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Click for full imageMisterBob’s Art Direction: A priestess with a nice cleavage and a giant bong. Don’t forget the big alien cat (blue with orange spots!)
Published 1985
(Average: 7.94 out of 10)
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MisterBob’s Art Direction: A priestess with a nice cleavage and a giant bong. Don’t forget the big alien cat (blue with orange spots!)
Published 1985
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March 13th, 2012 at 10:28 am
Ursa from Superman II relaxes at home… “Have you got the scrolls?” “No, it’s just the way I walk.”
March 13th, 2012 at 10:29 am
Why is that lady wearing a fruit-fly tiara?
March 13th, 2012 at 11:51 am
“Dammit, I can’t get this sticky gum off my hand!”
March 13th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Seriously, what is that supposed to be coming off her right hand? Is it some sort of cosmic yo-yo? Or a blade made of light? If the latter, kitty better watch out.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:44 pm
Scro? What’s a Scro? I don’t even know if I have 1 of the damned things, much less 11.
March 13th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
Ah, the ‘eighties. There’s something painful about that font and its color choices. The M looks like it’s trying to walk away. It’s making me think of roller-discos and sparkly stars.
The image looks like a particularly weird display at a garden fair, with a sparkly carpet of flowers and a modernist red plastic park bench loaded with dry ice.
March 13th, 2012 at 3:42 pm
I think in this case “font problems” is pretty kind. It’s a little like condemning Jack the Ripper for “Breach of Etiquette.”
March 13th, 2012 at 4:48 pm
I honestly thought the book was called ‘The Scion of Man’. Worst font EVER.
March 13th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
I can’t figure out whether she happens to be standing in front of a weather balloon (think Rover in the THE PRISONER), or whether the big white disc is part of her headgear.
March 13th, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Even when done by a skilled typographer, that r hugging the next letter is an iffy practice. We had a friendly r yesterday too.
March 13th, 2012 at 5:56 pm
I’m actually gobsmacked that this came out in 1985. I would have pegged it at 1971. Maybe it’s the ‘groovy’ hand-drawn type or they were just trying really hard to be ‘retro’.
Anyway, let’s talk about the loofah on the end of space-cat’s tail.
March 13th, 2012 at 6:52 pm
“It held the key to the Earth’s survival…but it had been lost for a million years.”
I say if the Earth has survived for a million years, then the scroll was never needed in the first place!
March 13th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
It’s not “The Scro 11 of Man” or “The Scion of Man”; It is clearly “The Sciô 11 of Man”.
March 13th, 2012 at 8:33 pm
I sussed it out! The back of her throne’s melting, and she accidentally put her hand into it. Whatever is on there, it’s magnetically attracted to the cat for all the same reason cat hairs get everywhere in your house.
March 14th, 2012 at 1:44 am
I applaud the bookseller for using a matching yellow price sticker. It’s a shame half the cover will rip off when you try to remove it 🙁
March 14th, 2012 at 8:30 am
“It held the key to the Earth’s survival…but it had been lost for a million years.”
KEY CHAIN OF THE GODS
March 14th, 2012 at 8:31 am
With fonts like that, you’d expect a funnier title like
THE DROLL OF MAN
March 14th, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Dead Stuff With Big Teeth says “Why is that lady wearing a fruit-fly tiara?” but I ask Why is that bug wearing a lady mask?
March 14th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
I hate those price stickers too. They’re a lot of trouble on fragile old covers. Sometimes you can hit them with a hair dryer for a few minutes and loosen up the adhesive.
March 14th, 2012 at 5:01 pm
I’d read this just to figure out what scroll and what man. There’s neither to be found … so perhaps this image references the contents of the scroll or by “scroll” they mean the hand-rolled funkiness that was involved in the production of this cover.
March 14th, 2012 at 9:23 pm
The new member of Cypress Hill didn’t really fit in.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:40 pm
I haven’t been here for a while, but I think I get the idea of this… she has boobs on her -hat-, do you notice? Trying too hard, maybe? Or a fan of [Blackadder]?
