Aug 01
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Mary Comments: Where to even begin…?
Published 1971

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Tagged with: Ace Books • dude • Kelly Freas • monsters • Philip José Farmer • strange creature • WTF
Sep 10
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Lauren’s Art Direction: I want explosions! And glowing auras! And giant lizards in cloaks! And some hot kids who go to the gym on a regular basis! Oh, and throw in a scorpion, there’s a sale on the stock photo site.
Published 2011

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Tagged with: Barry K. Nelson • damsel • dude • electricity • font problems • glow • magic • monsters • Penumbra Publishing • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute
May 07
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OK, I’m spinning my cover creator wheel and its landed on, volcano… good. Spin again… horse-riding knight. OK, I’m throwing the action dice and it’s landed on… being eaten, nice. Another spin… T-REX, sounds awesome! In the background we will have a… prison wall and… a guard post.

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Tagged with: anatomical issues • artist in the comments • Baen Books • bladed weapons • David Mattingly • dinosaur • Eric Flint • fortress • horses • knights • lava • Marilyn Kosmatka • once you see it • shuriken of approval • surprised dinosaur • surprised horse • sword • time travel • volcano
Jul 12
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Art Direction: We need something that really gets across the feeling of time travel. So, in other words I mean a naked gladiator takes on a Boeing 737. And by naked I just having him at some strange angle so we can’t see his bum crack or giblets. I know, I’m no fun.
Published 1980

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Tagged with: aeroplanes • bladed weapons • dude • hunkbutt • monument • muscles • Pan Books • Richard Ben Sapir • starkers • Terry Oakes • WTF
Nov 05
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Art Direction: Come on, the concept is so straight forward! Like hands growing other hands sorta like flowers, while one plays a tiny trumpet. What? No I went off my medication because it was making my eyes feel furry.
Published 1975

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Tagged with: Good Show Sir • Lloyd Biggle Jr • music • Sphere Books • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Oct 10
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Kim Comments: Steve Strange meets Rumpelstiltskin.
Published 1972

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Tagged with: damsel • dude • I'm melting! • Kurt Vonnegut Jr • Panther Books • perspective problems • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Nov 24
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Perry Armstrong Comments: “I searched to see whether this Sheckley cover had already been posted, and was amazed to find only – three – Sheckley covers thus far featured on Good Show Sir! Given the sheer awesomeness of numerous Sheckley covers, I find your lack of Sheckley covers disturbing, and hope this Sheckley cover goes some way towards rectifying the situation. Sheckley cover.
Published 1979

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Tagged with: Adrian Chesterman • bubble helmet • call 555-orthodontic-emergency • dude • glove • little people • mighty moustache • Penguin Science Fiction • Robert Sheckley • stars • Ting!
Jul 10
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Joachim Comments: Although borne in space, Ken still liked to go into towne centre and strut his special pants in front of the shoppes…
Published 1959

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Tagged with: Badger Books • dude • Eddie Jones • Lionel Fanthorpe • muscles • planets • rocket in my pocket • sixpack abs • smarty pants • space • space ships
Mar 19
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Colette’s Art Direction: We need to convey a Utopian future, so nothing represents that better than a pastel circuit-board Lego city with buildings encased in test tubes. Add a happy gorilla-headed torso man carrying a life-like unitard-wearing sex doll. Ooh, and lasers! And… and shoulder pads!
Published 1982

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • ape people • Avon Books • damsel • dude • font problems • frickin laser beams • Haircut 100 • robots • shoulder pads • Stanislaw Fernandes • Stanislaw Lem • Ting! • trapezoid head • white-clothed protagonist • WTF
Mar 27
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Joachim Comments: The sci-fi cover equivalent of any of Edward Wood Jr.’s B-movies — a stock photo combined with a child’s drawing of a muscleman in a loin cloth.
Published 1974

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Tagged with: beard-wielding • Con Sellers • dude • loincloth • long haired men • maeslse • mascles • mob rules • musals • muscles • muslces • mussels • Papillon Press • Unknown Artist Institute • white-clothed protagonist • WTF
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