IO: Your mailed #7 include the letter?
Judges Guild detectives are at it again, this is a return to the 'older days'
@IO: Would I be correct in guessing that there's no "SB02MAU013" written on that copy of #1, above?
i.e. That it was either purchased in advance or sent out as a freebie single issue to Mr.(?) Mauzey and their actual subscription started from issue #2. Ditto for Tadashi's.
Having dug out #5 & 6 here, #5 has "SB05WAGN103": i.e. not picking up subscribers at a huge rate if I read that correctly and difficult to explain "over 200" by #6 save through the number of new subscribers that may have been accumulating whilst that issue was busy being late... Mailing date for #5: July 30, 1977 #6: Dec 22, 1977 (same recipient, no subscriber code) Check?
Paul (Collector's Trove) on Mar 9th, 2005 sold The Dungeoneer Issue 1 (Addressed to Mike Carr) as part of the Timothy M. Jiardini Collection.
Well I got a pretty good size email from Mr Paul Jaquays (hopefully have this up on the site by this weekend)
Anyway somethings from it: "First magazine...a 5.5" x 8.5" (half-size) saddle-stitched magazine on white bond paper with a tan cover stock cover" as for 2nd print: "The reprint of the first issue of the magazine has yellow cover stock and printed by Arrowswift Printing of Jackson, Michigan (whom I later worked for as a paste-up artist) because they did not use a tan cover stock."
"We mailed a good share of that original print run to people whose names we retrieved from similar publications." As to the numbering code: "I don't remember what those numbers mean. I can take a wild guess though. SB02 might mean subscription beginning with issue #2. The letters could be from the subscriber's last name or a combo of initial and last name). The final number was probably a sequential number assigned to subscribers. Thus, James Ward may have been either SB02JWAR001 or SB02WARD001 (as he was the first subscriber)."
I need to ask about hand written labels, but this is what was said about the mailing dates "Generally speaking, all issues of a print run were mailed to existing subscribers on a single day. We would type up addresses on labels, stick the labels on then go buy postage and mail them out. When a magazine was shipped, new subscribers usually get the most recent magazine available as quickly as we could send them out."
I'm thinking having a page listing the numbering run of these would be cool, as the 1st subscriber and #13, #35 (don't have the full name on this though) are known.
If you have any questions you'd like asked though, post away as i'll send out another email or two by tomorrow.
Plaag wrote:And slightly off topic, mailed vs unmailed (Fanzines, catalogs, magazines, etc) is there more or less value for a shipping label (or is it with only certain things)?ShaneG.
killjoy32 wrote:i think its all down to a person in general.for a collector, it kinda has a more historical-fits-in-the-jigsaw feel about it if you ask me, as you have dates and other little things that fit into research.dunno if it adjusts the value as such tho...Al
Plaag wrote:Yeah, I was thinking for these Dungeoneers its great, but then do others actually see it as marring the product much like people think signatures have a greater or lesser value to things.ShaneG.
Well awaiting reply, though was told he thinks only 1 and 2 were reprinted, and I've no response from Adrian yet about the 3rd print or 2nd prints of 3/4 for that matter.
And the age old question if he'd ever draw or write again I asked and got this: "Not likely to happen. I still work in games as an artist which fulfills 95% of my creative needs. If I want to do something else, I've got more projects than time. And, I haven't regularly played pencil & paper RPGs in over 20 years." Oh well guess we just have to enjoy what he has drawn/written.
"We mailed a good share of that original print run (referring to issue #1) to people whose names we retrieved from similar publications."
