Mike, did your black folder come in a poly bag, or not?
invincibleoverlord wrote:Take a look at the credits of the POTVQ[ Image ]That's it I'm done for the day
invincibleoverlord wrote:No it did not, yours did? Wow it must be a large one.
mbassoc2003 wrote:My copy does not have the light grey grid as clearly and evenly printed as your photo. It is faint and it breaks up in areas, and has areas where it is dark.Is yours the same as the photo above, David?
mbassoc2003 wrote:I don't think the 1st print ziplock copies are press printed. I think they are Xerox printed.
invincibleoverlord wrote:I suspect you'll find the third prints are the same and that either IO has a master, or the black foldered version is a higher quality print (therefore a separate print run).
afoolandhis$ wrote:That's what mine says...so to return to my earlier question: does the text "1st Printing June 1976" appear on all of the early versions?
Deadlord36 wrote:Mine says 1st printing, and is printed single-sided, no mention of Wee Warriors. My booklet version lists no printing number
Mike's came from Tadashi. (Did you ever ask whether it was a review or a purchased copy?).
The tri-folded (replacement/missed) page kinda hints at various possibilities, but nothing definitive.
Deadlord36 wrote:Mine says 1st printing, and is printed single-sided, no mention of Wee Warriors.
a2jeff wrote:I will pull out my black folder version and provide some additional details for comparison. I can tell you mine is all single sided pages, like Frank's. I'll comment on the copyright wording and the maps/lines this evening, and maybe even can post some pictures (if I can figure out how!!) :oops:
invincibleoverlord wrote: Art Work by Brad Schenck -- Where? The only art in the thing except the cover credited to Judy is the repeated border on the 8.5" X 11" pages and its signed Morno. The same can be said about the Character Archaic cover art and interior art of Magic-Users, Fighters, etc. all signed Morno, but art work again credited to Brad Schenck? Could Morno be Brad, sort of a tag name? BTW once you get to the Dwarven Glory 2nd print Art Work is credited to Morno. Puzzling!
invincibleoverlord wrote:There is one Dark Side to this discovery. The vulnerability to forgery; anyone with a Black-Folder version and access to an older copier could easily reproduce a bagged version. You're only saving grace would be if you had an Acaeum quoted 3rd and the cover is truly printed. If you have a Xeroxed version now I'd bet it's real, but if the Acaeum PotVQ printing-order and description gets amended, I'd be leery in the future. There definitely going to be vulnerable to forgery. And a hot ticket item like the First Module printed, as our collecting field grows, so will the demand for this landmark D&D collectable. Well that's it please throw some feedback at this, I'd love to hear some opinions.
invincibleoverlord wrote: So what I'm driving at is TSR Xeroxed them. ..They must have run out of the Black-Folder version, and just ran some off. Demand most likely was higher than expected, and making copies was just an easy solution. Also think about it; why would Pete and Judy Xerox them? Since the bagged version is copied from a Black-Folder printed page, why would you Xerox them and ship the across the country when TSR could just copy them in Lake Geneva from a house copy the place they were being distributed out of. And since there was no way to copy the folder they just stuck it in a bag like the Tsoj. Bagging was a standard TSR method of housing some of it's games around this era.