Talk:Forrest J Ackerman

message: I believe that "the now legendary Clifton’s Cafeteria Science Fiction Club" is the same as the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, which Ackerman was a founding member of and which met at Clifton's Cafeteria during the late 1930s.  Technically, it was the Los Angeles Science Fiction League (or the Los Angeles chapter of the Science Fiction League) from 1934 to 1940, when it voted to secede from the SFL and become an independent club.  
Ackerman has told me personally that his middle name is James but that he prefers to use the initial J only without a period.75.25.28.114 15:26, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clifton's Cafeteria

message: I made some copy edit on Jan. 12 (UTC).  In addition to the usual link work, I edited some sentences for flow and to reduce excess verbiage: many sentences were basically running lists.  I removed two sentences about actors he knew and writers he corresponded with, since that is not really notable or important, given that his stature is large enough that such acquaintances and correspondence is completely expected and unsurprising.
Mentor to directors:  I almost removed the claim that "he served as a mentor" to a large list of famous film directors, and I still think we should remove it.  In the interim, I have put a citation-needed tag on it.  I think the claim is an exaggeration, both in the number of directors and in the degree of influence, since "mentor" implies roles of teacher and close associate and also implied a great deal of influence.
First Hugo:  I changed that to first Hugo for best fan writer.
Perry Rhodan series:  I reduced the verbiage and removed the non-neutral-PoV (nNPoV) "unfortunately".
Appearances:  Merged redundant material from above into this section and reduced verbiage ("e.g.").
See also section:  The lists are not specifically related to Ackerman so I removed the section.
In summary, I think the article as I found it had nNPoV over-awed fan cruft in it that I tried to eliminate.  Hu 01:37, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Jan. 12, 2006 Copy Edits

message: As a 52-y-o SF fan myself I have long known this, but stretching out my right arm to pick up Clute & Nicholls's xxxvi + 1,370-page The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Orbit, London 1993) and leafing to the entry (by Malcolm J Edwards and John Clute) for Ackerman, Forrest James on pp 3-4, I find:
:'. . . as early as 1932 served as associate editor of The Time Traveller, the first fanzine. For many decades thereafter he wrote stories and articles prolifically for fan journals - using his own name and a wide variety of elaborate pseudonyms . . . - and becoming known in fan circles as "Mr Science Fiction"; he won . . .'
I hope this is sufficiently authoritative confirmation of this minor matter. Apologies for lacking the wiki-fu to edit and add references myself.
Sadly, as I write the breaking news is that Forry is very ill, so this article may need further updating soon; I am sure many others will be far more qualified than I. 87.81.230.195 (talk) 22:31, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not a particularly experienced editor, either, but I did my best to add a reference to this sad news in an appropriate place. --Happypete (talk) 02:13, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "Mr Science Fiction" citation request

message: I just stopped to read this entry after hearing of Mr. Ackerman's passing and was struck by what a gross understatement, to say the least, is contained in the opening sentence.  "Forrest J Ackerman (November 24, 1916 - December 4, 2008)[1] was an American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and a science fiction fan."  Forry Ackerman was certainly both a collector and fan, but he was so incredibly much more to American science fiction - a writer, an actor (albeit bit roles), a literary agent, and probably the foremost promoter of the genre throughout the 20th century.  I'm hopeful that, in the course of folks looking at this over the next few days, that someone will craft an appropriate opening sentence that suitably acknowledges the gentleman's contributions to the field.Irish Melkite (talk) 21:11, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Gross Understatement

message: Hi, I can't access the FJA page because it's semi-protected and I'm new to Wikipedia. But I'd like to have an award added to FJ's list..
In 1999, he was awarded the very first Mangled Skyscraper Award by the Godzilla Society of North America at their annual G-FEST.
To whoever posts this, thanks. Muklapta (talk) 06:14, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, no. Non-notable award by non-notable organization. --Orange Mike  |  Talk 20:08, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Could someone add to FJA's page for me?

message: Someone needs to remove THE POWER from the list of films in which Forry appears.  He did shoot a scene for that George Pal production, but it never made it into the final print.  Pal gave the footage to Forry, and it "lived" in his refrigerator for years.==Bill Warren  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.93.27.121 (talk) 01:26, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This was done. --John Vandenberg (chat) 12:18, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The power

message: Ackerman created and edited three other magazines, all relatively short lived: Spacemen, which was dedicated to science fiction, Screen Thrills Illustrated, which was dedicated to movie serials and other adventure movies, and Favorite Westerns of Filmland (retitled Wildest Westerns with issue #3).   The first issue of Spacemen has a September 1961 cover date, the first issue of Screen Thrills Illustrated was published with a June 1962 cover date, and the first issue of Favorite Westerns of Filmland has a May 1960 cover date.
References:
1.  http://www.moviemags.com/main.php?title=SPACEMEN&etos=1961 .  Accessed on 2/19/2010. 
2.  http://www.moviemags.com/main.php?title=SCREEN%20THRILLS%20ILLUSTRATED&etos=1962 . Accessed on 2/19/2010. 
3.  http://www.moviemags.com/main.php?title=FAVORITE%20WESTERNS%20OF%20FILMLAND&etos=% .  Accessed on 2/19/2010.
--Zoetmb (talk) 04:38, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Was Ackerman really the "creator and editor" of all three of these titles?  The above referenced pages at moviemags.com only identify them as Warren magazines.  Harvey Kurtzman was the editor of Favorite Westerns, according to "The Warren Companion" (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2001, pg. 224).  Can someone confirm Ackerman's involvement before this data is considered for the main entry? The News Hound 07:11, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: My clippings from Spacemen list Forrest J. Ackerman as editor. My copies of Spacemen Apr 1962 Vol 1 No 3, and Oct 1962, Vol 2 No 1, lists Forrest J. Ackerman as "editor-in-orbit and writer to the stars" and James Warren as "interstellar publisher". The paper, fonts, artwork, puns, all match Famous Mosters of Filmland with the Ackerman touch over all. --Naaman Brown (talk) 18:52, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

text: Perhaps more explicitly, there was Forrest J Ackerman's Monsterland that ran for about a year and a half. Forry was the explicit, credited editor of that one. I've been somewhat baffled to find it entirely unacknowledged anywhere I can see on Wikipedia FangsFirst (talk) 23:34, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Other Magazines by Ackerman

message: fyi -- Forry: The Life of Forrest J Ackerman by Deborah Painter
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: McFarland (November 15, 2010)
Language: English
69.111.194.167 (talk) 18:09, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  biography 

message: Folks, I am aware that for a good number of years, Forry's real name has been thought to be Forrest J (without a period) Ackerman or Forrest James Ackerman.  However, I have been reading a fascinating full length biography called Forry by Deborah Painter.  In Ms. Painter's book, Forry's birth name was given as Forrest Clark Ackerman.  That really blew my mind.  Shouldn't we revise this article to correct his birth name?  If it is correct that Forry's name is really Forrest Clark Ackerman, could anyone explain why his name was changed to Forrest J (without a period) Ackerman?  I am really interested in what others have to say about this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.6.240.34 (talk) 17:13, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Forrest Clark Ackerman???

message: Does anyone know what high school he attended. If he know Bradbury and Harryhausen, he must have gone to a high school in Los Angeles. I asked Wendayne once, but she wasn't very clear at the time.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.250.67.148 (talk) 23:44, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: HIS HIGH SCHOOL?

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message: Would it be appropriate to add mention of this?  At least one first-person incident is covered here, and it has gotten mention here and here as well.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.230.232.119 (talk) 17:58, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Allegations of inappropriate behavior? 

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