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Click for larger imageDelores Comments: He could be killed but not drilled. Drilled but not chilled. Chilled but not billed …
Published 1962
(Average: 5.60 out of 10)
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Delores Comments: He could be killed but not drilled. Drilled but not chilled. Chilled but not billed …
Published 1962
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March 23rd, 2020 at 9:10 am
Not many people know about the brief but glorious “Luchadore Sci-Fi” fad of 1962.
(See also the movie “Samson Vs. the Vampire Women”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJDkuBeV_QA )
March 23rd, 2020 at 9:36 am
He could be Kill Billed but not Bill Killed. Also he could be gimped but not pimped.
March 23rd, 2020 at 10:01 am
I don’t believe for one minute he used that tiny shovel to bury someone and not get a speck of dirt anywhere on himself.
March 23rd, 2020 at 10:19 am
Wow, Doctor Seuss really branched out, huh?
March 23rd, 2020 at 2:13 pm
Is that Gary Unman in the space helmet?
Now the other one’s buried in the ground, they can be tilled but not unkilled.
March 23rd, 2020 at 2:49 pm
He could be worried but not buried; buried but not worried.
Hey, anyone can play this game!
March 23rd, 2020 at 3:59 pm
Un-man: any relation to the un-born a couple covers back?
If he’s been killed but cannot be stilled, does that mean he’s going to do a proper zombie lunge out of that grave and guarantee Spade Boy dirties his nice clean spacesuit?
After being stilled, could he be distilled?
March 23rd, 2020 at 4:08 pm
“Crap, did I forget to take the keys to the spaceship from his pocket?”
March 23rd, 2020 at 4:15 pm
Wittering and Zigo could be killed and stilled, apparently.
March 23rd, 2020 at 7:41 pm
I assume all the stories promise thrills and spills then?
March 23rd, 2020 at 9:00 pm
@Bibliomancer—you could play this game, and game this play, at the same time!
@fred—GSS! 😉
March 23rd, 2020 at 10:33 pm
@3 Fred, plus, using that short-handled shovel to bury a body would mean that his fishbowl helmet ought to be about half-full of sweat.
Unless the burying spaceman is also a magician using special magical space-powers to inter the corpse with ease. Then he would be enchanted to be planted.
March 23rd, 2020 at 11:08 pm
“I’m free!”
March 23rd, 2020 at 11:33 pm
The blurber had been reading Dr. Seuss to his kid every night for a year. It carried over into his work. Maybe his boss was a jerk Turk (Kidding — bet there weren’t any Turks working there at that time).
The art is also WTF. A white gimp mask with red splotchy logo, a suspiciously clean spacesuit, an implausibly close planet. Not Emsh’s best. The foreground alone is fine, a bit poignant, but those background elements ruin it.
@fred: Doesn’t look like he actually dug a hole, just piled up the dirt over the body. I’m guessing his suit is some Space-Age Wonder Fiber (TM) that repels dirt as well as having those kicky contrasting sleeves.
@Bruce: My thoughts regarding the zombie potential exactly! If he can’t be stilled, why bother to bury him? Or it looks like he didn’t dig a hole, just piled up the dirt over the body. Maybe spacesuit man didn’t know about the Un-Man non-stilling and boy is he in for a surprise.
Listening to some music via the newly-free Amazon Music streaming channels. It’s pop of my high school/Mr. xn’s college years, so we’re chilled.
March 24th, 2020 at 7:51 am
Floating gimp head: “Wait till they get a load of me.”
@GSS ex-noob; an implausibly close planet? You’re not looking at the bubble helmet on the grave’s cross, er, stick, are you?
March 24th, 2020 at 9:52 am
Small… far away, small… far away.
March 24th, 2020 at 7:44 pm
@Bruce: So it is! I need an eye checkup and new glasses but am not about to go to a health care facility. I stand by my condemnation of the gimp/luchador mask.
Where did shovel-boy find the stick on that flat empty plain? And should he have put it through the other’s heart instead?
March 24th, 2020 at 8:05 pm
@GSSxn: A giant floating head in the sky would confuse anybody’s sense of scale. A giant floating head in the sky wearing a gimp mask could confuse your sense of everything!
March 24th, 2020 at 8:52 pm
So embarrassed at appearing on this cover he insisted on the mask.
February 10th, 2021 at 9:57 pm
Wow, he is really broken up about his pet goldfish.
February 11th, 2021 at 8:39 am
@Juan Paul: Well, it’s his own fault. It really needed a bigger bowl.