This page is the only one with a signature: Willingham. That would be Bill Willingham, artist on the very impressive series Fables, who spent one year doing images for TSR modules. Obviously he did not do the first page.
After after that the adventure ends, but the advertisements must go on so...
And so it ends. No more of these advertisement strips were produced; the next month TSR switched to a more normal advertisement for their game just showing a few people in a psuedo-medieval town.
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Wow, this really brings me back!
Thanks! I'd only seen a couple of these and have been wondering for about 20 years how the whole thing went.
I can cross that off my list.
A minor correction: Willingham is the writer of Fables, not the artist. While he has in the past done both on other comics, he has been focusing on writing the past several years.
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I can't believe it!
I was thinking about these today and decided to do a search. Thanks so much for posting these!
Nice to see these again. Does anyone remember a series of TSR ads in 1984 in the comic 200AD called "Star Shadow?" It featured Morwyn Starbrow, a female Elf fighter/Wizard and Matt Greyshadow, a male Halfling thief. I think it ran for 10 or so pages?
They sound interesting but I was on the wrong side of the Atlantic to see them.
The first one of the strips almost looks like it was done by J. D. Webster, the guy that did the Finieous Fingers strip that appeared in the Dragon magazine...Not sure though.
It was a good thought, Datagoblin, but I asked Webster about it and he said he was not the creator of that strip. You have made me curious and I think I'll dig around in the art staff at TSR at the time and see if we can get an attribution.
I always wondered what happened after the eighth edition of this series, which had unfortunately ended abruptly.
However, after reading #8, if one 'loops back' to #1, the story is actually circular--somewhat!
We learn that Saren is injured in #8, and the wizard teleports everybody to an undisclosed location. Then at #1, we find the party (minus Saren) wandering a dungeon. Then in #2, Saren suddenly appears to the surprise of everyone and she cuts them off abruptly, "No questions now... How's Indel?".
It reads like a moebius strip. An interesting curio in the history of comics and role playing games.
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