Decker Dillies

from Fancyclopedia 2 ca. 1959

(More formally the Literature, Science, and Hobbies Club of Decker, Indiana). Some Mannings, Maurice Paul, and others, who maintained a startling level of fanac in their small community with their own clubhouse, files of fanzines, ktp. They published the first fanzine to feature multicolor mimeo work (previously only hekto had been used for polychrome stuff) Pluto, which had as many as five colors at times.

The full membership consisted of Marvis Manning, Vincent Manning, William Sisson, Maurice Paul, and Claude E. Davis, Jr.. The club owned a skeleton named Oscar, which its members brought with them to Chicon I.

Pluto was published five times between its launch in April 1940 and its demise in January 1941. The club disbanded due to marriage and military service, although when Dale Tarr visited in 1963, the Dillies returned a book he had loaned to them at Chicon.