Vol III, No. 6! Another year of THE COURIER completed! Now is as good a time as any to bring the long overdue attention of the readership to the unsung heroes of this effort. All false modesty aside I get much more than my share of recognition at conventions, in print, etc., not unnaturally, Dick Bryant is identified with THE COURIER. Most recognition, however should go to my partners (who will be bulls-t when they read this) without whom THE COURIER could never be produced. Leo Cronin is our business manager - it's in his home where our business "offices" are found, where we store all the back issues & Supply Depot material and whose family graciously moves over every Wednesday night and Saturday morning (starting at 8 am!) to allow us to do Courier business. Leo keeps the books, sends out the invoices, pays the bills, sets the budget, maintains the inventory and more, but most of all, he is the backstop against which I bounce my thoughts and my ideas for THE COURIER - he keeps our feet on the ground. The other long suffering partner in this enterprise is Joe Miceli. Joe is the Art Director and it is his many hours at the library that provide most of our illustrations and all our covers. His artistic talent is applied to the layout and pasteup of each issue with only insufficient and often cryptic instructions from the editor to go on. Joe is the one person responsible for the professional presentation of the magazine. I shouldn't close without thanking all the editors and authors who keep each issue from being blank pages and especially Nick Nascati for the fine job he did as Renaissance theme editor. The new theme year is the MEDIEVAL PERIOD with editor George Schneider (PHD, History). HISTORICAL MARKET GROWING Quite a few store managers and miniatures manufacturers that I have spoken to, tell me of a stagnation of the FRP market and the very substantial growth of the Historical market in the last few months! Store owners are beginning to realize that while many FRP gamers buy only a few figures for their adventure teams & monsters, Historical gamers are constantly building their armies and continue to be repeat customers long after the "new releases" have dried up. A further indication is that many manufacturers a re-releasing older lines to help the Historical gamer round-out his armies. Back to Table of Contents -- Courier Vol. III #6 To Courier List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1982 by The Courier Publishing Company. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com