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Now entering Shadows Of The Night #9, a PennySaved Publication "byArnie Starkey. Said personmay be located at 3306 So. 10th, Tacoma WA.,98405* The phone number is reputed to be (206)272-2787. Suspect is shorter and stockier thanat first believed, and is considered dangerous when in contact with the English language(a very inside joke).

* Hello again to each and every one of you. This seems a little strange, to be sitting at a typer again after not having done sosince graduation. My thesis was the last thing to leave this machineand thatfs been well over four months now. Please bear with me whileI try.to get my fingers back in shape.

The past summer has been quite eventful for me. I designedand constructed a show by myself in two weeks, while finishing mythesis, studying for finals, and doing my share of the costume workfor the mainstage show. The show I designed was for a friend, off campus, and induced me to learn to construct costumes in a real hurry.I*d get to the theatre after work at about nine thirty, work on thework assigned to me till about midnight, work on my show till four,and then got up for classes the next morning. By the time finals wereover and graduation was upon us, I couldn't have cared less aboutschool. Itfs for that very reason that Ifm glad I decided to takeoff a year. I finally paid off my loans, and now have a car of my own.It is a 76 Fiat station wagon, which comes in handy for carting stuffaround. The one shadow over my graduation was the death of my lastsurviving grandparent. This was the grandmother that had raised mefor the first seven years of my life. The funeral was the day beforethe ceremonies. For months, all she had talked about was of beingat my graduation, and it will be a long time before I forgive myself for being too busy to go and see her for the previous year.

Somehow things did improve in the next few weeks, startingwith my being able to take time from work to go to San Diego Con.Both Tom and Mary were really wonderful during my stay. I was a littlenervous about the whole thing at first. I had never been to Californiabefore, nor had I ever flown, and I was going to meet a whole newgroup of people. Besides this, I really felt like I was imposingtremendously. However, I loved the flight, thought California wasgreat, and found the "gang" to be much less than intimidating.

New experiences abounded from the start. My first eveningfound me eating dinner in downtown Hollywood, and the next day I wasdriven iiiii around town by Mary and John Moore. That evening we metJon Liggett and Roy Veldboom at the airport and from there things

g. moved at an incredible pace. Some things of course stick out in mymind. There was the three hour wait to register for our rooms tobegin with, T.V.'s that had on again off again powers, an elevatorthat wouldn't stop at our floor, and even opened up between floors,mesmerized fanatics who drooled all over Wendy Pini's Wii chalkdrawing, balloon weilding maniacs who got off on crushing people Hulk-style, millions of cutesy-pie elves, peeping maids who made surprise"roomchecks",vand a Denny's where we once were waited on by the samewaitress breakfast, dinner and even for a late night snack. We sat atthe same table, and she probably thought we never left. At least Icame to that conclusion when she brought the juice Mary didn't get thatmorning when we came back at ten that night. #//£/</

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Of course there were other things that I should mention,such as meeting Brent Anderson and Terry Austin, who ate breakfastwith us one morning, picking up some original artwork, and findinga stack of comics that would have cost me a good three times more inoeattle. One of the pieces of art I brought back was a page of the'Legion by Chaykin and Austin. .

The night we got back to Long Beach allowed us to wind downsome. We stopped at the Black Angus for dinner, and it was here thatwe discovered the mammath croutons that have since been immortalizediL^ySrJSL6?^0^^!:^^; Ishould also bring "P that Mike Forresterhad iUi ft to ftto UUHiii traveled back with us, since he hadjoined up with the troup on the first day in San Diego. Let me also note555L5/5'!I5S •v51l1ivg/J/%5 truth when he reported my falling over atnttW tit it fttottoi dancing midget in the Men's room. Well, whocould blame him, it was a disco tune, and he was moving right along.*,„„.,. * The next day was spent exploring Disney Land. This was anotherlirst for me. I thoroughly enjoyed the Haunted House and Pirates of theCarnbean. The tecnology involved is absolutely astounding. Also sit-Hnf ir\ tne front car of the Space Mountain ride was an experience thatI'll not soon forget.v 4.v. j,00kin« back on the trip, there isn't one detail that shinesabove the^others. In fact, there really wasn't that much going on atthe con itself. I think it was Tom who I was talking to about the factthat it s really the people you spend time with at conventions thatmake them so worthwhile. I would like to thank again Tom, Mary, Jon,Mike, John, Roy and UM Liz Schiller for best vacation I have everhad.

