• Publication: Temper!, Vol. 1, #2, July 1945Publication Record # 497314 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editor: Judy Zissman
• Date: 1945-07-00
• Pages: [1]+4+[1]
• Format:
  ph^?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications.
• Type: FANZINE
• Cover: Temper!, Vol. 1, #2, July 1945 by Judith Merril [as by Judy Zissman]
• Notes:

  • Cover says "Temper! The Family Magazine" (with "Family" underlined).
  • "Vol. 1. No. 2"
  • 5 sheets, stapled: [1] = Cover, poem on the reverse; [2]-[4] are each printed on one side only (pages 1-3); [5] is printed on both sides: p. 4 and an unnumbered page, (page 5) which contains the conclusions of the essays on pp 3 & 4. First and last pages are on slightly heavier paper than the other pages.
  • Items are not individually credited, but the entire contents are credited to "Judy Zissman", i.e. the future Judith Merril.
  • As with issue #1, the running header changes. On p. 1-2 (with a 2-page essay): "Temper! A Journal of Critical Review"; on p. 3: "Temper? The True Experience Magazine" (Question mark deliberate); on p. 4: "Temper! The Quarterly of Creative Sociology".

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• [i] • Vision • poem by Judith Merril [as by Judy Zissman]
• 1 • Pamphleteering, Peoples, and Politics • essay by Judith Merril [as by Judy Zissman]
• 3 • Gansevoort St. • essay by Judith Merril [as by Judy Zissman]
• 4 • A Study on the Peculiarities and Customs of Homo Saps, Species: Civilized; Genus: Pipe-Smoker; Sex: Male • essay by Judith Merril [as by Judy Zissman]