Aug 04

SteveAsat Comments: I can overlook an Apple II case with a Commodore PET monitor being used to visually indicate “hey kids, computers!” And the Escheresque architecture suggesting a suburban three-bedroom rendered in granite. But how the hell did that cat get up there and why isn’t he sliding off?!
Published 1980

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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • Ballantine Books • computers • dude • James P. Hogan • Rowena Morrill • strange creature • WTF
Jul 08
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Scott’s Art Direction: So there’s this rocket, that’s also a dude with an afro, taking off through a thundercloud that’s coming out of a water faucet, and the cloud’s holding some sort of city or something. Just trust me.
Published 1976

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Tagged with: Avon Books • dude • font problems • my head aplode • Stanislaw Fernandes • WTF
Jun 22
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MisterBOB Comments: There’s this great scene in the book,where the tiger has a burning log in his mouth and it looks just like a cigar. So funny.
Published between 1983 – 1988

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Tagged with: cigar • Clare Bell • fire • font problems • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher
May 18
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Art Direction: Look I’m so sci-fi medical expertician but, the inevitable side effect of putting crystals in your eyes has got to be a large head, baldness and a lack of lips. Maybe the loss of chest hair too.
Published 1975
Thanks to Whitney for sending this in!

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Tagged with: baldness • Ballantine Books • crystal • dude • eye-yi-yi • Gene Szafran • glowing eyes • Michael Bishop • stairway to heaven • WTF
Mar 28
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MisterBOB Comments: Rainbow Sword, nuff said?
Published 1990
Many thanks to MisterBOB!

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Tagged with: Adrienne Martine-Barnes • bladed weapons • border • eye-yi-yi • font problems • Headline books • rainbow • Romas Kukalis • sword
Feb 04
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Here at Good Show Sir we do try to stay away from self-published books. We understand people tend not to have a lot of money so they can’t afford an artist to draw a wizard making love to a damsel on top of an electricity breathing dragon. This one however… I think needs to be shown to the world! Glorious!
Published Date Unknown

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Tagged with: beard-wielding • font problems • iUniverse Self Publishing • textellent • Victor Farrell
Feb 01
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Amy Comments: I will admit, I have not read these stories, so the cover may make a lot of sense if one has, but I haven’t so what the hell, anyway? We’ve got a mouse/rabbit/robocop creature of blue blood, who is apparently either surrendering to the beplumed armored dude stabbing him/her in the gut. That, or they’re about to kiss, I can’t tell. And is that supposed to be a maple leaf on his shield, because if it is, I think that tree is growing too close to Chernobyl.
Published 1964
Many thanks to Amy!

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Tagged with: dude • L. Sprague De Camp • Lancer Science Fiction • mouse people • rodents • strange creature • WTF
Nov 18
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GK Comments: Which direction is the monorail headed?
Published 1978
Many thanks to GK!

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Tagged with: alien city • Dean Ellis • Del Rey Books • dude • Frederik Pohl • jumpsuit • pointing
Oct 26
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Radiano Comments: The Lathe of Heaven – the touching story of a man in toga cranially wired with King Kong.
Published 1983
Many thanks to Radiano!

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Tagged with: computers • dude • Editrice Nord books • strange creature • Tiziano Cremonini • Ursula K. Le Guin • WTF
Aug 26
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Brian Comments: While I haven’t bothered to read this book, I can only assume we’re in for a lively tale.
Published 1993
Snarf?
Many thanks to Brian!

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Tagged with: Andre Norton • Avonova Books • cat people • Daniel Horne • dude • frickin laser beams • gun • space suit • strange creature
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