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Thanks for the note. Yes, these are really excellent products and when you consider they were really the first ones to make up and produce so many of these products -- it says a lot about Bob Bledsaw's vision and creativity. I hope more folks come to appreciate these early products.

I know the art in modern products is amazing, but I'll always be a fan of the artists from the 70s and 80s. Their style is forever the look of D&D for me.

@@AZMountaineer Yes, totally agree!!

Thanks for the comment. I'm glad you're enjoying them. These were really cool products and not very popular back in the day as I recall.

Yes, I like his art quite a bit. And that feedback cracked me up. Glad you're enjoying these -- I really like making these fanzine videos.

Time flies ... I'm already thinking about which fanzine to move to next.

Glad you liked it. These are really neat products and I hope more folks will take a look at them.

Thanks for the comment. So glad you enjoyed the video; and I'm glad I got back to the JG material. These are great products.

We always had a stack of square graph paper but i don't think we used hex paper very often.... we did tend to do more dungeon exploration than wilderness so that plus the rarity of hex paper probably explains that.

@@AZMountaineer Yeah... regular square graph paper was obviously far more useful. We used to snag a few pages at a time from our school library. lol They had stacks of various types of paper up at the main desk and they would let you take whatever you needed... but within reason... so we didn't want to abuse it and get yelled at. Therefore, we just all made a point of grabbing at least a couple pages each most days until we had a healthy stack for our D&D games. ;-) lol

I think White Dwarf was a fantastic magazine and those early issues were so fun to read. (Also those first few you have are worth a pretty penny too!)

I am nostalgic, so I've just worked to track down the original products. They were so good, I don't need any updates beyond modifications I might decide to make myself.

That seems pretty odd for sure. Someone must have come across a misplaced box or something.

@@AZMountaineer I figured they got found under or behind something when they were cleaning up, or rearranging the storeroom. I only just found out that my D&D dice core memory is 4-5 years out of date. I got that Box set in 86 or 87.

@@mikeburns5184 Glad you’re still watching my videos. I’d been thinking about doing this series since we talked about all their good material way back when I was starting my channel.

Appreciate the comment and glad to have you as a subscriber. This early JG campaign material is so good, and just as valuable for a DM today as it was in the 70/80 era. (PS - I liked your retrospective video).

I know, right? I'd never heard that before. But I remind myself this was 1977 and they didn't have the Monster Manual so I think folks were filling in a lot of blanks including what monsters were like.

It's a pretty amazing piece of history.

@@jasonjacobson1157 thanks for the comment. I haven’t tracked down a copy of that to read yet. Seems a bit harder to find than most of the Appendix N books.

Glad to read you're enjoying the videos. They're a lot of fun to make.

I agree! I think it's the best one from this fanzine.

Glad you liked it. This is one of my favorite videos and Moldvay dice are one of my favorite things to collect.

So many good companies and so many fun miniatures!

@@Garghamellal Thanks. Glad you’re enjoying the series. I have plenty more to cover.

@@jasonjacobson1157 thanks and glad you’re still watching. It’s been rewarding to see the channel grow. We’ll get to 750 subs this fall, and maybe 1000 by year-end.

@@stevenkennedy4130 my favorite place to start 😀

There was definitely a sub-group of people who were collecting and trading fanzines back in they day. I'd never seen any at my local game stores, so I've had to track them down all over to build a collection.

@@CaptCook999 in my experience level draining undead still scare the heck out of most players. 😎

Glad you liked it - thanks for the comment!

Thanks! These fanzines are so much fun to look at and talk about ... I'm glad folks enjoy the videos.

Oh? I don't know much about him other than the comic.

Yes, summer vacation is over and I'm back to regular routine which means plenty of time for videos!

@@AZMountaineer And yay for that! :-D

Thanks for this comment. I always enjoy reading how others see a topic like this. A lot of the outcome in this video is based on how I set up the criteria I chose to use, which favored an artist based on the # of books, modules, and supplements in which their art appears, as well as the overall number of illustrations they provided. So this was not a ranking based on whose art I personally enjoyed or liked the most, and definitely not who was the best artist. If I did a video based on either of those criteria then for sure this list gets shuffled around.

@@davidsweet8485 glad you’re enjoying these. Always fun to make and these with their “Have you Ever” segment were extra fun.

@@Garghamellal there is one more … I’ll be looking at #8 next week.

That is confusing. Look at those amazing 80s graphics - you didn’t get fancy stuff like that on the Atari.

@@AZMountaineer Yeah, I owned the Atari 2600... and I had a couple friends with the IntelliVision... always excited to be able to play on it, because it was definitely a more powerful system. The first 16-bit system, if I recall.

Indeed they are really good.

I don’t think I have any copies of that. I think there is one that started in the 90s … is that it?

@@AZMountaineer I think so. One of my copies is from '95.

Thanks for sticking around!! ;)

Thank you ... and glad you enjoy it.

Thanks for the congrats! These were definitely harder than I expected -- I thought I was pretty experienced gamer but these definitely got the better of me most of the time.

Friday is good for all kinds of reasons ... glad to be one of them!

@@pscaglione3 thank you! Very glad to be back and sharing these fanzines with the community.

@@falkon215 I do have that one - I think the original print as well as the book club version - kind of surprised as that doesn’t really seem like book club subject matter. I haven’t done a video on that yet.

@@falkon215 I love that artwork too. I don’t have them anymore - when I was a kid I had a couple but we gave those away with my other pick a path adventure books. Been thinking about picking them up but I probably need to free up some shelf space … 😀

@@stevenkennedy4130 glad to be back.

A six legged badger walks into the bar...

@@kevinm3428 glad you enjoyed this one. It was the second one I ever made. Recently I started looking at a few of their products in greater detail. I need to pick up where I left off and make some more of those.

@@jacobspa6725 glad to hear it!

I've seen that ... thanks for sharing it with folks watching the channel.

Thanks for the comment. I think I cut off my review before that set and its dice came out, but I'm not sure I really said that in the video. I did have a set of those dice I picked up somewhere but I'm not sure I even still have them.

Thanks so much for your comment. It made me smile a few times in reading it. You're right about the white box cover... that's cool on a different level. And the module covers... I just loved all of that art and I'm thinking you're right that the monochrome cover art probably does get overlooked due to the lack of color.

I have one video looking at the original Arduin Grimoire. That was a fantastic work.