Observation
#1 Hammermill Bond map is alomst dead on twice the size of #4 17x22 map
#1 Non Copyright Maps are ever so slightly more then twice the size of #4 4 section Map
Opinion
#'0' Journal I Copyright 1976
#1 GenCon Print No Copyright
#1 2nd Print No Copyright
#1 3rd Print Copyright 1976
#2 1st print TSR copyright
#3 (Sept) White No Copyright
#3 (Oct) Brown Copyright 1976
#4 4 section No Copyright
#4 17x22 Copyright 1976
#5 (Site's Middle Print) TSR copyright
#5 (Site's Yellow Print) TSR copyright
#5 (3rd Print from #14) TSR copyright
#6 (Site's Middle Print) TSR copyright
#6 (Site's Yellow Print) TSR copyright
#6 (3rd Print from #14) TSR copyright
#7 (Site's Middle Print) TSR copyright
#7 (Site's Yellow Print) TSR copyright
#7 (3rd Print from #14) TSR copyright
#8 1st print No Copyright
#8 2nd print Copyright 1976
#9 (No Copy or Scan to compare)
#10 Copyright 1976
#12 (Early 1977)
#15 Copyright 1976 Non Hammermill Bond
#15 Copyright 1976 Hammermill Bond
#16 (Dec) Copyright 1976
#17 Copyright 1976
Journal J (Dec) Copyright 1976
#1 No Copyright map matches #1 yellow swamp No Copyright in every detail (save the yellow highlight swamp)
#1 yellow swamp No Copyright matches #4 4 section No Copyright (in that swamps are yellow, neither has a scale, 'For use with Dungeons & Dragons')
#4 4 section No Copyright matches #4 17x22 Copyright 1976 (in that coastline is the same, 'blotches are the same', broken line above second 't' in 'state')
#4 17x22 Copyright 1976 matches #1 Hammermill Bond Copyright 1976 (in that both have a scale, 'blotches are the same', Hammermill Bond paper, 'For use with Fantasy/Role-Playing Games')
#4 4 section No Copyright state in Journal I
#4 17x22 Copyright 1976 stated in Journal J
Subs sold at GenCon should include only the #1 GenCon release map and #3 No Copyright since no other subs would possibly be sold till after
JG ad was seen in Dragon #3 (shipped 1st of the month for October 1976)
Dragon #3 and Dragon #4 state in ad for Initial Guild Member Package (not Sub as sold at GenCon IX): 'A total of 25 pages of material, charts & rules, 135 cards and 1 34x44" map will be sent to you upon joining!'
25 pages of material = Booklet I No copyright (16pgs), 4 section No Copyright map (4pgs), #8 1st print No Copyright Dungeon Maps (5pgs)
charts & rules = #5, #6, #7 (Site's Middle Print) TSR copyright
135 cards = #2 1st print TSR copyright
1 34x44" map = #1 2nd Print No Copyright
After releasing GenCon IX Subs, request for more maps of #1 needed, though printer messes up and produces #9 (
If this has yellow swamps or not, the corrected batch could possibly be smaller since cash would be spent buying #9, when #1 was truely wanted and yet eventually bought)
Journal I is written sometime in October, after Dragon 3 ad (since no mention of newsletters until Dragon 5 ad) yet before #3 Copyright 1976 since no mention of Errata (which happens to appear in Journal J)
Thunderhold shipped in Dec 1976 (probably written sometime in Nov)
#10 printed in late Dec 1976
Ad for both Thunderhold and presumed #10 being 40 pages shipped late Nov/Dec for a suspected February Dragon (But Dragon goes to 8 issues a year now, and changes its schedule..next magazine is actually March for #5)
#5, #6, #7 (Site's Middle Print) TSR copyright could be 1st prints: seeing as the first in sequence I-6 is white apper stock like #4 4 sections and #8 1st print and the other two are same stock paper (I-7 is also different from other's of the same Ref Sheet)
#5, #6, #7 (Site's Yellow Print) TSR copyright paper stock matching close to #17 paper's stock could be around that time.
#1 Hammermill is the largest print run of the CSIO maps (used for Initial installments, #12 CSIO play Aid, #1 blue cover sheet sets) so should be seen most often.
Opinions are mine with credit to others for their ideas and thoughts (and in no way is a challenge as being my own original thought..not everything written here was thought by me, but for sake of writing this I did not annote where another had thought of the idea or comment - you know who you are 
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The sites history etc isn't going to be changed till a concensus can be reached as to some of this early history..and I would be grateful if another would care to take up that mantle of writing it..I F it up to many times I realy don't want to touch it at this time. (yet I'm a writer..go figure...
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This post is long enough, fight my opinion as you wish, but overall have I not FUBARed this one at least?
(Don't answer please)
(NO seriously just let me think something above was written with good thought.)
ShaneG.
(F***, k yeah write something)
(Oh and I maybe getting more info regarding the above...shall see)
