Klordny
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| Title: | Klordny |
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| Type: | APAzine |
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| Frequency: | bi-monthly |
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| Language: | English |
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Klordny began life as in the early 1980s as a sort-of Legion of Superheroes fan club, one whose first project was to be a zine of the same name. The zine never made it off the ground due to financial reasons. The organizer, Brad Horning, refunded everyone their dues in August 1980.
Several members of the fan group attempted to revive the zine, this time going with an APA format.
In October 1980, Klordny was reborn with 25 members. All other interested parties were put on a waitlist, which is standard practice with APAs.
Although billed as an APA, it still retained aspects of a fan club. Members paid dues ($2 an issue), there were four officers, and it had a five-page constitution. The Constitution also contained our infamous 'rule' which cause derision is the APA world. That was the rule where a member could be dropped if they "consistently wrote about themselves or about non-Legion-related material." [1]
The first issue of Klordy was sent January 1981. As of March 1998, there were 100 issues, and in total, have been about 150.
The APA had a number of surges and ebbs in active membership over the years:
Up until 1987 the membership had remained fairly constant and things were getting predictable. By the end of '87 and into '88 there was a large turnover in membership as many old-timers left and new blood arrived. That certainly enlivened the APA and seemed to bring in renewed intrerest, especially in Legion-related talk, but there was still a drop-off in issue size and member participation. It still seemed to be as if changes were in the air as yet another clump of long-time members left. Before there was even a chance to worry, Klordny was deluged with new waitlist members as simultaneously Bob and Jim went on a membership drive and the new Legion book printed a blurb for Klordny in issue #8. Once again the membership began to swell, and the waitlist membership soon grew so large that it was almost a two-year wait before a spot opened up. Fiction, art, and Legion-talk abounded. And the history of Klordny continued to repeat itself. [2]
Origin of Title
The name of the APA comes from Klordny Week - or the Klordny Festival. Klordny is seen being celebrated in two locations in the United Planets space: aboard the most spectacular space-based luxury liner of the 30th century, the Glory of Ganymede, and a United Planets Space Platform outside the orbit of Pluto. [3]
Central Mailers, Presidents, Organizers
- Brad Horning (sometimes called Klord Brad)
- Arthur Lewandowski
- Bob Dobiesz
- Jim Kelly
- Cindy Gann
- Rex Joyner
- KC Ryan
- Jim Roberts
Website
Klordny is an Amateur Press Alliance (APA) published bi-monthly and devoted to comic books in general and the Legion of Super-Heroes (LSH) in particular. It is a publication put together by a collection of friends and fellow enthusiasts. We put together a "mailing" of Klordny every two months by having each member contribute enough copies of his or her contribution so that all members will get a copy. Each member sends his collated contribution (or "zine" [short for magazine]) to the Central mailer (CM), who collates all the zines into a single stapled mailing and sends the mailings out to the membership.
Klordny's Blog
Yahoo! Groups
References
- ^ Brief History of Klordny, the APA
- ^ Brief History of Klordny, the APA
- ^ from Legion Wiki, accessed January 7, 2013