The fourth issue of Lowrys Guidon came out in October 1972, just before the business moved to Maine. This was the final supplement to the 1972 Discount Catalog, with the 1973 Catalog coming out a few months later.
Contents:
Editorial
What To Do With All Those Wargame Counters * R. Medrow
Micromania * Kevin Slimak
Crossing the ‘T’ * Phil Willows
More Hardtack Additions * Don Lowry
And five-plus pages of thoroughly out of date listings for board games from Panzerfaust Publications, and Conflict Game Company; N-gauge miniatures, and miniatures from Scruby and Model Power.
Available at Wargame Vault.
Roughly the March-April 1975 issue, this was the second one produced in Fallbrook, CA.
This issue was the first one produced in Fallbrook, CA, which would be the home of the magazine for the rest of its life. This, and the next couple would still carry no cover date, but this one is being considered December ’74/January-February ’75.
The third issue of Lowrys Guidon came out around late July 1972, after a trip to Maine to secure a larger house for the family and business. It went back down to twelve pages in the same format as the first two issues.
This was the last issue produced in Maine, and has a reconstructed date of October-November 1974.
The second booklet in Guidon Game’s Wargamer’s Guidebook Series came out around April 1972, and reprinted articles from The Avalon Hill General, International Wargamer, and Panzerfaust collected by Don Greenwood.
By the reconstructed schedule, this was the August-September 1974 issue. The big news this time was the sale of Lowrys Hobbies (the original mail-order store) to Pete Rice, under the name “The Toy Soldier”.
The second issue of Lowrys Guidon came out in April 1972, alongside the 1972 Discount Catalog and shortly after Don Lowry had acquired Panzerfaust from Don Greenwood. It expanded to 20 pages, and had a few more articles than the first issue, but otherwise kept the same format.
Don Lowry’s personal copy of Panzerfaust #62 has “Jun-Jul ’74” penciled on the cover, which would be about when this undated issue went out.
Issue #61 of of Panzerfaust moved to a new printing service, and a new digest-sized format. It did come out two months after #60, making it effectively (though unmarked) the April-May 1974 issue.