Sorry, but the audience for TSR in those early days,was limited to the pkaces it was sold, which was often hobby shops in college towns as the college student, not teens living with mom and dad.
The art for D&D was less than that of AD&D, which was the one cluttered with full page color art strewn with chainmail bikinis.
D&D had only minor color art and was mostly black and white sketches, so you could not tell if pants or a furkini was being worn half the time inside of a book.
That is not to say box art and covers were not provocative themselves.
At some point there needs to be some trimming. I mean, writting that is hard enough, but, how in the heck am I supposed to say that without tripping over letters/forgetting stuff?
