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Click for larger imageRuggles Comments Taking his cat to the vet to get his yearly shots is always such a chore.
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Ruggles Comments Taking his cat to the vet to get his yearly shots is always such a chore.
Published 1975
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July 13th, 2020 at 10:25 am
It’s a man’s life in the Leopard Home Delivery Service.
July 13th, 2020 at 1:21 pm
I forget how many of those cheap Italian Breckenridge Elkins movies Doug McClure starred in.
July 13th, 2020 at 3:19 pm
With a title like ‘Agent from Bear Greek’ and the hero fighting a large pussy, I suspect there may be some kind of subtext going on here from Howard.
July 13th, 2020 at 4:12 pm
I am intrigued to learn more about the pictures inside, as this is the “special illustrated edition.”
@3, Fred, is it the AGENT from Bear Creek, or A Gent from Bear Creek?
July 13th, 2020 at 4:32 pm
“No, no no. He’s the AGENT from Bear Creek. How many covers have you printed so far? Can we recall it?
July 13th, 2020 at 5:03 pm
I think the blurb should read “his most nonchalant hero ever”. “Yeah, leopard hefting’s hard work but you know someone’s got to do it”.
July 13th, 2020 at 6:21 pm
It’s the horse he needs to take to the vet. Someone’s stolen its eyeball.
July 13th, 2020 at 6:49 pm
I hear that Leopard Tossing has replaced Little Person Hurling as a social pastime in all the best Bear Creek taverns.
July 13th, 2020 at 7:59 pm
I’m seeing a G where you see a C: ‘Ya been ta Palmer’s Green, blood? It’s bear Greek, innit-doh’.
But ‘Beckingridge Elkins’ is a paper supply company from Woking.
July 13th, 2020 at 10:10 pm
The type font detective points out the letter “G” in “A Gent” (or “AGENT,” take your pick), as clearly different from the “C” in “Bear Creek” (although “Bear Greek” does have a lot going for it).
July 13th, 2020 at 10:20 pm
@BC: I wasn’t sure, because the second letter of ‘agent’ (or first of ‘Gent’) is harder to discern with all that brown snow or whatever it is behind.
I can see that there’s something odd about the horse’s head and that Our Hero is suspiciously like John Cleese as Attila the Hun.
July 14th, 2020 at 2:57 am
Hey js, Guess what.
Jeff Jones still can’t draw feet.
July 14th, 2020 at 3:41 am
@Tat W—All true. Perhaps the horse is thinking something like, “God, my grandfather found himself in Guernica for looking like this and I end up on this lousy cover.”
July 14th, 2020 at 3:42 am
Jeff Jones still can’t draw feet.
Objection: this breaks the ever-so-strict GSS rules. It isn’t SF/F/H, just Manly Men Western Adventure!
To me, “Breckinridge” conjures up a ski resort town (one letter difference), with lots of Amero- and Eurotrash swanning about trying to impress each other and also a ton of twee antique shoppes. Lovely scenery even in summer, though.
@TW: Do we have a “words words words” tag? Because this deserves it.
@Ruggles: GSS. Looks a lot like our house on those days, except we’re smart enough to wear shirts.
@BC: They were hoping to make it an Olympic event, but holding the tryouts right next to the equestrian course nixed that.
@Tat: your last sentence is the perfect description.
July 14th, 2020 at 12:10 pm
I didn’t know Gore Vidal wrote sequels.
July 14th, 2020 at 1:55 pm
@Tat indeed. Or a small personal injury law firm.
@GSS e-n not only that it was apparently Western *humor* – ol’ Breck is described as “mighty of stature and small of brain”…
…which sort of places him in good company among the protagonists of these covers, so maybe we should let him pass.
July 14th, 2020 at 10:41 pm
@jrdelerio: If we gave a pass to every cover personage who was small of brain, we’d be passing most of the covers.
“Small of brain” maybe explains why he’s shot-putting a leopard. While shirtless.
July 15th, 2020 at 1:13 am
@THX1139: knocks it out of the park with the first comment.
September 2nd, 2023 at 4:02 am
Randomly looked at this Random Terrible Cover, was not disappointed. Defintely needed to make an exception for this cover in spite of genre. It does have “Conan” in the cover after all, so all the kids will want to read it?
@GSS xn: agreed, kittah is looking none too happy, so picking it up is bad idea in the first place, shirtless or otherwise.