Dec 07
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Tom Noir’s Art Direction: I want a naked man, and he’s playing with these two blue balls. No, no, I’m saying he’s handling two massive globes. Don’t make ’em the same size, one is bigger than the other. Have him straining, concentrating intensely. Look, I don’t see what’s so funny about this.
Published 1968

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Tagged with: Ben Barzman • clouds • dude • Earth • electricity • headband • mega limbs • muscles • Paperback Library • perspective problems • planets • space • starkers • Unknown Artist Institute • X marks the spot
Jan 09
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Jaouad Comments: Welcome to a new game of Spot The Rockstar! Among this week’s line-up are: Brian May, Ozzy Osbourne, Eddie van Halen, Steve Harris, Jimmy Page, Ian Gillan, John Deacon, Glenn Tipton, Dave Brock, and the ever elusive drum legend Alan Moore.
Published 1976

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Tagged with: bird • bladed weapons • blood • Bob Haberfield • clouds • conch • damsel • dude • magical orbs • male skirts • Mayflower Books • Michael Moorcock • mountains • muscles • necklace o' heads • once you see it • Sir Mix-A-Lot • strange creature • sword • you need a belt
Jul 03
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David A Comments: Blonde in a bikini? Check! Sex god in thong armour? Check! Aliens? Check! Castle? Check! Erupting volcano? Check! But oh, wait, what’s that say on the front? Fully illustrated??
Published 1979
Click here for a gallery of the (NSFW) interior artwork (including a naked sea lion/woman hybrid with a baby!)

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Tagged with: bikini • bracers • cleavage • clouds • damsel • dude • explosion • lava • Max Handley • mist • monsters • once you see it • Rowena Morrill • Speedos • strange creature • volcano • Warner Books • wings
Jun 27
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: KITTY! KITTY! Get off my keyboard! If you don’t get off this instant you are going on that cover in hell we’re getting done. Cause that’s where you belong… RIGHT! You’re going on… you are going on there… with Genghis Khan… in hell! That will teach you.
Published 1989
Many thanks to A. Waltz for tweeting this in!

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Tagged with: Baen Books • beard-wielding • capes • Cats! • clouds • daemons • David Drake • David Mattingly • dragon • dude • face • face tree • fantastical rock star • flag • gun • head on a plate • Heroes in Hell series • horns • Janet Morris • male skirts • monsters • obvious subtitle • once you see it • orson • rifle • shields • skeletons • strange creature • sword • utility belt
Jun 07
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Tat Wood Comments: The back-cover blurb begins with the word WHY? in big letters, further comment is superfluous.
Published 1983 (First Published with this cover 1971)

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Tagged with: Bob Pepper • bubble helmet • clouds • dude • evil children • eyepatch • portal to another world • Samuel R. Delany • Signet Books • weird pecs • WTF
May 09
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Tom Noir Comments: Nice try, teach, but I still don’t buy that math is, “like getting SUPER high!”
Published 1998

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Tagged with: Alan Dean Foster • Ballantine Books • Bruce Jensen • clouds • Del Rey Books • dude • maths! • spectacular space chart • WTF
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
Nov 15
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Paul H Cook Comments: This is the cover to my first novel. It didn’t sell well. My editor/publisher blamed me, of course. This looks like a Harlequin romance. Even I wouldn’t have purchased this book.
Published 1981

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Tagged with: author in the comments • Berkley Books • clouds • damsel • dude • font problems • John Townley • magic • mist • Paul H. Cook • portal to another world • Richard Lon Cohen • suits you • WTF
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