Shangri L'Affaires

Shangri L'Affaires is the official organ of the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society.

Published in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., Shangri L'Affaires is a long running zine with a number of editors at different times in its history. It is regarded as a focal point fanzine around which fandom could gather.

The first issue appeared in March 1940 and was published by Forrest J. Ackerman and Walt Daugherty. It was a split zine and was alternately backed with The Damn Thing, Polaris and Voice of the Imagi-Nation throughout 1941. Other editors in the 1940s were Arthur Joquel (1942-1943, 1944), Phil Bronson (1943), Charles Burbee (1944-1947), Gerald Hewett (1945), Dale Hart (1948), E.E. Evans (1949) and Len Moffatt (1949).

In the 1950s, it was edited by Fred Hershey (1950), Rick Sneary (1951), Djinn Faine (1958-1959) and Al Lewis (1959).

In the 1960's, the editors were John Trimble and Bjo Trimble (1960-1961). Fred Patten (1961), Steve Tolliver(1963), Redd Boggs (1963-1943), Ted Johnstone(1965), Ken Rudolph (1968)>

Contributions included a column by Richard Bergeron (Warhoon).

Contributions of art work came from Richard Bergeron, Tim Kirk and Bill Rotsler.

Other contributors included Len Atkins, Len Bailes, John Berry, Larry Janifer and Ted Johnstone. [[Category{1950's publications]]