Dec 07
Click for full imageTom Noir’s Art Direction: I want a naked man, and he’s playing with these two blue balls. No, no, I’m saying he’s handling two massive globes. Don’t make ’em the same size, one is bigger than the other. Have him straining, concentrating intensely. Look, I don’t see what’s so funny about this.
Published 1968
(Average: 8.46 out of 10)
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December 7th, 2015 at 9:25 am
Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall.
December 7th, 2015 at 9:45 am
Deh-neh-neh-neh-neh-neh-neh-neh Barzman!
He may have forgotten all his clothes, but at least he won’t look ridiculous in the headband he remembered.
December 7th, 2015 at 10:21 am
“He should be pulling them apart from each other. Just make it look classy. Why are you rolling on the ground? Does your stomach hurt?”
December 7th, 2015 at 10:28 am
Alternatively: Don’t have a cow, man, do the Barzman.
December 7th, 2015 at 11:44 am
I’m mystified, or rather intrigued, by the word ‘gormless’. I’ve intuited what it means through exposure to George Formby and his ukulele. But what’s the opposite of gormless? Gormy? Gormed? I haven’t a clue.
Whatever it may be, this fellow has gorm, and he’s got a lot of it.
December 7th, 2015 at 11:46 am
I conjecture he’s standing on the back of a turtle…
December 7th, 2015 at 11:50 am
Australia must be getting quite an eyeful!
December 7th, 2015 at 1:14 pm
Holding two planets while standing behind a galaxy. That’s some reach.
December 7th, 2015 at 1:42 pm
1962 cover. Don’t tell me the juxtaposition between that one and this one is just a coincidence.
http://www.jumpingfrog.com/images/paperbacks01/pb0314.jpg
December 7th, 2015 at 2:07 pm
@fred: which direction do you suppose the blue ‘fluid’ flows?
December 7th, 2015 at 2:40 pm
@DSWBT 6—what’s the turtle standing on?
December 7th, 2015 at 2:47 pm
And so kids, you see here once again the power of Tesla coils—to vaporize your clothing.
December 7th, 2015 at 3:12 pm
@BC:…
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wait for it…
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It’s turtles all the way down!
December 7th, 2015 at 3:16 pm
The man with the planetary underarm deodorants looks rather like Australian actor Ray Barrett. He was the star of hit oil-drama ‘The Troubleshooters’ and a frequent guest-star on other shows, but for those of us who were kids in the 60s he’s the voice of Mighty Titan from ‘Stingray’.
Now that I’ve seen this I will never be able to take the Aquaphibians seriously again.
December 7th, 2015 at 4:31 pm
Who’s up for a rousing game of galactic strip billiards?
December 7th, 2015 at 4:51 pm
@Bibliomancer: Could be a helicopter..
December 7th, 2015 at 8:14 pm
@DSWBT13—I knew you’d get that! I am now expecting my check in the mail for serving as your straight man.
December 7th, 2015 at 8:27 pm
@BC: I’ll send a turtle.
December 7th, 2015 at 9:39 pm
With a cover like that, the book actually might sell better with a zestier title like “The Leather-Clad Centurion”… “Sandals and Loincloths”… “Sweaty Gladiators”… or “Big Shiny Spears.”
December 7th, 2015 at 9:40 pm
“III HAVVE THE BLUE BALLSSS!!”
[Masters Of The Universe theme]
December 7th, 2015 at 9:58 pm
@A.R.Yngve: I don’t see no loincloth! Big shiny spears MAY be involved, but I’m trying not to visualize them.
December 7th, 2015 at 10:32 pm
Twin Earths in conflict – A starkers referee tries to separate them – SUPER science-fiction – more startling than regular science-fiction – read it on the bus – if you dare!
August 8th, 2017 at 3:00 am
Massive spheres, massive nudity… massive reason for me to skip it.
November 29th, 2017 at 3:39 pm
“And that shape in the sky is the constellation known as ‘the Big Dipper’.”
October 27th, 2022 at 3:12 am
@Tom – belated GSS on both the cover and the art direction. I was going to say that it was probably in the era before they realized they could make more sales to pimply teens if they had put a nekkid lady on the cover, but @fred’s link still works, so it seems they did make an attempt with that “scandalous” (zzzzzz) ’62 cover.
October 27th, 2022 at 4:53 am
One of the highlights of the GSS site, combining hilarious cover and commentary.
October 27th, 2022 at 12:35 pm
Is this the young man of Devizes?
… whose balls were of different sizes.
The left one was small —
It was no ball at all;
But the right one won several prizes.