Jan 15
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There’s only one thing in this world that can make a muscle infused man in a loincloth and his scantily clad female faint almost instantly. A naked red headed minotaur who is sneezing at them. Just remember, the sure fire way to success, keep the clothes to a minimum!
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • busy hands • cleavage • damsel • dude • inadequate armor • loincloth • Mayflower Books • minotaur • muscles • Thomas Burnett Swann • Unknown Artist Institute
Mar 27
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Joachim Comments: The sci-fi cover equivalent of any of Edward Wood Jr.’s B-movies — a stock photo combined with a child’s drawing of a muscleman in a loin cloth.
Published 1974
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Tagged with: beard-wielding • Con Sellers • dude • loincloth • long haired men • maeslse • mascles • mob rules • musals • muscles • muslces • mussels • Papillon Press • Unknown Artist Institute • white-clothed protagonist • WTF
Oct 12
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Billy Awesome Comments: Pull out all the stops. I want the head of Sturgeon as a devil, floating on an asteroid made partially of humanoid hands and torsos, and partially of a futuristic city that looks like a garbage truck, his hair a naked lady with a peacock feather magic aura, his brow haloed by dollar store xmas tinsel. I want a topless mermaid riding a unicorn over a chain that secures nothing. I want an astronaut trying to take a smoke break through his bubble helmet, and a nude baby on a floating cockle shell awestruck by the majesty of it all. Don’t let me down. Let’s make some magic!
Published 1964
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Tagged with: big hair • cleavage • damsel • dude • Ed Emshwiller • evil children • flying heads • goat • horns • my head aplode • Pyramid Books • space • space suits • Theodore Sturgeon • Unicorns! • WTF
Oct 07
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Scott B Comments: A smug four-armed barbarian Telly Savales holding a bemused decapitated robot head. Works for me.
Published 1979
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Tagged with: Bantam Books • bladed weapons • daggers • dude • font problems • monsters • Phyllis Gotlieb • WTF
Oct 02
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Scott B’s Art Direction: I know the cover is late, so just give me whatever clip art you have lying around that looks vaguely science-fictional. Guy In Huge Metallic Helmet, brilliant. Old-Timey Person In Armor, Old-Timey Person With Gun, sure, great. Wait, underwear-clad wrestlers, really? You know I’ve warned you about that more than once. Well, I guess we don’t have time to redo it…
Published 1971
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Tagged with: dude • F.L. Wallace • geometric oddities • Groff Conklin • Isaac Asimov • J.T. McIntosh • James H. Schmitz • Kingsley Amis • knights • loincloth • Pyramid Books • Ron Walotsky • WTF
Jan 27
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Scott Comments: Sumo-Bellhead will defend his city from all threats!
Published 1978
You might remember this from here & here!
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Tagged with: city • giant • gun • just so much yellow • male skirts • Melvyn Grant • Philip José Farmer • shotgun • Sphere Books • strange head armor
Sep 08
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Chris D Jr. Comments: If subtle clues such as the title of the book and the gun held by the bubble-helmeted, caped character on the front cover weren’t enough, the designer has managed to sneak in an oh-so-subtle name tag as a hint to the vigilant observer that the character on the front is probably ‘Gunner Cade’. Probably…
Published 1966
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Tagged with: capes • Cyril Judd • dude • gun • handguns • Ian Yeomans • Penguin Science Fiction • space suit
Jan 06
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Tom Noir’s Art Direction: I want a cover that oozes manliness from every pore! And I want to see those pores! I want to smell the musky odor of that manliness! I want to bathe in it as it drips down my naked, strapping torso beneath the scorching gaze of a skullsplosion! KABOOM!!!
Published 1988
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Tagged with: Baen Books • dude • font problems • Martin Caidin • Miro • muscles • mushroom cloud • skulls a-poppin' • WTF
Sep 28
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Marcel Comments: C’est quoi ce bordel !?
Published 1977
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Tagged with: birds • dude • French • John Brunner • little people • Presses de la Cité • Serge Clerc • starkers • weird pecs • WTF
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