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Bibliomancer’s Art Direction: My name is Bibliomancer. I’m from 2015 in the future. I want a cover with a future-retro Amy Winehouse using a space music ghetto blaster to kill some dudes … and a satyr! Don’t make the art very good. I need it to win a ten-star rating on a website of terrible sci-fi cover art. Why are you looking at me like that?

Published 1961

You might remember this from here

and also here

(Average: 8.23 out of 10)

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Emster comments: Publisher: I need an sf airplane for this cover

Artist: But I just learned how to draw feet, may I put some feet in there somewhere?

Publisher: (sigh) Fine…

Published 1982

(Average: 8.23 out of 10)

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Tom Noir Comments: Oh god, not another race that communicates entirely through interpretive dance!
Published 1999

(Average: 8.23 out of 10)

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Phil Comments: Why John, you are so odd that I must hide behind these conveniently positioned but otherwise random spikes. But at least you’ve noticed me, which makes you not quite as odd as you used to be back in the days of: Odd John.

Published 1959

(Average: 8.22 out of 10)

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Cliftopher’s Art Direction: Give me a dinosaur with a baby’s head. A freakin’ big dinosaur with a really little baby’s head. And while you’re at it put some kind of mountain like a man in the background.
Published 1982

Many thanks to Cliftopher!

(Average: 8.22 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: That must be Bobcat Goldthwait!
Published 1988

(Average: 8.22 out of 10)

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OK, spinning my cover creator wheel again! We have… dragons, plural – nice! The dragons are (throwing my action dice)… shitting out fire, awesome! Hmm, they are also… (roll)… carrying… (spin)… a woman in a Persian rug, touch! And in the background this time we will have a….. pyramid… awww just like the books name!

(Average: 8.22 out of 10)

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Scott B Comments: Operation Devil Drop?
Published 1976

(Average: 8.22 out of 10)

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Scott Comments: A lone hero stands off against… the Abominable Snowman with prosthetic jackhammer hands???
Published 1967

(Average: 8.22 out of 10)

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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.

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Good Show Sir Comments:

1. He-man and Cat-in-the-Hat take on flaming Gummi-Bear monster.

2. Stop wearing the chamois, son. I’ve got to dry the car.

3. Don’t think you’re setting a foot outside wearing that strapping outfit!

Published 2012

(Average: 8.22 out of 10)

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