May 02
It’s a Two-Fer Tuesday — Swedish Special!
Good Show Sir Comments: So what did you expect would happen if you delivered an alien-dinosaur-sized dildo.
Thanks to Jon Jensen for sending these in!
Published 1953
It’s a Two-Fer Tuesday — Swedish Special!
Good Show Sir Comments: So what did you expect would happen if you delivered an alien-dinosaur-sized dildo.
Thanks to Jon Jensen for sending these in!
Published 1953
May 2nd, 2017 at 12:24 pm
…must…learn…Swedish…these are too good to let go!
May 2nd, 2017 at 12:25 pm
#1: However important it is to stop the dragon and save the rocket, one astronaut is more interested in what’s going on in exactly the opposite direction. Quality!
#2: ‘If I walk up on tippy-toes, maybe she won’t notice me peeping…’
May 2nd, 2017 at 12:43 pm
My stunningly beautiful, buxom, blonde Swedish mistress Alexa says that Purpuröarna means Purple Islands. And Det Herrelösa Rymdskeppet is The Armless Space Ship.
May 2nd, 2017 at 1:01 pm
Sssh, Bibliomancer. Don’t go revealing that the Swedish text isn’t something incredibly obscene. FSM forbid that we be reduced to innuendo about giant chrome dildos and giant sentient sperm.
May 2nd, 2017 at 1:05 pm
I see in the second cover they found a way to save money on ladders.
LOVE the color palette on these.
May 2nd, 2017 at 1:36 pm
I’m trying to figure out how three Swedes came to be named “Fran Jordan,” “Dee Carter” and “John Lane.”
May 2nd, 2017 at 1:37 pm
#1 (embiggened)—that’s no ladder, it’s a double helix DNA strand.
May 2nd, 2017 at 1:39 pm
#1—”I’m fllyyyyiiinnnggg!”
May 2nd, 2017 at 2:23 pm
#2: it’s easy to laugh but five years from now, we’ll all be wearing jade green dungaree galligaskins. GSS was this year’s Comme des Garcons theme at the Met Gala.
See? https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2017/may/02/met-gala-2017-avant-garde-looks-on-the-red-carpet-in-pictures
May 2nd, 2017 at 2:32 pm
So, on the second cover, the guy facing the eye thing doesn’t have a helmet on, but the guy IN the ship does? Colour me confused.
May 2nd, 2017 at 2:53 pm
For both of these I’m sensing the need for an intergalactic rolled up newspaper: “Bad boy! Dirty boy! In your bed!”
May 2nd, 2017 at 3:06 pm
@DaveM: Tat’s jade green dungaree galligaskins should do the trick.
May 2nd, 2017 at 3:23 pm
Helmet? You mean that isn’t Farrah Fawcett?
May 2nd, 2017 at 3:56 pm
#1: The Jordan Edwards shooting, police sketch of the scene.
May 2nd, 2017 at 4:38 pm
I messed up with that “Fran Jordan.” It’s actually “Från Jorden,” much more Swedish.
But, speaking of names, who’s “Tom Boken”?
May 2nd, 2017 at 5:41 pm
@B. Chiclitz — That’s @tomboken. Must be his Twitter handle.
May 2nd, 2017 at 5:59 pm
#1: Does that dinosaur want to hump the rocket or merely take it away?
#2: That has to be one of the strangest alien designs I’ve ever seen since I started reading this website. “Sentient sperm”, indeed.
May 2nd, 2017 at 6:41 pm
Thanks, B’mancer—this Swedish language is something! 😉
May 2nd, 2017 at 7:28 pm
@Anna Arthur Clarke described a Rama biobot as looking a bit like this – giant camera-eye head and three tentacles as legs – moved dust devil or whirling dervish fashion.
May 2nd, 2017 at 8:05 pm
Gorgeous, pouting Google Translate tells me that FLYKT FRÅN JORDEN means ESCAPE FROM THE EARTH.
May 2nd, 2017 at 8:27 pm
@David Cowie—my google translation yields “The flight from the ground.” Boy, it gets deeper and deeper!
But it all comes down to that legendary warning:
“Fickt nicht mit dem Raketenmensch!”
May 2nd, 2017 at 9:06 pm
@DC, BC: if it’s getting deeper and deeper, chances are you have your rocket pointed upside-down.
May 2nd, 2017 at 10:03 pm
#2 walk without rythm and you won’t attract the sperm
May 2nd, 2017 at 10:15 pm
Wow! That’s quite a find.
“Atom-Boken” means literally “The Atomic Book” — it’s even got a tiny mushroom cloud inside the “a”!
(I doubt a title logo containing Nuclear Armageddon would inspire optimism about the future of space travel…)
May 3rd, 2017 at 12:15 am
I wonder what year these were? 50’s or 60’s.
Was the Swedish Space Service of the future going to use these pictures as What Not To Do examples? The guy facing away in the first one (judging by his knees, he’s running away as fast as he can, as is the man on the right), the excessively long ladder flying away causing background chap to plummet to his death, etc.
Also, I don’t care what the gravity is on planet #2 (and it must be strong enough to hold an atmosphere good for humans), ain’t no critter that big and top-heavy going to be able to balance on tippy toes.
@Francis Boyle: I thought it was a dramatically-coiffed blonde lady too, and the EYE-kea monster was enacting the usual “aliens want our wimmen”.
@B’mancer: My handsome strapping blond Google Translate gives #2 as “The Stray Spaceship”, so I presume they’re lost on the planet of sentient sperm.
@DSWBT (14): too soon.
May 3rd, 2017 at 12:48 am
Is that rocket ship on the first cover… bleeding??
May 3rd, 2017 at 8:04 am
And those books cost only 1 KRONA in 1953! (But then again, for 1 Krona you could buy lots of groceries in 1953…)
May 3rd, 2017 at 1:14 pm
OR you could buy THIS masterpiece with a dragon humping a rocket!
May 3rd, 2017 at 2:25 pm
@AR: those ‘groceries’, as you call them, were jugged fish and jugged cabbage. 😉
May 3rd, 2017 at 2:38 pm
@ARYngve – As our resident Nordic expert, what’s your translation of the second book title?
May 3rd, 2017 at 3:26 pm
“Det herrelösa rymdskeppet” means literally “The Ownerless Spaceship”, or “The Rudderless Spaceship.”
Either way, there seems to be a conflict of ownership regarding said vessel…
May 8th, 2017 at 2:36 am
The second one is Plankton’s cousin. Google image search Spongebob Squarepants Plankton if you don’t know who he is.
May 8th, 2017 at 8:03 am
“Give me the recipe for Krabby Patty Burgers, or else!”
May 8th, 2017 at 11:22 am
AR wins. 🙂 Good show, sir!