Good Show Sir

Sep 19

Good Show Sir Comments: Our winning (only) entry for Talk Like a Pirate Day! Thanks to Mitch for sending it in.

Published 1953

(Average: 6.50 out of 10)

Tagged with: alien landscape • baldy bad man • bug-eyed • cleavage • damsel • dude • Jack Vance • pirates • ray gun • shoulder pads • Toby Press • Unknown Artist Institute

Sep 18

Deathkiller

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Arthur Dent Comments: In the future, self-driving cars will still have issues.

Published 1996

(Average: 7.18 out of 10)

Tagged with: Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • cars • casually walking away from an explosion • David Lee Anderson • dude • font problems • robot • Spider Robinson

Sep 17

Cybernetic Controller

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Good Show Sir Comments: Let’s get a close-up of that damsel in distress.

Published 1952

(Average: 7.82 out of 10)

Tagged with: A.V. Clarke • casually walking away from an explosion • damsel • dude • fire • Gordon C. Davies • H.K. Bulmer • little people • Panther Books • rocket • SCIENCE!

Sep 13

Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar

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My last defence is a Parthian shot! Click for larger image

Raoul Comments: “Slow down Tom, or they’ll revoke your Nuclearlearnerspermit!”

Published 1962

(Average: 7.63 out of 10)

Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • Charles Brey • dude • flying • Grosset & Dunlap • horses • Jim Lawrence • perspective problems • ridiculous hat • spear • sweet ride • Tom Swift Series • Victor Appleton II

Sep 12

The Dragon Lensman

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The Dragon Lenscrafter: We'll even make glasses for your 4-eyed dragon friend Click for larger image

Tom Noir Comments: In conclusion, dragons should not wear clothes! Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Published 1980

(Average: 6.67 out of 10)

Tagged with: alien landscape • Bantam Books • Bob Larkin • David A. Kyle • dragon • dude • eyes on stalks • font problems • Lensman Series • planets • tasteful smoke • wings

Sep 05

The Last Rainbow

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Mrs Jones Comments: Sonny and Cher fantasy fan-fic.

Published 1985

(Average: 7.29 out of 10)

Tagged with: Bantam Spectra • beard-wielding • cape • Cheryl Griesbach • damsel • dude • font problems • horses • once you see it • Parke Godwin • rainbow • Sheep! • Stanley Martucci • waistcoat • walking stick

Sep 04

1976 … the Year of Terror

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Rick Deckard Comments: Doug Weaver. The one-hit-wonder of science fiction cover artists.

Published 1961

(Average: 6.81 out of 10)

Tagged with: damsel • Doug Weaver • dude • Epic Books • font problems • gams • George Smith • machine gun • nip slip • no support

Sep 03

Race Against Time

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I'm too sexy for my ... Hazmat suit? Click for larger image

Mosquito Wenzi Comments: I need three young people in matching jumpsuits looking incredibly disturbed by a bald head. Can they win the race against time and baldness?

Published 1985

(Average: 6.17 out of 10)

Tagged with: baldness • damsel • dude • font problems • Luis Royo • Piers Anthony • Tor Books

Aug 30

We have here a trio of Honourable Mentions since these are e-books and technically not being photographed sitting in our sweaty hands. But the “publisher” Phoenix Pick informs us that you can own an actual dead-tree book version of the same. The odds are vanishingly small that any book versions of these titles would ever be found in what few book stores still exist. So let’s have our fun with these e-book pix nicked from the Intertubes. I see some vestige of an artist signature on one of these. Go figure. But none of my usual sources gives any hint who they might be. So Unknown Artist Institute it is.

Is that you Fairy-Peg? Click for larger image