{"id":9747,"date":"2020-04-24T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=9747"},"modified":"2021-10-09T11:44:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T15:44:52","slug":"fanzine-focus-the-pontine-dossier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2020\/04\/24\/fanzine-focus-the-pontine-dossier\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanzine Focus: &#8216;The Pontine Dossier&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2020\/04\/pontine-dossier-v2-n4.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[9747]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9828\" style=\"border: 1px solid #f0f0f0\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2020\/04\/pontine-dossier-v2-n4-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"'The Pontine Dossier' Vol. 2, No. 4 (1964)\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2020\/04\/pontine-dossier-v2-n4-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2020\/04\/pontine-dossier-v2-n4-772x1024.jpg 772w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2020\/04\/pontine-dossier-v2-n4-768x1019.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2020\/04\/pontine-dossier-v2-n4.jpg 1131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve posted several times about <strong>Solar Pons<\/strong>, a popular character inspired by <strong>Sherlock Holmes<\/strong> that was created by <strong>August Derleth<\/strong>, continued by <strong>Basil Copper<\/strong> and more recently by <strong>David Marcum<\/strong>. (I think calling him a pastiche doesn&#8217;t do him justice.)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve gotten reprints of the original works and collections of new stories, and recently we got <a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2020\/03\/13\/the-pontine-dossier-millennium-edition-vol-1-no-1\/\">the return of the scholarly journal<\/a> on Solar Pons: <em>The Pontine Dossier<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The original <em>The Pontine Dossier<\/em> came out from 1967 to 1977 for 15 issues. It was put out by the Praed Street Irregulars and PSI founder <strong>Luther Norris<\/strong>, and had articles and later short fiction on Pons and related works. The originals are hard to find, and sometimes pricey. Thankfully, you can get a CD of scans from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batteredbox.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Battered Silicon Dispatch Box<\/a>, like I did.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->At first, <em>The Pontine Dossier<\/em> came out in the form of a newsletter. In this form, each issue was 8.5- by 11-inches and four pages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vol. 1 No. 1, February 1967<\/li>\n<li>Vol. 1 No. 2, December 1967<\/li>\n<li>Vol. 1 No. 3, March 1968<\/li>\n<li>Vol. 1 No. 4, September 1968<\/li>\n<li>Vol. 2 No. 1, December 1968<\/li>\n<li>Vol. 2 No. 2, April 1969<\/li>\n<li>Vol. 2 No. 3, August 1969<\/li>\n<li>Vol. 2 No. 4, November 1969<\/li>\n<li>Vol. 2 No. 5, March 1970<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due to the length, it was basically short articles and columns, more news oriented. Then in 1970, it was revamped as a journal on a more or less annual basis, and they reset the numbering, which makes it a little confusing if you&#8217;re looking for an issue as they give just volume and issue number.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2020\/04\/pontine-dossier-v2-n1-1973.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[9747]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9830\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2020\/04\/pontine-dossier-v2-n1-1973-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"'The Pontine Dossier' Vol. 2, No. 1 (1973)\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2020\/04\/pontine-dossier-v2-n1-1973-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2020\/04\/pontine-dossier-v2-n1-1973-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2020\/04\/pontine-dossier-v2-n1-1973-768x1147.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2020\/04\/pontine-dossier-v2-n1-1973.jpg 826w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vol. 1 No. 1, Annual Edition 1970<\/li>\n<li>Vol. 1 No. 2, Annual Edition 1971<\/li>\n<li>Vol. 2 No. 1, 1973 Edition<\/li>\n<li>Vol. 2 No. 2, 1974 Edition<\/li>\n<li>Vol. 3 No. 1, 1975-76 Edition (10th Anniversary)<\/li>\n<li>Vol. 3 No. 2, 1977 Edition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this form, it was about 5- by 8-inches and about 40 pages, and all had the same cover artwork by <strong>Frank Utpatel<\/strong>, just done in different colored paper and ink. With the larger size, there was room for longer articles, more columns, and even some fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at some notable works that the new format included.<\/p>\n<p>The second and third excerpts from the notebooks of <strong>Dr. Parker<\/strong> ran in the first two issues. These were non-fiction pieces by Derleth himself, that were later reprinted elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>There were a couple of articles by SF author <strong>A.E. Van Vogt<\/strong>. And a satire of Solar Pons by <strong>Frank Thomas<\/strong>. Thomas wrote several Holmes pastiche novels, and here he creates a satire of Pons: <strong>Molar Vons<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The only replacement for <em>The Pontine Dossier<\/em> has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarpons.com\/Gazette_Home.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Solar Pons Gazette<\/em><\/a>, which is online.<\/p>\n<p>While having the CD of <em>The Pontine Dossier<\/em> scans is nice, I wish that a printed anthology, or best-of, might be done. But this is a fun read anyway. And I look forward to more issues of the new edition of the <em>Dossier<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted several times about Solar Pons, a popular character inspired by Sherlock Holmes that was created by August Derleth, continued by Basil Copper and more recently by David Marcum. (I think calling him a pastiche doesn&#8217;t do him justice.) We&#8217;ve gotten reprints of the original works and collections of new stories, and recently we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Pulp Super-Fan takes a fanzine focus on \"The Pontine Dossier.\" #solarpons #sherlockholmes","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[56,46,1,14],"tags":[631,6,418],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-9747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fanzines","category-pastiche","category-pulps","category-review","tag-pontine-dossier","tag-sherlock-holmes","tag-solar-pons"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2020\/04\/pontine-dossier-v2-n1-1973.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-2xd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9853,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions\/9853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}