Mar 21
Rich Comments: I think the Black Lion may be that hair under her arm. It obviously offends Mr Swordy and he’s going to remove it in a rather dramatic fashion. What was said to the artist was something along the lines of, “Here honey, a nice new pack of crayons and don’t eat any of them. Do Mummy a nice book cover.”
Published 1979
Many thanks to Rich!
March 21st, 2011 at 10:08 am
What’s happened to her feet? Has she had a satellite grafted onto them? And his other arm.
March 21st, 2011 at 10:58 am
Knowing Father Lionel, he probably scribbled this cover himself in a spare five minutes between writing more books. But even Raquel Welch shaved under her arms for One Million Years B.C.!
March 21st, 2011 at 11:37 am
The artwork brilliantly exposes the patriarchy’s conspiracy to shackle womyn to a false body self-image, by making womyn see their natural armpit hair as “unclean”!
Long live natural hair growth!
(I admit, this comment is VERY confused — just as confused as the cover art.)
March 21st, 2011 at 11:39 am
The “Gorean Hair Salon”, despite offering a “50% off” deal on armpit shaving, did not have a good opening day.
March 21st, 2011 at 4:20 pm
This poor woman. One of her legs is the slim, svelte leg of a dancer while the other is a tree trunk-like appendage with no discernible knee joint. No wonder she can’t stop smelling her armpit.
March 21st, 2011 at 4:50 pm
No wonder they are both strange. They’re being attacked by an art-deco lamp shade attached to red curtain string.
March 21st, 2011 at 8:08 pm
She’s misshapen because of the dread radiation. I mean, look, she has a mushroom cloud on her misshapen bra. That can’t be good.
March 21st, 2011 at 9:29 pm
The shiny bit on the sword really enhances this cover.
March 22nd, 2011 at 2:18 am
Between this cover and Tiger! Tiger!, I think there needs to be a tag for “Ting!”.
March 22nd, 2011 at 3:27 am
On the viewscreen in the cockpit of that ship is a rabbit saying, “Use the boost to get through!”
The pilot is glad he did.
March 22nd, 2011 at 9:47 am
@Don – Brilliant Idea! Done!
March 22nd, 2011 at 10:23 pm
It is an excellent illustration of the likely quality of the book, you must admit. All it’s missing is some insane alliteration.
(But I’m not sure this is one of the books from Lionel’s flood period. It’s many years too late for the Badger Books years, and it has Patricia’s name on the cover and is in Lionel’s own name, neither of which were true of his Badger Books output as I recall. So perhaps the inside omits those charming features which made Fanthorpe so justly famous.)
March 27th, 2011 at 4:13 am
Thy sword blinketh in gray!
May 11th, 2013 at 8:11 am
(a) It’s obvious that the artist had Nova from _Planet of the Apes_ in mind when he was rendering the woman’s outfit.
(b) If you’re dressing like that, you aren’t shaving your armpits, so it’s pretty accurate in that respect.
May 13th, 2014 at 6:28 pm
Black Lion Enterprises
“Stabbing scantily clad women in the arm pit with awkwardly held swords since 1979”
May 22nd, 2015 at 7:59 pm
That’s not a book-cover, that’s a pub-sign.
January 12th, 2017 at 7:20 am
The more I see of Rev. Fanthorpe’s work, the more I wonder if the porn that played during the funeral he was officiating last year was actually an accident.
Also, the poor lady certainly couldn’t shave her own armpits with her wrists chained up like that, but a razor would do better than a sword.
January 13th, 2017 at 7:58 pm
Is this it? That anemic sea urchin is the origin of the glorious “Ting!” tag?
I guess it just goes to show that you don’t have to be the best, or the brightest — just put yourself out there and have an obvious presence and you can still inspire great things. *cough*Fanthorpe*cough*
January 13th, 2017 at 8:47 pm
@Yoss: *cough*Edison*cough*