July 20th, 2012 at 11:23 am
You’re all wrong, it’s clearly The Sclôii of Man
July 20th, 2012 at 11:28 am
GK / Yoss
I think it’s more worthy of note that they think this thing is very nearly worth three whole english pounds*. Central London used bookshop perhaps?
Besides doesn’t everyone know by now that the acceptable way of pricing a secondhand book is by writing the amount on the inside of the cover (or if you want to be sure, the inside title page, just above the telltale remnants of a library date stamp card) with an HB pencil?
* Or some other pounds? It’s “A£2.95” after all. Anglian pounds? Australian, from before they went over to dollars? Austrian, in an unexpected breakaway from the €uro?
October 6th, 2012 at 9:27 pm
An epic tale of humanity’s quest to reach the bottom of the web page!
John Dalmas’
THE SCROLL OF MAN
August 21st, 2015 at 8:38 am
@Yoss: Ever tried turpentine? I use it on new covers to get the glue remnants off. Maybe you could try to soak it through the sticker..?
Last words: “Now everybody watch as I zap this big cat.”
May 31st, 2019 at 7:26 am
If you read the title top to bottom instead of left to right, it’s Soft He Cromlian.
May 31st, 2019 at 9:00 am
As it turned out, the Scroll of Man had just been misplaced under the cushions of the Sofa of Man.
May 31st, 2019 at 12:19 pm
I wonder if the giant yellow M is Space Sheeping the top of her head piece for some reason.
May 31st, 2019 at 1:48 pm
@Fred: I can’t think why – I mean, as Robert pointed out, you can still see the boobs on her hat anyway.
May 31st, 2019 at 2:02 pm
How to pet a rattlecat.
May 31st, 2019 at 3:23 pm
“It held the key to Earth’s survival…but it had been lost for for a million years.
But this lady just found it, so everything’s cool now.”
May 31st, 2019 at 4:01 pm
🎵🎶🎵
I’m a scroll man
I’m a scroll man
🎵🎶🎵
May 31st, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Saga’s Lying Cat – the early years?
June 1st, 2019 at 2:11 am
The whatever-it-is in the back remains something of a baffling blob: random objet d’art? An exceptionally glowy throne? A big bowl of space-milk for the giant cat? A space-warp toilet?
June 1st, 2019 at 5:43 am
Metaphysical question of the day: How many tings does it take to make a glow?
June 1st, 2019 at 6:26 am
@B. Chiclitz: I think it’s ting density per area rather than an absolute number.
June 3rd, 2019 at 12:20 am
“The Scio11 of Man”?
This is some pretty egregious font abuse. I’d like to know the name so I can avoid it.
Why does kitty have green whiskers, when he’s otherwise blue and orange?
What’s the red and white blobby thing behind Priestess Cleavage Stoner?*
Why is the background orange-red with yellow letters on?
Is kitty being zapped with the glow for being bad?
Why IS her hat a fruit-fly?
Is the artist color-blind, even for the 80s? I swear this cover is so loud you can hear it.
For the love of God,
MontresorRamos!@Leak: it’s the distant relative Lying Cat has legally disowned, so he doesn’t have to lie about it.
*Bruce has some good ideas, for GSS values of “good”.
June 3rd, 2019 at 2:49 am
Maybe it’s not a hat, maybe it’s a brain-eating insect and it’s robbed her of the will to use the fly-spray she’s carrying.
June 4th, 2019 at 3:40 am
That could be a futuristic laser pointer she has on her right hand, and she’s just about to play “catch the spot” with the cat. Or maybe shine it on whoever the cat is looking at so it will jump on them.
June 8th, 2019 at 11:17 pm
@Tat, Bruce: You both might be right. It would explain everything but the font.
January 2nd, 2022 at 1:28 am
If whatever was supposed to save them had been lost for a million years, I sure hope they kept the million year warranty in case it didn’t work.
February 24th, 2022 at 3:34 pm
With a different title and that font we could have had a ‘scrotum’ situation.
February 25th, 2022 at 2:23 am
Maybe we’ve had this all wrong for years.
Maybe the o is raising an eyebrow at the goings-on.