Good Show Sir

Apr 22

Tag Wizard Comments: I warned you. They only get worse.

(Average: 7.67 out of 10)

Tagged with: boredom • damsel • font problems • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown author • unknown publisher

Apr 21

Space Lawyer

29 Comments »

So sue me Click for larger but still boring image

Tag Wizard Comments: This is the funniest cover I have left in the slush pile. So if you folks don’t start sending in some more terrible covers soon it’s all downhill from here.

Thanks to Anonymous for the cover. It figures.

Published 1953

(Average: 4.50 out of 10)

Tagged with: boredom • Gnome Press • kerning issues • Nat Schachner • Ric Binkley • space ships • Will we ever reuse a space lawyer tag?

May 22

The Green Man

21 Comments »

Take me to your toga party Click for larger image

Good Show Sir Comments: “Waving UFOs to their arrival gates. That’s all I do.”

Published 1946

(Average: 8.14 out of 10)

Tagged with: bathing cap • boredom • Century Books • dude • Harold M. Sherman • none more green • rocket • shoulder pads • toga • Unknown Artist Institute

Aug 27

Listen! The Stars!

22 Comments »

Needz! Moar! Bangs! Click for larger image

Good Show Sir Comments: Working as a radio DJ was not the dream job he expected it to be.

Published 1963

(Average: 7.80 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ace Books • boredom • damsel • dude • Ed Emshwiller • John Brunner • nip slip • perspective problems • radio • sky-eyes • stars • strange creature • Ting! • visible waves

Jul 05

Sixth Column

31 Comments »

Tighty Whitey Click for larger image

Tag Wizard Comments: Somebody ask John Melo and Hank Davis if it’s OK to make fun of this cover.

And, oh yeah, you might remember this from here.

Published 1949

(Average: 8.17 out of 10)

Tagged with: atoms • beard-wielding • BEHIND YOU! • boredom • chains • damsel • Edd Cartier • Gnome Press • halo • holy man • I'm melting! • old-timer • pole weapon • Robert A. Heinlein • smarty pants • swami • turban hat • white-clothed protagonist

Apr 16

The Captain

18 Comments »

Just chillin' in ye olde beane bag chair Click for larger image

JuanPaul Comments: “Haters gonna hayaaate”
Published 1992

(Average: 7.09 out of 10)

Tagged with: bean bag chair • boredom • damsel • Dorian Vallejo • dude • font problems • handheld beverage container of Germanic origin (tankard) • John Norman • Questar Books • sexytime • throne

Feb 20

The Day the World Ended

11 Comments »

Bats with headlights Click for larger image

Bibliomancer Comments: Apocalypse Yow.
Published 1964

(Average: 8.89 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ace Books • baldness • bats • boredom • font problems • moon • neo-jesus • rocket • Sax Rohmer • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF

Dec 07

Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors’ item in its own way – not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, and suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of …

OK, that’s just a Rod Serling Night Gallery quote I copped off of IMDB. But here, for your consideration, are three cover submissions that didn’t make the cut. Not because they aren’t terrible. Not because they are based on a franchise. Not because they are parody or comedy. Not because … well, just because …

Boob Tube? Click for larger image