It was a TSR executive's ploy to build a mailing list of potential buyers for stuff. However, not being an employee then or ever, I never learned which executive.
David Martin was editor of The Secrets of the Sages newsletter (3 issues assembled, only 1 put out).
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Some questions only @TheEdVerse can answer… This little bit of TSR advertising came to me in a 1987 Forgotten Realms boxed set. Was there really an Order of Heroes? Did the pen of Elminster actually send these heroes parchments highlighting new material? And who was the TSR mind behind this “1960’s comic book style” marketing research plan?
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