Sep 16
Click for larger imageMarvin Comments: Gaakk! My eyes!
Published 1965
(Average: 8.64 out of 10)
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Marvin Comments: Gaakk! My eyes!
Published 1965
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September 16th, 2019 at 9:11 am
“Sorry Captain. Not even the magical enhance button can make sense of this one.”
September 16th, 2019 at 10:54 am
There must be a YouTube video tutorial to fix this cover… ah, here we are, VHS Bad Tracking Overlay.
September 16th, 2019 at 1:25 pm
Now What?
September 16th, 2019 at 1:35 pm
Released in the UK with the alternate title WHAT’S ALL THIS THEN?
September 16th, 2019 at 1:56 pm
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Clearly we must don our scaly calcium deposit armor, for the Mandrill People invade at dawn.
September 16th, 2019 at 2:33 pm
Brilliant practitioner or not, the sheep still threw up.
September 16th, 2019 at 3:06 pm
The sequel, “Owzabout that then, Guys and Gals’ is no longer available.
September 16th, 2019 at 3:11 pm
Art Direction: “Mayflower Books is very proud to have signed a prestige author such as John Brunner. Let’s not do anything to mess up this cover. It’s all yours Jacks.”
September 16th, 2019 at 4:11 pm
Maybe I’m seeing things, so somebody help me out. In the lower left corner, is that a freaky purple ass?
September 16th, 2019 at 6:26 pm
“Dear Jeff Jacks, please work your magic on the complete works of Jack Chalker.”
-j
September 16th, 2019 at 7:39 pm
@JuanPaul – Is this like a Rorschach Test? Always say it looks like a butterfly; never a purple ass.
September 16th, 2019 at 9:15 pm
Now then, what the hell am I looking at?
September 16th, 2019 at 10:38 pm
@fred—GSS! I was thinking “The Gloop Looks Up” but yours is better.
September 17th, 2019 at 12:39 am
@fred – I don’t know about the sheep throwing up. but they can’t stand this on Zanzibar.
September 17th, 2019 at 3:31 am
I’m sure John Brunner was thrilled to see his name so obscured.
Also, the blurb is 11 words long, yet 2 of them are “brilliant”. I guess the Unknown Copywriters’ School doesn’t recommend thesauri.
Although who could blame him, he knew it was a futile effort with that artwork and the title font. And why no “and” in the title? Didn’t fit with that stupid purple font taking up so much room? Running low on their word supply? (see above para)
Mr. Jacks seems to have quite the eye for eyes.
@ARY (4): GSS! Also a better description of the artwork. But I think you mean “re-released”. Price is 3/6, so it must be UK. And some gall Mayflower (which seems such an American name to me) had asking nearly half a crown for this. I’d have asked them for a crown just to take it home, and a plain brown wrapper to hide the cover on the bus. Rather be thought reading naughty books than seen with this.
@fred: GSS!
@Lillie: Excellently sussed out. Possibly only the warriors put on the calcium armor and the rest were evacuated in a couple of random spaceships. Unless the Mandrill People are the ones in the armor?
@JP: Lillie thought so.
@Ikari: Nor anywhere else.
September 17th, 2019 at 4:41 am
Now there’s some serious blurb placement fail. “Let’s make it a visual puzzle readers will have to squint at to make out – they like that sort of thing!”
Calcium armor? It also might be a failed invisibility helmet that only makes your meats (and eyeballs) disappear and leaves the bones and nerves and cartilage all too visible.
The guy on the left could be an early design for this Star Wars Jedi-victim:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/1/10/Pondababa.png/revision/latest?cb=20130225025836
September 17th, 2019 at 6:53 pm
The Jimmy Savile story certainly reads like science fantasy – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
February 3rd, 2024 at 9:55 pm
Mayflower-Dell? Sounds like a location, not a publisher…
“Silly Jilly and Mr. Cat tumbled down to Mayflower Dell to share their ooshy-gooshy maple treaties with the Innocent Gremlins,” read Miss Jinx in her best librarian voice….
Okay, I’m no writer.