Millennial Master
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Old School Hero Newsletters
Before Adventurers Club and Digital Hero there were Hero Newsletters! Never heard of them?!? Well you can download them from my website! Go to the File Downloads page. Here is a link to John's Hero HQ.
There are four newsletters, an old letter from the original Steve at Hero (aka Steve Peterson), and an old mailer. They are all worth a chuckle or two. The prices on the mailer are great!
FYI. I asked Steve and Darren...they said it was ok for me to post these.
Enjoy!
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Hur! Yay old-school!
Neptune City Comptroller
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A surreal stroll down memory lane.Originally Posted by JohnTaber
Before Adventurers Club and Digital Hero there were Hero Newsletters! Never heard of them?!? Well you can download them from my website! Go to the File Downloads page. Here is a link to John's Hero HQ.
There are four newsletters, an old letter from the original Steve at Hero (aka Steve Peterson), and an old mailer. They are all worth a chuckle or two. The prices on the mailer are great!
FYI. I asked Steve and Darren...they said it was ok for me to post these.
Enjoy!
John Desmarais
The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of - www.herostuff.net
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Yes
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Cool! I'm one of the proud to still have the original newsletters.Before Adventurers Club and Digital Hero there were Hero Newsletters! Never heard of them?!? Well you can download them from my website! Go to the File Downloads page. Here is a link to John's Hero HQ.
There are four newsletters, an old letter from the original Steve at Hero (aka Steve Peterson), and an old mailer. They are all worth a chuckle or two. The prices on the mailer are great!
FYI. I asked Steve and Darren...they said it was ok for me to post these.
Enjoy!
"No on 65, yes to 87!"
Last of the Interceptors
Member
Good God, you rock! You know what is the most bizarre part of this nostalgic piece? The type font used in the newsletter looks exactly the the type font used for Champions 1 ed. Props, props and more props. Thou hast been duly rep't.
...seeing Dove's name again. Oy. That reminds me, what the heck is an 'Airacobra' anyway? Was he a flying martial artist?
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SETAC Gadfly
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I had Vol 1 #2, and Vol 2, #1-2 (maybe a third? I'd have to check my books). Anyone know how many were published in aggregate?Cool! I'm one of the proud to still have the original newsletters.
High Powered Superhero
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Awesome,
While you are archiving,....i'm wondering if you have copies of the pre-1999 Digital Hero stuff that was hosted here.
Decuple Millennial Master
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IIRC it's the name of a World War II-era airplane. A quick stroll through Google or Wikipedia would probably turn up more info.what the heck is an 'Airacobra' anyway
I don't know what the character's powers were, though.
Steve Long
Young Curmudgeon
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Steve is exactly right. This is an Airacobra.
I got nothin' on the character, though.
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Millennial Master
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Can you give me more detail? Do you mean the stuff Dave M did in a previous life?
FYI. I ran the Checkered Demon BBS for a few years. (A Hero focused BBS that was pre-web explosion.) This gave me a good chance to collect a lot of material (official and not) from the old Hero stalwarts. If folks think this stuff is fun I can dig through my records and pull out more material. I will clear everything that I post with Steve, Darren, and the author...if I can find him/her. I know I have some great stuff from Scott Bennie's old campaign. I also have just about everything that was on the old Red October BBS.
Are folks interested?
Millennial Master
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Of course we're interested. D'uh, who are we to pass up more retro-Hero stuff.
If it isn't too much trouble for you, that is.
TB
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Excelent, thanks!
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The Digital Hero
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No, before I started the online magazine here at Hero, Bruce Harlick used to occasionally post fan articles in HTML, under the website section known as Digital Hero. And, no, I'm afraid I don't have archives of that, either.Can you give me more detail? Do you mean the stuff Dave M did in a previous life?
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As far as Airacobra and his lack of powers, there was a contest to design his powers at one point, if I recall correctly.
HEROphile at large
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The 1984 setting mentioned in the 1st newsletter sounds like an adventure I sent Dave Mattingly for Digital HERO based around a dimension where the dystopian Hegemony of Vinland rules supreme.
Anyone have more information on it?
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