They’re playing one of those locked-room games . . . only this one was designed by Salvador Dalí – or some other noted surrealist. Why else would they be trying to literally get in someone’s head?
From the author of ‘The Lincoln Hunters’… and that gunman at the window is clearly meant to be Lee Harvey Oswald… I get it now – this must be inside the mind of a presidential assassination conspiracy theorist!
Guess that means other bodies present include John Wilkes Booth, Charles Julius Guiteau, Leon Frank Czolgosz, Jack Leon Ruby and the elusive Grassy Noel Edmonds.
AFAIK (thanks to Google), this is the story of a telepath, but he looks like a regular guy, not Dali’s Visible Man (With Little Green Army Men). He does, therefore, get inside people’s heads, but there’s only one of him.
It had a number of covers over the 25 years of printing (orig. 1955), but this looks to be the final one — and the worst.
Now I want to have young me hear what snarky remarks Bob would have made about this. I’m sure he would have.
Without him, we wouldn’t have the fannish word “Tuckerization”.
@Bruce: That explains his wide eyes and thousand-yard stare. What has been seen cannot be unseen. Let’s hope the next people crawling around in his head are shrinks.
November 30th, 2015 at 10:32 am
“There’s a script for a Pixar movie in this somewhere – we’ll be rich beyond avarice!”
November 30th, 2015 at 11:21 am
I seem to remember a sci-fi comedy with this very premise. Though, come to think of it, they didn’t have guns.
November 30th, 2015 at 11:35 am
Would work much better as an advert for allergy medicine.
November 30th, 2015 at 1:15 pm
Must be some kind of game. Shoots and Ladders
November 30th, 2015 at 3:21 pm
Back cover
http://www.gdprice.com/j/22404b.JPG
Back home we got a building contractor. He gonna have a heart attack when he see the plans I brung him.
November 30th, 2015 at 4:09 pm
The Numskulls take up Parkour, fiendishly disguised as snot.
November 30th, 2015 at 4:23 pm
After several centuries of obsolescence, the homunculus theory returns, with a vengeance.
November 30th, 2015 at 4:26 pm
They’re playing one of those locked-room games . . . only this one was designed by Salvador Dalí – or some other noted surrealist. Why else would they be trying to literally get in someone’s head?
November 30th, 2015 at 4:35 pm
Pixar Presents
Fernand Leger’s
INSIDE OUT
November 30th, 2015 at 5:20 pm
I just don’t get modern architecture.
November 30th, 2015 at 6:18 pm
What IS Paul Breen?
Answer: the sound you make when you roll all in at skittles. ‘ Paaaauuuul breen!’
November 30th, 2015 at 7:16 pm
The chap under the eye has given up the will to live. Is he the Donald Pleasence of this excursion?
December 1st, 2015 at 12:37 am
From the author of ‘The Lincoln Hunters’… and that gunman at the window is clearly meant to be Lee Harvey Oswald… I get it now – this must be inside the mind of a presidential assassination conspiracy theorist!
Guess that means other bodies present include John Wilkes Booth, Charles Julius Guiteau, Leon Frank Czolgosz, Jack Leon Ruby and the elusive Grassy Noel Edmonds.
December 1st, 2015 at 12:57 am
@Perry: Gassy Noel is a lot easier to track down.
January 25th, 2017 at 2:11 am
I had the pleasure of drinking Jim Beam with this author on several occasions, and now I see what drove him to it.
January 25th, 2017 at 11:42 am
Twitch Plays Pokemon, visualised.
July 29th, 2022 at 5:41 pm
When I read the yellow banner my first thought was “I knew that.”
July 29th, 2022 at 5:47 pm
Yes, a John Wick/Fantastic Voyage mashup is exactly what the world needs.
July 29th, 2022 at 6:11 pm
Some people just get in your face.
July 29th, 2022 at 10:14 pm
@DSWDT: more like “Twitch Plays John Malkovich”…
July 29th, 2022 at 10:49 pm
AFAIK (thanks to Google), this is the story of a telepath, but he looks like a regular guy, not Dali’s Visible Man (With Little Green Army Men). He does, therefore, get inside people’s heads, but there’s only one of him.
It had a number of covers over the 25 years of printing (orig. 1955), but this looks to be the final one — and the worst.
Now I want to have young me hear what snarky remarks Bob would have made about this. I’m sure he would have.
Without him, we wouldn’t have the fannish word “Tuckerization”.
July 31st, 2022 at 7:45 pm
Where I come from the phrase “having rooms to rent upstairs” was not a compliment….
July 31st, 2022 at 9:10 pm
The telepath didn’t enjoy his visit to the NRA convention.
July 31st, 2022 at 10:32 pm
@Bruce: That explains his wide eyes and thousand-yard stare. What has been seen cannot be unseen. Let’s hope the next people crawling around in his head are shrinks.
August 1st, 2022 at 12:15 am
@GSSxn: just wait until the first psychic sues someone because their messed up thoughts gave them PTSD…