Retro awesomeness

[thebitterguy]

Via Progressive Ruin, a D&D ad from Omni Magazine in 1981. Totally awesome. To think some ad agency could pitch an ad where a guy in armour, weilding a sword, could get across the velvet rope with a hottie on his arm, and Gary would approve... Okay, it actually makes sense.



You'd think that it would be more appropriate to advertise Traveller in Omni, though.

Comments

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Well, the tone of the ad doesn't surprise me entirely given who Omni's ownership and management group was...

[thebitterguy]

Hey, no hatin' on the Gooch.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

The ad was consistent with ownership, that's all I'm sayin'.

[thebitterguy]

Apparently he was publishing a graphic adaptation of the bible in PH for a while. That's my kind of crazy.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

...suit-wearin' playboys?

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

Wrong magazine. But you're very close.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

when people tell me these things about nerd companies i get a little creeped out.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I can see General Media classified as a "nerd company". Really. I know there are "all kinds of nerds", but, really?

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

I guess i meant the writers, heh.

Does anyone have any of the comics that were in the magazine?

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

Which thing: that Penthouse Publishing put out a semi-reputable SF magazine, or that TSR advertised in it?

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

They also, by the way, put out a semi-reputable modern music mag (Spin) until 1997 when General Media sold it off.

[thebitterguy]

Wasn't there a Spin columnist named in Axel Rose's bitchfest "Get in the Ring"?

Actually, IIRC it was Gooch jr.