Supposedly has 2 cars, a $310,000 house, and a construction business that earns him $385,000 a year, undeveloped land worth $485,000, blah blah blah. And he's selling his collection for financial reasons. Right...............
invincibleoverlord wrote:My question is, 3 -- 5 thousand may have been printed, but how many were recalled? How many weren't shipped for the same reason? And what did they do with them? Destroyed them? Gave them away to thousands of friends? I'm not trying to be sarcastic; I'm just trying to understand what happened to them all? Honestly, 3 -- 5 thousand printed sounds crazy for an off war-game of the era. 1 maybe 2 seems more realistic, but who am I to question the EGG.
This item has a lot of potential crossover appeal - there are certainly those who collect Edgar Rice Burroughs and early print vintage paperbacks fetch decent prices. Some might be safely in the hands on non-RPG collectors. Just a thought. . .
According to Gary's recollection, they had sold most of the print run by the time the ERB estate told them to stop, so it sounds like the recall wouldn't put a significant dent into the number of copies in circulation.
invincibleoverlord wrote:grodog wrote According to Gary's recollection, they had sold most of the print run by the time the ERB estate told them to stop, so it sounds like the recall wouldn't put a significant dent into the number of copies in circulation.Thanks G, always the man with the lowdown. Do you think the print run was closer to 3 thousand or the 5 grand?
Also, does anyone know when TSR was contacted by the ERB estate to shut down the sales of WoM? If TSR had in fact sold most of them by that time, that would provide a good predictor for the relative speed of sales of WoM vs. OD&D first edition (which took most of year to sell through IIRC, right?).
Ralf Toth wrote:Edgar Rice Burroughs? I prefer the literature of William S. Burroughs.