10th Anniversary Collector's Sets

The 10th Anniversary Collector's Set and the 10th Anniversary Combo Packs were both released at D&D's ten-year point in 1984/1985 (primarily to clear out overstock).

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The 10th Anniversary Collector's Set is a compilation of widely-available Basic D&D material.  1,000 sets were printed and sold at GenCon 17 (and through mail order) in 1984.  Protected by a faux-leather slipcase with gold lettering, the set contains:

The advertisement of the set (see image below) published in Dragon #88 shows X1 Isle of Dread, but doesn't list it in the contents.

The 10th Anniversary Combo Packs are simply modules bundled together with a bright-yellow "D&D 10th Anniversary" sheet (that stated "$xx with the purchase of a (random D&D item), offer expires 12/31/85").  The modules are the regular printings; if removed from the Combo shrinkwrap, they are indistinguishable from their separately-sold brethren, other than a small overstock notch at the top of the modules (so they couldn't be individually returned to the store for full cover price).  The yellow sheets are labeled with the following individual stock numbers: 1100XA (B1/B3/MSOLO1/B5), 1101XA (X1/X2/X3/X4), 1102XA (D3/S1/S3/S4), 1103XA (C2/A2/A3/A4), 1104XA (T1/C1/I1/G-1-2-3), 1105XA (DMs Screen / Perm Char Recs / DM Log / I3), 1106XA (S2/WG4), 1107XA (D1-2/EX2), 1108XA (I4/UK1), 1109XA (N1/U2), and 1110XA (L1/L2).  Occasionally, Combo Packs are spotted that do not have the stock number on the yellow sheet.

Thanks to Doug Bartholomew, Michael Deaton, Brett Easterbrook, Devon Hibbs, William Meinhardt, Frank Mentzer, Byron Odwazny, and Christophe Smagghe for help with this info.

Only 1,000 10th Anniversary Collector's Sets were printed.  Unknown how many Combo Packs were released.

Thanks to Rhea Shelley for the scan of the 10th Anniversary Collector's Set case, to Michael Deaton for the scan of the C2/A2/A3/A4, L1/L2, and B1/B3/MSOLO1/B5 Combo Packs, to Devon Hibbs for the scans of the N1/U2 and S2/WG4 Combo Packs, to Jason Lada and Jeff Philbrick for the scan of the X1/X2/X3/X4 Combo Pack, to Jim Winkley for the scan of the T1/C1/I1/G-1-2-3 Combo Pack, and to Doug Bartholomew for the scans of the D1-2/EX2, D3/S1/S3/S4, and I4/UK1 Combo Packs.

Unopened specimens of any of these are quite rare.  We seriously doubt that TSR managed to sell all one thousand 10th Anniversary Sets at $50 each, or sell many Combo Packs (containing modules that aren't even related!)... and perhaps they destroyed unsold copies.

The following represents The Acaeum's current valuation of these items, dependent upon condition.  These values assume shrinkwrap is still present -- the only way to verify that the included books/modules are original.  Values are updated at the beginning of the month, provided there were new public sales.  Click the titles to view active eBay auctions!

	Fair	Good	VGood	Fine	VFine	NMint
10th Anniversary Collector's Set	Fair$1165	Good$2096	VGood$2795	Fine$3494	VFine$4192	NMint$4658
10th Anniversary Combo Pack (any)	Fair$228	Good$410	VGood$546	Fine$683	VFine$820	NMint$911