Jun 22
Good Show Sir Comments: “Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape” said the gorilla.
Published 1966
Good Show Sir Comments: “Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape” said the gorilla.
Published 1966
June 22nd, 2016 at 10:49 am
I think it’s about time we had “Tar-sham” tag for this Thongwarrior dude and his ilk.
June 22nd, 2016 at 10:51 am
Thongor by name, Thongor by nature.
June 22nd, 2016 at 11:19 am
‘Capeor…no…how about bootor? Headbandor?’ *scratch scratch scratch*
June 22nd, 2016 at 11:20 am
@Bibliomancer – You got it. I’ll get around to adding it to Balzan and his ilk later.
June 22nd, 2016 at 11:20 am
He looks more like a Loinclothor… or a Nounderpantsor.
June 22nd, 2016 at 11:28 am
The background is green.
June 22nd, 2016 at 11:48 am
Toeless ugg boots.This might just catch on. Or not.
June 22nd, 2016 at 12:45 pm
Surprise twist: Thongor is actually the surprised-looking ape in the lower left.
June 22nd, 2016 at 12:49 pm
“Smell my Thongor!”
June 22nd, 2016 at 1:30 pm
I was never sure whether ‘Lemuria’ was another name for the hypothetical Lost Continent of Mu. But ‘Thongor of Mu’ would sound silly.
June 22nd, 2016 at 1:39 pm
“He challenged the jungle terrors of the lost continent…who were actually just sitting around minding their own business.”
June 22nd, 2016 at 2:59 pm
“How many times do I have to tell you—quit dying your fur the same color as my cape and loin-thong-cloth! It’ll make a terrible color scheme for the cover. And tell that little guy to stop picking his nose!!”
June 22nd, 2016 at 3:01 pm
Cheers for the “Tar-sham” tag. Good Show, B’Mancer!
June 22nd, 2016 at 3:44 pm
How does one actually challenge jungle terrors anyway. Do you send a polite letter setting up a battle? Do you challenge all the terrors at once or one at a time? Do you just walk into the jungle and announce “I am Thongor of Lemuria dammit and you are all just a bunch of fricken’ pussies!”?
June 22nd, 2016 at 3:44 pm
I have just been given to wondering if there’s a tag for “stupid names”, because if there is, this would qualify with flying colours. I mean . . . do you think he’s actually wearing a thong underneath that loincloth? Eeh.
June 22nd, 2016 at 3:58 pm
Is this the sequel to the Dirk Bogarde movie, The Thinger Not the Thongor? Or the Led Zeppelin concert film The Thongor Remains the Same?
June 22nd, 2016 at 4:03 pm
@fred—I think it’s a little like threatening the universe. There may be a whole class of these behaviors:
Threatening the universe
Challenging jungle terrors
Defying fate
Cheating death
Abandoning hope
[The British] casting off their traditional reserve
Penetrating into the unknown
. . .
June 22nd, 2016 at 4:08 pm
The background isn’t merely green, it’s wavey. As if the cover designers were trying to capture that cutting edge, 1960s CRT magic.
June 22nd, 2016 at 6:46 pm
@DSWBT It’s reminiscent of the background washes from “It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown”. Vignettes were a trendy way to cut corners in the 60’s.
June 22nd, 2016 at 7:22 pm
The artist was given a tube of green for the background. Budgets were tight.
June 22nd, 2016 at 7:30 pm
He challenged the ganja terrors of the Lost Continent…
BHONGOR OF REEFURIA
June 22nd, 2016 at 8:31 pm
Is Thong-whore wearing one of those WWF Championship wrestling belts? Sure looks like it.
June 23rd, 2016 at 2:53 am
“I’m Thongor!”
“No, I’m Thongor!”
It was a fight to see who was the Thongest.
June 23rd, 2016 at 3:28 am
Planet of the Capes
Beneath the Planet of the Capes
Escape from the Planet of the Capes
Conquest of the Planet of the Capes
Battle for the Planet of the Capes
Take your pick.
June 23rd, 2016 at 3:40 am
I had to look at this cover for an uncomfortably long time to sort out just what was going on…gorilla with a cape. No, the cape is on the man. Is the man’s face reflecting the jungle or is green paint from the ape rubbing off on him? Where is the vanishing point to this picture…?
I give up. Time to go to bed.
June 23rd, 2016 at 8:09 pm
‘…and there was this one time at band camp when I stuck a Lemuria up my thongor.’
June 24th, 2016 at 5:15 am
“Your thongs, give dem to me now!”
July 5th, 2016 at 11:34 am
fantasy novel written by Lin Carter, Thank you for sharing.
July 8th, 2016 at 11:40 am
As I recall, Thongor is more of a Conan type – Wikipedia also mentions John Carter of Mars. Set in the past (John Carter incidentally is from the U.S. Civil War), fights with a sword, rescues princesses… granted, -on the cover- he is wrestling with apes, and the cover is what we’re here for.
March 30th, 2017 at 11:02 am
The book that inspired Sisqo’s smash hit “The Thongor Song.”