Lowrys Guidon #1
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At the start of 1972¸ Lowrys Hobbies was a successful mail-order store for wargamers. However¸ the catalog was going out of date faster than it could easily be revised¸ so a supplement with updates and corrections was provided.
It also contained a short editorial giving news about the business¸ and two articles. In the normal course of events¸ it would have started picking up more articles¸ and expanded until it became an actual magazine.
Instead¸ Panzerfaust was purchased from Don Greenwood just a few months later. Lowrys Guidon ran for nine issues¸ and did pick up more content¸ but was mostly a catalog supplement the entire time.
Contents:
Editorial
How Can War Be a Game? * Gary Gygax (reprinted in An Introduction to Wargaming ¸ and the 1972 catalog)
Modeller's Corner: Grizzly Bear * Editor
And five-plus pages of thoroughly out-of-date listings for Airfix¸ Tamiya¸ Monogram¸ and Nitto model kits; GHQ micro-armor¸ and 20mm Napoleonics; Old Guard¸ Cavalier¸ Bachman¸ and Bussler miniatures; Fast Rules ¸ Zocchi's Battle of Britain ¸ and Presstype.
At the start of 1972¸ Lowrys Hobbies was a successful mail-order store for wargamers. However¸ the catalog was going out of date faster than it could easily be revised¸ so a supplement with updates and corrections was provided.
It also contained a short editorial giving news about the business¸ and two articles. In the normal course of events¸ it would have started picking up more articles¸ and expanded until it became an actual magazine.
Instead¸ Panzerfaust was purchased from Don Greenwood just a few months later. Lowrys Guidon ran for nine issues¸ and did pick up more content¸ but was mostly a catalog supplement the entire time.
Contents:
Editorial
How Can War Be a Game? * Gary Gygax (reprinted in An Introduction to Wargaming¸ and the 1972 catalog)
Modeller's Corner: Grizzly Bear * Editor
And five-plus pages of thoroughly out-of-date listings for Airfix¸ Tamiya¸ Monogram¸ and Nitto model kits; GHQ micro-armor¸ and 20mm Napoleonics; Old Guard¸ Cavalier¸ Bachman¸ and Bussler miniatures; Fast Rules¸ Zocchi's Battle of Britain¸ and Presstype.