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Bezango WA 985 #3

1st ed., Feb. 24, 2002, 36 copies, parchment cover.

2nd ed., June 2, 2002, 9 copies, blue cover.

3rd ed., July 21, 2002, 6 copies, orange cover.

Print-on-demand, for a brief time starting in Aug. 2002.

1st Danger Room Reprint Ed., June 2005, 5 copies (1 red, 1 green, 1 yellow, 1 pink, 1 blue)

All editions were digest size.

This issue explored the politics and government of Bezango.

Trivia: Page 3: Morty, obviously. Page 5: Even though we live in one the wettest parts of the United States here in Grays Harbor County, men around here don't use umbrellas. We just don't. Page 6: I notice many mayoral losers in my town over the last couple decades move away after their defeat. Interesting. Page 9: Actually based on a specific person, but I have a feeling we all know someone like this. Page 10-11: In real life the brothers were merely twins. We really did have undetonated Japanese balloon bombs in the woods around here as late as the 1960s. A local hunter was killed when he tripped over one and set it off 20 years after the War.

Page 13: The lawn ornament caper really happened here in McCleary in the late 1980s/early 1990s, and the gathering of the ornaments in the Municipal Courtroom for reunions with their owners was a pretty funny sight. Page 14: "Head Loader" is an occupation in the woods, but I thought it would make a nice double-meaning name for a logger's bar as well. Page 17: My Dad's generation of oldtimey troublemakers. Page 18: The portrait of Gov. Rosellini, who served from 1957-1965, could still be seen in a place of honor in McCleary City Hall as late as the 1990s in thanks for all the State help he had given us.