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Published 1963
(Average: 7.63 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: When Russians plan a race of supermen, good looks are a low priority.
Published 1963
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November 10th, 2015 at 11:53 am
D.O.G. 666
Isn’t that 95.14 in human years–my best friend who has his day?
November 10th, 2015 at 11:59 am
“What? You’ve wasted 15 minutes on this cover and you haven’t even started painting the sidekick? Just sketch him in and be done with it. You have 10 more covers to finish before lunchtime.”
November 10th, 2015 at 1:30 pm
Isn’t that the number of the Apocalypse—the number of the Beast?
The number of that new Russian takeout joint on the corner?
November 10th, 2015 at 1:39 pm
Russian Scientists go to inhuman lengths to plan a race of supermen–
THEY MAKE THEM LOOK LIKE ERNEST BORGNINE!
November 10th, 2015 at 2:39 pm
@Dead Stuff: I was thinking more John Colicos, who was Nasty Russians in ‘Mission: Impossible’ et al when he wasn’t being Klingons or other Nasty Aliens.
November 10th, 2015 at 3:03 pm
The lumbago of the Beast.
November 10th, 2015 at 4:33 pm
You know, there was an actual incident involving a crackpot Soviet scientist who planned on creating a race of supermen by attempting to inseminate women with chimpanzees. In the Caribbean. Fortunately for the continued sanity of the planet, the project never really got off the ground.
Yeah, what’s truly insane isn’t the knockoff Frankenstein’s monster on the cover – it’s the fact that this book seems to be based off actual, real-life insanity.
November 10th, 2015 at 4:44 pm
“Listen, Dr. Lubonov, this superman of yours doesn’t look anything like what you showed us in the drawings.”
November 10th, 2015 at 4:58 pm
Back cover. I really really really needed a detailed explanation on what I saw on the front cover. And how the hell did Archer get on this cover? Accidental drunken time travel?
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November 10th, 2015 at 6:02 pm
That’s the most neurotic blurb I’ve ever seen — asking us to confirm it.
November 10th, 2015 at 6:06 pm
The book was reprinted with the title RUSSIA’S OLYMPIC STEROID PROGRAM.
(Too soon?)
November 10th, 2015 at 6:11 pm
After reading the front and back covers, I’m left confused. Are we supposed to be cheering on the Russians? Or the supermen? Lex Luthor, perhaps?
November 10th, 2015 at 8:30 pm
Interesting that this esoteric, hidden, coded, mysterious, murky, other-worldly title is propped up next to The Trial of the Templars. Coincidence? I hardly think so.
November 10th, 2015 at 8:50 pm
@B. Chiclitz: I’m more concerned that someone filed it next to WG Sebald thinking that ‘The Rings of Saturn’ would be space-opera.
November 10th, 2015 at 9:16 pm
@Tat—not to mention Harrison’s “Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion.” I think we’ve stumbled onto a vast interstellar conspiracy, my friend. Zeus help us all!
November 10th, 2015 at 9:34 pm
In Soviet Russia, Pulp Sci-fi Cover Reads You!
November 10th, 2015 at 10:38 pm
In Soviet Russia, Beast says 666 is OK. Lucky number!
November 10th, 2015 at 11:59 pm
Rewrite the title in Cyrillic script. Then flip it upside-down. It reads 999 L.O.L.
November 11th, 2015 at 12:45 am
“Russian scientists go to inhuman lengths to (*ahem*) PLAN a race of Supermen”
So this never gets past committee phase, huh?
November 12th, 2015 at 1:10 pm
“SWEDISH scientists go to inhuman lengths to plan a committee to investigate the forming of another committee to discuss the feasibility of voting on the suggestion to set up a committee to weigh the pros and cons of creating a race of supermen… after lunch.”
June 6th, 2017 at 2:26 pm
Too many unnecessary words..thick obnoxious line work…I’m guessing Michael Poe.
June 8th, 2017 at 8:21 am
FRENCH scientists go to inhuman lengths to create a race of SUPERMEN… and after a number of cigarettes and chocolate eclairs, they are overcome with ennui, decide that superhumans are a futile construct of language, and decide to hook up with their old schoolteachers instead.
June 28th, 2017 at 12:34 pm
AMERICAN scientists go to inhuman lengths to create a race of SUPERMEN… but the result refuses to fight crime, and starts a lucrative chain of megachurches dedicated to worshipping him. He dies of a heart attack ten years later — a bloated, drug-addicted billionaire.
June 28th, 2017 at 3:08 pm
@A.R.Yngve #10. It seems the publishers got genuinely worried about the 666 reference going over their readers’ heads. Who knows, perhaps title-explanatory blurbs should be used more often?
The Undead
“The Undead? You mean vampires, right? Because they’re neither living nor dead?”
And Disregards The Rest
“Isn’t that a line from that Simon & Garfunkel song? ‘The Boxer’?”
To Sail A Darkling Sea
“Isn’t that a quote from that poet guy, you know, Arnold Masefield or whoever? No? Aww, c’mon, can’t we pretend? Please?”
June 29th, 2017 at 3:10 am
CANADIAN scientists go to inhuman lengths to create a race of SUPERMEN…just kidding. Canadians would never do something like that.
June 30th, 2017 at 3:06 am
@JP—you’re right, they settle for feeling tastefully superior to the yanks below.
June 30th, 2017 at 6:22 am
GERMAN scientists go to…
Oh, right. That one happened.
May 9th, 2020 at 11:05 pm
BRITISH scientists go to inhuman lengths to create a race of SUPERMEN… and then start calling them “wankers” and “social climbers” behind their backs.
May 11th, 2020 at 2:07 am
MEXICAN scientists go to inhuman lengths to create a race of SUPERMEN… and lucha libre becomes the most popular sport in the world.
(I have a feeling this has already been a movie. Probably with El Santo.)
May 11th, 2020 at 8:22 am
AUSTRALIAN scientists go to inhuman lengths to create a race of SUPERMEN… who then go to Hollywood and star in superhero movies.
OK, that’s the “nice” version. Here’s the “nasty” version:
AUSTRALIAN scientists go to inhuman lengths to create a race of SUPERMEN… who discover that supermen can drink and do drugs all day without any side effects. They plan to stay on Bondi Beach forever.
May 11th, 2020 at 10:58 pm
@ARY: Why not both?
May 11th, 2022 at 10:20 pm
I can’t help noticing the lack of tension in GOG’s hands. Like he’s a SUPERMAN about to sit down and play some ragtime on the piano. The gesture is eerily similar to Christopher Walker’s hands in the video for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice”
May 12th, 2022 at 12:18 am
MUSICAL scientists go to inhuman lengths to create a race of SUPERMEN… and the Chopin and Van Cliburn Competitions were never the same.
May 12th, 2022 at 3:09 am
Pictured: the initial pitch and the actual product.