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This is from a series of G+ posts I posted in the years when that was active. I recently found my archive of these posts and migrated them here so they don't get lost to time.
Today we jump back in time to September of 1980. This was the era of the framed covers for Dragon. I was never a fan of this approach, particularly since Dragon came to my awareness with issue #176. However, this cover has grown on me.
The cover is by James Holloway (his debut on Dragon) and ties into two things I found in the issue. The first is an article from a priest concerning D&D, which I can only imagine was selected due to the backlash from the religious right at the time against D&D.
