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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 9:02 pm

We should ask Frank who all these folks are.

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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 9:08 pm

Ah, that's too easy. More fun to scour our old Dragon magazines for the "TSR Spotlight" or "TSR Personalities" or whatever that section was called (early 100s, maybe ongoing much later, I stopped buying them around 160) and figure it out. I never forget a face, and I know I've seen at least a few of the others before.

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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 9:10 pm

MetamorphosisSigma wrote:Ah, that's too easy. More fun to scour our old Dragon magazines for the "TSR Spotlight" or "TSR Personalities" or whatever that section was called (early 100s, maybe ongoing much later, I stopped buying them around 160) and figure it out. I never forget a face, and I know I've seen at least a few of the others before.

yeah I know what you mean. Maybe Jim Ward and Zeb Cook are two of the agents? The remember seeing some photos somewhere of some of these girls.

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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 9:12 pm

misterspock wrote:
yeah I know what you mean. Maybe Jim Ward and Zeb Cook are two of the agents? The remember seeing some photos somewhere of some of these girls.

I'm pretty sure the first Enemy Agent is Ward, and #5 might be EGG. I keep wanting to say one of the women is Darlene Pekul, but I'm shaky on that one.

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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:27 pm

misterspock wrote:That's great, very nice! I'll start going through some stuff sometime soon for other works he contributed to, but I know he had illustrations in the following Dragon magazines (may not be complete) and other stuff: ...

I've finally updated the Jim Roslof Art Bibliography, incorporating misterspock's excellent work from above:

Jim Roslof Art Bibliography

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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:14 am

misterspock wrote:I ran across this in Top Secret TS05 "Orient Express"...

Wups, missed this one.
Off the top o' my head:

Enemy Agents

Kim Mohan
Margaret Weis
Jim Roslof
Mary Kirchoff
(A TSR employee)
Debbie Gustafson?
Zeb Cook

Agents 1-8

Troy Denning
Andrea Hayday
Ed Sollers (O B3)
Anne Gray McReady (BECMI)
(A TSR employee, but not a Blume or Gygax)
(A TSR employee)
(an editor, friend of Laurie)
Laurie (top editor before Steve Winter)

Attendants

(A TSR employee)
Harold Johnson
Carl Smith (AC1)

Passengers

Jeanne (sr. editor books & educational div.)
Francois Froideval (MM2)
(A TSR employee)
Bruce Heard
(A TSR employee)
(A TSR employee)

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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:36 am

I must say that Margaret Weis was quite the looker back then. I wouldn't have minded collaborating on a Dragonlance novel or two with her -- LOL!

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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 10:55 am

ExTSR wrote:Wups, missed this one.
Off the top o' my head:

That's cool, thanks for helping us out on that

Munafik wrote:I must say that Margaret Weis was quite the looker back then. I wouldn't have minded collaborating on a Dragonlance novel or two with her -- LOL!

the other ladies aren't too shabby either :wink:

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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:47 am

Munafik wrote:I must say that Margaret Weis was quite the looker back then. I wouldn't have minded collaborating on a Dragonlance novel or two with her -- LOL!

Just goes to prove that there's no accounting for taste...

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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:36 pm

MetamorphosisSigma wrote:
Just goes to prove that there's no accounting for taste...

Agreed

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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 4:26 pm

Zenopus wrote:I now have a Jim Roslof Art Bibliography on my site.

It's located under the Artists of Holmes Basic section.

Just noticed today that Roslof also did the board for the Vampyre minigame (1981). There's a headstone by the Catacombs that has his name on it. Just added it to the list linked above.

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