Feb 06
Scott Comments: A lone hero stands off against… the Abominable Snowman with prosthetic jackhammer hands???
Published 1967
Scott Comments: A lone hero stands off against… the Abominable Snowman with prosthetic jackhammer hands???
Published 1967
February 6th, 2014 at 11:23 am
“When time’s vault opens … yada yada yada …”
And with those final words the sad Senior Blurb Writer walked out the door of Ace Books, never to be seen again.
February 6th, 2014 at 11:30 am
I heard that was the Senior Blurb Writer on the front cover there, locked in a mortal duel with the Senior Art Director.
February 6th, 2014 at 11:31 am
‘Urine! My one weakness! Curse you, Steve Greenjeans!’
February 6th, 2014 at 11:50 am
And that’s what happens if you feed Critters after midnight.
February 6th, 2014 at 11:51 am
“Dinosaurs riding spaceships … Squids wrestling nudes …Cat People for christ’s sake! And you are complaining about your job?” snarled the Senior Art Director at the Senior Blurb Writer. He poured himself another three fingers of whiskey.
February 6th, 2014 at 12:51 pm
I do believe the cover gives away the plot, such as it is.
February 6th, 2014 at 12:57 pm
The Senior Art Director was reluctant to promote intergalactic graffiti.
He simply wanted the critter on a chair, eating a chicken leg.
February 6th, 2014 at 1:01 pm
Nemesis from Terra … Cycle of Terror … Terror from Terra … Cycle of Nemesis.
The Senior Book Title Editor spun the Book Title Generator Wheel one last time:
Tarra Khash: Hrossak!
He open the window and slowly crawled out on the ledge.
February 6th, 2014 at 1:08 pm
The Senior Art Director pulled the Book Title Editor from the ledge and said, “Get hold of yerself, man! Come and work at MAD Magazines with me!”
February 6th, 2014 at 1:09 pm
“Say, what have you got there Tim?”
“Oh, Hi Wilson. Its my new raygun. Souped it up a bit. Heheheheh”
February 6th, 2014 at 2:54 pm
Sure, jackhammer hands LOOK intimidating, but you try eating soup or signing a check with them.
February 6th, 2014 at 3:08 pm
When the Terror-beast was able to wax off all of his unsightly body hair, he and Captain Greenjeans began a much more…sordid…relationship!
February 6th, 2014 at 3:39 pm
“Dont forget to get my armpits puny human, i have intergalactic filth up the wazoo……ahhh yes that hits the spot.”
February 6th, 2014 at 4:43 pm
“Hey, Earthling! Have you seen my Cycle of Nemesis? I parked it over here six thousand years ago…”
February 6th, 2014 at 4:56 pm
“Oh its good to be awake after 6000 years. Let me just stretch these jackhammer beauties held on by the latest alien technology (rich Corinthian leather straps) and get to killing the human race.
Hmm, perhaps i should upgrade my tech, i mean its been 6000 years and………….AGGGGHH, the pain…the pain………..”
(Jackhammer alien drops dead)
Cletus: “that ill learn ya, friggin bug”
Cletus puts his can of “Raid 6000 – kills alien bugs dead” away and throws the big ugly alien into the back of his pickup space ship (complete with Dixie flag).
Cletus touches his communicator thingy and says “Hey Brandine, wees eatin gud tonight!!!!”
February 6th, 2014 at 6:17 pm
When time’s vault opens….Hulk Hogan gets his ass ‘assaulted’ by The Yeti.
WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2hisj_wcw-yeti-a-halloween-havoc-95_news
February 6th, 2014 at 8:06 pm
That monster escaped from Super Mario Galaxy 2, World 4, Boss Level.
February 6th, 2014 at 11:16 pm
When time’s vault opens…
…We get sci-fi paperbacks from the mid-to-late sixties!
I must say that the creature looks very lively and menacing given the fact that more than half of it has just been ray-gunned into golden bubbles. Or maybe…it’s coming through a golden bubble time rift and that ray gun is totally ineffective…
I think too much.
February 6th, 2014 at 11:51 pm
I think its just about to go boingaboingaboingaBOING!!! on its pogo hands and cartwheel off into the distance, grumbling softly to itself in pidgin wookie.
February 7th, 2014 at 6:52 am
If the five “average humans” happen to be four men and one woman, the wikipedia “plot summary” blithely spoils the ending.
Those leather straps are just completely wtf. Who buckles him up?
February 7th, 2014 at 1:57 pm
What’s the background? A vindalooed chicken?
February 9th, 2014 at 12:37 am
For some reason, the Jackhammer Yeti reminds me of Aku from “Samurai Jack”…
“Cycle of Nemesis: Aku’s Missing Years”
July 30th, 2022 at 5:56 pm
I hope we get Zom in Seret Wars.
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Zom_(Earth-616)
July 30th, 2022 at 11:48 pm
@fred: Good find! Jackhammer-handed beasts trapped in time vaults must have been in the zeitgeist in 1967.
July 31st, 2022 at 12:04 pm
@ fred: Zom uses his eldritch powers to win, not one, but TWO Stanley Cups!
It’s Hockey Night in Gehenna!
July 31st, 2022 at 5:11 pm
Zom better use the Shuffle Demons version if he’s going to televise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6kRXvOc_ys
July 31st, 2022 at 7:51 pm
@GSSxN: apologies in advance, but every time is see “trapped in time” I think of Evil Dead III Army of Darkness. Looks like this time Ash has met his match – a creature with arm appendages that “dwarf his own” – like Zom. And I think I just short- circuited my own brain.
July 31st, 2022 at 10:28 pm
@JJYoyo: One need never apologize for mentioning a Bruce Campbell project. His autobiography was very good too.
August 1st, 2022 at 12:54 am
Time’s Vault turned out to be almost as disappointing as Al Capone’s.
August 1st, 2022 at 1:35 am
@GSSxN: thanks, I will have to check that out!
@ Bruce: which one is Geraldo?
August 1st, 2022 at 2:25 am
Actually, I think Mr. Jackhammer Yeti is getting a bath from Shortpants Greenjeans. I’m sure that turbo-bubble-gun feels goooooooooooooooood….
August 1st, 2022 at 4:40 am
@JJYoyo: Worth reading, although it came out a while ago and is thus not up to date. I was happily surprised when it turned up on the “New Books” table at my library, and I think I was the first to check it out.
The giant hairy thing is Geraldo, of course. Mr. Pedal-Pushers is hosing him down. Or possibly lasering him for wasting America’s time.
August 1st, 2022 at 4:43 am
@JJYoyo: the readers are all Geraldo