OFFICIAL CRITICS

from Fancyclopedia 2

Appointive officials of FAPA up to the Little Interregnum of early 1945. The offices were created before it became customary for members with fanzines of their own to comment on the previous mailing; but instead of attempting to work out special functions of judgement and suggestion the OC fell into the habit of merely producing ordinary mailing comments; thus they were not missed when the reorganization of late '45 dropped them out. The chief permanent value of their reports was provision of a list of the fanzines in the preceding mailing, it not having been the practice during the first six years or so to list these in the OO which accompanied the mailing bundle.