![]() So why would that be the case? More speculation here, but one artist suggested that the the painting originally consisted of just the bottom portion, which looks like it could have been colored on a landscaped paper, and that when it was accepted for use on Dragon, it needed to be expanded to fit the cover size, hence the second board. ![]() Without Photoshop, it couldn't be accurately stitched together. Our best speculation is that the original artwork was done in two parts, on two different boards or pieces of paper. One of the most interesting elements of the cover is a strange horizontal line across it, with the sunlight colored slightly differently above it and below it. The appearance of an anniversary dragon would be the start of a long-standing tradition, where Dragon's June issues regularly featured dragons on their covers and dragons in their contents - though it would only be with Dragon #146 (June 1989) that dragons began to dominate every June cover, up through Dragon #356 (June 2007), the last printed anniversary issue. This time around it's a reddish dragon, and he seems to be sitting at the bottom of an oubliette, gnawing on an adventurer's bones. To celebrate that, TSR ran a new cover with a dragon, probably referring back to Bill Hannan's famous beastie on the cover of The Dragon #1 (June 1976). The Dragon was bimonthly over its first year, so the seventh issue marked the magazine's one-year anniversary. ![]() ![]() Advanced Designers & Dragons Heading into its second year, The Dragon's covers continued to be interesting, but evidence suggests they were almost an afterthought, either commissioned locally or purchased from existing art. ![]()
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