''Wormy'', drawn and written by

David A. Trampier David A. Trampier (April 22, 1954 – March 24, 2014) was an artist and writer whose artwork for TSR, Inc. illustrated some of the earliest editions of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game. Many of his illustrations, such as the cover of ...

(1954 – March 24, 2014), was a fantasy

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about a talking dragon named Wormy. The strip was originally serialized in the role-playing magazine ''

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''. The September 1977 issue of ''Dragon'' (Issue #9) featured the first 6-panel comic of ''Wormy''. The first comic featured the title character, a

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-chomping,

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, and subsequent issues revealed the cast of goblins and ogres who were his neighbors and friends. ''Wormy'' continued to appear in ''Dragon'' for the next 10 years, until Issue #132 (April 1988).

Disappearance

In the late 1980s, ''Wormy'' creator David A. Trampier abruptly vanished from public life. The final installment of ''Wormy'' ended the strip in the middle of an unfinished storyline. No further ''Wormy'' comics were ever published.

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A Collection of David A. Trampier's Wormy
American comic strips American comics characters Fantasy comics Fantasy parodies Parody comics 1977 comics debuts 1988 comics endings Dungeons & Dragons Comics characters introduced in 1977 Fictional dragons {{fantasy-stub