Boardindex Page Montage/aka 'Book 1'?

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Here's the second part of the comics update in SG #61 from August 1992:

I was never fully able to decide what I thought about Julia's use of magic as part of her cure for Barnabas. That goes completely against any other version of Julia because her other counterparts relied purely on science and that's also the way things are presented in what we saw in the '91 Series. But...

"We try to maintain the continuity and attention to detail as much as possible." Ummm, well, then I guess the excuse is it wasn't possible in those many instances that have been pointed out when continuity went right out the window? Uh, no, that's hardly an excuse. 

[Uncle Roger]

As long as we're on the subject of unanswered (or unanswerable) questions,  how would Barnabas or anyone else detect silver in their veins? Or diamond? Or emerald? Or asparagus?

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Here's the twenty-fourth page:

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And all the dialogue on this page was used for the slideshow - though not only is that because it's important, there's also little of it considering there's only one giant panel, which is the first time we see that in the comic.

And that brings us to the end of the storyline portion of Book 1, Issue 3. Though there are still more pages to deal with...

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I've already shared Pages #25 - #29 of Issue #3 (the letters column) and Page #30 is the same ad for the Barnabas model that I shared from Issue 2 in reply #273. So in place of that I'm going to share some photos of the model that appeared in SG #60:

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Page #31 of Issue #3 is the same ad for the watches that I shared from Issue #1 in reply #139. So in place of that I'm going to share a write-up for the watches that appeared in SG #61:

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Page 32 of Issue #3 is the same ad for the posters that I shared from Issue #1 in reply #146. And given that SG hasn't really done much with regard to the posters (unlike what I've shared when it comes to the Barnabas model and the watches) there's nothing to share from SG with regard to the posters, so here's the back inside cover of Issue #3:

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Once again it promotes the '91 Series' MPI tapes and PomPress' Dark Shadows Resurrected book with a different design than appeared at the back of Issue #2. And it also lists addresses for SG, TWODS and the Fest.

[Uncle Roger]

I never quite understood why the music on the Angelique watch played the theme from Love Story, instead of the Cobert music (not necessarily Josette's theme, any Cobert music would have sufficed). Were there licensing issues of some sort?

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And here's the back cover of Book 1, Issue 3:

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And that concludes everything about Book 1, Issue 3...

As you can see, Vicki, David and Woodard have been dropped, Roger has returned, and Vincent Hoffman and Lara Hoffman have been introduced.

And as I mentioned previously, the '91 Series' tag line "A Love Story Beyond Time..." continues as part of the back cover despite the fact that the love story wasn't much in evidence in Issues 3 - at least not the Vicki portion of it...

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And that concludes everything about Book 1, Issue 3...

Actually, that's not true because I just realized that back in June I completely forgot about sharing Book1, Issue 3's front inside cover.    And that might be because for some odd reason, because it's not the case with the other three inside covers, it scanned so badly. But, better late than never, here it is:

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And now that concludes everything about Book 1, Issue 3.. 

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Here's the front cover of Book 1, Issue 4:

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And as previously mentioned, this issue didn't actually come out until February '93...

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Here's the inside front cover of Book 1, Issue 4:

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(What's very interesting is that even in 2004, when the WB pilot was done, the We-Can't-See-Willie-Being-Bitten-On-The-Neck notion was still in full force because the scene cuts off before Willie is attacked. Or at least it does in the version of the pilot that showed up online (I don't honestly recall if it was the case in the version that's been shown at Fests). And also interestingly, even though the scene plays very differently in the script from the way it was shot, even in the script Willie gets pulled into Barnabas' coffin so that the actual attack is not seen. Although, it appears it was actually more for suspense and mystery, so that Willie's girlfriend Kelly wouldn't know exactly what was going on until it was too late, than for timidity at showing the actual attack on Willie.)

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SG #62 came out in October 1992, shortly before Book 1, Issue 3 was finally released. As a result, SG #63, which came out in January 1993, has more about Book 1, Issue 4 than SG #62, which dealt more with Book 1, Issue 3 than Issue 4. But here's some of what can be shared from SG #62 about Book 1, Issue 3 & Issue 4:

The artwork referred to featuring Lara Parker's Lara Hoffman will be showing up before too long...

"The revelations behind the secrets of the music box will either thrill and delight people, or it'll be the cause of some very strange letters in my mailbox." I don't honestly recall what sort of comments were published in the letters column regarding what they did with the music box in Issue 4. But everyone will be able to decide for themselves long before we may get to any fan feedback...

(The really interesting thing about SG #62 is that it shares quite a bit of info about Book 2, Issue 1 - but it's way too early to get into any of that, especially because we haven't even decided if we're going to do a slideshow for Book 2 (though as I've said, in my opinion, it's a better story...).)

[Uncle Roger]

Today's slide show reminds of a horizontal game of Tetris. 

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But speaking of today's quotes, I actually take exception with "A MAN WHO, UPON MY ARRIVAL, FIRST IMPRESSED ME AS CRUDE AND CRUEL, HAS IN RECENT WEEKS, BECOME A KIND AND CARING FRIEND" in reference to Willie. Perhaps Vicki thought that of him for a few minutes, but that instantly changed once she got a look at this dejected expression on Willie's face -

- after everyone at the Blue Whale had seemingly ganged up on Willie. She saw the real Willie beneath the bluster, and that Willie was not crude or cruel and right there and then she made the effort to befriend him by agreeing to ride with him to Collinwood. And by the time Willie came to her with the note from Barnabas to invite her to dinner, she was already making an all-out effort to befriend him and he reciprocated, and that was much earlier than "recent weeks" before the events taking place in the comic.

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And because there are still a few things that need to be posted, here's Book 1, Issue 4's first page:

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And now you can see why yesterday's capture in the slideshow was like it was...