For reference sake it was always referred to as The VAMPYR Tome on the show. It was the comic books that tried to make it something else. If you remember back to the actual show when the Slayer Handbook was mentioned for the first time, it was Buffy who asked why she had never seen it?
Then remember that the VAMPYR Tome was the first thing Giles showed Buffy in the very first episode.
I don't cut Factory X any slack as they were doing what every other “factory” prop store was at the time: having knock offs made of screen seen props and sending those off to China to have them mass produced as cheaply as possible.
I don’t know a single person who has purchased Factory X/Buffy that hasn’t turned around and gotten rid of it once it was received.
The one piece from Buffy they put out that didn’t have a major flaw was Mr. Gordo, Buffy’s plush pig.
If you don’t believe me try looking for one and you will see what I mean.
Anyway, as far as another “run” of the VAMPYR Tome is concerned I’ve never done one. What I did do was purchase as many of the same volume of Family Bible as was used to make the screen used book as I could find and make them over.
The total of books I’ve done were done on a one at a time basis when I could find a volume that was suitable for making over.
Anymore however volumes of the right book have gotten so hard to find I’ve turned that part of the process over to the customer.
Very occasionally someone approaches me with a book they have found and for a fee I make it over for them.
Happy hunting guys!
