I am now working on republishing all those issues (#53-#111) in PDF format. My dad doesn’t remember the terms of the sale well enough to be entirely sure of the rights to the first fifty-two issues (talk of reprinting them at the time suggests he does have the rights, but I’d want to talk to Don Greenwood first anyway)… and getting a hold of them to scan would be a major undertaking.<\/p>\n
I hope to put one out, on average, once a month, and since my dad ran it as a (mostly) bimonthly for ten years, this is a five-year project.<\/p>\n
Each issue will be a scanned PDF with searchable text. I’m also adding a final page with my own commentary and elaborations on when the issue came out and its contents.<\/p>\n
So, here’s the spiel for issue #53:<\/p>\n
This is a searchable scanned PDF of the original issue (without the game insert) from May\/June 1972. (Note that there are a couple of pages where the text gets cut off a little, this was in the original printing.)<\/p>\n Panzerfaust<\/em> was an amateur ‘zine, but was growing up into the semi-pro leagues at this point, having graduated from mimeographs to actual offset printing.<\/p>\n Contents:<\/strong> Also, as a ‘value add’, there is an extra page with observations and some commentary on just where things were in 1972.<\/p>\n Available at Wargame Vault<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After not doing much for a bit, Fox Den has launched a new project today! Back in the ’60s my dad got into the wargaming industry with Lowrys Hobbies, which was a mail-order business for miniatures, terrain, and the like, as well as reselling games of course. He got his own printing press to produce … Continue reading Panzerfaust #53<\/span> ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.rindis.com\/fox-den\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/Panzerfaust-53-Small.jpg\")
<\/a>In 1972 Don Greenwood was hired by Avalon Hill as editor for their magazine, the General<\/em>. The magazine that had brought him to their attention was sold to Don Lowry, who took over as of issue #53.<\/p>\n
\nLine of Communications: Editorial
\nWargamer of the Month: Don Greenwood
\nWestern PanzerBlitz Revisited * Paul Mills
\nAssorted Comments On Western PanzerBlitz * Roy Easton
\nMore Western PanzerBlitz * Roy Easton
\nForgotten Military Vehicles * Tom Wham
\nFuhrer Directive 33 * E. Gary Gygax
\nWargamer’s Guide To the ACW, Part II * Don Lowry
\nThe Battle of New Orleans * Larry Schmidt
\nMidway Island * R. W. Garbisch [rules]
\nThe Ship With Guts * Damian Housman
\nThe Super Battleship * Kevin Muyzinski
\nFall Barbarossa Review * George Phillies
\nBlue and Gray * E. Gary Gygax
\nThe Great Debate * Lou Zocchi, Gary Gygax, and Tom Clarke
\nDiplomacy: Russia\u2019s Northern Offensive * Rod Walker
\nWarfare In Miniature: The Battle Report of the USS Franklin * David L. Arneson
\nBlunderovsky Blows the Battle of Moscow * Mark Swanson
\nDesign Analysis: Nuclear Destruction * Harold Totten
\nThumbnail Analysis
\nPass In Review * Donald Greenwood
\nReconnaissance In Force
\nMail Call<\/p>\n