The Dwarf needs you... for what, I wonder?
People often ask… sometimes ask… well, somebody asked me once… (Michael Flanders)
As you might know, I am more a collector than I am a painter and more a painter than I am a player… yeah, probably collecting is one of the most important aspects of the hobby for me… thus it’s no wonder that I own most german White Dwarfs (starting with Issue 1 from December 1994), some 50+ english issues from 1983 – 1994 and quite a lot of old army books, codices and rulebooks.
No, I’m actually not telling you that to brag… or, well, perhaps I do tell you to brag… I mean, this is the internet, everybody is trying to tell you here that he’s the one and she’s the best (and whatever your sex is, once you write on the web, you try to show off that you’re sexier than everybody else…)… anyway, the thing is a good friend of mine asked me to write more about all those old White Dwarf, all those nostalgia things that are in there…
And because I think that’s a pretty splendid idea, I’ll hereby announce my new category “Nostalgia Dwarf 101″ – a place where I will write about all things wacky, weird or just cool that I find in old publications from the 80s and 90s… and perhaps one or two things from the early 00s, too. Don’t think I want to restrict myself here…
By the way, todays picture is from english White Dwarf 47, currently the oldest issue in my collection. Note that the White Dwarf himself is pretty thin at that time… but then, so was the issue with just 50 pages (18 of them advertisements, that’s 36 % – some things never changed with the Dwarf). On the other hand, he was cheaper, too: 6 GBP vs. the 40 GBP you pay nowadays… but of course the Pound was real money then…
Love that little guy.
