Dungeons & Dragon print ad of 1981

[the Jester]

I remember wanting to know the rest of the story behind it, too.

I've been disappointed for over twenty years that they never finished the story!

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Me too. You know, someone over on the Paizo boards (handle of Rexx) did a couple of episodes like the comic, only featuring Khellek, Auric, and the girl from Age of Worms. Maybe someone should continue this series and let us finally know what Grimslade and his companions found?

 

[RichGreen]

Hi,

I remember that ad too! A classic!


Richard

 

[Xyanthon]

I remember these. Who knew charm monster shed light?

Or that it worked on a shambling mound.

 

[Rykion]

Boy that's quite an "elf." I bet he got added to the comic towards the end of the creative process. He look like he was sketched in at the last minute. I wonder if they had to raid the Keebler treehouse to get him.

 

[phindar]

"Look out-- it's dripping!"

Hard to believe that line didn't make it into the D&D movie.

 

[WayneLigon]

There is another one where the characters finally find treasure; the fighter gets a magic suit of armor (his comment is 'it fits like it was made for me' or something like that, probably aluding to the property of magic items sizing themselves to their owners). The armor is sculpted into the shape of a screaming face, and that really stuck with me. 'Wow, a lot of these other illustrations just have armor as armor, dull and boring. That looks like something I'd want a character to have.'

These were the very first non-humorous D&D serial 'comics' and they did make an impression on me. The 'dimension door' especially. I knew what Dimension Door did and how it worked, but I always preferrd the look and feel of the one in the comic

 

[bento]

I have one of the ads, the jacklewere attack, cut out from an old Epic Magazine and glued to the outside of my DM's shield. My players get to enjoy it, a page of Richard Corben (Den), and two Barry Windsor-Smith (Conan) picts.

 

[T. Foster]

This looks like it may have been drawn by J.D. Webster (who did the "Fineous Fingers" comic in early issues of The Dragon). I don't remember ever seeing this one specifically in a comic-book back then (I wasn't a big comics-reader) but I do remember seeing at least 2 of the others posted in the link above, #3 and #8.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Hmmm, I might have that, in a older collection.