Apr 25
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Jaouad Comments: I have no mouth, but I have a double chin & a sousaphone ear with tiny people creeping out of it & a plum floating above my eye & something which looks vaguely like a grape in my other eye & two tiny legs and and… I MUST SCREAM!
Published 1974

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Tagged with: call 555-orthodontic-emergency • Diane Dillon • dude • font problems • Harlan Ellison • I have no mouth and I must scream • Leo Dillon • my head aplode • Pyramid Books • WTF
Sep 07
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David Comments: Eric Brighteyes by H Rider Haggard (1891) was set in the Viking Age. I have no idea where he found the bikini babe, ray gun or early model Bluetooth headset.
Published 1978
Vikings had lasers… right?
Many thanks to David!

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Tagged with: damsel • dude • frickin laser beams • gun • H. Rider Haggard • handguns • Kensington Publishing • muscles • Unknown Artist Institute
May 21
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: I have to think of everything around here! Just put Paddington Bear in a cowboy hat on top of a thing… and I really mean a thing! I want readers to stop and say, “What the hell is that thing!?!” Got it?
Published 1970
Many thanks to CH@os!

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Tagged with: aliens • Avon Camelot Books • Basil Gogos • bayonets • beak! • bear • bear people • cowboy hat • deerstalker hat • eyes on stalks • Gordon R. Dickson • kepi hat • once you see it • Poul Anderson • rifle • space ships • strange creature • talons • teddy people • Vaughn BodÄ“
Sep 29
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Bibliomancer Comments: Trump shows up for the second debate even more unprepared and out of shape.
Published 1960

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Tagged with: Ace Books • Ed Emshwiller • John Brunner • little people • monster • three-legged
Mar 29
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Max Bathroom Comments: Clearly the inheritor of his father’s temper.
Published 1974

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Tagged with: anger management • daemon • fangs • Jack Vance • Mayflower Books • ocean • ridiculous hat • tree people • Unknown Artist Institute
Nov 17
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We all know what men want. Hunky muscles and tight underwear. No? Uh, strange stone monoliths? No? Leopard skin capes. No? Three horns coming out of his skull? What, seriously, no? Alright, have them all, but add two naked women caressing him. Classy eh? Actually, don’t answer me this time.
Thanks to CSA!

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Tagged with: A.E. van Vogt • cleavage • cloaks • damsel • dude • geometric oddities • glow • horns • muscles • once you see it • Panther Books • suggestive • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Jul 11
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: You, my friend, are an artist! And a good one at that, so I will not make you draw just any old crap. Give me something like… The Birth of Venus… but instead of her covering herself up… have a naked guy in a bondage space suit holding an alien flower.
Published 1970

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Tagged with: bubble helmet • damsel • dude • flowers • hunkbutt • insects • Paperback Library • Rena M. Vale • space suit • strapping outfit • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Oct 08
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WELLL! How about Lois sitting on a rocking chair right next to a lovely log fire with a couple of cats curled up nicely beside her. To amplify the warmness we’ll have three people in space-age uniforms standing right best her, one of them holding a laser rifle. And for the finishing touch, put a mustache and bandana in there too.

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Tagged with: Baen Books • Cats! • Darrell K. Sweet • fire • gun • John Helfers • Lillian Stewart Carl • Lois McMaster Bujold • mighty moustache • once you see it • proportional issues • puffy shirt • rifle • shuriken of approval • Stalin • strange creature
Aug 17
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OK! Get ready ’cause here comes the cover train and we’re about to jump right on it! One, a hunky topless man holding his huge gun. Two, a post-apocalyptic scene in the background. Three, the author’s name in terrible fonts and way larger than the actual book title. Four, did I mention muscles…mmm, MMM! Wooo woo all aboard!!!!

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Tagged with: Angela Knight • Berkley Books • dude • fire • gun • muscles • nonsensical shadows • Time Hunters series
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