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Click for full imageDon Comments: Oi! Peter Pan! When you and your adventuring companion are being attacked by a mutant reptile puma with a bad case of sunburn, and said companion is trying to fight it off with his sword held backwards…probably not the best time to be checking out his butt. Nice though it is.
Published 1975
(Average: 7.55 out of 10)
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March 26th, 2012 at 9:44 am
Behind you! A man with a TING!less sword and a claw for a hand. No good trying to look like a NEXT GENERATION Romulan if you can’t get your eyebrows right.
March 26th, 2012 at 11:36 am
‘Should I tell him he’s got the edged bit of the blade pointed towards himself?’
I blame the font for why I read ‘Dumarest of the Terra’ as ‘Dumb Arrest of the Terra.’
March 26th, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Dum and Dumarest: When Spock met Lloyd.
March 26th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
The blue something creature looks as if it has no skin. So I suppose it doesn’t really matter whether the space musketeer holds his sword backwards. He can cause enough pain event with a blunt blade. I’m not sure, however, how he can stand so erect on that ridiculous slope.
March 26th, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Judging by that cover the last fifty pages after the encounter with the monster were left blank. Not much point in going on after that, there would be nobody but the monster left.
Also, would the Demarest of Terra mean they all ended up falling on their arses? Or is that joke unbelievably obscure?
March 26th, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Smith at #3 wins HANDS DOWN. I laughed so hard my neighbors called and asked what was wrong.
🙂
March 26th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Isn’t that Mr. B Natural from the MST3K short?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np9eflhMx08
March 26th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Oh, and someone should tell the elf that you can’t glance behind your own head.
March 26th, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Does it really surprise me that the ‘Dumberest of Terra’ encompasses 13 volumes? No.
March 26th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
Wasn’t there a British sci fi show where women had hair like that, only purple?
Something about this reminds me of old ads for Breck shampoo in the 1940s.
Note how the artist gave the foreground figure caterpillar-like eyelashes, so you won’t have any gender confusion.
March 26th, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Someone should tell Superman there that he’s the man of steel…he doesn’t really need a sword, let alone one held backwards.
Anyone else get the feeling that Peter Pan there is very concerned about something just out of frame?
Like, maybe someone about to pick up the book with the intent to purchase it. “No, don’t! Save yourself!”
March 26th, 2012 at 7:37 pm
9: Tom Noir
There’s actually 33 novels in the series, a friend of mine was a big fan of them
March 26th, 2012 at 7:52 pm
@Alessandra: UFO, the Gerry Anderson series prior to Space:1999 (or Space: £19.99 as it often seemed)
http://cumbriansky.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/shado-ufo-girls-moonbase-10.jpg
http://www.space1999.net/catacombs/plus/dt/ufo.html
March 26th, 2012 at 7:58 pm
Dumarest must be Terran for dandruff.
March 26th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
@Donald Simmons: So is Dumarest the girl with the Mae West eyes or the garage mechanic who’s about to cut his own hand off?
March 27th, 2012 at 4:49 am
Alessandra@10: That was Gerry Anderson’s UFO with the purple wigs.
March 30th, 2012 at 6:09 am
I can’t decide of he’s all “OH MY GOD, is that the sound of some hideously deformed space-hero-man trying to fight a skinless, sunburnt space-lion-lizard with his sword on backwards? If only I could remember how to turn around and stop imagining what his ass looks like! Since I can’t possibly be seeing it, muhc less this scene, unless I’m some kind of space-warping giant!”, or if maybe this scene is all just a peek into the contents of his frenzied imagination/masturbatory fantasies.
May 14th, 2012 at 8:56 pm
Hey watch it with that sword. You nearly nicked my ear!
December 17th, 2021 at 7:14 am
I don’t think they’re trying to check out Dumberrest of Terra’s butt: it looks to me like they’re giving the side-eye to the whole scene behind them, the latex pantherlizard, the rather strange sword technique, and the mountain slope of giant celery stalks left too long in the fridge, and are about to go “Really???”
Dumarest is definitely a guy: the series started in 1967, a time when a female adventurer crossing the galaxy world by world while battling strange enemies would have been as baffling to most male readers as a chess-playing moose or pole-vaulting koala.
December 17th, 2021 at 10:40 am
You could spend a day just looking at all the variant covers in this series. Dumarest is portrayed as everything from a Conanesque barbarian to an everyday Joe. Clothing optional is common.
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?1304
December 17th, 2021 at 6:45 pm
Eddie Munster’s legacy endures.
December 17th, 2021 at 11:30 pm
The bugged-out eyeballs of whoever that is with the stupid haircut are the worst part of this, and that’s saying something.
This doesn’t really say “manly man traveling the spaceways doing manly things” to me.
@Bruce: The person is definitely thinking either/or “oh no” “really?” Also GSS to your description of the elements of the cover.
@fred: I like how the last one just gives up for the generic cover they use on all their ebooks.
December 18th, 2021 at 12:05 am
@GSS ex-noob: well, I don’t think Dumarest comes across as grossly macho [1], but he did have an entire sentient planet fall for him once.
[1] This comes from my vast knowledge obtained from reading one Dumarest book and part of another.