The ninth issue of The Dragon is a bit sparse on D&D content, again being for the most part dedicated to unrelated fiction, and widening its comic strip content to three pages. There is, however, a good article on alignments by Gary Gygax as well as an article with tables to randomize hoards to be found in Tombs and Crypts in D&D.

In other culturally important landmarks there are miniature figures displayed here from the just recently released movie Star Wars, you might have heard of it, as well as an announcement for the first number of White Dwarf by Games Workshop, which started by covering TTRPGs and would eventually become the house publication for GW, when they hit it big with a little game known as Warhammer. White Dwarf started out as the UK version of The Dragon, basically and as GW grew it started shifting its focus.

Lastly in the comic strip front we get the first of the long-running Wormy comic by the enigmatic David A. Trampier, a man who would disappear from public 10 years later in the midst of a Wormy plotline. Actually go look up Trampier’s Wiki, that’s a strange story.