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Green Slime! Don’t Touch It! It is Certain Death! Look Out! It’s Dripping!

Here is a Dungeons & Dragons advertisement that ran in comic books in mid-1981.  The lack of color, amateur artwork, inconsistent lettering, and ridiculous scripting is appalling.  This ad is simply terrible.

With that said.. I LOVE IT!  This pathetic little ad inspired me to try roleplaying and seek out further comic adventures of these heroes.  Sometimes greatness comes from humble beginnings.  Click the image to enlarge.

Dungeons and Dragons comic book ad 1981

11 thoughts on “Green Slime! Don’t Touch It! It is Certain Death! Look Out! It’s Dripping!

  1. This ad is spectacularly bad. I love it so.

    I’m pretty sure that I’ve played in D&D games that were worse than the adventure in this ad, though, especially in my middle school years.

  2. Ahh yes, I remember this one well. As embarrassing as the artwork was, it wasn’t a whole lot worse than the art in the D&D books themselves.

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