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Tat Wood Comments: ‘Jumanji’, the Borough Surveyers’ edition.

Published 1988

(Average: 6.12 out of 10)

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Wendy Comments: OK, we’ll let you women do the writing, editing, introduction and notes on just this one book. But we’ll only trust a guy to do the cover art.

Published 1976

You might remember this from here.

(Average: 6.24 out of 10)

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JuanPaul Comments: The name of that font is “Icing on the Cake” italic.

Published 1990

(Average: 8.00 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: What can I say we keep on winning with man tigers… but how could we improve it I hear you ask? Dinosaurs! Lots of them! With swords and shields! They don’t even need to be anthropomorphic!
Published 2016

(Average: 6.76 out of 10)

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Nigel Comments: Pish Posh and Balderdash! Let me finish off this doobie and I’ll conjure up another curious quest tale.
“It was a dark and stormy night …”

Published 1986

GSS Admin: Here’s the original artwork. Can’t find a higher resolution though.

(Average: 7.29 out of 10)

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It’s a Two-fer Tuesday – Tomorrow, the Stars Special

Good Show Sir Comments:

#1. I need to get cable. I’m getting terrible TV reception with my helmet antenna.

#2. The condom costumes won first prize at the Halloween contest.

Thanks, Amy!

Published 1953, 1981

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: “When he said he was a headhunter I thought he wanted me because of my LinkedIn® profile”.

Published 1975

Finally, the trilogy of terrible Corgi GSS covers is complete. See here and here.

(Average: 7.12 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: His balls were bit by a radioactive spider.

Published 1961

(Average: 6.88 out of 10)

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It’s a Two-fer Tuesday – 1950s Ray Bradbury Bantam Paperbacks

Good Show Sir Comments:

#1. Paperback sales are down last quarter in Ohio, Alabama and California. Do something creative with the covers to get our numbers back up.

#2. Passive-aggressive cover artist thinks Bradbury stories are boring

Published 1951, 1954

You might remember one of these from here.

(Average: 6.35 out of 10)

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Justin Comments: I was inspired to send this in by “The Berkley Showcase” last week. I think the covers on John Silbersack’s sci-fi books has been sadly underrepresented on your site.

Published 1983

(Average: 7.41 out of 10)

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