Jan 20
Jo Comments: The chrome space-knights’ war against the giant ants was going well, until the mega sock-puppet turned up!
Published 1965
Many thanks to Jo!
Jo Comments: The chrome space-knights’ war against the giant ants was going well, until the mega sock-puppet turned up!
Published 1965
Many thanks to Jo!
January 20th, 2011 at 9:14 am
I can’t help thinking that the title would make more sense as THE WORLD BETWEEN “OTHER” AND “STORIES”. Or possibly, THE WORD BETWEEN “OTHER” AND “STORIES.” The word, in that case, being “AND”.
Otherwise — someone started sculpting a giant Darth Vader out of chocolate, but it went wrong below the neck and they turned it into a sort of ghost-monster instead. The ant is horrified.
January 20th, 2011 at 10:20 am
That ant is SO going to get decapitated. Unless that’s a well trained ninja move he’s about to pull off.
The thing in the background looks like a scary puppet from a punch and judy show… writen by lovecraft…
January 20th, 2011 at 10:52 am
That’s no way to balance your body while holding a heavy broadsword…
January 20th, 2011 at 11:53 am
I don’t know . . . it fills me with nostalgia for the days when I could still enjoy books like that but I can’t explain why. Ever get those moments in a used book store? Perhaps it is the suggestion of wonderful strangeness inside the book that eventually wore thin with finding out the contents were only as bizarre as the covers and no more, and perhaps less.
January 20th, 2011 at 11:59 am
“Boys…ah…boys, hold off for a moment…I dropped a contact…ah…somewhere…give us a hand here, boys…it’s about a furlong across…”
Notice that all the knights and ant-men are in exactly the same poses!
January 20th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
This is another one for the panto season: BEHIND YOU!!!
January 20th, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Actually, the giant sock puppet appears to be fighting on the behalf of the knights. I looks like the two ants on the left are cowering in fear, while the knights on the right raise their swords and cheer.
January 20th, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Space-Knight training school motto; Always on your toes, literally.
January 21st, 2011 at 2:46 am
It looks like a bad sci-fi version of West Side Story. This is the dance number featuring the fight between the Ants and the Sharks.
Leonard Bernstein at his finest for this off off off broadway production.
January 21st, 2011 at 10:47 am
When you’re an Ant,
You’re a Ant all the way
From your first larval stage
To your last dyin’ day….
January 21st, 2011 at 9:27 pm
Ace Double books have two front covers.
Here is the other side of this one
April 14th, 2012 at 2:54 am
It looks like they’re all, all of them, doing the Twist. I can hear Chubby Checker singing when I look at this cover.
April 16th, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Jazz hands!