Titan: The Monster Slugathon

Hail fellow Grognards! Ready for another installment of this D&D blog? It's GO TIME!
As I've shared here over the past couple of years...I've been building a David A. Trampier collection...hard to find posters, original art...last week I really took the plunge and added the very rare,but extremely influential & popular, TITAN board game! 
This game was designed by TRAMP & his friend  Jason B. McAllister. They formed the Gorgonstar Co. and put the game out themselves in 1980. Avalon Hill bought the rights and published their own version for the next 20 odd years...leaving the 1980 board game a hard to find collectors item.
Here's a look at the condition of the box & the game contents...

Art on all 4 edges of the box...The Dragon & Behemoth 

Bottom of the box showing some coloring due to age.

And inside...

The rules to the game, "The LAW of TITAN". Very neat pamphlet with the TRAMP minotaur drawing...the original of which sold for over 2K this summer on Ebay!

Everything included & in pristine shape...the game pieces are "unpunched"...as in this game has never actually been played/used.

A warning from the creators...

Not to worry, I won't be playing this copy of the game, nor spraying any "clear-coat" on it to preserve the pieces! 

A nice "tip of the hat" from Tramp & Jason to their friends & brother!

The game board...which is a poster. Slightly different than the Avalon Hill version. You can see how the back of it has become discolored with age.

I can hear you asking..."What did you pay?" You already know...it was a lot of cabbage! I just knew that any real collection of TRAMP's work needed this piece of history. I read somewhere on the interwebs that only 500 or so of this version were sold by Gorgonstar...I really don't know the validity of that number...I just know that with the art...the box, the game pieces & the board designed by TRAMP...that I needed it for my collection. 

I teased this on some FB groups...a Gorgonstar Publications business card that was included with the game!

And...for comparison...here's the TITAN box next to the transparency used in the silk screening of the box covers!

I'll continue to keep my eyes open for more TRAMP collectibles...if any surface. He's my absolute favorite D&D/Fantasy artist.

'Till next time...Up the irons & roll for initiative!

Excelsior!