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@trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-12 04:22:30

For my next modern culture and media studies work, I'd like to use "THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH" (TSR 1987)
(The eighties were a very weird time, y'all.)
(I found this in WCA #26, ZODIAC ATTACK)

A yellowed page from a 1987 comic book

Page reads (via Google OCR)

gaz-ə-'ti(ə)r\n:

THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH TO D&D GAMEPLAY.

Even if you've been to the Grand Duchy of Karameikos before, you probably didn't know their vampires could walk under the sun and that sheep are not the only things that are sheared ..Thanks to the Gazetteer, an exciting new con-cept in gaming aids, now there's nothing you won't know about the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS world.

The Gaz…
The cover of West Coast Avengers #26
Subtitle ZODIAC ATTACK! 

A man dressed in orange chainmail and a half cowl mask stands on a table? with legs spread apart in the Marvel power stance. In one hand he brandishes a vaguely Prince-symbol-shaped thing which is emitting rings of Kirby dots. 

In the background, facing us, are silhouettes of various other supervillains (presumably zodiac) and in the foreground facing this guy and away from us are the assembled West Coast Avengers

Of note: iron Ma…