May 21
Click for full imageGood Show Sir’s Art Direction: I have to think of everything around here! Just put Paddington Bear in a cowboy hat on top of a thing… and I really mean a thing! I want readers to stop and say, “What the hell is that thing!?!” Got it?
Published 1970
Many thanks to CH@os!
(Average: 8.26 out of 10)
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May 21st, 2014 at 10:33 am
Paddington soon realised that Mr Curry had spiked his Marmalade Sandwiches.
May 21st, 2014 at 11:27 am
The Incredible Hokas? Don’t make them angry – you wouldn’t like them when they’re angry.
May 21st, 2014 at 2:43 pm
Am I weird? Has anyone really eagerly awaited something in paperback?
Maybe I just don’t care how my book shelves look.
May 21st, 2014 at 2:45 pm
I have been known to have eagerly awaited a paperback. When I was younger, shelf space was a precious commodity. I was loathe to give it to large bulky hardcovers. Its less of a problem now, of course.
May 21st, 2014 at 2:46 pm
“See, it’s like colonialism, only with cuddly aliens!”
May 21st, 2014 at 3:01 pm
Whether it was wanted in paperback depends on which formats had been available. We’re assuming this was allowed out in hardback but with Anderson it might have been in runes carved on oak or as an ASCII file only.
The one at the bottom has joined the French Foreign Legion. They really will take anyone. If I’d been in this book, I’d want to forget.
May 21st, 2014 at 3:28 pm
No way the cute little guy is gonna draw and fire that gigantic revolver. It’s longer than his arm. Last time he tried it, he blew a hole in his hat!
May 21st, 2014 at 4:21 pm
“Yee-ha! I’ll just ride my fave-o-rite danged dinoworm and, ah,hey! What’re you doin’? What are you doin’?! You ain’t supposed to come after me, haven’t I been good to you? No, no don’t eat meeee….”
May 21st, 2014 at 5:06 pm
Look, I’m not exactly a young thing here, but are there any old codgers(who will admit to it) amongst you? Seriously, did anyone EVER think that title font was cool, and if so why?
May 21st, 2014 at 5:39 pm
John Wayne, Gary Cooper, and Clark Gable. Where is Errol Flynn?
May 21st, 2014 at 5:54 pm
FöM: I probably designed that title font. When I was, like, 8 years old.
May 21st, 2014 at 6:43 pm
The ‘B’ has boobies. Tee hee!
May 22nd, 2014 at 8:24 am
Bland. Everything about this cover is bland. The fonts, other than the title, are as unobtrusive as the nerdy lad at the school dance. The colours are bland pastels. Even dino-worm himself seems more annoying and yappy than a savage beast.
May 22nd, 2014 at 9:26 am
Paddington’s First Bad Acid Trip
May 23rd, 2014 at 9:09 am
“Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers!”
June 14th, 2014 at 8:24 pm
Remember that episode of “Hamtaro” where Hamtaro’s exercise wheel suddenly became a portal to another dimension where Howdy could live his dream of being a cowboy? Yeah, neither do I, but I’m assuming this is probably what it would have looked like.
June 22nd, 2014 at 5:21 pm
DSwBT@13: Probably deliberate. Camelot Books was Avon/Hearst’s children’s imprint, even though the stories originally appeared in “grown-up” SF magazines. (The book even includes the original illustrations from the mag publications!)
December 10th, 2014 at 12:43 pm
I like it a lot! Love Vaughn Bode’s cutesy style.Wonder if he did many more Sci Fi book covers, he was certainly very involved in organised fandom around the turn of the decade.
June 16th, 2018 at 11:34 pm
Bear-wielding?