Sep 02
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Ashton Comments: Everything about the closer man’s outfit is amazing, from his puffy velvet shirt covered with large gold buttons and trousers striped with red and blue, to the leopard print trim on his girdle. The other man’s garbage sack outfit is no match.
Published 1982
Many thanks to Ashton!

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Tagged with: Ballantine books • Ballantine Del Ray books • bladed weapons • Del Ray Books • hunk • lightning • magic • magical weapon • Michael Herring • Roger Zelazny • strange animals • swords • wizard
Apr 26
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I don’t know about you, but when I think of animal slaves I hate that everyone just thinks of chimps. If I had an animal slave I’d definitely want a Scottish Terrier bringing me my dinner while a seal pleasures me. Mmm, well maybe don’t draw that – but at least put a seal on there!
Brilliant! Thanks to Noah!

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Tagged with: Ballantine books • Frederik Pohl • hunk • Karl Swanson • strange animals • wtf
Mar 31
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NoiselessPenguin Comments: I tried to make a list of what’s wrong with this cover, and stopped when I realised: EVERYTHING.
Thanks to NoiselessPenguin, I’ve never laughed so much!

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Tagged with: Ballantine books • Darrell K. Sweet • Dave Duncan • Good Show Sir • hunk • longbow • muscles • strange animals • unknown artist
Feb 16
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Like a baseball bat to the face, we’ll hit our viewers with something special. A large forest women with rams horns and red curly hair. Perfect? Not quite. She’ll be wading her way through a swamp with another considerably smaller green tinted female watching. Now we’re perfect.

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Tagged with: Ballantine books • damsel • forest • giant • horns • Keith Parkinson • Terry Brooks • The Magic of Landover series
Feb 03
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There is one thing we should be about, fonts! Lots of them. Vast and glorious as they confuse your mind. Then we’ll just have something completely unoriginal on the cover. Something like, oh I don’t know, some marines firing their weapons at an tribal people who live in the trees. Sounds like a crap B movie eh? Ah ha ha ha ha.

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Tagged with: Ballantine books • Dan Cragg • David Sherman • font problems • guns • hunk • Mark Harrison • Starfist series • war
Dec 11
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Guy sits uncomfortably on the tail of a space shuttle. Don’t forget huge shiny text. And we’ll have to quote another one of her books, something that will really appeal to those hardcore Sci-Fi readers. Oh oh! I know. Dragons of Pern. Ace!

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Tagged with: Anne McCaffrey • Ballantine books • font problems • hunk • Michael Whelan • shiny oh so shiny • space • space ships
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