Mar 31
Click for larger imageMax Bathroom Comments: Nobody ever worries about the problems facing disabled superheroes…
Published 1973
(Average: 8.57 out of 10)
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Max Bathroom Comments: Nobody ever worries about the problems facing disabled superheroes…
Published 1973
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March 31st, 2022 at 9:57 am
But Sammy Davis Jr has one good eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsp35yn411A
March 31st, 2022 at 10:02 am
I haven’t been this discomfited since Augustus Gloop went up the pipe.
March 31st, 2022 at 2:12 pm
*looks in mirror: “Candy Man, Candy Man, Candy Man…”
*poof*
“Who the hell are you?”
March 31st, 2022 at 2:16 pm
Yeah, I imagine plenty of “candy” was consumed during the creation of this cover.
March 31st, 2022 at 2:48 pm
Anorexia…. in spaaaaaaace
March 31st, 2022 at 3:10 pm
If you have a bunch of red-hot jets strapped near your delicate bits, then perhaps a blindfold is not a good idea.
March 31st, 2022 at 3:44 pm
I’m more worried about what Peter Cushing’s dog’s done on the triangular trees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88BxYbgcUik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rawG0waSWoM
March 31st, 2022 at 4:37 pm
This cover is composed of three quite disparate sections.
Bottom Third: Fine background, maybe a little twee, but suitable for all kinds of Fantasy or SciFi ranging from C.S. Lewis to Jack Vance.
Top Third: Pretty bad, but it was 1973, so not really objectionable.
Middle Third: The artist’s conception of what Russia will be reduced to sending against Ukraine in week six of the Putin invasion.
March 31st, 2022 at 7:23 pm
The candy man can, but I have no idea how.
(I guess we have to assume the dog is flying under his own power.)
March 31st, 2022 at 9:45 pm
Even the dog’s feet are embarrassing on this one.
March 31st, 2022 at 11:52 pm
Barbara Woodhouse’s advice always was pretty terrible.
April 1st, 2022 at 1:38 am
@fred: Exactly!
@Tor: I mean, even if he’s blind, you’d think he’d notice the burning.
And should he be given a gun?
April 1st, 2022 at 2:21 am
Annoyed Publisher: My nephew fancies himself a writer, keeps trying to sell me this “grown up Peter Pan” story every family gathering. Here, read this mess and make me a book cover to match.
Artist: (sigh) Sure…
April 1st, 2022 at 9:40 am
Shouldn’t he be using a seeing-eye bird…??
April 1st, 2022 at 9:44 am
Urban legend has it that if you look into a mirror and says “Patrick Woodroffe” six times, the artist appears and apologizes for this cover.
April 1st, 2022 at 9:55 am
Looking again, I note that even with (goofy) shoes on, feet are hard to draw. Possibly he’s rocket propelled because he can’t walk on feet shaped like that.
April 1st, 2022 at 12:27 pm
Purple haze all in my brain.
Review and full wrap around (bottom of the Candy Man section is the best one) plus some variant covers.
https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2020/05/10/book-review-candy-man-vincent-king-1971/
April 1st, 2022 at 9:10 pm
(Looks at back cover blurb)
(looks at cover again)
@fred: either someone is rudely interrupting the Candy Man’s vacation or he’s in fact being pursued by one of the death-dealing Teachers through the night-black rotting girders of the sprawling world-city while _high as fuck_ on his own drugged sugar floss.
April 1st, 2022 at 10:11 pm
I’m out of touch with pop culture. I don’t recognize half the characters in these Macy’s Thanksgiving Day balloons.
April 2nd, 2022 at 1:38 am
@fred: Another book that’s never had a good cover and doesn’t seem to deserve one.
@Bruce: I think everyone involved with this was high. Constantly.