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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP02 Mar 2025 4:34 p.m. PST

…& Dragons Coloring Album


"Over the years, I've made occasional posts in which I've shared an image from The Official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Coloring Album, but I've never written a full Retrospective post about this curious – and amazing – product. Today, I intend to correct that oversight.

Released in 1979 just a few months prior to the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III, the Coloring Album is a remarkable relic of the time just before Dungeons & Dragons ascended to the heights of name recognition that it's continued to enjoy ever since. Consequently, this 32-page, oversized book is something of a rarity nowadays. I knew nothing of its existence until I started writing this blog, despite the fact that it appeared shortly before I began playing D&D. I've likewise never seen a physical copy of thing, though one can easily find electronic versions online with only a little effort.

One might well imagine that, aside from the simple oddity of an AD&D coloring book, there's not much to say about this product, but that would be mistaken. Let's start with the obvious – the illustrations. In addition to the beholder battle I included earlier this week, there's this one, featuring a bulette…"


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Personal logo Murphy Sponsoring Member of TMP03 Mar 2025 10:30 a.m. PST

Oh gods…Egberts name was used….sigh….

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP03 Mar 2025 3:50 p.m. PST

(smile)

Armand

shawnzeppi207 Mar 2025 10:05 a.m. PST

Nice find. There was a D&D Colorforms as well (1983) which I still have; didn't know about the coloring book, but I was too old for that in 79', back then, only little kids used coloring books. I lived very close the MSU campus, where Egbert LAPRed. My friends used to LARP in the Steam Tunnels beneath MSU at this time, too, but I was only interested in miniatures and boardgames, so never attended one of these crazy sessions. His death caused quite a stir; a lot of misunderstanding and heated criticism of the game, primarily due to overly zealous religious types linking D&D to the occult. Zeitgeist before the age of the internet was more limited in breadth, but I would argue just as high intensity as today. We even spoofed the anti D&D craze on an episode of East Lansing public TV, "The 666 Club" which was a parody of "The 700 Club" where they picked up on the anti D&D culture of the day. This episode featured shots of my miniatures as examples of the ultimate evil in society. Very amusing for HS age kids.

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP07 Mar 2025 4:03 p.m. PST

Thanks!

Armand

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