Oct 05
Marmontoast Comments: As an online repository of truly dreadful sci-fi covers grows larger, the probability of seeing a rocket with Hitler’s face approaches 1 – Godwin’s Law of ghastly art direction.
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October 5th, 2011 at 8:23 am
Truly gobsmacking.
October 5th, 2011 at 9:30 am
Looks like he blew his top (unsurprisingly).
October 5th, 2011 at 9:33 am
“UND IIII-IIICH… WILL AAAALLWEYZ LIEBE III-IIICHH…”
October 5th, 2011 at 9:35 am
But then again.. anything that annoys Nazis is fine with me.
October 5th, 2011 at 10:14 am
Mad? He looks positibbly livid!
October 5th, 2011 at 10:15 am
Whuh?
October 5th, 2011 at 11:30 am
This is a Josh Kirby cover, one of many he did for Don Wollheim’s DAW Books publications of Ron Goulart’s work.
Josh’s comment (from “The Garden of Unearthly Delights”, Paper Tiger’s collection of his paintings) was ‘I thought I’d use a personified rocket to sum up the wealth of Hitler jokes in this book’.
Goulart’s work is characterised as “zany” – in other words light, undemanding and jokey. I’ve not read any of it so can’t confirm, mainly because the covers and blurbs are warning enough that I wouldn’t like it.
October 5th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
The original design of Wernher von Braun’s V1, before he switched sides and joined the allies.
Hibbler sounds like Himmler with a cold in the nose.
October 5th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Dear god.
October 5th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
I like the tuft of hair. I wonder if it flaps around while he’s flying around.
October 5th, 2011 at 2:03 pm
I don’t remember fascism as a major theme in “The Cat In The Hat Comes Back”.
October 5th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
But Tom, that’s because you and many others are unaware of Dr. Seuss’ lesser-known book “The Loony Rocket In Hitler’s Pocket”.
October 5th, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Muttley –
I’ve read Goulart before (though not this one), and his work does indeed rely heavily on satirical humor. I’ve really enjoyed what I’ve read by him. I can see how this cover likely reflects the jokes inside, though that doesn’t make it any less retina-searing.
October 5th, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Target practice for Jews in Space.
October 6th, 2011 at 3:27 am
That’s it. This is the craziest cover art I’ve ever seen.
October 6th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Alessandra, I think you mean “Mein Gott!”
😛
October 6th, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Come to think of it… if the Allies had managed to capture Hitler alive, they SHOULD have sent him into space in a V-2 rocket that looked exactly like that!
October 6th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
It’s like Hilter and the Joker decided to work together.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
Err, that would be Hitler and the Joker …
October 7th, 2011 at 10:16 am
I seriously doubt the aerodynamics of that rocket.
October 8th, 2011 at 4:53 am
@SI: you doubt the aerodynamics, but I’m sure it screams.
October 18th, 2011 at 11:50 am
Looks like a cross between Nazi Germany and Rocky Horror…
October 18th, 2011 at 6:41 pm
In the future they zapped Hitler into the body of a rocket….boy was he mad when he woke up!
August 23rd, 2013 at 8:46 pm
It’s supposed to be a Z, or some kind of ornament. But it COULD be a yellow 2.
July 7th, 2015 at 8:22 pm
Ron Goulart was the maddest scientist of the third reich?!?
March 7th, 2016 at 7:03 pm
Yes! This is one I own, read and love! Goulart’s stuff, especially the “Odd Jobs, Inc.” books, is undemanding and jokey. But fun.
The Josh Kirby cover doesn’t really show anything about what the book is about. The plot, such as it is, concerns itself with high-priced private detective angecy Odd Jobs, Inc. having to thwart the plans of a Hitler look-a-like (who claims that you could tell that he and Hitler were distingushable because Hitler was insane and Hibbler wasn’t) who is trying to exact tribute from Earth with a death ray placed on an orbiting habitat.
March 8th, 2016 at 9:11 am
In a way, we’re all still trying to make sense of Hitler — analyzing, or condemning, or poking fun at… and perhaps this will go on forever, ‘cos basically absolute evil never will make sense.
November 13th, 2017 at 1:23 am
I Have One Testicle and I Must Scream
November 13th, 2017 at 3:56 am
Mein Space Kamp.
November 13th, 2017 at 10:16 am
Trump: “There are good rockets and bad rockets on both sides…”
November 13th, 2017 at 10:54 pm
Is that a tiki torch near the top, throwing out some sparks?
@Tor: GSS!