Good Show Sir

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Tom Noir Comments: They’ve gone to extraordinary lengths here to make sure nothing on this cover makes any sense. I wonder if it as drawn with the same yellow highlighter that the author used to get high while he was writing the book?
Published 1976

(Average: 8.18 out of 10)

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Rachel Comments: There’s high-octane, adrenaline-flooding, heart-bursting, ground-pounding, high-speed tracking going on. Somewhere.
Published 2015

(Average: 7.80 out of 10)

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Tom Noir Comments: Strategically placed bat lion shields our eyes from his, uh, silver bells.
Published 1977

(Average: 7.12 out of 10)

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MisterBob Comments: Space lady wants a pearl necklace?
Published 1986

(Average: 6.35 out of 10)

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Frank Comments: First we have The Star-Crowned Kings a Daw Books publication. I haven’t read it so don’t know what the lady-in-chain has to do with the story. But, I thought, she looks familiar, and I thought I knew where I’d seen her before: Up to the Sky in Ships, a NESFA Press collection of some of A. Bertram Chandler’s short stories. Chandler and Freas were Guests of Honor at that year’s Worldcon, which was the occasion for the book. I guess it was thought that this would be offered to a more adult audience and so the model got to stand up for this painting, so we could all see that the lady-in-chain really is a blonde.
Star Crowned Kings published 1975
Up to the Sky in Ships published 1982

It’s dos-a-dos like an Ace Double and if you flip it over you see the cover for the other collection of shorts in the book, this one from Lee Hoffman.

(Average: 5.25 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: Look out Jeff, we’ve got a T-Rex… and he doesn’t look impressed with my one-piece body suit.
Published 1975

Many thanks to Erin for sending this in!

(Average: 6.73 out of 10)

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Stefan Comments: Found at a local library’s for-sale bin in New Jersey, USA – Barbarella and Bender!
Published 1978

(Average: 6.35 out of 10)

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Frank Comments: Remember that blue girl from The Ballad of Beta 2? She really gets around!
Published 1973

(Average: 7.48 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: Look out Liz… it’s a cross between a zebra and a lion… a deadly zebon! Oh really Liz, that’s a stupid name? Well lets see how stupid that zebon looks with a laser in his back! HIIYAAA!
Published 1977

Many thanks to Erin for sending this to us!

(Average: 6.94 out of 10)

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Dead Stuff with Big Teeth Comments:Whaddaya think? I hewed her cheeks meself.
Published 1975

(Average: 6.12 out of 10)

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