Feb 09
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Click for larger imageIt’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Dreaming Jewels Jamboree!
Good Show Sir Comments:
1. Jewely Andrews
2. Jewels and Jim
Published 1950, 1955
(Average: 6.00 out of 10)
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It’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Dreaming Jewels Jamboree!
Good Show Sir Comments:
1. Jewely Andrews
2. Jewels and Jim
Published 1950, 1955
(Average: 6.00 out of 10)Loading...
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February 9th, 2021 at 9:54 am
1: Anybody thinks they can put out a workout video these days.
2: I thought Ken Campbell was more a Robert Anton Wilson kind of guy?
February 9th, 2021 at 10:38 am
1. Generic fifties lazy cover design.
2. Oh my fuckin’ god, they went there!
February 9th, 2021 at 12:09 pm
1. If Marylin Monroe did a Hitchcock film, the inevitable dream sequence would probably be something like this.
2. Dreaming of cover #1.
February 9th, 2021 at 2:32 pm
These covers are a special kind of bad. It sounds like something I would like to read, however. From wikipedia:
8-year-old Horton “Horty” Bluett runs away from his abusive family, carrying only a smashed jack-in-the-box named Junky. Disguised as a girl, Horty takes refuge among the “strange people” in a traveling circus. The owner of the carnival, Pierre Monetre, is a disgraced doctor and scientist with a deep hatred of mankind. Having discovered intelligent nonhuman life in the form of crystal-like jewels, Monetre works to unlock the source of their great power and, ultimately, destroy mankind. Zena, a carnival performer, takes Horty under her wing. She knows that Horty is the key to executing Monetre’s destructive plan, and the only one powerful enough to stop him.
February 9th, 2021 at 2:50 pm
That second cover is a guarantee of low sales, surely. I would not read it on a train, I would not read it on a plane, that book featuring a giant head, I would not be caught reading it if I were dead.
February 9th, 2021 at 2:55 pm
The first one’s sort of in line with the plot except that she gives the boy guitar lessons.
The second might have worked forty years later as a ‘Crystal Maze’ tie-in.
February 9th, 2021 at 3:33 pm
1. For when you can’t draw hands
2. For when you can’t draw bodies.
February 9th, 2021 at 4:02 pm
1.) We’ve got diamonds,
Yes we do!
We’ve got diamonds,
How ’bout you?
Yeah, team!
February 9th, 2021 at 6:09 pm
“Welcome to the freak show! See the amazing diamond-fisted piebald woman! See the incredible, giant-headed, jewel-eyed Mr. Punch! And for an extra dollar, our clown artist will draw you a picture to remember your experience (feet not included)!”
@Ryan: would you read it in a box?
February 9th, 2021 at 6:11 pm
Sentient beings of all persuasions agree, her jewels are dreamier.
February 9th, 2021 at 6:56 pm
The first cover is not bad. It’s very emblemic of 1950s design. I wonder if the publisher was Arkham House. They did a lot of those limited-palette dust covers.
February 10th, 2021 at 2:12 am
@Tracy: yeah, there are definitely worse. Here’s the “artist thought he was illustrating a horror story” cover: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51i5yamCM7L._SL500_.jpg
February 10th, 2021 at 2:15 am
And here’s the pulpy version (doesn’t “The Dreaming Jewels” sound like a pulp-era story title?)
https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/01933a7f-48c2-47b0-bacb-610e548fadf5.949661b0250c9b5f86809994cf1394eb.jpeg
February 10th, 2021 at 2:49 am
Sturgeon’s Law
90% of Sturgeon book covers are crap
February 15th, 2021 at 3:10 am
Cover #2 makes total sense if the target group are Neo-Nazis…
February 15th, 2021 at 4:13 am
@B’man: Indeed.
October 7th, 2023 at 8:10 pm
Miss Ukraine, 1950.