Jun 29

Joachim Comments: Girl with strategically placed stars (of course). Chola eyebrows and bleached blonde hair with walking shark with gill piercing/oops, I mean a chain-leash…. And she has claws of course — see, the cover is derived entirely from the TITLE!
Published 1975

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Tagged with: chain • cleavage • cyborg • damsel • DAW Books • Kelly Freas • magic • Michael G. Coney • shark • starkers • strange creature • WTF
Jul 15
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Good Show Sir Comments: I call this dance… my lady… the stag dance. Bah cha ba wa… wa… and jazz hands! What… don’t act like you aren’t impressed!
Published 1979
Many thanks to Graham for sending this in!

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Tagged with: candles • cleavage • damsel • dude • horns • jazz hands • loincloth • long haired men • modesty-preserving hair • muscles • Peter Elson • Philip José Farmer • Sphere Books • starkers
Jan 12
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EVIL CHILDREN! With red eyes! And lasers coming from an evil red orb or possibly some sort of moon, lighting up the evil child with even more red! And People! Just watching the red moon! Ok, I’m calmed down, what’s this about a book cover?

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Tagged with: Avon Books • evil children • frickin laser beams • Hector Garrido • magic • People series • WTF • Zenna Henderson
Jul 08
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Lauren Comments: The expressions on their faces have always bothered me–is he thinking about smashing her head with that statue? Is she considering using the trapdoor to dump him in a garbage pit?
Published 1991
Many thanks to Lauren!

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Tagged with: aliens • architectural framing • Bantam Books • chess • Emancipator Series • Fake Val Kilmer cameo • font problems • Paul Youll • planets • Ray Aldridge • space • WTF
Aug 16
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Charles Comments “Do you like the underwater nursing home I found for you, Dad? When can I visit? … ooh the call must be breaking up … all that water you know ….”
Published 1960

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Tagged with: Ace Books • dude • Ed Emshwiller • floating head • glow • Gordon R. Dickson • old-timer • shark • Ting! • underwater
Jul 09
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Mosquito Wenzi Comments: “I’ve got the Ting! I’ve got it!”
“Yeah, dear, you’ve got it. Now look Behind You!”
Published 1986

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Tagged with: anatomical issues • Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • damsel • David Mattingly • dude • font problems • glow • handguns • helicopters • Martin Caidin • puffy shirt • sixpack abs • Ting!
Apr 19
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Ryan Comments: “THAT’S the devil? Hell yeah, she can ‘ride on my back’ if she wants to!”
Published 1986

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Tagged with: archery weapons • baldness • Bantam Spectra • damsel • David Mattingly • font problems • hunkbutt • Monica Hughes
Nov 04
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Good Show Sir Comments: She needs a new dating profile pic
Published 1994

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Tagged with: books on the covers of books • candles • Cats! • damsel • evil children • Fanucci Editore • Italian • Marco Sani • Tanith Lee • yelling
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