Mar 24
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Miggity’s Art Direction: Shirtless black dude in tighty whities with a space helmet and a pneumatic fishing spear gun, flanked by two white Amazonian women in see through tops giving the whole thing a weird sex vibe, with a spacecraft carrier, space figthers, four planets and sweet moon base in the foreground… PERFECT!
Published 1981
Many thanks to Miggity!
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Tagged with: author in the comments • Bantam Books • bubble helmet • cleavage • damsel • dude • gun • Lou Feck • muscles • planets • rifle • space • space ships • Steven E. McDonald • white-clothed protagonist
Mar 21
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Rich Comments: I think the Black Lion may be that hair under her arm. It obviously offends Mr Swordy and he’s going to remove it in a rather dramatic fashion. What was said to the artist was something along the lines of, “Here honey, a nice new pack of crayons and don’t eat any of them. Do Mummy a nice book cover.”
Published 1979
Many thanks to Rich!
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • chains • Chris Howes • cleavage • damsel • dude • Greystoke Mobray Books • Lionel Fanthorpe • Patricia Fanthorpe • space ships • sword • Ting!
Feb 17
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Tom Noir’s Art Direction: Stevens! We have a problem. ‘Demon Muskrat Vixens,’ just came back from the printers with a picture of some giant cube on the cover. What happened to that crazy ass piece we originally commissioned for it?!
Update: New, improved cover photo supplied by Tom Noir!
Published 1993
Many thanks to Tom!
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Tagged with: cleavage • damsel • David Alexander Smith • font problems • handguns • strange creature • Tor Books • Wayne Barlowe
Feb 02
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Phil A’s Art Direction: We’d like a bunch of mismatched photo-referenced people all standing around looking bored on some kind of…planet, or something. And one of them has to be the lead singer from Mott The Hoople.
Published 1994
Many thanks to Phil A!
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Tagged with: artist in the comments • cleavage • damsel • dude • frickin laser beams • Isaac Asimov • Jim Burns • Parragon Plus Books • space • space ships • space suit • wraparound cover
Jan 27
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Greengerg Comments: Poor Lin Carter, surely he won the lifetime award for the biggest string of terrible paperback covers. In this classic, the sad golden gargoyle refuses to join the revelers with their horns of ale, perhaps because he cannot figure out why a guy with such bizarre body proportions got to be the hero.
Published 1976
Many thanks to Green!
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cleavage • damsel • DAW Books • dude • Faux-nan • Green Star Saga • Lin Carter • loincloth • Michael Whelan • monsters • sword
Jan 21
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Tally ho! Well good chap I’ll have the one with swords and those smashing old wizards praising a big wolf in the clouds!
Published 2000
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Good show old bean, I’ll go for the one with double swords, a buxom beauty and a mighty cape. Spiffing!
Published 1993
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Tagged with: baldness • beard-wielding • bladed weapons • booties • bracers • capes • cleavage • clouds • daggers • damsel • DAW Books • dude • floating head • forest • Fred Gambino • headband • inadequate armor • Jody Lee • long haired men • magic • Mickey Zucker Reichert • Millennium Books • mountains • muscles • once you see it • Renshai Chronicles • robes • shields • shoulder pads • strange creature • sword • Wizaaaaaaaard! • wolf
Jan 14
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Art Direction: Nothing attracts readers more than nipples! It’s a proven trend that equals one thing, money! That is unless you draw huge nipples, a huge red women with an insane sparkling mouth wearing sunglasses and a guy running from a giant pinball. Hey! Are you listening?
Published 1978
I give this a Zippy and George!
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Tagged with: cleavage • evil • Michael Butterworth • Michael Moorcock • Star Books • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Jan 12
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Greengerg Comments: Bringing new meaning to the phrase alien probe.
Published 1977
Many thanks to Green!
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Tagged with: cleavage • damsel • dude • Heroic Fantasy Series • hunkbutt • Jeffrey Lord (aka Roland J. Green) • muscles • Richard Blade • robots • tentacles
Jan 04
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Dalton Comments: Found this book in my high school library. It’s dragons, a creepy forest, bows and arrows, and an attractive blond all in one PERMA-BOUND cover. Also, I started cracking up at the, “One of the Best SF Novels of All Time” caption. Did I mention there’s dragon’s? Sorry your covers get hated on Robert A. Heinlein!
Published 1996
Fantastic start to the new year!
Many thanks to Dalton!
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Tagged with: Baen Books • baldness • bracers • cleavage • Clyde Caldwell • damsel • dragon • dude • font problems • lizards • muscles • Robert A. Heinlein • shortbow
Nov 30
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Raj’s Art Direction: Hmm, green, let’s go for a green rural idyll, with a giant green flying cat. Oh, and a woman in a green corset and very little else. In fact, make the woman riding the cat, while holding a sword. And that still leaves a little bit of space, why not fill it with a giant moon?
Published 1976
Many thanks to Raj!
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • Cats! • cleavage • clouds • damsel • Fritz Leiber • moon • Orbit Books • people with hooves • people with tails • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
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