That product page is vastly more primitive than my copy of Star Probe, which has nothing unusual like handwritten corrections, illustration transpanencies, minimum orders for unspecified miniatures, or a street address instead of a PO Box. The KG logo [mine is lizardman] is the only other thing that distinguishes it however; the title page & all else look identical to mine.

My 1975 Boot Hill has the KG logo, & a street address on the products page. Unfortunately it doesn't have the unusual products, & multisided dice are correctly priced at $2.50. Tractics & Panzer Warfare are listed with prices rather than "coming soon."

Everything seems to indicate a first printing. I can't imagine Star Probe being so popular as to require two in the space of the few months in 1975 before Boot Hill was printed.

Beyond that you've put the spotlight on some very intriguing early products sold by TSR. The miniatures listing is particularly hilarious. What were you supposed to do, send in money blindly in $10 increments to get a random pile of 'no-gauge' figures?

What did they mean by 'clear' prints? Were they transparencies like animation cells, & if so why? Is art commonly sold this way? I suspect they were unusable paste-up copies resulting from some printing misadventure. Maybe they're splotched with Gygax's ink-stained fingerprints, making them the ultimate collectible.

Wouldn't mind having nice prints of the Amazon or Witch in any event.

Mars wrote:I have 3 or 4 prints of Star Probe and the GK logo'd one is the earliest so I think you are safe that it is a first print.  There might however, be a copy where the dice price is not changed but both of my copies have this change also.

Had a PM about the dice price change and the guy said the same thing as you -- his copy had the change and he hadn't ever seen one w/o it.  Anyone have such a copy?

- As an aside -- does anyone own one of the "clear" 81/2 x 11 D&D illustrations mentioned in the price guide.  I'd be very interested in seeing one.
none known yet. some say not produced but still in stock listing almost year later + not corrected like dice price
- I note that the first set of illustrations reference Nazgul/Balrog so must have been pulled because of Tolkien Estate issues.
even later that into 1976