Apr 22
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Tag Wizard Comments: I warned you. They only get worse.
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Tagged with: boredom • damsel • font problems • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown author • unknown publisher
Jan 04
Happy New Year!
Well another year is here, I am just about over my hang over and of course back in work! So it’s time to start again and see what exciting covers we can find to brighten our days. Last year didn’t see a cover which had the power to beat, I Sing the Body Electric. But maybe this year… maybe…
Thanks to everyone who has sent in covers and comments! You all bring such entertainment to our lives. And of course thank you to all those amazing publishers, without you and your art direction where would Good Show Sir be?
Last year was very exciting now that I think about it. And my quest for terrible Sci-Fi/fantasy book covers also led to the best conversation ever in a second hand book store.
Shop Assistant: Wow.. that cover is so bad!!!
Me: Yeah isn’t it? That’s kinda why I am buying it actually.
Shop Assistant: Really? Awesome. You should start some sort of website to show covers like these.
Me: I have…
Shop Assistant: ……
And nothing more was said. Here is the book I bought.
The top rated cover of the year:
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A Personal Favourite:
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CSA Chooses dragon crotch!
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And of course, how could we not mention the cover that started a censoring legend:
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Tagged with: Arrow Books • cleavage • damsel • dragon • dude • Good Show Sir • lizards • magic • Old Year Sum Up • Penguin Science Fiction • Pocket Books • space • space sheep • space ships • strange creature • Tower books • wolf • WTF
Feb 19
Emster Comments: His blaster gun looked similar to Jimmy’s toy web gun, which meant little Jimmy was back home terrorizing the neighbors and Tom was about to be painfully dispatched.
Published 1991
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Tagged with: Carla Sormanti • Feargus Gwynplaine MacIntyre • font problems • giant insects • mom jeans • Pocket Books • surprised dinosaur • Tom Swift Series • Victor Appleton II • Web of Intruige!
Oct 10
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Good Show Sir Comments: Shamrock O’Dell and the Little People
Published 1972
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Tagged with: Ace Books • jazz hands • little people • Robert Lory • rocket • W. Strudeski
Oct 20
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Ryan Comments: Reg Lathium was tired of these Cosa Nostra, or Mafioso, or whatever the underworld called itself, trying to get into his caves.
Published 1978
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • booties • font problems • Fred Hinck • giant insects • hunkbutt • Manor Books • Mike Sirota
Feb 08
Good Show Sir Comments: There’s a little man in my head. And he’s got a bigger gun!
Published 1988
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Tagged with: big gun • font problems • helmet-cam • Joe DeVito • John Shirley • little people • Questar Books
Nov 24
Good Show Sir comments: Fabio got old.
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1994
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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • bladed weapons • Boris Vallejo • Christopher Kubasik • Earth Dawn series • evil children • font problems • long haired men • Roc Books
Apr 29
Good Show Sir Comments: Dragon Fail
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1984
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Tagged with: Avon Books • BEHIND YOU! • dragon people • evil children • Lee J. Hindle • Richard Bober • shuriken of approval
Dec 14
Raoul comments: I’m too sexy for my shirt!
Published 1991
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Tagged with: Ben Bova • Boris Vallejo • handguns • ridiculous pose • Tor Books
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