Good Show Sir

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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Imagine the future, my friend… men will be either glowing silver pillars of greatness or riding around on space microlights. Women? Well they’ll be in skintight body suits and stay on their knees all day. Sexist? No not at all, people will look back at this cover and see our predictions as genius! I think…
Published 1958

Many thanks to Joe for sending this in!

(Average: 8.16 out of 10)

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Frank Comments: Now here we have an example of how to punch up a work by giving it a new title and new cover art. The story is from 1950, and was previously published as “The House That Stood Still”.
Published 1960

(Average: 8.00 out of 10)

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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

(Average: 8.94 out of 10)

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Glenn Comments: An alpha male, a naked lady, a cautious beta male, and a 1950ies era high tech explosion. It’s a time capsule. A horrible time capsule.
Published 1958

(Average: 6.45 out of 10)

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Phil Comments: Why John, you are so odd that I must hide behind these conveniently positioned but otherwise random spikes. But at least you’ve noticed me, which makes you not quite as odd as you used to be back in the days of:

http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/06/odd-john/
Published 1959

(Average: 8.79 out of 10)

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Phil’s Art Direction: We don’t want people thinking he’s odd just because he’s tall and thin, so let’s have someone else tall and thin in the background. Then give him really odd hair.

Many thanks to Phil!

(Average: 8.98 out of 10)

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No comments. Yea we’re not too sure what to say about this either. We’ll leave this one to the mercy of the readers!

Thanks to Lorcan!
http://culturecocoon.blogspot.com/
http://jhomunculus.blogspot.com/

(Average: 5.72 out of 10)

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