Aug 31
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Alice Comments: There’s just something not right about that cover girl.
Published 1978

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Tagged with: anatomical issues • BEHIND YOU! • damsel • Dell Books • devil's dumplings • flying • George Tsui • Gordon R. Dickson • gun • lion • strange creature
Aug 22
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It’s a Two-Fer Tuesday Greenleaf Classics Movie-Now-Showing Extravaganza!
Good Show Sir Comments:
#1 Get your spacesuit on before you get cosmic-ray burn!
#2 Mike and Betty have second thoughts about that nice swinger couple they met on vacation.
Published 1966, 1969
Thanks to Roger for sending these in.

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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • Charles Neutzel • cleavage • cross • damsel • devil woman • devil's dumplings • dude • Edward D. Wood • Forrest J. Ackerman • Greenleaf Classics • Haircut 100 • modesty-preserving hair • Robert Bonfils • sand face • sexytime • shuriken of approval • skulls a-poppin' • space sheep • space suits • starkers • tasteful smoke • two-fer • werewolf
Jul 31
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Wendy’s Art Direction: It’s supposed to be about some Asteroid Belt colony. Tear out the first five pages of your sketchbook and paste them on this cover mock-up.
Published 1970

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Tagged with: Anthony Sini • boxes • devil's dumplings • font problems • little people • Macmillan Books • Poul Anderson • WTF
Jul 20
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Good Show Sir Comments: I think Emsh took “Castaways in space …” a bit too literally.
Published 1964

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Tagged with: balls • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • Ed Emshwiller • Edmund Cooper • fire • knife • Lancer Science Fiction • little people • loincloth • moon • space • spear • starkers • tiny ting!
Jun 27
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MaryAnne Comments: He’ll have no problem keeping it in those pants.
You might remember this from here.
Published 1960
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Charles Comments: Ream me up Scotty!
Published 1971
It’s a Two-Fer Tuesday – Sci-Fi Sexytime Edition!

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Tagged with: A Companion Book • Beacon Books • bikini • bubble helmet • busy hands • cleavage • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • Greenleaf Classics • Lambert Wilhelm • muscles • Poul Anderson • Robert Bonfils • Robert Stanley • rocket • sexytime • Spock eyebrow • the no pants dance • two-fer • William Maltese
Jun 15
It has been a while since we’ve had an Honourable Mention post, so following are some of the recent doozies that didn’t meet our strict, fiercely-enforced rules for cover submissions. Enjoy!
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Leah Comments: I know it’s a tie-in, but this is definitely worthy of an Honorable Mention. That lettering is not actually black, it is bright orange metallic foil. I think it says a great deal that the picture is an accurate depiction of the featured aliens.
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Leah Comments: Another Honorable-Mention-worthy tie-in. Working title: ‘Attack of the Fifty-Foot Fop’.
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Joachim Comments: A French cat woman? There’s so much wrong with this cover.
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Bibliomancer Comments: I don’t think it’s technically science fiction. But Lordy, is this a bad cover.

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Tagged with: BBC Books • Black Sheep (artist) • cat people • devil's dumplings • dinosaur • Doctor Who • dog people • Earth • flowers • Galaxie • gams • George Roux • handguns • Honourable Mentions • Jacqueline Rayner • lion • Paul Magrs • Picador • pyramids • rocket • tasteful smoke • Thomas Pynchon
Jun 13
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Good Show Sir Comments: It’s a Two-Fer Tuesday – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Edition!
#1 No Shoes, No Shirt … No Problem!
#2 Your boyfriend needs to wash his hands first.
Published 1956 and 1970

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Tagged with: big hair • Bob Lavin • Bob Pepper • busy hands • catsuit • cleavage • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • font problems • Hunt Collins • loincloth • muscles • Pyramid Books • straw boater hat • topless • two-fer
May 31
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Good Show Sir Comments: In response to yesterday’s German Sex-Robot Extravaganza, we’ve just received this Italian submission. One can only imagine what the Japanese are publishing in this genre.
Published 1998
Thanks to Armando for sending this in.

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Tagged with: Alessandro Riva • Angelo Filippini • Carlo Lucarelli • chrome • cyborg • damsel • devil's dumplings • Elena Soprano • Enzo Fileno Carabba • ES (publisher) • Hajime Sorayama • Italian • Michele Monina • Nico Maccentelli • Nicoletta Vallorani • Paolo Bianchi • Roberto Di Caro • sexytime • space sheep • Stefano Sardo
May 30
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Good Show Sir Comments: It’s a Two-Fer Tuesday – German Sex-Robot Extravaganza!
1. From the Asimov After Dark collection.
2. Miss Mavis Ming has undergone quite a transformation.
Published 1990 and 1984
Thanks to Erika for sending these in.

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Tagged with: Bastei Lübbe • Beitag • Cesare Reggiani • chrome • damsel • David J. Skal • devil's dumplings • font problems • German • Isaac Asimov • Michael Moorcock • owl • proportional issues • robots • sexytime • Sir Mix-A-Lot • starkers • two-fer • Ullstein Science Fiction
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