Apr 08
Good Show Sir Comments: Dragons, Elves and Hoes
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1969
(Average: 3.50 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Dragons, Elves and Hoes
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1969
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April 8th, 2024 at 12:39 pm
Dragons, elves, and hoes:
We’d hear it from the people of the town.
They’d call us dragons, elves, and hoes,
But every night all the knights would come around
And swing their swords around.
April 8th, 2024 at 1:27 pm
Since the head collecting faun didn’t get a cover mention, I’ll give him this song in German, scroll down a bit for a lyrics post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLgM1QJ3S_I
April 8th, 2024 at 1:52 pm
“I suppose you’re wondering why I’ve gathered you all here today.”
April 8th, 2024 at 2:58 pm
Hero: Dragons and Elves we can deal with, but what the heck is with these Demons?????
(Do we need some sheep at the top?)
April 8th, 2024 at 3:48 pm
Can’t say I’m bowled over by this ‘edgy’ reboot of “Mr Benn”.
April 8th, 2024 at 4:10 pm
The “Late 60s / Early 70s Whimsical Illustration Style” was never a particularly good idea, but it seems like it very much misses the mark of the stories inside the cover here.
April 8th, 2024 at 10:46 pm
The ho in question, I can’t decide her species. Some kind of snake with wings, but her human female head also has horns? I guess they figured the devil’s dumplings (tag needed) would distract from all that.
I don’t know as I’m seeing any elves either. The guy halfway down the right looks more like a dwarf to me.
Just up and to the left of the faun, are those Pac-Man characters?
@NomadUK: GSS! Perfect.
April 9th, 2024 at 5:43 am
“Dragons and Elves and Heroes — Oh, my!”
April 9th, 2024 at 2:22 pm
+1 for a “devil’s dumplings” tag!
I’m guessing the sticker doesn’t refer to the cover.
April 9th, 2024 at 10:47 pm
@FB: Thanks for the agreement. They are SO notably placed, hanging right over the title.
I suppose those boobs make it “Adult”.
Has anyone ever read this? Do any of the characters ’round the border appear, or are they just for catching the punters’ eyes?
April 9th, 2024 at 11:18 pm
@GSS ex-noob at 7: some pretty Elfy ears, tho’, and no beard. Perhaps they’re Wood(sman) Elves.
Can’t quite tell what’s going on to the left due to cover damage: does the red-bearded dude with the sunflower cloak have strangling snakes/tentacles coming out of his back?
And that strikes me as more a demon than a faun: portraits of the devil often look like fauns, with horns and goat legs, and “ripping people’s heads off” isn’t really something I associate with fauns. Pan Panicked people, didn’t decapitate.
April 10th, 2024 at 1:32 am
I’d have to surrender my passport if I didn’t make this joke:
If those are Pan’s People, which one’s Flick?
April 10th, 2024 at 1:19 pm
I looked the book up on Wikipedia. Its the sixth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series and the first such anthology assembled by Carter for the series, issued simultaneously with the second, “The Young Magicians.” So a lot of the contents are older and more literary pieces: “The Ogre” – from Beowulf; “Fingal at the Siege of Carric-thura” – from The Poems of Ossian, by James Macpherson; “The Sword of Avalon” from Le Morte d’Arthur, by Thomas Malory; “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” by Robert Browning and so on. This was when Ballantine and Carter were trying to grow the market for fantasy and weird fiction, so it’s not a bunch of post-Tolkien imitations.
April 10th, 2024 at 2:08 pm
Better cover, plus the back. Other Lin Carter’s in the series are below. Scroll down to see alliteration run amok on the Charlie’s Angels back cover.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/305010289478
April 10th, 2024 at 6:10 pm
@ Bruce – Space Sheep looked at the cover, shrugged their fuzzy little shoulders, softly murmured, “Meh-eh-eh-eh” and floated gently away…
Grew up with beautiful books like “Are All the Giants Dead?” (Mary Norton ’75), so kid Emster would probably also give this one a pass.
April 10th, 2024 at 6:17 pm
fred@14: Wow, had to scroll a lot. On the way, though, I kept running across Thongor, who, amazingly enough, has only one mention here on GSS, and surely deserves more.
April 10th, 2024 at 9:02 pm
@Bruce: Regarding redbeard, I think that’s the pointy tail of Boob Lady Critter. Agreed on the other looking more devilish than faun.
@Tor: Rather good classic content, undeserving of this. “Hwaet! What’s with the giant jugs?” quoth the skald.
@fred: Excellent find, as usual. You’re like the bonus features of GSS.
@Emster: My older brother would have had this, or another much like it. I would have giggled at winged snake boobs, so no change from 1969 till now. (I was 7, he was 14, so you know he’d have been interested)
@Nomad: Let’s all make a mental note to look for more Thongor (snort) in our used book stores.
April 11th, 2024 at 1:26 am
Ah, Thongor. I read one of those about halfway through years ago: it gave me an impression of “Lin Carter tries to do Conan but _more extreme_ (as they said back in the 90s)”, which did not generate much enthusiasm for finishing it.
@Emster: now that was a beautifully illustrated book.
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