Jun 24
Marvin Comments: Let me finish you off before that giant asteroid impact destroys the rest of your species.
Published 1955
Marvin Comments: Let me finish you off before that giant asteroid impact destroys the rest of your species.
Published 1955
June 24th, 2019 at 9:14 am
Eventually, this is what will happen if you refuse to take up the offer of Prime.
June 24th, 2019 at 10:14 am
“It was a new new experience for the young James T. Kirk but he gradually realised he liked it”. (The start of several thousand slash fictions.)
June 24th, 2019 at 10:28 am
I don’t know what effect a Vulcan nerve pinch would have on a shin.
June 24th, 2019 at 1:37 pm
formerly published as “The Death-dealing Amazon”.
June 24th, 2019 at 3:22 pm
—Hurry up and snap the photo, Maude! (sigh) She’s never satisfied with the poses we strike.
—Gawk, hrrrk, gasp, yeah, Maude, snap the goddamn photo already hewrrk, prpp, argh . . .
June 24th, 2019 at 4:11 pm
Quite apart from everything else, why does his uniform look like pajamas?
June 24th, 2019 at 4:33 pm
“I still… *wheeze* …say… *cough* …chiropractic….*choke*….is junk ….*gasp*…medicine…*death rattle*”
June 24th, 2019 at 5:24 pm
Back cover. Variant title. Real title ‘The Golden Amazon Returns.’ Part of the long ‘Golden Amazon’ series.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/56781833@N06/7284160386
June 24th, 2019 at 5:54 pm
“I’ll prove it’s a toupee! Just a little more force!”
June 24th, 2019 at 6:41 pm
“Yeah, I like this shade of lipstick. And I’m gonna keep wearing it. Wanna make something of it, Mr. Blackwell?”
June 24th, 2019 at 8:54 pm
‘For the last time, my face is up here!’
June 24th, 2019 at 9:09 pm
For men who enjoy being manhandled by female wrestlers.
June 24th, 2019 at 11:33 pm
I guess the bottom fell out of the “pointy space rocket as signifier this book is science fiction” market some time in the 1970s?
June 25th, 2019 at 1:43 am
They shouldn’t have mocked her short little legs when she was a child.
@fred: so she’s essentially Fantomas with boobs, in space?
June 25th, 2019 at 2:08 am
Poor man’s just hanging out in his jammies and an immortal Amazon drags him away from his large model rocket and strangles him.
@THX: or if you don’t get Kindle Unlimited to read thousands of books of this quality or worse.
Also, please note the size of the rocket compared to the people. I guess it signifies tiny science fiction? Maybe it’s one of those climbing structures that were all the rage on 1960’s playgrounds.
@Francis: It was a wild Spring Break from Starfleet Academy for Cadet Kirk. He probably sent a letter to Space Penthouse about i. (The persons are opposite genders, so it’s not slash.)
@Bruce: I do hope that’s an accurate summation.
Also, we see again that feet are hard to draw. This artist had to put in a lot of yellow smoke, yet it still wasn’t enough to help with her build from the waist down. Shouldn’t Amazons be much more statuesque?
When did Harlequin go entirely romance?
June 25th, 2019 at 5:25 am
@GSSxn—
Also, we see again that feet are hard to draw.
That right hand isn’t winning any “Draughtsperson of the Week” citation from UAI either! 😉
June 25th, 2019 at 11:04 am
Wikipedia indicates that Harlequin was a reprint operation originally, started republishing Mills & Boon reprints in 1953, and “by 1964” were exclusively republishing M&B. Harlequin apparently acquired M&B outright in 1971. So now you know, FWIW.
Some of Fearn’s stories (although not this one) are available on Faded Page Canada. Investigate at your own risk.
June 27th, 2019 at 4:29 am
Someone reprinted this only 2 years ago!
Apparently she’s called “the golden Amazon” for being blonde, yet many of the book covers show her as brunette?
June 29th, 2019 at 8:49 am
@GSS ex-noob: perhaps they didn’t want to confuse pulp SF readers who would assume a blonde was one of the good guys?
July 1st, 2019 at 3:32 am
@Bruce: And you’d think she’d look even blonder with all that yellow going on. Must be for the reason you stated.
March 9th, 2020 at 6:56 pm
Angelina Jolie??
March 9th, 2020 at 9:12 pm
@ARY: With those eyebrows, more Faith Domergue
April 8th, 2022 at 1:05 am
Not sure which one of you GSS veterans first pointed out the strange phenomenon of missing feet on cover art – now I haveta check every cover…