Oct 21
Click for larger imageVerylatetotheparty Comments: I can’t believe anybody would choose that font. If the only brief was a piece of paper with ‘title: The Tomb’ written on it, nobody would choose that font. Even the skull on the cover looks like it can’t believe that font.
Published 1970
(Average: 8.14 out of 10)
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(9.27 out of 10)
October 21st, 2019 at 10:31 am
Hey, it was the seventies. Even pristine skeletons with weirdly preserved eyes* were feeling the urge to get down and get funky.
*At least that solves the problem of where to inject the drugs.
October 21st, 2019 at 11:02 am
The cover was also used for the James Brown’s 1974 album THE TOMB, featuring the lesser-known Lovecraft-inspired track “Get Up Offa That Unspeakable Floor And Get Down On Your Unholy Feet.”
October 21st, 2019 at 2:31 pm
Do the funky shoggoth. It’s worth looking up H.P. Joelcraft on YouTube. Lovecraft poetry set to Billy Joel’s Pianoman.
October 21st, 2019 at 3:53 pm
For once, the cover’s less dated or embarrassing than the content.
October 21st, 2019 at 3:57 pm
Anyone fancy a marshmallow?
October 21st, 2019 at 4:43 pm
Not the Tomb That Came to Sarnath, surely? (Sorry, somebody had to do it.). And that is a freakin’ awful cover.
October 21st, 2019 at 5:13 pm
I’ll keep an eye out for this title.
October 21st, 2019 at 5:22 pm
How much more work would it have been to connect the ‘e’ in ‘the’ to the ‘b’ in ‘tomb’? You missed a Good Show Sir opportunity, graphic designer person.
October 21st, 2019 at 5:23 pm
I have got to say, nothing gets me in the Lovecraft mood more than googly-eyed skeletons and disco letters.
October 21st, 2019 at 6:22 pm
Cthulhu called, should have texted.
October 21st, 2019 at 7:13 pm
When they voted on this cover in the editorial meeting, did someone actually have to say “Ok, we’re done. The ayes have it.”
October 21st, 2019 at 8:02 pm
It needs a Jeff Beck theme tune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27jnSL8GIcs
October 21st, 2019 at 8:37 pm
@B. Chiclitz – [rimshot]
October 21st, 2019 at 10:13 pm
Was I correct to use the term ‘font’ for writing that’s all joiny-uppy and squiggly? It’s bothering me now.
October 21st, 2019 at 10:27 pm
The true eldrich* horror was lurking in Panther’s art department.
@Vlttp: GSS! Your comment was completely on point and the last bit made me LOL. I’d call it a font as well. Or a typeface, but the tags say “font problems”.
@L_L: GSS to you too. It was a necessary callback.
Heck, GSS to all. Quality comments, especially for a Monday. Come for the ludicrous covers, stay for the commentariat.
*Nobody else had used the obligatory.
October 21st, 2019 at 10:56 pm
Knowing me, knowing Cthulhu
A-ha-ah
There is nothing we can do
Knowing me, knowing Cthulhu
A-ha-ah
Maybe this time we’re through
The gates of the Silver key
October 22nd, 2019 at 1:00 am
Plus, the eye is clearly a glass eye, not spherical like a real non-decayed eyeball should be! Lazy craftmanship all around.
The title reminds me of this one from glam band The Tubes: http://www.cobaltjade.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Tubes-Logo.jpg
October 22nd, 2019 at 1:27 am
Meth Bot
shade-tolerant
H.P.CLOVEFART
Hah, Terror Porn
October 22nd, 2019 at 2:11 am
Font colors by the Color From Space, peeping skeleton by Evil Dead.
October 22nd, 2019 at 4:18 am
Gutsy move Tony Marshall. Next time blame it on the Unknown Artist Institute.
October 22nd, 2019 at 11:07 am
@Tracy: That’s what happens when you watch too much television with your head at a 45 degree angle.
October 23rd, 2019 at 7:52 pm
The “e” looks like it’s slapping hands with the “b”.
October 24th, 2019 at 9:09 am
@anon: Could also be P.C H.LOVEFART
@Bruce: GSS.
@A-S: a very 1970 thing to do.