J Greely Comments: Nothing says alien sex like crosshairs targeting an eyeball filled with Saturn.
Published 1992
J Greely Comments: Nothing says alien sex like crosshairs targeting an eyeball filled with Saturn.
Published 1992
Mosquito Wenzi Comments: A transparent space suit to show off his impressive muscles! …GAAHHH!!
Published 1968
It’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Worst of the Best from F&SF
Ace E. Doocy Comments:
1. The FBI Taint Team swings into action.
2. Better add a rocket or they’ll never know it’s science fiction.
Published 1962, 1975
Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors’ item in its own way – not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, and suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of …
OK, that’s just a Rod Serling Night Gallery quote I copped off of IMDB. But here, for your consideration, are three cover submissions that didn’t make the cut. Not because they aren’t terrible. Not because they are based on a franchise. Not because they are parody or comedy. Not because … well, just because …
Raoul Comments: That 70s Show.
Published 1975
Alice Comments: “Let the Magic Journey begin! Oh crap. Wher’d my ass go?”.
Published 1988
Maureen Comments: Click all you want. No boobs under the sheep.
Published 1972
Oh, and Tag Wizard sent me this racism and dared me to post it. Now you owe me a pint:
Good Show Sir Comments: Harlan Ellison has been promising to publish this for a long time. He allegedly had to wait for all the contributing authors to die off, so he could save money not paying them royalties.
Published 2017
Tom Noir Comments: I guess this cover is a fairly realistic depiction of cybersex. I mean, he IS only using one hand…
Published 1996
YES! It’s not only a bank holiday on Monday but the site is working! Woo! That means we can finally do another Honourable Mentions!
Thanks to all of you who constantly checked the site for over a month to see if it was working again! I missed all your comments, though oddly I actually got some work done. Anyway, I’m back to my normal pace now! Till the site breaks again…
Scott W’s Art Direction: Ok, I need me a Ben Franklin, some lecherous 18th century dudes copping feels (or having their feels copped) by busty harlots, and oh yeah, can you possibly have Mr. Hundred Dollar Bill ride in on a cardboard lightning bolt with a pleasantly startled expression on his mug?
Published 1980
Matt Comments: It wasn’t the airplanes. It was chain smoking that killed the beast.
Published 1977
Ian R Comments: Do you accept old pulp sci-fi magazine covers? I hope you use them, if only because of that… thing on the woman’s neck/shoulder. It looks quite uncomfortable.
Published between 1955 & 1958
And we are back! Woo hoo! Enjoy all these great covers and pieces of art from Frank!
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I couldn’t help but wonder what this cover art was about: the Cosmic Striptease, or The Devil Downstairs. So I looked within, where I found….
Published 1957
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“Beautiful women were Satan’s main weapon. They made sin look so attractive.”
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“Millions of Earthlings gaped while the Martian show went on.” Apparently the Martians had a pretty good grasp of human anatomy.
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Further in, for another story titled, “Excitement For Sale!!”
“He was a mood-merchant, a happiness-huckster, peddling dreams from door to door.”
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Table of contents so you can see all the authors and cover art credit.
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I may have to go back and read this one to get the context for, “women were flung heartlessly into space”.
Good Show Sir Comments: Not sure what makes me more curious: Hawkman… or the incredibly stoned Mickey Mouse.
Published 1975
Many thanks to Chris for sending this in!
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