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Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Art Direction: “I don’t see anything I like in your portfolio. Let’s take a look in your school notebooks.”
Published 1970
(Average: 7.29 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Art Direction: “I don’t see anything I like in your portfolio. Let’s take a look in your school notebooks.”
Published 1970
(Average: 7.29 out of 10)Loading...
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January 23rd, 2019 at 9:47 am
“Atomic batteries to power! Turbines to speed! Glug!”
January 23rd, 2019 at 9:49 am
So this is where missing remote controls go – not down the side of the sofa, the Amazon.
January 23rd, 2019 at 12:20 pm
Calling it. The city is hidden by fronds.
January 23rd, 2019 at 12:22 pm
Published by “Moody Teen Books”? This tale is guaranteed to brighten their day.
January 23rd, 2019 at 1:34 pm
With the size of the vehicle, why did they cram everyone into a tiny cockpit?
January 23rd, 2019 at 2:04 pm
@Bibliomancer—Somehow the combination of “Moody Teen” and a Prussian Iron Cross doesn’t inspire feelings of calm reflection and a brightening day.
January 23rd, 2019 at 2:05 pm
For some reason as I look at this cover I keep thinking it’s a Twilight Zone episode and any second a giant alien hand is going to reach down, pick up that thing, and start using it as an electric razor.
January 23rd, 2019 at 2:43 pm
@B.C. – I’ve seen that one! I think it’s called “To Shave Man”.
January 23rd, 2019 at 2:50 pm
Tom Swift and his Amazing Amphibo-Car?
@Bibliomancer: a hairy tale no doubt.
@JuanPaul: there also appears to be a lack of doors. Getting in and out must be a bit of a pain.
January 23rd, 2019 at 3:00 pm
The ant-hill mob have stolen the Batmobile and driven into a river.
January 23rd, 2019 at 4:28 pm
Ten comments in and nobody’s managed to make a Jeff Bezos/ tax-evasion gag that matches the picture.
Hardly surprising: that’s not a river, or a waterfall, it’s a lake that runs right up to the edge of a cliff but somehow never overspills. Is it actually water or some blue jelly?
January 23rd, 2019 at 6:16 pm
Now a major motion picture.
January 23rd, 2019 at 6:32 pm
@Tor M—The French version of that film is titled Zee Lost City of Zed.
January 23rd, 2019 at 7:22 pm
The city isn’t hidden, it’s been left with your neighbour.
January 23rd, 2019 at 7:28 pm
If that is an air breathing engine underneath those ventilation louvers I think they’ll have a good case against the manufacturer when they sink. A stern wheeler?
@ 12, 13. Not ‘The Lost City of Z’, but the classic 1984 computer game ‘7 Cities of Gold’.
January 23rd, 2019 at 8:18 pm
@Fred: you know where that train of thought leads – Earworm City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq5Y_ogiyi0
@THX: thx.
January 24th, 2019 at 8:40 am
@BC: Moody Hitler Youth sound like not a good time indeed. But didn’t they take their natty uniforms and super-science to build hidden cities in South America?
You may be onto something!
January 24th, 2019 at 11:56 am
@JuanPaul
Probably because they’d seen this and weren’t very imaginative. (Note: the probably only qualifies the first half of the sentence — putting the tail-lights at the front is not imaginative.)
January 25th, 2019 at 2:31 am
@FB: Well spotted. (Erm, finding the reference; I’ve no idea about your complexion)
I had been thinking the size was possibly due to anti-radiation shielding, which makes Bruce also correct with his T. Swift reference.
Good Show, Everyone.
January 25th, 2019 at 7:20 pm
“Who’s best man at the wedding?”
“Stan.”
“Stan who?”
“Best.”
“I know, you said he was, but which Stan is it?”
“The Best one.”
“Yeah, yeah, but what’s his name?”
“I told you. It’s Stan!”
“But the last name?”
“He’s BEST!!”
“I KNOW!!”
etc.
January 26th, 2019 at 11:10 am
Other failed publishing labels of the 1970s:
Mood-Swing Teen Books
Sulking Acne-Faced Punk Books
Budding Sociopath Who Collects Iron Crosses and Nazi Memorabilia Books
Frat Boy Books
January 27th, 2019 at 5:12 am
@Bruce A (#9), GSSxn (#19):
You’re both sort of right. It’s actually “Tom Swift and his Triphibian Atomicar”. Remember? It was already here….
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=14176
January 28th, 2019 at 2:16 am
@Hammy:
Same lack of doors problem. Do all teenage science heroes get into their futuristic vehicles Duke Boys style? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oSgLsU-7e8
January 28th, 2019 at 3:15 am
@Hammy: GSS! I couldn’t remember the title, but knew we’d seen it here before. And I’d forgotten it was “triphibian”, which I presume includes water and land travel.
@Bruce: I guess this one pops the bubble open so all the Hitler Youth have to scramble over each other to squeeze into it.
Guy in back has a black uniform to the others’ olive drab, so I guess he’s in charge. Sitting in the back so he can keep an eye on all those moody teens.
January 29th, 2019 at 3:12 am
@GSSxn( #prev.): Indeed, triphibian in Tom Swift context means air, land and water travel. Of course it does….
@BAMunro(#23): Your guess is as good as mine. I just hope there’s no escape hatch on the lower surfaces.
Oh, I might point out – you can tell that the Triphibian Atomicar is of American manufacturer and the one on this cover isn’t because, in true ‘murcun fashion, the Atomicar is loaded with chrome….
January 29th, 2019 at 9:29 am
@Hammy: so the furriners ripped off Tom’s good old American know-how, and made it darker colored, no chrome, and a smaller passenger interior. Typical. At least they got the lightning bolt, though that might be an SS reference.
Are the wheels down as this thing’s gliding along in the water/jelly? That seems like not a good idea. 007’s amphibicar retracted the wheels AND it was stylish with a much smaller engine compartment.
Am not ruling out that this is some dessert gone wrong, with a toy car plunked into either Jello or that shiny cake frosting, and some artificial greenery.
April 6th, 2022 at 1:20 am
@fred – thanks for clearing that up, I would have been awake all night wondering where the city was…
@juanpaul – what! now I’m going to be awake all night wondering about why everyone is crammed in the cockpit…
and now @GSS ex-noob talking about dessert… gonna have to pry myself away from this most excellent entertainment for a snack… back in 5…