Aug 12
Click for full imageKevin’s Art Direction
Creative Director: Ok, so here’s the deal.
Artist: oh boy…
CD: I want hands coming up from the fires of hell begging for tiny people, a big throne or something and possibly some random Greek god-type things laughing it up.
Artist: oh boy…
CD: The boss just saw Iron Eagle and totally dug the font on that one. OH! And he just bought a new helicopter, so if you could throw that in everything will be great.
Published 1987
Amazing find!
Many thanks to Kevin!
(Average: 7.96 out of 10)
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(9.27 out of 10)
August 12th, 2010 at 8:39 am
Those are proper Kingly legs. Do you think he shaves, or waxes?
August 12th, 2010 at 8:51 am
I like the disco floor – or is that supposed to be a BBQ grill, lit by the fires of hell?
and are the tiny people falling from the red-tunic guy’s hand normal-people size? if so, are the hands poking up through the disco floor giants’ hands? deposed former kings of hell? (those supplicating hands are about the same size as red-tunic guy’s hands)
or are they a race of tiny people – Borrowers, perhaps – who’ve tragically fallen into a special hell run by a red-tunic-wearing guy with really amazing quadriceps? (maybe he’s a retired speed skater – they tend to have awesome quads – and he’d appreciate the warmth of the hell-fires after all that time whizzing around on ice)
August 12th, 2010 at 8:53 am
One’d imagine wax would be hazardous in that kind of environment.
Not as hazardous as the heli falling out of the sky onto his head. That’s evidently happened more than once, which would explain his lack of neck.
August 12th, 2010 at 9:00 am
I’m pretty sure sitting on a stone throne would give even the most manly of kings, piles.
And he’s got a tiny wee head.
August 12th, 2010 at 10:26 am
Ah now, there’s a word for this, when the author name and title run together like this.
“CJ Cherryh and Janet Morris, Kings in Hell!”
August 12th, 2010 at 11:45 am
The title’s too long. Should just be ‘King Hell.
August 12th, 2010 at 11:55 am
Concerning the folk at either side. Taurus seems to be trying to tip the font over onto Waxy Disco Devil, doesn’t he? Maybe he fancies becoming Minotaur King of Hell himself. But on the other side, Diabolo seems to be…er…emotionally attached to the font. As well as belting out a version of “Forever My Baby” or some such.
August 12th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
All of the “in Hell” books have horrid covers. (There are like 12 of them)
August 12th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Disco King totally has a “who wears short shorts” pose going on there.
August 12th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
John T, that should be Queens in Hell, surely?
August 12th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Nix – the cover art might give that impression.
Actually, it looks more like Frankie’s Relax In Hell.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
What? He’s just a typical mexican wrestler.
August 13th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Now THAT’s a Disco Inferno.
August 13th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
If our resident greek god had been holding an electric guitar instead of a trident, I would have given this a 10 without a second thought.
August 16th, 2010 at 4:33 am
The scary part is, the cover is a pretty accurate representation of the contents.
December 19th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
The taglines practically write themselves for covers like these:
“It was a slow news day… IN HELL!!”
“They fought with snowballs… IN HELL!!”
“John McCain was invited to a Navy disco dance… and found himself IN HELL!!”
December 17th, 2015 at 9:34 pm
The Disco King looks like a hybrid between Xerxes from “300” and Bane from Batman. Which does nothing whatsoever for the “quality” of this cover.
January 13th, 2016 at 8:33 am
Disco King: “And then the bartender says, ‘it’s easy, that’s not my duck!’. Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week. Now later in the show I might need a volunteer from the audience to escape the eternal flames and come up here, let’s see a show of hands.”