The Zed

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An apazine published by Karen Anderson for SAPS during the 50s and 60s. "The Zed" was short for Die Zeitschrift für Vollstandige Unsinn, German for The Journal for Utter Nonsense. Its numbering scheme was somewhat non-standard, and also was out of order...or misdated or something...

In issue #780, which was in the 32nd mailing of SAPS in June 1955, was the first known use of filk song.

Issue	Date	Pages	SAPS mailing	Notes
773	September 1953	2		editor gven as 'Karen Kruse'; titled Die Zeitschrift Fur Vollstandigen Unsinn
775	Spring 1954	26	27
778	December 1954	25		Now titled The Zed
780	Summer 1955	24		first use of the word "filk"
782	Winter 1955	10	34	marked internally as #12
783	March 1956	52	35
785	Fall 1956	10	37
792	December 1958	10		and here's one titled Die Zeitschrift Fur Vollstandigen Unsinn
795	1960	24		once more titled The Zed
	August 1960	14
796	July 1961	8	56
799	April 1962	19	59
801	1960	6
802	January 1983	6	62
803	1961	6	63
805	1964	8
806	1964	14

• The Zed online at fanac.org

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Publication

1953—1964

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