Mar 05
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Bibliomancer Comments: Face off between the Man with the X-ray eyes and the Invisible Woman, I like what I DON’T see!
Published 1964

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Tagged with: Ace Books • baldy bad man • cape • cybernetics • damsel • dude • Ed Emshwiller • half a face • living tissue over metal endoskeleton • robots • Samuel R. Delany • Ting!
Mar 04
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Joachim’s Art Direction: Make sure her antennae/horns are made of felt…
Published 1967

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Tagged with: antennae • damsel • font problems • Rex Gordon • Tandem Books • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Feb 27
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Benjamin Comments: “Listen, if this book sells more than 30 copies it’ll be a miracle. It’s done up in a strawberry-ice-cream-pink cover with a bright green toy rocket ship and some cheap plaster busts of LBJ and JFK and a coke bottle and a hamburger on the front — I showed it to a classroom full of gifted children up at the College of Marin and one kid said ‘That’s a toy book.'” – Richard A. Lupoff (Locus #159, 1974)
Published 1974

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Tagged with: bad science • Barry N. Malzberg • damsel • dude • explosion • Good Show Sir • Pocket Books • political figure • space ships • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Feb 21
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: He’s writing about the fourth dimension? Well I bet there are plenty of space ships, space suits, afros, statues, men in grass skirts and party streamers there!
Published 1963

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Tagged with: damsel • dude • Jack Gaughan • magic • maths! • Pyramid Books • Robert A. Heinlein • space ships • space suit • WTF
Feb 20
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Scott B Comments: Birds-Hair and Prison-Face. Truly a duo for the ages.
Published 1978

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Tagged with: bird hairdo • buildings with faces • damsel • DAW Books • dude • Hans Arnold • Theodore Sturgeon • WTF
Feb 18
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MisterBob’s Art Direction: Boobs? Don’t be silly, bums are in. And use up that orange paint.
Published 1981

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Tagged with: aliens • damsel • DAW Books • Jo Clayton • Ken W. Kelly • Sir Mix-A-Lot • supernumerous limbs • WTF
Feb 15
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Raj Comments: I especially like the transparent robot woman with the spiral breasts on this one.
Published 1962

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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • damsel • dude • font problems • Richard Powers • Robert Sheckley • WTF
Feb 14
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Frank Comments: Another work re-issued with new title and new cover. There was a previous publication of it as “The Radio Man” in 1924.
Published 1950

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Tagged with: antennae • Avon Books • bladed weapons • cleavage • damsel • dude • font problems • giant ants • muscles • Radio Man Series • Ralph Milne Farley • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • wings
Feb 13
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: This… defies convention my friend. That damsel’s clothes aren’t even ripped or even showing any impressive cleavage! But not to worry, we can save this… just wait till you see the font I picked out. No one will notice your partially shaved alien bear sharp toothed no horned minotaur monster… I think…
Published 1994

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Tagged with: aliens • cowboy hat • damsel • David Gemmell • dude • font problems • gun • handguns • Legend Books • long haired men • Mike Posen • monsters • shotgun
Feb 12
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Daniel Comments: Bought this gem in an second-hand bookshop last year. I was slightly embarrassed taking it up to the counter. It’s rubbish on a number of levels: it’s a literally awful bit of artwork; it’s artwork that bears pretty much no relation to the story; and said story is a sombre dystopian yarn by Christopher Priest, a renowned purveyor of genre-crossing, award-winning novels that have more recently been reprinted by Gollanz with classy covers.
Published 1978

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cave • Christopher Priest • cleavage • daggers • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • gun • Mike Ploog • Pan Books • rifle • space sheep • starkers • Ting! • WTF
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