Sep 28
Click for full imageHakan Comments: I picked this up in Picocon 29 in London today. Cost me a grand total of 1. Interestingly this was mainly before the hippy ages so I am not sure what they were smoking.
Published 1967
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(9.25 out of 10)
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September 28th, 2012 at 12:24 pm
“Hugo” winning, eh? I bet the “cover art” won a few “awards” of its own!
September 28th, 2012 at 12:28 pm
The art director spent most of the cover’s budget on magazines with half-naked men in ’em, trying to find ‘just the right one’.
September 28th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
So this is what Terry Gilliam has been up to.
September 28th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
What’s that little sigil on the red sticker that says the book originally cost 2/- ? Is it a Ku Klux Klan headpiece?
September 28th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
@Adam: it’s a rebus. It’s a ‘teepee’, with ‘T P’ on it for ‘Trade Paperback’.
Or, ‘Truly Pathetic’.
September 28th, 2012 at 3:56 pm
Until I saw the letters “T.P.”, I thought it was a wigwam.
I’m trying to figure out if paying two shillings for this in 1967 would have been a good investment, given that it has just changed hands for £1. Isn’t that like 22% APR or something?
When I get my time machine working, I’m off to the late ’60s to invest in some Leiber paperbacks.
September 28th, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Needs more glitter and macaroni.
September 28th, 2012 at 5:47 pm
Did someone say big time?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0FBi5Rv1ho
September 28th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
@fred: ah, that bulge in those big big big big big big big big big big BIG! must be the eyeball.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:06 am
Boo! I LOVE Hoot von Zitzewitz’s collages… perhaps not his best but definitely not a bad cover!
September 29th, 2012 at 11:59 am
This must be why I’ve had ‘Modern Girl’ by Sheena Easton running around my head all day.
October 1st, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Is that the Danish Little Mermaid statue on the upper left?
:-S
February 26th, 2014 at 6:20 pm
@A.R.Yngve: Yes and it looks like she’s riding a surfboard.