The trip ended all too soon. Before I knew it, I was backat the store, which has since been re-located to the mall. I didthe props for a new theatre group in town last August. Just last weeka director form that company called and asked if I would design hisChristmas show, and I agreed. It's Winnie the Pooh, and should be alot of fun.

I have seen a few movies since school, which is something I'dbeen promising myself for a while now. So far I have seen Raiders of theLost Ark, Superman (again), Little Darlings, Private Benjamin, SeemsLike Old Times, Somewhere in Time (oh how I do love that Jane Seymour),and Fame, among others. For those of you who.might not know, Fame wasvery true to life. That film really brought back memories of class exorcises, first auditions, and friends lost in some form or another.I have been interested in such films much longer than I have known whatI was going to study in college. Before it might not have seemed sorealistic, but you would not believe the incredible life-style of performers even at the college and high school level. As a semi-experiencedJunior in college, not prone to excess, I was quite startled and frightened to be confronted by a young Sophmore actress who threatened tocommitt suicide because I had not cast her in my show. Though I wasyounger than the other directors, this was to count as my Seniordirecting project, and I had a hard time dealing with the fact that thisgirl Whted to die because of a decision I hadn't thought twice aboutat the time. Though auditions and asignments for design positions (jnmy senior year) were trying times for me, I don't think I ever let anyof it get to me the way some people did. In any case, this film wasparticularly satisfying to me.

I've added considerably to my music collection as well. Themost recently acquired were Long Distance Voyager by the Moody Blues,Fame soundtrack, Time by ELO, and Stevie Nicks' album, Belladonna. I'veenjoyed each of these.

Thats about all I have to say at the moment. Try to have MCs

SOTN #9:3

in the next mailing, as well as a few comments on the latest issues ofthe Legion, since I am finally getting caught up on my comics. Below isa reduction of a sketch I did at Mary and Tom's and a few photos fromthe con.

See you later, or talk to you...ugh, well mayhe write orread about you later. Take care.

WELCOME TO:

BAD IMPROV THEATER #1

STARRING THOSE TWO WAPA CLOWNS...JON LIGGETT AND TOM DIERBAUM!

nrirl .This ls.a sort of transcription of abit that Tom and I came up -ithand is xntended for WAPA #18 and possibly Interlac. The routine is cl«lof o-ur^SS™ J°mthan Ligg6tt ^ * bS -printed with^r"

drivinfLS1^ Came about as Toffl and I(plus Mike Forrester) weredoine^ad fLf^ !°?e^ °T aU°%heT' We had been goofing of^ andHiJ (aM sena-bed) impressions, jokes etc, Mien what followstl shltV ^ °ne tMngS thSt JUSt haPPe^.-.a^vay on withr^oT^lttl H?°U Wil1^ that tMs iS 1966« John> Paul> Ring° ^d

gT %?b0 ,£ g° on,s?ageand our nov/ in a locter room of sorts.1 am (J; and Tom is (T)

(T) Hoy uh, John. Hey Johnny! (As George)y) (as John) Yeah, George?(T) These fans have asked us to appear here.<J) Oh really?(T) Aye.(J) Should we do the new number we wrote?yj ,No' I***** thin- it would be agood idea at all. Nahy) jell, I think it's a good number.(T) (As Paul) George, maybe we should do it after allIT) (As George) Ah. Maybe you're right, Paul(J) Well, what do you think, Ringo?(J) (As Ringo—in Jon's "Animal Voice") DO IT DO IT DO IT'"J (As John) That Ringo*s a real animal.IT)(As George) Yeah, Yeah (as Paul) Yeah(J) Well, let's do it. Ready guys? Let's'count to three, one, two, ,hreeOkay,we can count let's go/(T and J sing):

"HERE WE COME,WALKIN' DOWN THE STREET.GET THE FUNNIEST LOOKS FROM,EVERYONE WE MEET.

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Alternative #6-The aeronauts-story by John Merkel/art by Tim I!iller(KirbySwipes)

Pittsburgh Comix & Fandom-fansine-Roy Thomas InterviewSum strips & such, Pitts jokess,fThe only cityin the world thatfs named after itfs sewer system,)

Fantasy Crossroads - Robt E. Howard Zine-Hanley art, Steve Fabian Art, Mercy#2 1975 illoes, Prose, Frank Cirocco, Hanley interview, Anderson

Spots, lotso Weird Howard stuff (A western??)

