Jelerang

The clubzine of the Mercurian Club, edited by Harriett Kolchak. She wrote in a loc to Hklplod 4 (Summer 1963, p. 46):

The group of fen that meets at my home on the third Sunday of the month, called the Mercurians is going to put out a zine in the near future and welcomes any material along the lines that can be printed in a news column, a pet column, art, stories, or poems. We are going to charge for profitmaking ads at the rate of 1 cent a line and non-profit ads will be free. Subs will run 25¢ each or 6 for a dollar. It’s bi-monthly, All material, requests, etc. should be addressed to "Jelerang" Pub., c/o Harriett Kolchak, 2104 Brandywine St., Phila. 30, Pa. We will accept trades of a pub for a pub.

Issue	Date	Pages	Notes
1	Spring 1963	22
2	Summer 1963	40	Review by Mike Deckinger, Fantasy Fiction Field 15 (August 27, 1963, p. 4): “JELERANG strikes me as being basically a clubzine­ which is timidly dabbling its feet in the streams of genzine fandom, while restraining the needed courage to take the plunge. It has several things in its favor, including near-faultless multi-lith repro (though it needs artwork badly) and a seemingly filled-with-enthusiasm staff who are determinedly toiling away at it. The material within is not outstanding, but it's not really bad either. A pseudonymous chara­cter calling himself “Saturated Fats” writes a superficial account of New York's Lunacon, spending too much time in his travels and too little in the actual con goings on. There are several feghoots, none of them too good, but then what ones are? One is the product of the devious mind of Randall Garrett and thus immediately distinguished: it's dirty. A shoddy free verse attempt under the unimaginative title of 'A Fragment of a Scream' fails miserably. And someone named Harvey Forman does a fairish job of reviewing fanzines.” Buck Coulson was even more disapproving in Yandro 126.
3	1963	32

• Jelerang online at fanac.org

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