Nov 05
Bibliomancer Comments: Stop changing your mind and put your metal bra on. We’ll be late for the party.
Published 1973
Bibliomancer Comments: Stop changing your mind and put your metal bra on. We’ll be late for the party.
Published 1973
November 5th, 2013 at 9:41 am
Okay.I get the red ’cause it’s like Mars and all, but after, uh what?
Gosh, how did science~fiction not become the dominant…oh screw it. This is just way weird and sorta creepy.
November 5th, 2013 at 11:08 am
The original head crab?
November 5th, 2013 at 11:10 am
I feel as if, if I were reading that on the trolley, people would come up to me, take it out of my hands, take a long look at the cover, shake their heads and hand it back.
November 5th, 2013 at 11:10 am
“You’d forget your head if it wasn’t screwed on! Oh.”
I misread this title as The Cheesemen of Mars. Boik.
November 5th, 2013 at 1:53 pm
How tiny is that man! Very that’s how!
November 5th, 2013 at 2:01 pm
The population of Mars is going drop drastically unless they can find paper bags big enought to cover those heads.
November 5th, 2013 at 2:46 pm
Man, if ‘John Carter’ had been more like this cover it would have been… well, it would have been different.
November 5th, 2013 at 2:56 pm
Those heads seem to fit exactly into the cavity in the wall behind them. Don’t know what this means, just noticing. Leads to some nice visualization at least. I also love the fact that there’s a “detachable head” tag. Wiz, you never fail to impress me!
November 5th, 2013 at 3:09 pm
The spider on the right has something of the Rodney Bewes about him.
It’s kinda half a very creepy (in a good way) cover and half a silly one: a good idea badly expressed.
Apparently the cover does reflect the book, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaldane a neat SF idea.
November 5th, 2013 at 4:28 pm
Alekhine’s Defence?
November 6th, 2013 at 1:05 pm
A tip of the hat to artist Gino D’Achille for bringing the ugly rather than the traditional sword-fighting Martians on a big chessboard:
http://www.russkirkman.com/erb/marscovers.htm
….knight takes pawn ….aaaarrgghhh!
November 6th, 2013 at 5:05 pm
This is exactly what happens in the book and kudos to the artist for making this look so horrific!
November 6th, 2013 at 8:48 pm
It’s like Edgar Rice Burroughs… on acid!
(Just kidding, LSD hadn’t been invented in his time.)
November 6th, 2013 at 9:00 pm
Nitty Nora used to warn us about head-lice, but if she’d shown us this picture we’d’ve listened.
November 7th, 2013 at 1:58 pm
@A.R. Yngve—maybe a bit too much of that absinthe?
November 7th, 2013 at 3:33 pm
The interesting thing about this cover is that when I was a kid in a small Manitoba town they had this complete series in the sci-fi section (basically two shelves). This was the first one I really noticed. Over the last couple of years I have been trying to collect the whole series in this particular run of the ERB classic stories. The covers were all drawn by Gino D’Achille.
November 12th, 2013 at 12:32 am
Weird. I love the Gino D’Achille covers for this series. Can’t agree on this choice at all.
November 25th, 2013 at 8:44 pm
“I chopped off her head, but it came back the very next day!”
November 26th, 2013 at 9:25 pm
Rush Limbaugh was very pleased with his new body.
November 27th, 2013 at 5:09 am
@A.R.Yngve19—yes, but which is which?
November 27th, 2013 at 8:08 pm
BOTH!! (mua ha ha haaa!)
September 13th, 2016 at 4:15 am
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September 13th, 2016 at 4:44 am
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September 13th, 2016 at 12:36 pm
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