Feb 19
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Sara Comments: Here I am, just stepped out of my mecha-techno, time-traveling, chrome, orb-y…thing. The only drawback is that it destroys all clothes that are not right gloves or right boots. Swords are not clothes so they’re all right, too. Also it makes weird shadows stick to you. Wait, am I floating above a strange river?
Published 1958
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • computers • dickless wonder • dude • Galaxy Science Fiction • Manley Wade Wellman • muscles • penguins • starkers • strange artifact • sword • Wallace A. Wood • weird pecs
Feb 18
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MisterBob’s Art Direction: Boobs? Don’t be silly, bums are in. And use up that orange paint.
Published 1981
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Tagged with: aliens • damsel • DAW Books • Jo Clayton • Ken W. Kelly • Sir Mix-A-Lot • supernumerous limbs • WTF
Feb 15
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Raj Comments: I especially like the transparent robot woman with the spiral breasts on this one.
Published 1962
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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • damsel • dude • font problems • Richard Powers • Robert Sheckley • WTF
Feb 14
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Frank Comments: Another work re-issued with new title and new cover. There was a previous publication of it as “The Radio Man” in 1924.
Published 1950
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Tagged with: antennae • Avon Books • bladed weapons • cleavage • damsel • dude • font problems • giant ants • muscles • Radio Man Series • Ralph Milne Farley • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • wings
Feb 13
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: This… defies convention my friend. That damsel’s clothes aren’t even ripped or even showing any impressive cleavage! But not to worry, we can save this… just wait till you see the font I picked out. No one will notice your partially shaved alien bear sharp toothed no horned minotaur monster… I think…
Published 1994
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Tagged with: aliens • cowboy hat • damsel • David Gemmell • dude • font problems • gun • handguns • Legend Books • long haired men • Mike Posen • monsters • shotgun
Feb 12
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Daniel Comments: Bought this gem in an second-hand bookshop last year. I was slightly embarrassed taking it up to the counter. It’s rubbish on a number of levels: it’s a literally awful bit of artwork; it’s artwork that bears pretty much no relation to the story; and said story is a sombre dystopian yarn by Christopher Priest, a renowned purveyor of genre-crossing, award-winning novels that have more recently been reprinted by Gollanz with classy covers.
Published 1978
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cave • Christopher Priest • cleavage • daggers • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • gun • Mike Ploog • Pan Books • rifle • space sheep • starkers • Ting! • WTF
Feb 08
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Ruth Comments: I work in a Library. As I was clearing out some of our not so popular books, I came across this cover and thought of your site immediately.
Published 1987
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Tagged with: Alan Dean Foster • aliens • damsel • dude • Jim Gurney • robots • space ships • strange creature • WTF
Feb 07
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Tat Comments: It’s nice to see that old-style Cylons will be in the re-re-relaunched ‘Battlestar Galactica!’
Published 1966
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Tagged with: frickin laser beams • none more black • Pan Books • Robert A. Heinlein • space suit • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Feb 06
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Ben Comments: I say kudos on the daemonic and the large yellow VOLUME 1.
Published 1974
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Tagged with: blindfold • Clark Ashton Smith • dude • magic • Panther Books • robes • rope • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF • yellow number one
Feb 05
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Scott B’s Art Direction: We don’t want anyone to confuse this with the film “Labyrinth” which has just recently been released, so put something on there that nobody will mix up with that. Ah, how about a rooster-bear pondering deep thoughts? That’s the stuff.
Published 1989
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Tagged with: Ace Books • anthropomorphism • bear • bear people • Dennis Schmidt • mohawk • planets • Rowena Morrill • space • strange creature
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