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Click for full imageJoachim Comments: Space Olympics look exactly like regular Olympics except in cartoon and a space ship poking up in the background…
Published 1967
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Joachim Comments: Space Olympics look exactly like regular Olympics except in cartoon and a space ship poking up in the background…
Published 1967
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September 5th, 2011 at 10:18 am
Giants throw flying saucers at the Space Olympics.
September 5th, 2011 at 10:25 am
So… why couldn’t he have just done that on earth?
September 5th, 2011 at 12:55 pm
“Go on, mate, you can do it! Remember to let go this time!”
September 5th, 2011 at 1:01 pm
“Must… get rid of… Limburger… cheese!!”
September 5th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Judging by the cover, there’s some ghastly surprise hidden inside the book:
“After the superior Anglo-Saxon race had exterminated all the inferior space aliens, a celebratory Space Olympics were held — and of course only white Anglo-Saxon Protestants attended.”
September 5th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
I think they wrote ‘space’ where it was supposed to say ‘special’.
September 5th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
The little boy looks like he’s doing the chainsaw…
September 5th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
“In cartoon”???
September 5th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Looks a little “cartoony” to me 😉
September 5th, 2011 at 4:27 pm
Space, where water towers have long blue hair.
September 5th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
“Nngh – I knew that lamb vindaloo was a mistake!”
September 5th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Haha, the “plot” — “A discus thrower from a high gravity planet wins in the interplanetary olympics only to have his victory reversed because so much money had been bet on his top competitor.”
September 5th, 2011 at 8:08 pm
I’d quite like to see more of A.M.Lightner’s works. According to one bibliography he or she has magnificent titles such as
DOCTOR TO THE GALAXY
THE ROCK OF THREE PLANETS and
THE THURSDAY TOADS.
And I can’t imagine which will be best, SPACE GYPSIES or STAR DOG.
http://www.ranker.com/list/a-m-lightner-books-and-stories-and-written-works/reference
September 5th, 2011 at 8:11 pm
PS: This same cover art is found on this other site, which rivals GOOD SHOW SIR for the magnificence of some of its artworks:
http://sciencefictionruminations.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/adventures-in-science-fiction-cover-art-the-best-of-alex-schomburgs-50s-novel-covers/
September 5th, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Phil: Hehe, you mean my website 🙂 Thanks!!
September 5th, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Phil: A. M. Lighter is actually a woman….
September 5th, 2011 at 10:10 pm
Joachim: yes, I noticed it was your site. Some of those Schomburg covers surely belong here on Good Show Sir!
A.M.Lightner is female? Then I say “Good Show, Ma’am!”
September 5th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Is the water tower on fire? Wait, wait that must be a lame Olympic flame.
I also see two midget aliens observing the fun.
September 5th, 2011 at 11:27 pm
Phil: Oh, I consider the Schomburg covers to “good” — I submit the horrible ones I find to this site — hence this piece of drive — you’re welcome to submit them if you want…. Yeah, A. M. Lightn3er stands for Alice M. Lightner…. Her “best” novel is The Day of the Drones (1969) published by Bantam.
September 6th, 2011 at 6:03 am
The “Spatial” Olympics is more like it.
September 8th, 2011 at 12:34 am
“Okay…we need a male Olympic figure on the cover. Who should he resemble? Oh, I know…Alfred E. Neuman from Mad Magazine. He always struck me as the athletic type.”
September 8th, 2011 at 6:56 pm
I can see the Village People in the background doing their YMCA routine. I guess they started to include a dog in their group in case they needed to use lower-case letters.
September 9th, 2011 at 11:57 am
Dammit – I was going to steal ‘The Thursday Toads’ for a band name but according to Wikipedia it already been done.
June 27th, 2012 at 8:57 am
I don’t think that his mum, dad, siblings and his dog are supposed to be inside the arena.
June 27th, 2012 at 9:17 am
It’s the Special Olympics for athletes with paralyzed left arms.
December 31st, 2013 at 7:47 pm
The Brittas Empire’s try at science fiction. Look, tell me that isn’t Tim Marriott with hair colour in the foreground, and Harriet Thorpe on the left…all we need is that rocket ship to come crashing to the ground and someone to give birth on the playing field, and ha-ha! Episode.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:38 am
That water tower clearly has some design problems, seeing as how it’s on fire.
@Tag Wizard: The lack of a “bad anatomy” tag troubles me.
@Phil: DOCTOR TO THE GALAXY? Well if YOUR galaxy is having serious medical problems . . . who you gonna call?
August 25th, 2015 at 2:27 am
@ Anna T. – That would be “proportional issues.” Tag added.
October 20th, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Tom didn’t worry to much about winning, it looked like an easy win. The other competitors hadn’t even come in sports gear. And one was a dog.
August 26th, 2016 at 2:14 pm
He and the Evil Princess from yesterday must shop at the same boutique.
August 26th, 2016 at 2:48 pm
Now if this were 60’s Disney…from L to R…our hero…two shadowy thugs who want him to throw the meet…mischievous little sister…girl friend, most likely a Princess and heir to a fortune…pet dog, who will chase the two shadowy thugs into the Olympic Flame…dad, owns a hardware store and has a gambling problem…mom, bakes a mean pie…high school coach, local bookie, ‘disappeared’ by mischievous little sister and pet dog.
August 26th, 2016 at 3:12 pm
@fred: a Disney hero with two parents? Not likely! Unless their marriage was on the rocks, I suppose, in which case his athletic success has helped saved the family.
August 26th, 2016 at 3:48 pm
I’m gonna go with Sylvain Chomet: Our hero, the mildly autistic boy for whom the discus is life…the sinister chemists with their new autism cure which will challenge our hero’s sense of self…the spirited tag-along waif and hero’s alter ego…the sister/aunt who acts as matriarch, though she silently communicates with her dog, who is the true nucleus of the family…and the comedic non-identical triplets each with an endearing yet socially debilitating quirk.
August 26th, 2016 at 4:02 pm
Who knew Cilla Black was so buff?
August 26th, 2016 at 11:27 pm
Everything becomes clear once you realize that his awkward angle of lean and the bizarre expression on his face are being caused by the rock that kid just threw hitting him in the back of the head.
August 28th, 2016 at 8:07 am
And just as he was about to perform the DVD toss, his trick knee went out.
August 28th, 2016 at 3:06 pm
“Well there isn’t actually any rule that says that shape-shifting aliens who can’t quite get human proportions right, can’t compete in the Space Olympics so I suppose we’ll have to let you in.”
March 4th, 2020 at 9:17 pm
Thirty-seven comments, and no one has noticed the shoes?
March 5th, 2020 at 12:53 am
@Ryan: You mean the pumps with the low heels and kicky pompoms?
No, I didn’t till you mentioned it.
I am really wondering about this person’s gender identity. Maybe they’re a humanoid alien which has different genders/gender expressions than ours. And the people on the sidelines are too. Also the dog is the mastermind of the bunch.
March 5th, 2020 at 5:39 am
Batman did it better.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/21/f4/f8/21f4f8935f5a351d4716a7184c542ad0.jpg
March 5th, 2020 at 6:14 pm
Always be Batman.
March 5th, 2020 at 7:45 pm
I’m a bit off topic, but I keep seeing the discus as a gift wrapped Easter egg with a ribbon round it.