Green Lanterns Light! Neal Adams cover Ken Gale prose, nice art....

Fantasy Unlimited #25-April 1975 - 3ri#iish Fanzine -sum nice art by Rafa

The LEGION OUTPOST #9-1 have a few copies of this one -$1,00 @ Curt Swan cover, etc.,

Fabtasy Unlimited #27-Brirftish Zine - Silver Surfer Feature....

Fantasy Unlimted #26 - Captain Marvel issue! Superswipe art,Quotes fromChairman Beck, Bridwell, John Pierce....

Fantasy Crossroads - Ellison Fiction,Fabian, Hanley, Mercy, Cirocco art, Richard#3 May 1975 Lynn article gnd strips(American History)

*DFCFR #7-0ct 1975 - Silly Legion art by Mercy and Arrddvarrks jokes-weirdness

*The Tellurian Defense - Carl Bonadera fan fiction strip of super deeds....

The Heroine Addict #9 -Mercy cover! art byStrick, Smith,galajL S. Taylor,Chris Padovano, Rodi, Delorme,Gibson,Tom Luftft...

ThreemoreLegion Outpostfs # 9 $1.00 a pice.

Fantasy Unlimited -#28(British Fanzine) Wrightson issue.

*The Journal - Newspaper, #17, Fan 1975,Zilber column, art by Merc1.

The Heroine Addict #9 - again?!

Free FaH#4- 1973 - Personalzine, mimeo, Paul ChadwickChatter-nice to read.

PCC Annish 1975-m. Seierin Cover, all sorts of Fannish stuff inside ( addressesof all the members as of 1975)

Pittsburgh Fan Forum § 9-July 1975 - More Fannish folliesfrom Pittsburgh

True Fan Adventure Theatre-Vol2, # 1-Lea Wein Cover! Decker, Wasserraan,Thf Gaff, Tony Tollin, Rf Small,and Spanier, 1975#

Torch #24 - Dwight Decker Zine,1975*

Star Jack #1 - More Decker, Born January 26, 1952*

Torch #25 - Cover by Sherman//Decker-Roger Leloup info(?)

Weird Faan Fiction #2 - Pozner art, Faaaaaan Fiction*

^Alternative #2, Vol4 1976 - MerkeJ story, Van Vlack art (Have lotsa these.)

*Nimbus #21 a newspaper fanzine, Brunning, Pollard, Vohland, Charlton, S$±i,Cuti,Don Mali*, John Byrne*

Comics Unlimited#36, May 1976 - British Sine - Planet of the Apes theme.

Pittcon 78 - Con booklet for Pittsburgh's'comicen.Interesting stuff, but Ifvegot too many copies - lotsa fan art*

First Flight #2-(second flight?)Fan art & strips - pretty good.

Harlequin special ed. #1 - Jim Korkis zine, 1974. Never mind, It's all aboutanimation^ I'll give it to my sister.

*Sadhana #1 - I-Sapa contrib-interesting Lenny the Heasel story(Strip).

#It's not easy Being Green- Mike Kuypers craziness No's 1-5«

*Cosmic Angst Funnies #1- From Capa alpha, Don Markstein....

Delap's f & sf Review, Dec 1975, issue #9* RevfeS)ws?l?!!

*Apa-H #50 - A sandwich, March 1976, with a contrib by "Guru Zew Flarhm"(Harry B., Zilber, M. E. Van Vlsck, Flynn, Morrissey.)and othersI I have severl of these....

DC Comics Special Ed. Of Amazing World for Superman's Birthday party, 19762 copies of Dc triviata and art!

* Creation 1976 con booklet handout-newsprint-Lotsa art, J. Kahn news, etc, etc.

The Buyer's guide Parody! FandomFunnies #3(1 have one extra, copy)

What ih - Spanier, Pozner, Isabella, Capa-Alpha zine (Pozner), Nyapaman!

Mutated Panther#1 - one shot by Flynn/Zilber

Pittsburgh Fan Forum Dec 1976 -Destiny photos (as Red Sonja) and Fannfsh art&such.

Comics Unlimited (British) #37, 7-76, Daredevil article, amdEllison info.

CU #41, Nov 1976 - Conan, Stan Lee interview, art & letters.

CU # 34, Mar 1976 - The Shadow, the Atom.

