““Pulp devotees did not invent the word fan (derived from the Latin fanaticus , "possessed by divine madness") but they established the first fandom in the modern sense with its own elaborate customs, art forms, specialized jargon, conventions, and absurdly bombastic internecine warfare. Sam Moskowitz's 1954 chronicle of the early days of fandom, The Immortal Storm , inspired one critic to quip, "If read directly after a history of World War II, it does not seem like an anti-climax.””
