The SpeleoBem

Bruce Pelz's SAPS apazine. The name referred to his hobby of spelunking, with the editorial called "The Crawlway", mailing comments "The Cabel [sic; elsewhen also Cabal] Ladder" etc. Late issues lost the article to mere SpeleoBem, although inconsistently (in fact, as the title was all-caps, BEM's exact capitalisation is uncertain).

Issue	Date	Pp	SAPS mail­ing	Notes
2	February 1959	18	46	"THE SPELEOBEM #2" on both cover and following PAGE 2, INCUNEBULOUS PUBLICATION #6
2.5	January 1959	5	46
5	October 1959	102	49	Yes, 102, "with 82 of it by me, and the rest by Dee". INCUNEBULOUS PUBLICATION #13 ("Incunebulous Publications are getting out of hand anyway, what with a genzine, a SAPSzine, and a N'APAzine. All I need is FAPA, OMPA, and The Cult. Oooog.", p42). Extremely detailed mailing comments up to p76 ("THIS ENDS SEVENTY-TWO PAGES OF WHAT ARE PROBABLY THE MOST BORING MAILING COMMENTS EVER WRITTEN. I'M SORRY FOR ANYONE WHO ACTUALLY READS THEM RIGHT THROUGH."), accompanied by numbered "Monsterhyme"s, mostly limericks by Ed Maynoya. Pelz's sheet music for Robert A. Heinlein's "Grand Canal" pp80–1. Follows another large round of comments as "Porque! by Dee", whoever she was ("DEE is part of a nickname that my brother gave me, which isn’t used anymore. It’s part of my initials," p88) and then "Dee (2)". Still pubbed from Tampa, Florida.
6	January 1960	28	50
6.5	December 1959	56
7	April 1960	28	51
9	October 1960	36	53
11	April 1961	36	55
12	July 1961	22
14	January 1962	20
15	April 1962	22	59
15.1	May 31, 1961	1	59	post-mailing
16	July 1962	24	60
17	October 1962	20	61
18	January 1963	24	62
18.1	January 1963	2	62
19	April 1963	22	63
20	July 1963	24	64
21	October 1963	18	65
22	January 1964	18	66
22.1	January 1964	1	64	post-mailing
22.2	January 1964	1	66	post-mailing
22.2-2	January 1964	1	66	post-mailing
22.3	January 1964	1	66	post-mailing
23	April 1964	24
24	July 1964	16	68
25	12	69
26	January 1965	16	70
27	April 1965	23	71
28	July 1965	18	72
29	October 1965	14	73a
30	January 1966	10	74	"IncuNebulous Publication 435. … Cover by Dian." (green paper, empty verso counted as p2) All content "The Cabal Ladder: Mailing Comments on 73"; "There is no installment of Madeleine’s report this time … The DisTAWF Side" but promises instalments in next issues.
31	April 1966	16	75	cover SPELEOBEM 31 and INC NEB 465; p1 has pictorial header THE SPELEOBEM 31 but but goes on to explain how "headings on SPELEOBEM and YEZIDEE" were done on a printing press bought from Jack Harness. "long time since I took over the OEship from OEney in 1961 […] with lots of relief and a fair amount of pleasure […] I turn the reins of SAPS over to Wrai Ballard"; results of Pillar Poll 1966 and Madeleine Willis's 1962 trip report "The DisTAWF Side" part 12.
33	October 1966	12	77
34	January 1967	8	78	both cover and masthead at (unnumbered) p1 say SPELEOBEM 34; IncuNebulous Publication 555
35	April 1967	6	79
36	August 24, 1967	2	80	Minimal typewritten masthead "SPELEOBEM … illegal postmailing to the 80th mailing - July 1967 […] by Bruce Pelz, ex-OE (and, at present, ex-member) […] IncuNebulous Publication 599". Explains how he was dumped from SAPS due to his stupid errors and asks for reinstatement.
45	October 1970	6	93
48	July 1975	2	112

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1959—1975

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