YE-ED YAKS

After several heartaches, failures, etc., you are holding what is to rplace the
Unknown and mystery, for awhile at least.  Many thanks to Mr. or Mrs. Monsters,
whichever one had the chance to type up a portion of the zine.

X ? and o are back with us again, along with their dear fiend, er friend, the
No-Eyed Monster.  Starting immediately, one, or a combination, or all of the
four will have a regular space in Merkmag.  No, "Mysto" is not going to run on
indefinitely.  It is a three-part story, each running eight pages.

Next issue, KNIGHT comes back to clash head-on with Baramon in "The Giant."

And, for all of you super-heroes, MERKMAG #3 ffeaatures "COS-MAN and the
Enchanted Sword."  I can see Brother Wolford and our boy Buck both clutching
their stomachs and moaning in pain.

No other news about future issues, except that the size will flucturate,
depending on what I can get together and onto the masters.

Possibly, Chuck Pearson's "Two Towards Freedom" may start next issue.  It's a
long story, but worth running, unless you object.  (Ah, bud you objectet to COS-
MAN and look vot happent. -- Prof. Gnius.)

Other than that, I'm finished, as far as this editorial is concerned, unless
Kathy Monsters, who's volunteered to put the zine on stencil has something to
say.

	                             Ye-Ed,
	                          John Merkel

(Help yourself, Kathy, if I've left you enough room.)  --JM

You have -- and plenty!  Only, with just four pages to master, I figured I
could do it myself and let Kathy iron my pants.  (Which is better than doing
'em myself!)  Yes, this is No-Eyes speaking, in person.

I can't wait to see thish of MERKMAG run off -- with THREE kinds of type!  It
ought to look different than any other zines, at any rate!

I looked over your "Mysto" comic-strip just before beginning to type this up --
and let me pat you on the back, John.  I really enjoyed it.  I'm certain the
regular readers ought to too.

There was a near-calamity on the flip side of this zine thish around. Yep,
John's been having difficulty getting time, typer, etc. to put out his part of
our effort -- and it was beginning to look -- for a week -- as if the NEM would
be coming out with nothing by John on the flip side.  Which isn't that bad,
yet, unless that particular lone issue of the NEM happens to include something
entitled "In Memoriam:  John Merkel"...

Well, this is MERKMAG 1, and you're almost into the meat of it. j Sajon's back,
U, X, o, and no-Eyes are getting into Merkel-know-what, and John's discovery,
Edmond Romann', returns with his third story.  The issue looks promising
indeed.  Don't let me hold you back any longer.

	                             --NEM

	                                   [pp. 1 - 2, MERK-MAG #1, Winter 1965]

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