Apr 18
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Jon H Comments: This one caught me off guard, I thought it was just your typical WW 2 book, maybe a little on the Sgt Rock side of reality but then I noticed the monkey and realized it said WW3. Well…I still don’t understand what the monkey is doing. I’m guess it is a part of some para-military group. “If you need help, and you can find them, maybe you can hire…ooh ooh ah ah AH AAAH!!”
Published 1976

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Tagged with: ape • Avon Books • bladed weapons • blood • Bruce Minney • daggers • dude • explosion • fire • grenades • gun • John Stanley • monkeys • racism • strange creature • utility belt • war
Mar 26
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Frank Comments: This is clearly of the 1970s, a fantasy warrior knife-fighting pose, but in disco dress, with zodiac symbols in the background. And big bugs! Seriously, I looked at it to see if it was an update of “The Radio Man” for the Disco Years. It wasn’t.
Published 1979

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Tagged with: Alan Annand • Alan Marks • antennae • BEHIND YOU! • bladed weapons • cleavage • daggers • damsel • dude • giant ants • insects • monsters • proportional issues • spider • strange creature • Tower books • Unknown Artist Institute • waistcoat • wings
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
Nov 05
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Ian Comments: We are the Guardians in Green Leaves. We’d chase you but we are rooted on the spot… on the ice…
Published 1987

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • daggers • damsel • DAW Books • dude • font problems • glowing eyes • Jill Bauman • male skirts • mighty moustache • monsters • sword • tree people • WTF • Zach Hughes
Oct 03
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Ian Comments: Cigar smoking bunny… what more is there to say? If only that knife had a ting!
Published 1991
Maybe breaking our joke onto the genre rule… oh well.

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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • beret hat • bikini • bladed weapons • cleavage • Craig Shaw Gardner • daggers • damsel • dude • fedora hat • fire • horns • lava • monsters • once you see it • rabbit people • suits you • trenchcoat • volcano • Walter Velez • 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
Aug 22
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Vincent’s Art Direction: So, put an enormous crab on the cover. And, what the hey, give him a knife. No, make it a dagger. Right, then have the sacrificial victim be a young woman lying beneath the knife….perfect, that’s it!
Published 1989

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • crab • daggers • damsel • Dell Books • giant enemy crab • Guy N. Smith • human sacrifice • strange creature • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute
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