Apr 10
Good Show Sir comments: “Were gonna fly this ship to the center of the Earth!”
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1969
(Average: 5.10 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir comments: “Were gonna fly this ship to the center of the Earth!”
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1969
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April 10th, 2023 at 12:16 pm
That’s the gas, Elroy! Hit the brake…the braaake!
April 10th, 2023 at 2:23 pm
The casting team fondly remembers that plucky little rat who auditioned for the part of Chewbacca.
April 10th, 2023 at 3:31 pm
Noses are fun to draw.
April 10th, 2023 at 4:36 pm
Tom Swift and his Nuclear Tesla 3700, just before they hit the barrier.
April 10th, 2023 at 7:41 pm
Two guys, a mummy, and a lemur walk into a spaceport bar…
(I can’t really badmouth Robin Jacques, whom I remember fondly from the Ruth Manning-Sanders series of children’s books.)
April 10th, 2023 at 8:49 pm
I’d be very interested to know what role the little Skrakk character plays in the story.
(Skrakk is the squirrel-like creature in the Ice Age animated movies who is always chasing after a big tasty nut.)
April 10th, 2023 at 9:14 pm
@Tracy: Scrat. And it’s not like it’s his first trip to space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgSNlmkJCpg
April 10th, 2023 at 9:21 pm
Tom Swift was astonished to discover the existence of an even worse travel guide than Apple Maps: The space marmoset.
April 10th, 2023 at 10:56 pm
The Meerkat’s offer of help with car insurance came with strings.
April 11th, 2023 at 12:45 am
Looks more like a weasel. Ain’t nobody in that ship happy at what they see ahead.
It’s not so much the uncharted stars that are dangerous, it’s the uncharted planets you crash on.
@fred: Everyone does have quite the schnoz. Especially the mummy and the weasel thing. Those are pretty snouty anyway, but this one’s even more so. Cartoonishly so, like Scrat.
@Bruce: I hadn’t seen that one, so thanks! Maybe this critter is a descendant of Scrat and remembers that ancestral tale.
April 11th, 2023 at 3:36 pm
Is the other half of the artwork on the back cover?
(Artists hate it when they work for days on an image, and then the publisher cuts out a large part of it…)
April 11th, 2023 at 11:45 pm
@ARY: Like maybe the full artwork showed what it is they’re looking at in alarm?
(checks ISFDB)
It is! But it’s just stone arches and I guess whatever they’re scared of is Sir Not Appearing On This Cover.
April 12th, 2023 at 4:25 am
@Ryan (#8):
Before I saw the comments, I was wondering who it was that stole Tom Swift Jr’s Triphibian Atomicar (https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=14176) and went joyriding with his friends Bill, Rat and Mummy.
You summed up the cover better than I ever could. GSS.