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Click for full imageGood Show Sir’s Art Direction: Hey, doesn’t Dave from accounts love his amateur dramatics? Just go and take a picture of him in whatever play he’s doing now. I am sure it will be perfect!
Published 1968
Many thanks to Joachim!
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October 28th, 2014 at 10:15 am
Sorry for the big hiatus! Busy busy time at the moment.
The guy above looks suitably unimpressed about getting his picture taken.
October 28th, 2014 at 11:10 am
It was PC gone mad when they took The Black and Green Minstrel Show off the air.
October 28th, 2014 at 11:29 am
Hey admin pretty sure the title of this is “Star King Jack Vance.”
Panther Science Fiction, you never disappoint!
October 28th, 2014 at 11:59 am
His mum warned him: eat too many packets of Pacers you’ll end up looking like one.
October 28th, 2014 at 12:56 pm
The full body photo is probably to awesome for the human mind to comprehend.
October 28th, 2014 at 2:39 pm
Is this “Star King” by Jack Vance or “Jack Vance” by Star King?
:-S
October 28th, 2014 at 3:37 pm
On every Paintball Friday, he always got carried away with the camouflage.
October 28th, 2014 at 4:12 pm
After working on the computer all day next to broken Venetian blinds, Paul’s creative mind came up with a way to prevent skin burn.
October 28th, 2014 at 7:13 pm
Hey there, Maze Face! How’s it going?
All keepers of the labyrinth must have the maze branded on their face. It is often speculated that this rule came about because the first keeper was an extremely strange person, and definitely crazy.
October 28th, 2014 at 8:44 pm
This is what can happen to your face if you accidentally walk into the title sequence of a 1970s DR WHO episode.
October 28th, 2014 at 11:31 pm
CARJACK VEGAN STINK
A CONCENTRIC FISHNET PIE
October 29th, 2014 at 11:14 am
@A.R.Yngve: “Panther Science Fiction” by “Star King Jack Vance”
October 30th, 2014 at 12:54 pm
Marvel Comics Universe: TONY STAR-KING in ‘Badly Ironed Man’
October 31st, 2014 at 7:44 am
“Star King Jack Vance” beats “Max Power” by a mile.
😉
October 31st, 2014 at 2:06 pm
I have decided I want to be referred to as ‘Star King Tom Noir’ going forward. Thank you.
October 31st, 2014 at 9:40 pm
Give the size of his pupils, he probably wasn’t too aware of what the photographer was up to when they called him in for the shoot.
“Y’all wanna cover my face in racing stripes? Groovy, man!”
November 13th, 2014 at 1:57 pm
Around 3.A.M., he realized that a drug-soaked rave party on the Moon is still just another boring drug-soaked rave party…
November 17th, 2014 at 4:28 am
That feeling when a great book has one of the worst covers you’ve ever seen…
November 18th, 2014 at 10:07 am
It wasn’t until he had already broken in and entered the apartment that the burglar realized the second tube of black camouflage he opened when the first one ran out might have been not black but, in fact, glow-in-the-dark green.
November 19th, 2014 at 8:19 pm
Looks like Mark Hammil from Return of the Jedi 2. Sadly, the movie went straight to Beta.
December 12th, 2014 at 2:52 pm
Love this one. It’s got a claustrophobic space interrogation vibe to it.
October 25th, 2015 at 9:23 pm
His name is…Zoolander!
October 26th, 2015 at 3:06 pm
It’s that starking jack vance again.
October 26th, 2015 at 4:04 pm
@Bibliomancer—can you make that a verb? As in, “I’ve been starking Jack Vance for years and let me tell you, it’s no fun. I’d rather be starking Hannah of Hannah and her horse, but not the horse.”
October 26th, 2015 at 5:33 pm
@B. Chiclitz:
to stark
1. to make stiff or rigid in substance, muscles, etc.:
stark an author.
2. to be, to become or to make stiff or rigid in substance, muscles, etc.:
the author starked.
3. to be or to express thoughts or opinions bluntly or sternly plain; not softened or glamorized:
stark a novel.
4. to make a view, place, person, etc. harsh, grim, or desolate:
stark an author.
5. to be rigid in death.:
the author starked.
September 4th, 2018 at 5:53 am
I thought “starking” was British for “streaking”. From “starkers”.
Why anyone thought a picture of a guy in badly-applied blackface with glowy green fingerprint patterns on one side of his face was a good idea to begin with, let alone to put on the cover of a book is beyond me, but that’s why I’m here at GSS instead of making the big bucks in the exciting world of terrible book covers.
September 4th, 2018 at 10:18 am
Streaking is called streaking in Britain too – Ray Stevens’ comedy (?) hit record was successful here and you had hairy 1970s blokes jumping over the cricket stumps at Lords wearing nothing but a smile. And the sainted Erica Roe tried it at the rugby, of course.
“Starkers” is an abbreviation of “stark naked”.
January 20th, 2023 at 2:44 am
Looks like he came out for the worse in the Clash of Star-Kings
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=3417
Serves him right for challenging a space alligator
January 21st, 2023 at 2:03 am
Someone tried to sneak this into the credits of the revival of CSI and the network sensibly pointed out that this would scare away the punters, not to mention possibly giving heart attacks to the big portion of the audience that’s over 60. Who never gave up the, er, herbal substances of their youth, or went back to them. So I’ve heard. *whistles nonchalantly*
@JJYoyo: We all lost in the Clash of Star-Kings.