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Seligman on Holmes Basic As Ive written previously, the earliest reported public availability for Holmes Basic is at Origins 1977, which ran from Friday July 22nd to Sunday, July 24th at Wagner College on Staten Island, NYC. This weekend is the 40th anniversary of this event! The above information is from a convention report by Bill Seligman  (who has a  blog  here)  in the August 1977 issue of the APAzine, The Wild Hunt (via Jon Peterson and Playing at the World). Lee Gold is now offering pdf copies of early Alarums & Excursions issues (ordering details are here), and in these I found that Bill also included a convention report  in issue #25 (dated 16 August 1977) as part of his contribution, "I WOULD HAVE MADE A GREAT PLATINUM DRAGON #10" (APAzines are compilations of mini-zines by each contributor). Heres what Seligman had to say about the new Basic Set: First, in his comments directed to previous A&E contributors: " Eric Holmes : the new revise...

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