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Tat Wood Comments: Fifty years on, the title’s still hilarious. But note how Jeff Jones has emphasised the turtle’s head and the hero’s arms while leaving it ambiguous what exactly is going on or how many limbs each party is supposed to have.

Published 1969

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(Average: 6.80 out of 10)

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Jun Comments: Must be a precursor to today’s TV chef.

Published 1980

(Average: 7.40 out of 10)

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Arthur Dent Comments: Just before being killed by the onrushing semi someone else’s life passed before my eyes. It was much more interesting than mine.

Published 1986

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(Average: 8.73 out of 10)

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Tom Luczycki’s Art Direction: I need a guy astride a giant walking fish-thing accompanied by a metallic angel with nippless bazooms. Could you have the guy holding an impossibly small and ineffective bow? Forget about the arrows. The bow is more a symbol for the subtext of the underlying metaphor. And moths. The moths should round things out nicely.

Published 1983

(Average: 8.64 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments:

There once was a hero named Blade
Who travelled through space to get laid
Wrapped his arse in a muff
Cause he thought it looked buff
Now the ladies are running away ‘fraid

Published 1972

Read all about this exciting adventure on the back cover.

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(Average: 8.82 out of 10)

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Tat Wood Comments: I just popped back to France and found some more ripe examples of 70s French cover-art. This has all the worst features of inept collage but was painstakingly painted by a professional artist.

Published 1978

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(Average: 8.29 out of 10)

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Raoul Comments: How much longer do I have to sit posing? Your lizard is killing me.
Published 1981

(Average: 8.31 out of 10)

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Frank McConnell Comments: “Modern weapons.” Would that be the crossbow, or the dish on his left?
Published 1970

(Average: 8.56 out of 10)

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Tom’s Art Direction: Listen you lot, it’s supposed to be a DRAGON. This just looks like some sort of blue lizard. It needs more pointy bits! Don’t come back until you’ve absolutely peppered that thing with spikes. Oh, and draw the world’s most awkward swordsman beside it, you know, for human interest.
Published 1985

(Average: 7.30 out of 10)

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Kelly Comments: Bikini-wearing sorceress…fish guy in a toga…Robin Hood type cat-woman.. in a cathedral??
Published 1984

(Average: 8.43 out of 10)

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