Highland Park, Illinois: The Semper Sinatra Fan Club, 1945.
Price: $200.00
Softcover. Fanzine. Quarto. Two sheets folded, on inside the other, forming eight pages. Very good with creases from mailing, some oxidation marks from paper clips, and three with owner stamp on front wrap and ink mars. The second issues of this Frank Sinatra fan publication sporting a cover images of Ol' Blue Eyes with a note from the newsletter president, letters from various member, poems, trivia, and biographic information. The owner stamp of 16-year-old Vaughn Swafford of Crossville, Tennessee, who apparently mailed this issue to a friend with notes to "Send Back!!" on several pages. Sinatra's rabid fan base of bobby-soxers exploded during the war years spawning one of the earliest examples of organized fan culture predating the Elvis phenomenon and Beatlemania by more than a decade. Rare. *OCLC* locates no copies and no reference found on the web.
Item #388599
