Nov 27
Charlie the Tuna Comments: Starring Clem Kadiddlehopper as Adam Hunter, Verne Troyer as Mini-Mime and Pat Morita as Fu Manchu!
Published 1975
Charlie the Tuna Comments: Starring Clem Kadiddlehopper as Adam Hunter, Verne Troyer as Mini-Mime and Pat Morita as Fu Manchu!
Published 1975
November 27th, 2019 at 10:05 am
Hey, Charlie. You forgot Richard Kiel as ‘Man Throwing Zombie Off Cliff’. Also generic-model-turned-actress whose name nobody can remember because after all women are not meant to be distinct characters in stories like this as Generic ‘Love’ Interest.
November 27th, 2019 at 10:20 am
I’m guessing this is the last in the series if Adam marches towards a hideous death. Some hero. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, huh?
November 27th, 2019 at 12:46 pm
Any one of the people on this cover could be Adam Hunter. Maybe Adam is a master of disguise.
November 27th, 2019 at 1:07 pm
Sylvester Stallone as Charlie Rivel in
BIG TOP INFERNO
November 27th, 2019 at 1:21 pm
This isn’t the OCTOPUSSY movie poster?
November 27th, 2019 at 1:28 pm
@RayP nailed it!
November 27th, 2019 at 1:50 pm
It’s the movie David Lean wishes he made from the book Alistair MacLean wishes he wrote.
November 27th, 2019 at 1:53 pm
Going to tell my kids this was The Joker
November 27th, 2019 at 3:30 pm
‘No, I said “carNAGE”, not…’
I’m going to have that Alan Price song stuck in my head all day.
(PS. This is what the film actually looked like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOvqqD8kVw0 )
November 27th, 2019 at 4:01 pm
Let’s fix that punctuation
Hunter: #2: Operation: Alpha: Death
November 27th, 2019 at 4:04 pm
Wow. This is like a Mount Rushmore of terrible cover art.
November 27th, 2019 at 4:47 pm
This would just be a generic thriller novel cover… and then BOOM! Clown.
November 27th, 2019 at 5:10 pm
When Tommy DeVito entered in the full clown outfit, the other goodfellas knew he had finally snapped.
“But, I’m funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I’m here to f***in’ amuse you?”
November 27th, 2019 at 5:46 pm
I see the circus finally pushed Dumbo too far.
November 27th, 2019 at 5:59 pm
If Fury Road was about a circus, it would look like this.
November 27th, 2019 at 11:41 pm
At the first glance, I assumed the team of heroes is made up of the clown, the midget, the woman, and the old guy, and I still am unsure if that is the case or not.
The crowd next the flaming circus do not appear to be marching zombie-like: they seem to be fleeing, Toho movies crowd-style.
@Francis Boyle: Looking at the largest magnification, I still can’t tell who those people at the top of the cliff are, except that one of them seems to be wearing a uniform: perhaps they’re both zombies, or, judging from what I can see of their facial features, crash test dummies.
November 28th, 2019 at 12:37 am
OK, I have to ask. WTF does “Alpha Death” mean?
November 28th, 2019 at 12:50 am
@Biblio: Someone isn’t a Walking Dead fan!
November 28th, 2019 at 2:30 am
Color abuse! Font abuse! Random assemblage featuring scary clown and little person! Giant overheated blurb!
Truly, prime GSS material.
Is Alpha Death the best kind, more expensive than Beta Death?
@Ray P: GSS! Wonder if the author/artist was upset or thrilled with that. This cover so badly (badly) wanted to be a movie.
Hey, is this “death by pink sky and giant blurb week”? Just looked back at yesterday’s.
November 28th, 2019 at 3:32 am
The wee man is the accountant:
“OK, let’s see, add six, carry the one, take remainder sales into account, factor for statistical drift, and . . . it’s no use, the number of people marching to their hideous deaths clearly outnumbers the number of people marching to buy this book. I guess they were given a choice.”
November 28th, 2019 at 11:45 am
“Alpha Death” is…
A) The cancellation of the TV series SPACE: 1999
B) The passing of the alpha male of the flock
C) When the alpha-wave pattern ceases to register in a terminal patient’s EEG scan
D) The result of pulling random words out of a hat
November 28th, 2019 at 12:43 pm
Amazing how a cover from 1975 critiques the final season of GoT.
November 28th, 2019 at 1:49 pm
@Bruce A Munro
How can you look at this cover and say that it doesn’t need a man with metal teeth?
November 28th, 2019 at 9:07 pm
@Francis Boyle: “The Worst” seems to promise disappointment. Having Richard Kiel battling a mummy would move the cover in the “best” direction.
November 28th, 2019 at 11:27 pm
@Bruce A Munro: How can you promise disappointment?
November 29th, 2019 at 4:45 am
@Tat Wood: it depends on how optimistic the other person is!
November 29th, 2019 at 5:00 am
@Bruce: I don’t know – if it’s a complete optimist s/he’ll be expecting disappointment and therefore won’t be let down. If it’s a thorough pessimist s/he’ll also be expecting disappointment. If it’s a genuine promise, the disappointment won’t be a disappointment because it was exactly as expected.
But then, I’ve been watching England play cricket since the early 70s so I know that the precise manner of all hope fleeing can be a known unknown.