mbassoc2003 wrote:I don't remember the crimp mark at all, and I was pretty careful about scrutinising it when I got it from Burnie.Could it be somthing in the paper itself that the scanner has picked up on?Can you see anything with the naked eye?Does it appear on the yellow cober sheet as well? Or just on the white sheets?
killjoy32 wrote:right i have just taken it out of the wrapping one last time - i am definately not doing it again i have looked at every page in the module and i noticed this:go back to page 3 and look at the scans i did. on the page with the level one map. look at the top. in the middle you will see the mark. look to the left and to the right - midway to the edge on each side. you will see faint marks similar to that one. i checked every page. some have them marks and some don't. the yellow front page doesn't have any and some of the other pages don't have any either, some have one, some have two but the level one map is the only one where you can see three and if you look VERY closely, you CAN see them with the naked eye. i just never checked before.i tell you what they DO look like. When the paper sometimes slightly catches on a roller in a printer/copier, you sometimes get that on the paper.i don't think its a clip of any kind as its not evident on all the pages and i would have thought front and back would have been most evidently marked.so what do you all think? does anyone else see any of these marks?Alps. of course, IF it was caused by a roller...it might lead to something on how it was printed ?
invincibleoverlord wrote:Update. Confirmed... Brad and Morno one in the same. He contacted me with a nice little e-mail. So tomorrow I'll spring a few questions on him.
invincibleoverlord wrote:Update,Brad and I have been corresponding and he has been a treasure to chat with. Well I've learned some things about what was going on with the Wee Warriors gang. Pete, Judy, and Brad were all D&D friends and lived in Long Beach, Ca, before moving north to Morro Bay, Ca, where Pete was opening a game shop. While in the process of moving from Long Beach…The Character Archaic, the PotVQ Black Folder, and the Dwarven 1st print were all printed in El Segundo, Ca, by Judy's Cousin Jerry Wellfonder at a print shop he owned. According to Brad it was a huge operation with the capable machines, i.e. a foil-stamping press. He remembers being there when they were running them off after hours… Oh the envy. After moving to Morro Bay Pete used a small local print shop to run off the now established Wee Warriors items i.e. Dwarven 2nd +. Brad also remembers by the time they had all settled in Morro Bay they were no longer being distributed by TSR, hence again the Dwarven 2nd (Produced and Distributed by Wee Warriors).As far as the Xerox issue and not from Brad's memory, but from simple deduction TSR had to have Xeroxed them. Pete/Wee Warriors wasn't distributing the folder version and he had established his own company/store, and would and did change the distributed by in the Dwarven 2nd and the Palace Acaeum quoted 4th.If I had to guess I'd say the Dwarven 2nd, Palace 4th, and Misty were printed around the same time, and the Dwarven 3rd and Palace 5th were printed around the same time. Brad remembers the small shop in Morro keeping these printing plates on file. Take a look at the covers, one color covers, then two color covers. Easily this later two-tone technique could be achieved from the same plates.Oh, and yes, Brad may have some items and art tucked away . I've been completely honest with him about the potential value of these items, and if "that old box of stuff" turns up I'm going to help him in determining values, and bringing an auction to you guys. BTW Clarkie, and to quote Brad, "I googled my old pen name and finally came up with the forum discussion about the editions of "Palace of the Vampire Queen". For the sake of bclarkie's peace of mind you can let him know that I'd made up the name Morno as an anagram of "Moron", which was something I liked about it ."… Yes he's been lurking around here since I contacted him. Mike
invincibleoverlord wrote:...Pete/Wee Warriors wasn't distributing the folder version and he had established his own company/store...
FoulFoot wrote:I have an Acaeum-quoted 1st print. Unlike mbassoc's copy, my copy resembles the black-foldered version (other than the absence of the black folder) -- two-tone printing, visible grid. There's no evidence that the yellow (cover) sheet was ever attached to anything with tape or glue, and of course it's double-sided.