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Click for full imageBibliomancer Comments: Finally an explanation for the Earth’s molten core. A crucible in a subterranean foundry!
Published 1976
(Average: 7.15 out of 10)
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Bibliomancer Comments: Finally an explanation for the Earth’s molten core. A crucible in a subterranean foundry!
Published 1976
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December 4th, 2015 at 12:10 pm
Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy Lemmy!
December 4th, 2015 at 1:24 pm
Hokay, why is Caroline Munro a blonde?
December 4th, 2015 at 2:03 pm
At the left is a scene from At the Earth’s Gor
December 4th, 2015 at 2:40 pm
If you had even the remotest chance of putting Doug McClure on your cover and didn’t take it I have to question the sanity of everyone involved.
December 4th, 2015 at 4:10 pm
This is what all that fracking leads to.
December 4th, 2015 at 5:44 pm
Sure they are horrifying savage pig men, but they sport very fashionable facial hair!
December 4th, 2015 at 6:36 pm
Your planet seems to have been hollowed out by the Pig Men. I would recommend calling the manufacturer and getting a replacement planet, due to the one you received being faulty. Your drill should have taken at least a month to reach the core of your planet – this one’s much too easy to dig out.
December 4th, 2015 at 6:52 pm
@AnnaT:
Q: My planet has essentially no ecotone space. Is it natural for a molten hellhole to butt up against a cascading waterfall?
A: Yes! After as little as a few days, it is normal for the different parts to “settle”, and often, radically different environments will juxtapose. Although not a defect, if this causes a problem, please shake out all humanoid Rhamphorhynchuses and give it to your nearest licensed PelluciDealership ™.
December 4th, 2015 at 7:13 pm
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
. . .
Noses I dare not meet in dreams
December 5th, 2015 at 1:06 am
@DSWBT: If the problem persists, according to the terms of your 5-billion-year warranty, PelluciDealership™ will repair your planet for free. If the problem is extremely severe, as in the above scenario, if your planet is within warranty it may be possible to get it replaced for free.
December 5th, 2015 at 1:27 am
@fred: Doug is on the cover, he’s just very very small.
December 5th, 2015 at 1:32 am
@fred(4): …yeah, because what this cover really needs is yet another element vying for our attention 🙂
In actual fact I agree with your sentiment, and you might enjoy this review of the film, which contains much love for the late, great Doug McClure (NSFW language):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ETPZyx22jGI
December 5th, 2015 at 2:45 am
@THX1138: (*inserting obligatory Father Ted reference*) “He’s not small, he’s far away”. That said, I’m really unsure about the screwed up perspective in this artwork, so he might, in fact, be very, very tiny!
December 5th, 2015 at 3:19 pm
@fred @THX1138 @Perry – Doug McClure is driving the drill. Look closely in the cockpit. He is sitting next to Peter Cushing.
December 5th, 2015 at 11:25 pm
@Bibliomancer: That’s what I said, diddle I?! He’s there, just very small. Seeing as how it’s the time of year for dodgy would be epics like AtEC to turn up on TV, I hope we’ll have a cover of The Land That Time Forgot on Monday. We won’t forget you, Doug! OK, maybe we’ll forget that sci-fi sitcom with Swinging on a Star as its theme tune…
December 6th, 2015 at 3:33 am
We’re all agreed Messrs. Cushing & McClure occupy the drill thingy’s cockpit, but there seem to be two additional faces at windows further back – who might these people be?
I’m guessing naughty grandchildren Susan and Barbara were stowing away that day, or maybe John and Gillian.
December 6th, 2015 at 3:42 pm
@Perry Anderson: as it’s 70s Doug McClure, maybe they’re his ‘Barbary Coast’ co-stars Richard Kiel and William Shatner, making this the ‘Who’/’Trek’/’Bond’ car-crash we all had nightmares about (or invented with Dinky Toys and Weetabix cards).
December 6th, 2015 at 4:19 pm
The Cushing/McClure film version of this has been on consistently most Sundays I turn on the TV for the past year…. I’m exaggerating a bit. I am however not exaggerating the AMAZING costumes used throughout!
10/10
Why not!
December 7th, 2015 at 7:35 am
This is a movie poster that was originally meant to be shown in giant format, with lots of credits and sales copy such as:
“They Went Where No Man Had Ever Gone Before… And Found A Strange World Full Of Half-Naked Women!”
“Paraplegic Pictures Present A Samuel L. Bronkovic Picture”
“A Stunning Action-Adventure By The Creator of TARZAN”
“AT THE EARTH’S CORE”
“Starring PETER CUSHING * DOUG McCLURE * CAROLINE MUNRO * And RICARDO MONTALBAN As The Generic Savage Chieftain”
“Filmed In GLAUCOMA-SCOPE”
December 15th, 2015 at 12:53 pm
This is an OHS disaster. They’ll be shut down smartly if they don’t pull up their socks.
December 24th, 2015 at 10:30 am
Just an alert to UK TV viewers, At the Earth’s Core (film) is on The Horror Channel this Sunday at 6.40pm so you can gauge how good this cover is. We wish you a merry Cushing and a Happy McClure!
December 28th, 2015 at 11:17 am
Its on TV!!! They’re being chased by a giant bird man… Its so real no wonder its on the horror channel! Ha
March 11th, 2016 at 1:29 pm
TEAR AT THE OCHRES
by
Crise Burrough-Grade
Maniacal Ewoe eliminating interns for nice relaxant
October 5th, 2017 at 6:03 am
My gosh, this *IS* the movie poster!
Dougie, Pete, and Caro got headshots pasted around the bottom edge.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074157/
March 18th, 2023 at 12:37 am
I found a copy of this book this morning, and the photo on this page really undersells the high-contrast glory of the colors associated with this illustration. I had to back away in fear of being pierced by the coring rocket vehicle.
Truly, it portrays an awesome, technicolor cataclysm, and such a copy sells for $50, or at least it would like to do so.
Entirely unrelated, I have found the ideal model for my own New Look Facial Hair Stylings.
March 18th, 2023 at 4:04 am
Too many years of the Simpsons – I always get Doug McClure and Troy McClure mixed up.
@Ryan: GSS _is_ occasionally a little unfair to cover artists when discussing colors, since the covers as we get them are often badly faded and even downright murky.
March 19th, 2023 at 4:21 pm
@GS x-n: Hmmmm – suspect I watched that movie when I was a kid. Includes the classic quicksand scene… Victorian era scientists drill down to the depths of the earth and find peoples living in a very savage environment with 70’s shampoo model hairdos and spiffy clean tunics – makes me think they’re putting on a show for the naive tourists…
March 20th, 2023 at 1:11 am
@Ryan: I presume it was all pink and blue and such as the poster I linked above? In all that cheesy 60’s-70’s Technicolor style?
@Emster: That’s the one, Caroline Munro is the lead hairdo model. I guess hair spray is from the Earth’s core too.
March 20th, 2023 at 2:00 am
@GSS ex-noob: the ozone hole really isn’t a concern for them.
March 20th, 2023 at 4:43 am
@Bruce: true dat.
March 20th, 2023 at 6:32 pm
@GSS ex-noob: Yes, vibrant jewel-tones a-poppin’.