Shot by Sparrow-Fritscher, Cover Photo of erotic leather legend Val Martin and Bob/Leo Stone, in the characteristically "imprimatur" Fritscher-design of the arm-wrestling pose of comparative biceps, comparative fists, shot profile after the manner of classic Roman coins. South American Val Martin was the first Mr. Drummer in 1979. Leo Stone, his partner, became the Zeus Studio model, Leo Stone. The leathery pas de deux of Val Martin and Leo Stone, photographed by Jim Hawkins for Zeus, appeared in The Zeus Collection Magazine titled Zeus Presents Val Martin and Leo Stone, designed by Mikal Bales, 1979. Fritscher photographed Val Martin and Leo Stone again, July 4th weekend, 1978, in an as-yet-unpublished storyboard series of spit-and-piss photographs shot in the Sonoma County barn owned by Pacific Drill Patrol founding-member, Ed Linotti.

In an interesting historical note, Drummer #30 carried Chapter Two of the serialized novel Mr. Benson whose first chapter was printed by Jack Fritscher in Drummer #29, May 1979. The author of Mr. Benson is listed as "Jack Prescott," the pseudonym which Jack Fritscher counseled writer John Preston to drop in favor of using his real name in the same way Drummer editor-in-chief, Jack Fritscher, chose to use his real name during an age of strong gay pride. In point of fact, Jack Fritscher, Ph.D., had been a university professor teaching creative writing and journalism for ten years, when in the spring of 1979, he mentored John Preston who had written a draft of Mr.Benson which was so rough that editor-in-chief Fritscher (after much pressure from Drummer publisher John Embry and much consultation with Preston) had to become a "script doctor" doing the final edit and polish on Mr. Benson, so the story, which Embry had paid for on spec, could actually be published. There are actually three Mr. Benson manuscripts: 1) Preston's original draft, 2) Fritscher's polish of Preston's draft actually serialized in Drummer, and 3) Embry's published book based on the two previous manuscripts. Editor of issue for Drummer #30: Jack Fritscher