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Panzerfaust Magazine /
Campaign Magazine
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Panzerfaust was an amateur
wargaming magazine started by Don Greenwood in 1967 and named
after the German rocket-based anti-tank weapon. Like the
professional
Strategy &
Tactics premiered at the same time, Panzerfaust
included complete games, though S&T did not produce
games until 1969 after its takeover by SPI.
The magazine got its start in a
similar way to
Fire & Movement according to Greenwood:
One of my postal opponents had
taken to sending a carbon-copy newsletter of his
(correspondence) with his various game moves so as not to have
to repeat the same small talk over and over again. I not only
mimicked him, I went him one better by starting my own
magazine. Xeroxed at first to about a dozen correspondents,
followed by school dittos provided by sympathetic teachers. My
opponents were now harangued into contributing articles.
Suitably impressed with my new venture, my parents sprang at
Christmas for a new A.B. Dick spirit-master machine. If only
my mother had known what evil consequences this would have for
her son - the "Doctor". Thus was born PANZERFAUST - or
PANZERFAUUST (sic) as it was misspelled in its maiden
issue...Circulation eventually rose to 800. (Which is a lot of
cranks on a hand-driven spirit-master machine let me tell
you...) 1
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Issue 45 of
Panzerfaust. Anyone growing up in the 1970s will
remember the purple ink of the "ditto" machines on which
Greenwood produced early issues of his magazine.
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It was
apparently not uncommon for early "fan" magazines to be
printed on (by modern standards) crude equipment, which in the
early 1970s included
"spirit master" (often incorrectly
called "ditto" or "hecto"), "mimeo" (which includes mimeograph,
Gestetner, and related processes) and "offset" (including all
sorts of offset printing). "Xerox" refers to the Xerox TM process
and to its relatives.2
By 1972 the magazine still
unremarkable production values, being distributed with a
monochrome cover, stapled binding and an average length of
about fifty 5.5" x 8.5" pages. Don Greenwood, having graduated
college in May 1972, went on to accept editorship of
The General
after a three month chase by then-editor Tom Shaw, his first
issue being Volume 9, Issue 1.3 Don Lowry, owner of
Guidon Games, acquired Panzerfaust. Lowry stopped
including games in the magazine, preferring to sell them
separately under the Panzerfaust Publications imprint. In 1976
Lowry renamed the magazine Campaign and production
values improved.
The magazine published articles
by notable industry figures such as Lou Zocchi and Jack Scruby.
The last issue of Campaign magazine appeared in 1982. In all,
111 issues of both magazines were printed, and two additional
Special Issues were also published. Special Issue #2 was a
compilation of Squad Leader and Cross of Iron
articles reprinted from previous articles.
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Issue 74 of Campaign
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Cover Gallery
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No. 45
Jun 1971 |
No. 46 |
No. 47 |
No. 48 |
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No. 53 |
No. 54
Jul-Aug 1972 |
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No. 55
Sep-Oct 1972 |
No. 56
Nov-Dec 1972 |
No. 57 |
No. 58
May-Jun 1973 |
No. 59
Jul-Aug 1973 |
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No. 71
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No. 72 |
No. 73
(May-June 1976) |
No. 74
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No. 76 |
No. 77
(Jan-Feb 1977) |
No. 78
(Mar-Apr 1977) |
No. 79
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No. 81 |
No. 82 |
No. 83
(Jan-Feb 1978) |
No. 84 |
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No. 85
(May-Jun 1978) |
No. 86
(Jul-Aug 1978) |
No. 87 |
No. 88 |
No. 89
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No. 90
(Mar-Apr 1979) |
No. 91 |
No. 92
(Jul-Aug 1979) |
No. 93
(Sep-Oct 1979) |
No. 94
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No. 95
(Jan-Feb 1980) |
No. 96
(Mar-Apr 1980) |
No. 97
(May-Jun 1980) |
No. 98
(Jul-Aug 1980) |
No. 99 |
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No. 101
(Jan-Feb 1981) |
No. 102
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No. 103 |
No. 104 |
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No. 106 |
No. 107 |
No. 108 |
No. 109
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No. 111 |
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Special Issues
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Special Issue 2 |
Notes
- Greenwood, Donald. "Spirit-Master
to Offset-King" The General, Volume 25, Number 1
(Avalon Hill, 1988).
- Phillies, George and Martin Campion. "A Guide
to Conflict Simulation Games and Periodicals"
Moves, Nr. 7 (SPI, Feb-Mar
1973).
- Shaw, Thomas N. "In the Beginning",
The General, Volume 25, Number 1, Ibid
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