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I miss that magazine. I enjoy the new Conan series by Busciek & Nord but the large magazine sized issues were great in the Savage Sword series.
Eat your hearts out fellow gamers...
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resscane
Explorer
Did you get those lots off of EBAY yesterday? 3 lots, boxed and bagged, about 25 issues each, from the 80's. I was bidding on those. They went relatively cheap. I would have bid a bit higher, but I'm currently collecting Moorcock's Eternal Champion series in Hardcover. I got 4 books off ebay this week and I didn't want to scare my wife any more than nessecary. Good get regardless. I'm gonna get one of those lots one of these days.
Wulf Ratbane
Adventurer
I love SSOC. My older brother started buying them and passing them down to me when he was in the Marines, and I was about 13.
They might as well have been porno mags for all the giddy excitement that came with that big-brother-to-little-brother transaction.
(Actually, I had to break into his footlocker if I wanted to check out his swank mags.)
But the SSOC were mine all mine.
And I still have about a half-a-footlocker full of them.
They might as well have been porno mags for all the giddy excitement that came with that big-brother-to-little-brother transaction.
(Actually, I had to break into his footlocker if I wanted to check out his swank mags.)
But the SSOC were mine all mine.
And I still have about a half-a-footlocker full of them.
Mystery Man
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Teflon Billy said:I just bought a little over 70 back-issues of Savage Sword of Conan for 25 cents each
NICE!
Cthulhu's Librarian
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jgbrowning said:
Seconded.
![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
I have no idea what happened to my SSOC mags. They are either in a box in my Moms attic or got sold or tossed a long time ago. I had a few years worth of them.
Teflon Billy
Explorer
resscane said:
Nope, bought them from my local used book and comic emporium
I guess they had just never sold at 5-6 bucks/issue and they were tired of them taking up space.
I mean jeez...25 cents each covers the "Bag and Board" they were each stored in. The magazines were basically free.
You may consider my heart eaten out.
Of course, I had a similar deal several years ago, when I picked up every issue of Dungeon I had been missing - issues 1-27 - at original cover price. The comic/game shop had just picked them up from somebody dumping their entire collection, and had put them in the bin without re-pricing them.
Johnathan
Of course, I had a similar deal several years ago, when I picked up every issue of Dungeon I had been missing - issues 1-27 - at original cover price. The comic/game shop had just picked them up from somebody dumping their entire collection, and had put them in the bin without re-pricing them.
Johnathan
DungeonmasterCal
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I hate you so bad.
replicant2
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I've got probably 100 or so issues of Savage Sword, and the first 35 issues of Conan Saga (which were simple reprints of SSOC).
Not only do they make for great reading and a great source of inspiration, but I've often pondered using the art for visual aids in a game. There's a lot of panels with just landscapes and cityscapes without Conan in them that you could use to show to your players.
How cool would it be to whip out a Buscema pencil drawing of a lost city and throw it on the playing table. "You come over the ridge, and here's what you see...
Not only do they make for great reading and a great source of inspiration, but I've often pondered using the art for visual aids in a game. There's a lot of panels with just landscapes and cityscapes without Conan in them that you could use to show to your players.
How cool would it be to whip out a Buscema pencil drawing of a lost city and throw it on the playing table. "You come over the ridge, and here's what you see...
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