Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1978

Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1978, Galaxy 1978

Not related but a interesting article on minis.

Analog February 1983

Very nice.  Thanks for posting these, BNagata.

fyi:

Panzerfaust #51 [Mar/Apr 1972] (fullsized then, not the digest sized later), back cover

2 Guidon ads (duh, the usual); lower half for Hardtack/Zocchi (ACW), upper half for ($2.00) Chainmail -- and half that ad is for the Fantasy Supplement, mentioning Tolkien and R.E. Howard specifically.

Scanner buried behind boxes of games atm, will try to do that later.

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Hey Jon,

increment wrote in Early TSR/D&D advertisements & catalogs:I think this is the earliest printed advertisement: Gary sent it to a fanzine February 27, 1974.

I think this is the same as the first, color version that Gary sent along to Lurvey for GPGP Newsletter as you mention above. He also personally mailed them out, apparently, as this one is accompanied by a handwritten letter dated 1 June 1974:




Futures Bright,

Paul

The Collector's Trove wrote in Early TSR/D&D advertisements & catalogs:Hey Jon,
I think this is the same as the first, color version that Gary sent along to Lurvey for GPGP Newsletter as you mention above. He also personally mailed them out, apparently, as this one is accompanied by a handwritten letter dated 1 June 1974:

Probably. There's good evidence that Gary sent early flyers for TSR in all his correspondence early in 1974, and was urging Arneson to do the same (I talk about it in PatW). I'm not sure if that one is strictly identical to the very earliest version of the flyer, as the order form is cut out of that one. There is a subtle difference in some color versions of the flyer which only shows up in the order form: the "Please send me" line is different than in the scan above. But yes, probably the one you're showing would have had an order form that looked like the February version.

increment wrote in Early TSR/D&D advertisements & catalogs:I like how you can tell from the font on "Additional" that this is the true first Greyhawk.

(OTish) Hey, Jon: you're on the Acaeum "thanks" list; remember there's only one 1st print GH. (And only one 2nd print GH, with an additional n.b. aside regarding no yellow Chainmail published by TSR).
+thx for the ads. ^^

I think that this is a brand new ad.  It's from Fantastic Films in Sept 1980.  We seen this specific ad template before among the ones that Zach posted about back in September, but this one's in color, and it features B2 instead of B1, which gives us a better view of the variant angled white banner for B2:



In this image, I can't read the text in the banner's first line, but the 2nd line is "Basic Set", which does align to the mocked up cover @ B2pre (as do the rest of the cover elements, down to the appearance that the logo/address/ISBN were pasted in (clearer in the ad than the Acaeum mockup image).  

The module doesn't look to me like it has a booklet in it, so that also supports Paul's sense that it's just an advertising mockup, as does the fact that in the color ad image here, it seems me that the B2 cover is B&W.