Fan-Thing - #1, June, 75 - ? Fannishnesso I guess.

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ANOTHER Buyer's Guide Parody By Fandom Funnies Folks (Hullo, JayZ?!!)

Another Legion Outpost # 9.••••($•75)

A phjlJotocifopy of The Shadow,*Gone cf the radio shons, 1933?

*It's not easy Being Green #6....Mike Kuypers. Hulk interview!

*Apa H #52, May 1976 - Full color cover ! Silliness.

Comics Forever #10, Jan 1975 - Fannmshness!Ditto!

*2001 - Fanzine - collector's edition....Strips, prose, art.

PPFSZT #8 - 1975 - Erichsen art,Early Brent Anderson Strip, Cirocco cover.

Chronicle Three - LOTSA Byrne art, Duffy, Breo zine, 1973# Slifer, too.

Whizdash - The Detroit Con Debate Btwn. Lee, Infantino, Warren (»BJ Spirit")and Steranko.

Sene thing, but with the Ellis cover of Karate Kidand Shooter doodles of Tinya and Jo Nah. 2 of thesesup for grabs.

Another copy of Fantasy Crossroads #3 - Slliesn Fiction, Fabian, Hanley, Mercy,lichard Lynn article.

Heavy Metal #9*, Dec 1977 - Wein/Chakin piece, usual French crap, cover hasno logo. "CUT OFF !! All of IT!!?!W Nah, just the tip.

Endeavor #9, 1975 - Erichsen, Cara S., Anderson cover, McDonnell, mimeo zine*

WAM^H? - Den^Howard Zine -1980 - Ursual K. LeGuin, Conway cursing, etc.

Apaperback! The Fall of the Towers, Sam Delaney. e^f^2S!f O^fwA^.Pittsburgh Fan Forum, jan 1979 - Dick Tracy issue-mucho fax and illoes.

Apa-5 # 4-5 - 1975-P. Chadwick, Art Scott, Liilie, Small, Korbas, Puryear, Napier,Montchalin, Verheiden, Terry Dale.

APA-5 #4S - 1975-Harris, P. Chadwick, Sbott, Weilage, Miller, kaodaas, Main,Korbas, SirJcovec, Verheiden,Decker, Kujava, Liilie.2 vols.

#50 - 1975 - Liilie, Art Scott, Harris, Srishsen, Brown (Gary), Morriseey,Napier, $g£g, dggy^ Verheiden, Decker, Fabian(Roy),Montchalin, Merkel.

APA-5 APA-5 APA-5 APA-5 APA-5 APA-5 APA-5 APA-5

#5U^n 1976-C. Warner, A. Scott, L. Hall, M. Verheiden, S* Kujava, D. Dorman,2 vol. M. Montc^Slin, T. Mgntl, K. Erichsen, G. Brown, C.

Korbas, D. Decker, M. Weilage, R. Harris, R. Ifebian,M. Main, S. Liilie, M. Tiefenbacher, F. Miller.

$S$x #52 -Harris, Scott, Erichsen, Chadwick(P), Bentley, Verheiden, G. Brown,Decker, Merger, Montchalin, Korbas, Morriseey, Merkel.

#53 - More • One vol

#54- More. Censored covdr by MW (irrepressible) 2 books (vols)

#55 - Mercy cover, 2 vols, Beautiful Karris strip on a fan gone mad!

#56, #57, #58, #59(two vols) , #61 (2 vols.), #62, #63, #69

If you want any of this stuff, just circle it and send $.25 cents per

Nbook11 to cover the postage. If you arder a lot of *em and think the

postage will be less, send MK me less. Whatever, the ones marked with an

asterisk are free (Ifigger I can fold em and mail like a letter) for the

asking. Cheers! As soons as I sorts out ny KA stuff, I!ll send out a list

of them.

Mercy Van Vlack

P.O. Box 213

King of Prussia, Pa. 18* 19406

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the same as the music ue had recorded aunable to play because of technical aifbut it was humorous and gave everyone sto remember in years to come when theythe wedding.

And we did have some very special pthere. The genuine outpouring of lovewishes which we received helped to makeliterally, the happiest day of my life.

Well, I've already said more aboutding here than I intended to, wanting iwait for a special project which Melonewill be doing as a souvenir of the day,with pictures. (Sort of like having yofor home movies, you know? Bear with uwe're newlywed3.) If you don't see itmailing, you'll see it next time.

