The first two covers were done by cover artist Ken Copel and the last two were photographs.

We continued to use our little box in the upper right-hand corner as a mini-cover for various messages and bits of art.

Spring 1988 featured an image of a guy sitting on a huge computer monitor talking on a telephone.

His words "NO, IT'S SAFE.  YOU CAN TALK." are displayed on the screen for all to see.

The computer, of course, is a Model 2600 of one thing or another.

Our mini-cover was the buffalo image of a standard 22-cent postal stamp upside down.

We were a little curious if this might somehow cause issues with postal machines processing our magazines.

This was also the only cover of the year that had the price ($4) of a single issue for newsstands printed on all issues.

For subsequent 1988 issues, we managed to only print the price on those issues that were being sold in stores.  (If you have one of those, it's particularly rare.)

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