Good Show Sir

I haven’t done a mega post or an honourable mentions in a while so here we go! Here’s a collection of some special French covers sent in by Cedric and Paul. Thanks very much and I hope everyone enjoys them!

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Cedric Comments: Here is a wonderfully psychedelic and disturbing cover. This is before Photoshop, in the late 70s/early 80s.
Published 1977

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Cedric Comments: Note the strange animal at the front, confused about whether it should be a polar bear, an unicorn or some kind of big eagle. Or maybe a big confused cat, judging by the claws? And of course you can find a lightly clad lady in the back, requested by the marketing department to boost sales.
Published 1982

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Cedric Comments: There is something highly disturbing about these little hairy folks.
Published 1990

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Paul’s Art Direction: Mutants have eyes. This is an anthology of mutant stories that means lots of eyes in fact so many eyes you could float on them, do it!
Published 1974

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Paul’s Art Direction: Make everything droopy!
Published 1972

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Art Direction: Well with the name Alpha Centauri our cover is basically spelt out for us…  Centaur taking a point blank shot at a red headed girl straight out of Sunday school while she rides a horse. Make sure to make her jumper a timeless classic, something you could look back at in a hundred years and say… that never went out of fashion.
Published 1982

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MisterBob Comments: Words fail me!
Published 1992

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Jon Comments: I know those Moorcock/Mayflower covers are like shooting fish in a barrel, but I needed something to go with my chips. I actually got the man himself to sign my copy recently and I told him I felt the film version was underrated. He agreed with me, with the minor change of “under” to “over”. Seemed a nice bloke, though.
Published 1973

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Dorian’s Art Direction: What do you mean, there are no scantily clad women in the story?  No werewolf?  No heaps of treasure?  No weird monster consisting entirely of teeth and wings?  Ah, who cares?  No-one ever looks at these things anyway.
Published 1993

Joachim Comments: Girl with strategically placed stars (of course).  Chola eyebrows and bleached blonde hair with walking shark with gill piercing/oops, I mean a chain-leash….  And she has claws of course — see, the cover is derived entirely from the TITLE!
Published 1975

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Art Direction: The real question is, what can’t we put on the cover? I want everything, a dragon, a muscle bound man in tights, a wizard and even a dwarf. Oh and the standard 80′s teenager thrown into a world they don’t understand but slowly come to love. All emerging from a fine mist.
Published 1985

SteveAsat Comments: A thrilling last-minute escape from the Queens of Mercury!  ”Can you do the fandango?  Then you shall DIE, Earthman!”
Published 1981

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Ian Comments: Reach for your gun! A man wearing nothing but a couple of spangly lights has just materialised and is scaring the women!
Published 1966

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E Comments: According to my husband, his dog chewed up the cover of this book. I think the dog was making a statement. Like why the hell are those people sitting in a hollowed-out asteroid?
Published 1984