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As an associate of mine at the company putsit, we are essentially art directors in training.My work will include less actual paste-up dutyand more assigning work to other people andspe'ccing and ordering type. As I said last time,

this is a young company linked to a boomingfield and holding a potentially lucrativefuture. On paper, this could be a once-in-a-lifetime break for yours truly. But the hoursare incredibly demanding and I can kiss anyfree time good-bye until my first vacation sixmonths from now. There is.the promise ofshorter hours once the company gets over itsgrowing pains. And certainly a few months ofthis will look better on the next resume than

just doing paste-ups would. The fact that Iget to do an illustration once in a while isnice too.

So, as you can tell, I've entered a veryimportant period of my life, one which is takingthe experience of the whirlwind transitions Ihave gone through over the last few years andbuilding a new stability. INTERLAC has beenalong for the ride with me so far, and I amhoping it will'be with me for some time to come.

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&fhis was a strong comeback from the anemicannish. The special features were pulled offwell. And when was the last time we had a fivesection mailing? Lotsa interesting stuff hereand amazingly I was able to MC it all within atwenty-four hour period. It probably shows. Ohwell, let's get on with it.

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for me whose budget take3 into account typesetting and color covers.

As far as editorial content of these "magazines", there's a lot to be desired along thoselines as well. I think the editors are so con

cerned with avoiding the alleged negative aspects of THE UOMIOS JOURNAL that what they dopresent is readily dismissed fluff. To say nothing of the fact that the magazines, particularly LOC, are dominated Dy articles that are inphilosophical agreement with the editors' ownideas about comics. (Being critical.of the X-MEN, for example, seems to be a prerequisite.)

If I haven't already completely alienatedyou, Bob, here's one more word of critical comment, this one more personally directed, thoughit can certainly be applied to others. What isthis idealistic ambition that we always hear atleast every six months about someone doing a"Sixties zine"? That motivation itself is not

inherently wrong, but it is doomed to failurein the type of market and with the type of package you're working with. Sixties zines couldnot have color covers, typeset interiors, and apretty much guaranteed circulation of severalthousand copies. Form defines content. Theonly way to do an actual sixties type zine (andI firmly believe that such an effort is doomedto failure anyway) is to finance and distributeit oneself, using the traditional printingprocesses (ditto, mimeo, or offset). The sixtieszine goal usually becomes a mere justificationfor bad fan art, poor production values, andself-indulgent writing.

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Here's a better games Which members ofINTEHLAG would you keep and why, if we had toreduce our roster to 25. (&oy, that shouldcause some trouble.)

Your satirical Legion tale ("One Hero MustGo—Doubled And Rehashed") was hilarious. Ilaughed out loud at "2d Via Boy". It is an interesting coincidence that two Funny Legionstories appeared in the same mailing and thatthe second one should be by Ed himself. Nowthi3 3ort of fiction I can really get into.

\THE PHANTOM ZINE gg Brad Horning\ Sound3 likethe convention you were at was lots of fun.

Didn't get a chance to read your massivefiction piece, "Moonlight Psychopath". ^orry,sorry.

\"THj. LEGION NEEDS YOU" Round-Robin \ Excellenteffort on the part of all involved, particularlyti1>it>).Wi-tlt+ organizers Jon Liggett and RogerCaldwell. I am just amazed at how such a thingwas pulled off and in such a relatively shortamount of time with, what to my mind was, alimited level of fanfare. Usually, projectssuch as this get a tremendous amount of build-upand then die stillborn. It was a good approachto do this all at once, presented in one package,rather tnan run it through in installments andassign chapters as it runs along. In thosecases, progress is inevitably stalled by a fewpeople not doing their chapters, and by the timethey do, interest in the project usually beginsto fade! lMltmiM*UMMlMMJUIUiiUMUUWMtil D4

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Here's the correction on the song "Gloriawhich you anticipated, Mike. Shadows Of TheNight was a band which recorded the song and Ithink they had a hit with it. But the bandwhich originally recorded was called Them, andthat's the group that Van Morrison was in. (Andhe was the one who wrote the song.) It's oneof those cases where somebody•else 's version ofa song was bigger than that of the group whichfirst did it. But the version by Them is theone people are more aware of now because, well,who ever heard from Shadows Of The Night again7Van Morrison, on the other hand, went on tobigger and better things. (Where's TUNliS whenwe need it?)