Good Show Sir

Apr 22

Raoul Art Direction: “Her hoo-hah is showing! This cover is going to the printer in one minute. Do something about it!”

Published 1952

(Average: 3.42 out of 10)

Tagged with: cape • damsel • Dell Books • Ed Emshwiller • L. Sprague De Camp • little people • mohawk • moon • rocket • spear • starkers

Feb 26

Science Fiction

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You be my wingman. You be my batman Click for larger image

Good Show Sir Comments: “Let’s go clubbin’. Meet girls!” [Grunt]

Published 1950

Thanks to Roland for sending this in.

(Average: 8.38 out of 10)

Tagged with: caveman • club • font problems • Gerald G. Swan Books • starkers • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown author • WTF

Nov 20

Black Trump

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Let's play the race card! Click for larger image

Mrs Jones Comments: That man will always call a spade a spade.

Published 1995

(Average: 4.58 out of 10)

Tagged with: ace • Baen Books • Barclay Shaw • camel • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • George R.R. Martin • hoodie • John J. Miller • over sideways and under on a magic carpet ride • Sage Walker • Stephen Leigh • Victor Milan • white-clothed protagonist • Wild Cards series

Nov 01

Patron of the Arts

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Dali Patron Click for larger image

Ridley Comments: WTF-a-palooza!

Published 1974

(Average: 7.62 out of 10)

Tagged with: anatomical issues • Ballantine Books • blob of awesomeness • floating face • hunkbutt • Sir Mix-A-Lot • starkers • Tom Adams • William Rotsler • WTF

Jul 23

Quas Starbrite

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Space Twister - The Game of the Future Click for larger image

Margo Comments: “Reggie, stop punching him in the elbow. I don’t think killer robots have a funny bone.”

Published 1981

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

Tagged with: Bantam Books • booties • catsuit • damsel • dude • font problems • gibberish title • interpretive dance • James R. Berry • long hair • nonsensical shadows • robot • Unknown Artist Institute

Jun 18

The Game of Empire

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I, Kidd. You, not. Click for larger image

Tom Noir Comments: Rather inexplicably, the artist has chosen to sign this.

You might remember this from last Flashback Friday.

Published 1985

(Average: 6.73 out of 10)

Tagged with: Baen Books • booties • cat people • clouds • damsel • flying saucer • headband • knife • Poul Anderson • SFBC • Thomas Kidd • tiger people

May 28

Magicats!

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Magickcats! Click for larger image

Tom Noir Comments: If cats could read the story you wrote about them, they still wouldn’t.
Published 1984

(Average: 4.58 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ace Books • Ann Meisel • Cats! • Fritz Leiber • Gardner Dozois • Jack Dann • magic • sky-eyes • Stephen King • Ursula K. Le Guin

May 15

Yolanda

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Sexologist. A role model for all women in STEM! Click for larger image

Time for sexology lab! Click for larger image

It’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Yolanda Special!

Tom Noir Comments: I’d like to push her button, if you know what I mean!!! No seriously, what does the button on her belt do?

Good Show Sir Comments: Just washed my hands. Can you give me your towel?

Published 1975, 1976

(Average: 6.00 out of 10)

Tagged with: arms akimbo • button • cleavage • damsel • devil's dumplings • Dominique Verseau • dude • FMA (artist) • Grove Press • Jimmy Guieu • loincloth • moon • rocket • sexytime • space • Ting! • two-fer • utility belt

Mar 22

Honourable Mentions 18

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Magazines, franchise books, paper dolls and “non-fiction” occult. We have a potpourri jamboree here for another in our continuing series of Honourable Mentions. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

Now add a pinch of Picard Click for larger image

Erik Tollstedt Comments: I want an image of Ernest Hemingway. He should be sitting on a purple couch in outer space. There should be papers flying away from his lap. Also, I’d like to see Ernest Hemingway’s head explode. But not in the normal way. It should explode into several other heads, one of them a sleeping hispanic man, and the other Emperor Ming. And have some sort of purple beam shoot out of his brain too. Yeah, that will convey “creative genius” like nothing else.
Published 1990

Laser Rhodan Click for larger image