When the fifteenth issue of Slam left the printshop in Spring of 1991, skateboarding was in the midst of a complete metamorphosis. Terrain, tricks, hardware, and footwear were changing from issue to issue of every mag and some of them couldn't keep up.
The issue of Poweredge that sat beside this edition of Slam on newsstands would be their last, and Skatin’ Life, arguably Slam's biggest competitor in its early years, had already gone the way of the dodo a few months earlier.
Slam survives by adapting to the new world, with Mike Perry, the magazine's first
