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"Compuserve Information Service TODAY", issue of January 1982. Price $2.50.
The cover reproduces a full-color painting by Gray Morrow. Conan-esque male and female
menaced by giant snake and axe-wielding orc. Caged red bird. Man holding trident.
See 1982-01-compuserve-today.jpg in this directory.

Text on page 2:

  The Cover:
  An artist's conception of CompuServe's Colossal Cave.

An advertisement on page 1 depicts the same painting in jigsaw-puzzle form.
The puzzle image is the same as the cover art, except that there is a legend
at the top of the image that reads (in all caps):

  COME WITH ME TO COLOSSAL CAVE, WHERE MAGIC ABOUNDS AND TREASURE IS FOUND.
  BID YOUR FINGERS FOLLOW YOUR COMMANDS AND I WILL BE YOUR EYES AND HANDS
  YET BEWARE THE FIERY DRAGON, FOR HE KNOWS NOT WHETHER YOU ARE
  WIZARD OR SIMPLE CHARLATAN!
  HOW BEST TO CONQUER COLOSSAL CAVE? WITH DARING AND SKILL....OH CLEVER KNAVE!

  [in large print] ADVENTURE

  [four illegibly tiny texts in a row beneath]

Text of the advertisement reads:

  Introducing... a puzzling piece of peregrinations
  Those who have journeyed, or "peregrinated," through
  CompuServe's Adventure game know that the experience can
  be...puzzling. How to while away those hours not spent exploring
  Colossal Cave? Solving the Adventure Puzzle, of course; it
  features 500 full-color, interlocking pieces. Finished puzzle size
  is 16 x 20". Cost is just $8.95.

  Add the Adventure Puzzle to your growing collection of other
  Adventure items: full color Adventure Poster (18 x 24". Cost $5.95);
  ADVENTURE350 Map (17 x 25". Black-ink-on-white-paper. Cost
  $2.95); and ADVENTURE751 Map (advanced version, 23 x 35",
  black-ink-on-parchment. Cost $4.98). For Adventure-ous persons,
  only, please.

  To order Adventure items, send a message via Feedback (main
  menu item 5, CompuServe user information)

  CompuServe
  5000 Arlington Centre Boulevard
  Columbus, Ohio 43220

An advertisement on page 4 depicts the same painting in T-shirt form.
Same as cover art, except it's set in an oval and has the word
"Adventure" blazoned across it. Text of the advertisement reads:

  Adventure game yields new find
  Explorer Discovers T-Shirted Creature
  in Depths of Colossal Cave

  (January 1, 1982 ... )
  World-renowned explorer Jeremiah Q. Hackenbush today announced the discovery
  of a multi-footed creature in Colossal Cave, site of the popular Adventure
  game. More astounding than the discovery of the creature itself, however, is
  the disclosure that the creature appeared to be wearing a new style Adventure
  game t-shirt (extra large). The design on the shirt originally was thought
  by world scientists and Adventure aficionados to exist only as a poster
  available through CompuServe Information Service.

  According to Hackenbush, "I tracked the t-shirted creature to a remote and
  very dangerous section of Colossal Cave. I was able to keep it in sight,
  in the murky light, by the vibrant color emanating from the creature's
  t-shirt."

  CompuServe has purchased the rights from Hackenbush and is now offering
  replicas of the exciting new t-shirt discovery, in small, medium, large
  and extra large, cotton/polyester blend. Colors available are light blue,
  yellow, tan, kelly green and red. Cost is just $8.95 including postage
  and handling. (Please allow 4-5 weeks for delivery.)

[Caption:]

  An artist's rendition of the NEW Adventure t-shirt.