Apr 22
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: How short can you make a man skirt? Well it better just about cover the essentials because I’m sure that’s how a legionnaire went into battle against armoured wizards with comic book red eyes peering out from their helmets.
Published 1988
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Tagged with: capes • dude • electricity • font problems • Harry Turtledove • Legend Books • magic • male skirts • muscles • sword • Unknown Artist Institute
Apr 19
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Jon L’s Art Direction: I want mountains! Mouths! Bad breath in the form of clouds! I’m talking The Emerald City on top of a giant screaming insect hillside chomping on the landscape! With lazer beam eyes! You know – sci-fi!
Published 1970
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Tagged with: abstraction • Bob Haberfield • call 555-orthodontic-emergency • clouds • frickin laser beams • Mayflower Books • Michael Moorcock • mist • WTF
Apr 18
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Jon H Comments: This one caught me off guard, I thought it was just your typical WW 2 book, maybe a little on the Sgt Rock side of reality but then I noticed the monkey and realized it said WW3. Well…I still don’t understand what the monkey is doing. I’m guess it is a part of some para-military group. “If you need help, and you can find them, maybe you can hire…ooh ooh ah ah AH AAAH!!”
Published 1976
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Tagged with: ape • Avon Books • bladed weapons • blood • Bruce Minney • daggers • dude • explosion • fire • grenades • gun • John Stanley • monkeys • racism • strange creature • utility belt • war
Apr 17
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DPN Comments: Finding a bad Baen cover is like shooting fish in a barrel, while standing on a pile of corpses as the city explodes behind you, illuminating your massive pecs.
Published 2013
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Tagged with: Baen Books • chains • corpse mountain • David Mattingly • dude • fire • font problems • gun • metropolitan apocalypse • muscles • non-papillial person • Sarah A. Hoyt • space ships • USA! USA! • war
Apr 16
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Scott B’s Art Direction: Flesh lattice of exponential identical startled heads!
Published 1971
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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • BEHIND YOU! • dude • John Holmes • recursive cover • T.L. Sherred • WTF
Apr 15
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Joachim Comments: Despite the pluralized ‘horse’ in the title, a naked redhead is far more important to include perched on “top” of the asteroid.
Published 1970
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Tagged with: asteroid • Bill Hughes • Charles E. Fritch • cleavage • damsel • horses • planets • Powell Books • space • strange creature
Apr 12
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Frank Comments: Let’s go for something colourful! Whatever that is in red in the foreground (a suit? a robot?) clearly needs a couple Behind You tags. One for the Goop From Above, one for the lady with the bow.
Published 1964
Back Cover Here!
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Tagged with: A. Bertram Chandler • Ace Books • aliens • BEHIND YOU! • damsel • font problems • I'm melting! • Jack Gaughan • monsters • robots • shortbow • space ships • WTF
Apr 10
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Ting! It’s genius, you see. As many tings as you can get on there – I want the cover covered in ting! Oh and maybe a women in a cat suit… but don’t you dare leave her un-tinged!
Published 1987
Thanks to Ethan for sending this in!
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Tagged with: Bridge Publications • catsuit • cleavage • damsel • dude • GOLD! • Haircut 100 • L. Ron Hubbard • Mission Earth series • once you see it • robes • space ships • Ting! • turban hat • Unknown Artist Institute
Apr 09
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Imagine the future, my friend… men will be either glowing silver pillars of greatness or riding around on space microlights. Women? Well they’ll be in skintight body suits and stay on their knees all day. Sexist? No not at all, people will look back at this cover and see our predictions as genius! I think…
Published 1958
Many thanks to Joe for sending this in!
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Tagged with: cleavage • damsel • dude • F.L. Wallace • Galaxy Science Fiction • glow • muscles • non-papillial person • space • space ships • Wallace Wood • WTF
Apr 08
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Tom Noir Comments: Now THAT’S what I call a smoking hot body! I’ll get my coat.
Published 1976
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Tagged with: Ace Books • cleavage • damsel • magic • once you see it • shuriken of approval • starkers • Stephen Hickman • tasteful smoke • Thomas Burnett Swann
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