Jack McCallum's cover essay, "Alone on the Mountaintop," ran inside. The hologram itself was an unusual piece of production for a weekly magazine — a full-colour embossed stereogram, applied as a decal to the newsstand and subscriber runs.

Jordan had just won his first NBA championship in June 1991 and was named Sportsman of the Year that December. The Bulls would win five more titles over the decade that followed.

This is the newsstand edition, graded PSA 9.8. Per the PSA census at time of acquisition it sits at Pop 2 with none higher, and is the top-graded newsstand copy recorded — the kind of top-of-census, culturally significant piece DimeLabs targets.