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Mizzle
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 4:40 pm

Hi,

one sold for about $80 on Ebay Uk at the weekend.

I forgot to bid...

Cheers,
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 4:55 pm

Versimilitude wrote:Hi,

one sold for about $80 on Ebay Uk at the weekend.

I forgot to bid...

Cheers,
KAL

This.....

** expired/removed eBay auction **

...went for about what I would have expected it to given its relative condition.

seller wrote:...and is somewhat faded...

No kidding. The red has completely vanished from the cover. Considering the amount of staining I expect there is a significant amount of staple rust as well.

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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 12:27 pm

And here I thought that was one of the ultra-rare mono printings of WoM.

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Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 12:52 pm

You mean the ultra rare; Pre-Pub numbered-DM's-tournament-mono-limited edition (foreign-language) printing? :lol:

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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:49 am

bump... ok, nearly one month passed form the 1st round...

now? where's the second round? i am extremely curious to see the gems we were talking in the last posts...

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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:56 am

That sticker was produced at about the time the shop was getting ready to move to the old hotel out of the grey house. I had a small stack of them some years ago but have no idea what happened.

I rather doubt the story about Gary sticking it on a box. In the basement.
For one thing, once we moved out of his house, we did not work in any basement; the basement on Williams was storage only. For another, by the time we were making those, Gary was not filling orders, and certainly not in any basement. That's what he had all of us for.

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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:28 pm

Could the sticker be there for copyright reasons? The figure on horseback is copied from Marvel comics, maybe they complained?

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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 2:01 pm

sauromatian wrote:Could the sticker be there for copyright reasons? The figure on horseback is copied from Marvel comics, maybe they complained?

Doubtful.
The whole thing about Gary doing it in a basement simply fits no plausible timeline. The stickers were well after the move.
Others on this site could tell you better than I when that frontspiece was changed out.

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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 6:03 pm

Kaskoid wrote:Gary doing it in a basement

Perhaps it was a dungeon rather than a basement?

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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:07 am

A little bit of a knock-down-drag out fight there at the end with one person getting a Tamoachan and one getting a Tsojconth! I foresee first thing in the morning folks cashing out what's left of their 401k's and thinning out their portfolios of stocks and bonds to complete some ebay purchases :lol:

I figured those would go high, but these stunned me ...

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and it's nice to see that Don Bluth and team are still cherished

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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:25 am

misterspock wrote:A little bit of a knock-down-drag out fight there at the end with one person getting a Tamoachan and one getting a Tsojconth! I foresee first thing in the morning folks cashing out what's left of their 401k's and thinning out their portfolios of stocks and bonds to complete some ebay purchases

I figured those would go high, but these stunned me ...

** expired/removed eBay auction **

** expired/removed eBay auction **

and it's nice to see that Don Bluth and team are still cherished

** expired/removed eBay auction **

tragically not as much cashing out as I had hoped given that I only won the 'cheap' one...

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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 10:07 am

misterspock wrote:...

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I read an essay online from Ryan Dancey a while back, the theme was TSR failed largely because they didn't make any efforts to understand their customers... hmm.

But otherwise, yes, what a group of auctions

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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 7:07 pm

Some insanly insane prices there (again) a couple of good buys I thought (not many thought;) )

Brette:)

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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:13 pm

The 1975 Gen Con VIII program booklet was the only one I was watching, since I'd never seen one before. $560!

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Anybody recognize the cover artist? There's a signature, I think, but I can't make it out.

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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:27 pm

Zenopus wrote:The 1975 Gen Con VIII program booklet was the only one I was watching, since I'd never seen one before. $560! 8O

http://www.ebay.com/itm/310478133773?ss ... 1423.l2649

Was that the first year Stratochamp went to Gencon?

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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:21 am

very funny Andy, but I came in 2nd on this auction. i would have bid more, but how do we know there isn't another copy of this lurking in some future auction (and perhaps without an address scribbled on the back)? so i limited myself to the hefty instead of the insane....

for the record 1978 was my first Gencon. mom wouldn't let 11 year old me go to the Playboy club in 1977, so i had to wait a year.

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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:12 pm

Zenopus wrote:The 1975 Gen Con VIII program booklet was the only one I was watching, since I'd never seen one before. $560! 8O

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Anybody recognize the cover artist? There's a signature, I think, but I can't make it out.

Looks like the handiwork of Greg Bell to me. I can't make out the signature either though.

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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:39 pm

scribe wrote:
Zenopus wrote:The 1975 Gen Con VIII program booklet was the only one I was watching, since I'd never seen one before. $560! 8O

** expired/removed eBay auction **

Anybody recognize the cover artist? There's a signature, I think, but I can't make it out.

Looks like the handiwork of Greg Bell to me. I can't make out the signature either though.

The signature isn't much more readable up close.

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