May 02
Good Show Sir Comments: Another chorus of “Under the Sea”!
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1969
Good Show Sir Comments: Another chorus of “Under the Sea”!
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1969
May 2nd, 2022 at 10:38 am
Before heading off to space war, Captain Future always makes a big pot of his famous Moon Gumbo (with hand-captured Moon Crawdads!)
May 2nd, 2022 at 11:18 am
It’s like Planet of the Apes but instead of apes it’s cockroaches. Can’t wait to see what they did to the Statue of Liberty.
May 2nd, 2022 at 11:47 am
Spaceman on radio: “Is there any way I can scratch in this suit? These bloody lunarticks are all over me!”
May 2nd, 2022 at 2:02 pm
Doc Savage is at first bemused, then calls his lawyer.
May 2nd, 2022 at 2:29 pm
He also meets his lunch in a war of solar doom.
May 2nd, 2022 at 4:57 pm
I love these videos of people having joyful reunions with their pets.
May 2nd, 2022 at 5:15 pm
Old paperbacks do frequently have silverfish if stored improperly, but this is a bit much.
May 2nd, 2022 at 5:56 pm
I do keep calling Captain Future, but somehow I can never quite reach him.
May 2nd, 2022 at 7:27 pm
@BC: Are you sure you’re not on the do-not-call list of Captain Future?
May 2nd, 2022 at 7:45 pm
@Tor M—I guess I’ll just have to wait to find out.
May 2nd, 2022 at 8:07 pm
I was first introduced to Captain Future the best way possible – through the writings of Marx Brothers scriptwriter SJ Perelman:
https://nebushumor.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/s-j-perelman-captain-future-block-that-kick/
May 2nd, 2022 at 8:26 pm
Compare this Johnny Bruck cover with his other one, and… yep! It’s John Wayne again:
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?tag=johnny-bruck
May 2nd, 2022 at 9:53 pm
@ARY: now compare this cover with this one from 4 years earlier, and the almost 1800 other covers he did for Perry Rhodan, once a week… 😀
The man was prolific, but he copied, plagiarised and re-used a lot. (And by lot I mean a metric sh*t-ton…)
May 2nd, 2022 at 10:11 pm
@BMunro: Thanks for posting that. Perelman doesn’t get enough love.
May 2nd, 2022 at 10:47 pm
This cover is boring, but not horrid. No font abuse, no bright colors. Looks like white, black, and blue were all the paints the artist had available.
@BC: Have you tried spoofing your Caller ID? Capt. Future’s probably rejecting you via that.
@Leak: this does look more Rhodan-appropriate.
@BMunro: The revival of “Amazing Stories” magazine had a revival of Captain Future in its first issue 4 years ago.
May 2nd, 2022 at 11:50 pm
I don’t think we have enough information about the good Captain. Which Future is he?
– Captain Future Simple: I will call Captain Future!
– Captain Future Continuous: I will be calling Captain Future!
– Captain Future Perfect: I will have called Captain Future!
– Captain Future Perfect Continuous: I will have been calling Captain Future!
Or perhaps his father, Mr Future, was a fan of Joseph Heller, so we can call Captain Future Future Future.
May 3rd, 2022 at 12:46 am
:Captain Future meets his match in a war of doom”?
Ah, it’s a *romance* novel!
May 3rd, 2022 at 1:48 am
@NomadUK: I don’t think Perfect enters into this.
May 3rd, 2022 at 5:11 am
@Leak: Now your link has made me want to learn German and read Parry Rhodan stories. Those are some interesting scenarios that old Parry got into on a weekly basis.
May 3rd, 2022 at 5:55 pm
@Ryan: well, I kinda got bored out after 2500 or so issues…
May 3rd, 2022 at 11:23 pm
@Nomad: Don’t forget
Captain Going-to Future: I am going to call Captain Future! *
Captain Modal Future: I must call Captain Future!
But this is an old book, therefore it’s in the past (and probably written in past tense originally), so we might have the likes of his relatives:
Captain Past Perfect Continuous — I had been calling Captain Future!
etc.
*One of the Wiki examples is: “I know! I’ll use this book as a door stop.”
May 5th, 2022 at 11:55 pm
@Ryan – just when I thought you couldn’t top the last one….
@Leak – mind has just been blown… we could have a lot of fun with each and every one of those…
Everyone, get looking!