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Click for full imageGood Show Sir Comments: When conducting a space orchestra it’s helpful to have men with laser weaponry for motivation!
Published 1969
Many thanks to Robert Van N for sending this in!
(Average: 7.92 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: When conducting a space orchestra it’s helpful to have men with laser weaponry for motivation!
Published 1969
Many thanks to Robert Van N for sending this in!
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August 2nd, 2013 at 11:06 am
“When are we going to tell him he isn’t riding a dragon?”
August 2nd, 2013 at 11:42 am
Tricycle-o-tron looks happy!
August 2nd, 2013 at 11:45 am
I simply adore the font! Right out of one of those late-60s to early-70s Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
August 2nd, 2013 at 11:55 am
The Banana Splits/Funky Proctologist Hour changed Saturday mornings forever.
August 2nd, 2013 at 2:34 pm
This book isn’t really about Big Green Guy doing Naked Pink Guy doggy-style, is it?
Because it certainly looks like it from here.
August 2nd, 2013 at 2:58 pm
Odd how the only beings that look vaguely dragon-like are the men in the scaly green suits. I mean, I reread this story a few years back, and I know it had actual mutant dragons in it.
August 2nd, 2013 at 5:01 pm
A space cricket with a conductor’s baton riding a mutant sumo wrestler with his entourage of futuristic hell’s angels in skin-tight lizard suits. How do you not see The Dragon Masters in all this?
August 2nd, 2013 at 5:16 pm
Is the guy in the back supposed to be holding a gun? Drawing a sword? NO WAIT! That hand is in fact part of the sitting-down-guy’s hat!
NOW it all makes sense.
August 2nd, 2013 at 5:47 pm
Little sitting green dude is a Vulcan. Or a space elf.
August 2nd, 2013 at 6:08 pm
So the little guy on the left, what a hat!
“Don’t laugh at this hat or I’ll vaporize you with my space-meatball gatling gun.”
August 2nd, 2013 at 7:11 pm
Wow, Jack Gaughan has quite a distinguished history here at Good Show Sir.
August 2nd, 2013 at 7:37 pm
Ace Double, eh? Wot’s the back side? Three Chumps in Green Meet Grasshopper, Conductor of the London Stereotypic Orchestra? And it’s a painting of a bloke mastering a flying scaly beast?
August 2nd, 2013 at 8:27 pm
They all have their eyes closed except for the guy on the bottom.
I love the “space wheels” on the nerf gatling gun.
Bug guy looks like he is conducting an orchestra. I think this a misunderstood alien band, looking to spread their boy band music all over the universe!
August 2nd, 2013 at 9:31 pm
@Dead Stuff: That would make sense, so obviously Ace didn’t do it. Instead, it was a Vance double-bill with ‘The Five Gold Bands’, illustrated with two grey-ish hoops and some guy in an electric chair. http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/F-series/F-185.jpg
August 2nd, 2013 at 11:21 pm
This is not a cover. It’s a cel from an episode of Scooby Doo Where Are You? And they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids.
August 8th, 2013 at 9:17 pm
“Which was master, which was monster?”
– Is this a trick question?
May 5th, 2014 at 10:38 am
Uh, there’s nothing wrong with this cover, aside from it’s originality which, admittedly, might upset some people here and send up the pointless snark level a few notches higher. Well, have fun with the new flood of self-published SF rubbish, which these days is almost invariably “illustrated” by craftspeople using consumer 3d rendering programs. Lots of detail, and lots of shiny metal surfaces. None of this shoddy “drawing” nonsense! And it’ll never look dated because it’s completely lifeless and all of it looks exactly the same! Unlike this cover, no one will ever mock modern improved not-by-human-hands SF art, because no one will care enough to even bother.
May 6th, 2014 at 11:59 pm
Yes, yes, art is always ‘original’ or ‘misunderstood’, never just ‘freaking weird’. Anyway, good job denigrating not only every patron of this website but all modern cover designers!
You’ll find a pretty serious helping of those 3D-rendered covers you so despise on this site, by the way.
May 7th, 2014 at 7:21 am
Actually, GSS has great faith in the potential of 3D-rendered cover art:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2013/11/good-show-sir-1000th-post/
May 7th, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Snark alert! Snark alert!
Our greatest snarks are naturally reserved for those who almost get the zeitgeist, but not quite . . . who see the snark but do not grasp the love beneath it, the implied homages to a genre we be steeped in. The love of bombast and wordplay that imbues some of the greatest examples of SF/Fantasy.
@js—maybe spend some time with
THE PEDANT THAT CAME TO SARNATH!
(Of course, I have no idea if this post will get through the wormhole.)
May 19th, 2014 at 4:49 pm
Hmm…
js, are your real initials perhaps jg?