].
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The fifth issue, #2.1, was published in early 1946. About half the issue was taken up by a 15-page letter from Chauvenet. This issue also reprinted poetry by William Blake. #2.2 came out in the summer of 1946.
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The final issue, volume 2, number 3, appeared from Tendril Towers in Los Angeles, California, in 1946. Contributors of writing included Joe J. Fortier ([[Starlight (1941)|Starlight]]), Charles D. Hornig ([[The Fantasy Fan]]), and Gus Willmorth ([[Fantasy Advertiser]]). Also featured were poems by Donald B. Thompson ([[Other Tracks]], [[Phanteur]]) and Ollie Vane, and letters from Russell Woodman ([[Triton]]) and others. The cover was off-set printed with art by Jack Weidenbeck.
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Along with [[Atres Artes]], [[Black Flames]], [[Chanticleer]], [[En Garde]], [[Guteto]], [[Ichor]], [[Le Zombie]], [[Lethe]], [[Nova (1940s)|Nova]], [[Shangri L'Affaires]], and [[Voice of the Imagi-Nation]], ''The Timebinder'' was included in the anthology fanzine [[Pacificon Combozine]] for the 1946 Pacificon Fourth World Science-Fiction Convention. (The Combozine version, numbered 2.3A, consisted of only 8 pages, whereas the regular version, numbered simply 2.3, contained the full 32 pages.)
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From 1941 until 1943, E.E. Evans was one of the co-editors of [[Nova (1940s)|Nova]], along with Abby Lu and Al Ashley, and Jack Weidenbeck. He also edited issue #2.1 of the zine [[Bonfire]], the first official publication of The National Fantasy Fan Federation (NFFF), for October 1942, and then returned after a two-issue hiatus, to edit issues #3.1 through #3.8 from May to December of 1944. With issue #4.1, in January 1945, TNFF retitled its offical organ to [[The National Fantasy Fan]]; Evans remained editor for the first five monthly issues under this new title.
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In 1941, Evans also published ''A Digest of a Talk Given by E. Everett Evans at the 1941 Denvention'', and in 1946, with Dale Hart, Evans published ''Tomorrow on the March'', A.E. van Vogt's Guest of Honor speech from Pacificon.
  
 
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The Timebinder
Volume 1, No. 2 1945

The Timebinder was a mimeographed science fiction fanzine edited and published by E. Everett Evans from Battle Ground, Michigan, U.S.A, and later from Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Seven issues were published from 1944 to 1946, though the first and last issues each had a variant edition.

The first issue appeared in late 1944 and consisted of 26 pages of sercon prose by Evans. A second edition of this first issue appeared in early 1945.

Issue #1.2 appeared in April 1945 and contained nonfiction by Donn P. Brazier (Frontier) and Mrs. David Newton, and poetry by Willis A. Boughton and William Ernest Henly. It also printed letters from Joe Kennedy (Joe's Jottings), Louis Russell Chauvenet, Dale Tarr (The Science Fiction World), Raymond Washington Jr. (Scientifun), David Newton, Boughton, and others.

Issue #1.3 came out in July of 1945. Contributors of writing included Helen Wesson (The (Unspeakable) Thing). The fourth issue was released by the end of 1945.

The fifth issue, #2.1, was published in early 1946. About half the issue was taken up by a 15-page letter from Chauvenet. This issue also reprinted poetry by William Blake. #2.2 came out in the summer of 1946.

The final issue, volume 2, number 3, appeared from Tendril Towers in Los Angeles, California, in 1946. Contributors of writing included Joe J. Fortier (Starlight), Charles D. Hornig (The Fantasy Fan), and Gus Willmorth (Fantasy Advertiser). Also featured were poems by Donald B. Thompson (Other Tracks, Phanteur) and Ollie Vane, and letters from Russell Woodman (Triton) and others. The cover was off-set printed with art by Jack Weidenbeck.

Along with Atres Artes, Black Flames, Chanticleer, En Garde, Guteto, Ichor, Le Zombie, Lethe, Nova, Shangri L'Affaires, and Voice of the Imagi-Nation, The Timebinder was included in the anthology fanzine Pacificon Combozine for the 1946 Pacificon Fourth World Science-Fiction Convention. (The Combozine version, numbered 2.3A, consisted of only 8 pages, whereas the regular version, numbered simply 2.3, contained the full 32 pages.)

From 1941 until 1943, E.E. Evans was one of the co-editors of Nova, along with Abby Lu and Al Ashley, and Jack Weidenbeck. He also edited issue #2.1 of the zine Bonfire, the first official publication of The National Fantasy Fan Federation (NFFF), for October 1942, and then returned after a two-issue hiatus, to edit issues #3.1 through #3.8 from May to December of 1944. With issue #4.1, in January 1945, TNFF retitled its offical organ to The National Fantasy Fan; Evans remained editor for the first five monthly issues under this new title.

In 1941, Evans also published A Digest of a Talk Given by E. Everett Evans at the 1941 Denvention, and in 1946, with Dale Hart, Evans published Tomorrow on the March, A.E. van Vogt's Guest of Honor speech from Pacificon.