Feb 22
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Tim Comments: Hot babe fairy queen, standing on slime-mold covered stairway to nowhere. Add in super-wussy fairy dude, you gotta feel for him, they put him in quite possibly the worst costume of all time. And the photo doesn’t do justice to the garishness of the blue background and orange border. And of course lots of different fonts.
Published 1985
Many thanks to Tim!

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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • border • Chronicles of Thomas Covenant • damsel • Darrell K. Sweet • Del Rey Books • dude • font problems • Stephen R. Donaldson
May 12
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Tom Noir Comments: Now this here is a real fine used dragon, ma’am. The previous owner was a little old lady who only drove it on Sundays.
Published 1987

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Tagged with: Christopher Stasheff • damsel • Daniel Horne • Del Rey Books • dragon • dude • magic • mighty moustache • once you see it • puffy shirt • Science Fiction Book Club • talons • time travel • Wizaaaaaaaard! • WTF
Oct 27
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Let’s have a man in a male skirt, or, say, a leather armour of sorts, stretching into the sky. We’ll have his companion lancing out with his hand just towards his crotch… Wait! This is Sci Fi? Lucky you told me. Uh, have them fighting aliens but keep the rest the same.

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Tagged with: aliens • gun • male skirts • once you see it • planets • proportional issues • R.M. Meluch • Romas Kukalis • sword • tentacles • Tour of the Merrimack series
Jul 24
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Tom Noir Comments: This is taken from an actual photograph of the cover model fleeing Baen Headquarters.
Published 2005

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Tagged with: Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • birds • damsel • David Mattingly • font problems • Good Show Sir • helmet • portal to another world • starkers • Steve White
Jul 06
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Saxy Stevenson’s Art Direction: It’s the end of the world, everyone is going mental, imagine the worst case scenario… Someone cutting the head off a pigeon with loads floating space eyes looking worried… can you imagine the horror, can you?
Published 1968 (maybe)

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Tagged with: Belmont Books • Bruce Elliot • damsel • dude • evil • muscles • planets • sky-eyes • space • strange creature • WTF
Dec 02
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JuanPaul Comments: This was the album cover art Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham had proposed for Rumors. Mick wasn’t too keen on it. Good to see it’s been re-purposed.
Published 1989

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Tagged with: anthromorphism • Bantam Books • big hair • Bill Fawcett • cat people • Haircut 100 • moon • mullet • Steve Assel • sword
Feb 24
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Good Show Sir Comments: Not sure what makes me more curious: Hawkman… or the incredibly stoned Mickey Mouse.
Published 1975
Many thanks to Chris for sending this in!

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Tagged with: Arthur Byron Cover • baldness • beak! • bird people • booties • fancy hat • Harlan Ellison • mouse people • muscles • pig people • Pyramid Books • Ron Cobb • Smirky McSmug • strapping outfit • suits you • talons • wings • WTF
Aug 16
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Scott Comments: Listen, dude, I hate to interrupt your sword-wielding meditation, but your hairy little man is showing. Your “klesh,” your “ler,” whatever you call it…
Published 1979

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • DAW Books • dude • M.A. Foster • planets • space • space ships • strange creature • sword • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Jul 18

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Joachim comments: “If you look closely there’s a star on my cheek. I’m the STAR.”
Published 1980
Thanks Joachim!

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Tagged with: Carl Lundgren • man-blouse • Pocket Books • puffy shirt • Robert F. Young • space • spectacular space chart • tattoo you
Dec 20
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: I expect hell will be similar to my Friday night… naked and flexing my fine stuff! HEYOOo… high five? High five…? No? Ok… but seriously, I want a bum on there. You can draw mine, I shaved and…. what… No? Ok… just get Ron from accounting, he works out.
Published 1982 (maybe)

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Tagged with: cave • Damon Knight • dude • hunkbutt • Pocket Books • starkers • Unknown Artist Institute
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