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Click for full imageScott Comments: I actually like this cover, seriously (especially the comically surprised look), but I figured it needed to find its true audience at Good Show Sir.
Published 1960
(Average: 6.18 out of 10)
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Scott Comments: I actually like this cover, seriously (especially the comically surprised look), but I figured it needed to find its true audience at Good Show Sir.
Published 1960
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September 4th, 2014 at 9:30 am
Yes, really isn’t that bad. And why do I hear a comical.. BOIIIIIINNNNNNNGGG right after reading the blurb!
September 4th, 2014 at 9:47 am
Be careful, or you will raise the ire of the starf.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:02 am
The word ‘Flubber’ springs to mind, so to speak. Fred McMurray (or maybe Don Knotts – eesh!) in thermal underwear, wellies and a crash-helmet bounces up to meet…
… dunno. I can’t think of any red-headed early 60s starlet this looks like.
September 4th, 2014 at 10:04 am
Plus the lettering, which ought really to warrant a ‘Font Problems’ tag, is too endearingly vintage to be annoying. It’s like a failed sitcom from the makers of ‘Bewitched’.
(Maybe they travel Time and Space inside Dick Yorke’s Wardrobe).
September 4th, 2014 at 11:10 am
@Tat: Lucille Ball might do it, on a dare. But she would be rather too old for the part, even by ’63.
My font problem is that I keep reading one of the Bs in ‘Robert Buckner’ as an F.
September 4th, 2014 at 12:11 pm
It’s astronaut Jose Jimenez … with Charo !
September 4th, 2014 at 1:37 pm
Wow, a font that makes comic sans look formal..
Does anyone else think when they did the collage for this cover that they got the astronauts left arm a bit wrong? Can’t put my finger on the problem exactly, it just looks “off” compared to the right arm.
Oh, trivia: This book was made into a 1962 Disney film “Moon Pilot”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Pilot
September 4th, 2014 at 1:46 pm
Damn. Movie scripts. Wow. Elvis, Flynn, Cagney. Starfire/Moonpilot Disney 1962.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0118758/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056249/?ref_=tt
September 4th, 2014 at 8:15 pm
We need a “Time Capsule” tag for books like these — as in “A cover which perfectly captures a bygone era”…
September 5th, 2014 at 1:29 am
Hm. If she’s Starfire, is he supposed to be Robin or Nightwing? I’ll say Nightwing, since with all of those stars it must be nighttime.
September 7th, 2014 at 3:34 pm
I’d be worried if an astronaut wasn’t surprised to find a scantly-clad woman in his arms – *while on a spacewalk*!
September 8th, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Whatever he’s looking at, it isn’t her.
September 8th, 2014 at 8:10 pm
It’s possible to read the title as STARF IRE — whatever that is.
September 10th, 2014 at 7:24 pm
@Tat Wood: Oh, that’s right! It looks like he’s reading a binder…
September 27th, 2014 at 11:37 pm
This reminds me of the old covers for “The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything”.
@DaveM: It’s the left hand. The angle and positioning of the thumb is messed up and the knuckles are just a hair low.
January 2nd, 2016 at 2:20 pm
‘I’ve fallen off my chair, Brian.’