May 03
It’s another bank holiday weekend and that can only mean one thing for us here at Good Show Sir! Party time! Or possibly just the cinema and a few beers, which might be a party… to some people.
These covers have been sent in by the very excellent Saxy Stevenson who found them while in Nepal. Hope you enjoy them, as for the published dates… ummm can anyone here read Japanese?
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Tagged with: alien • anthropomorphism • booties • bracers • cat people • damsel • dude • explosion • floating face • font problems • Good Show Sir • helmet • inadequate armor • jumpsuit • leopard people • lizard people • lizards • magic • MEGA POST • mist • monsters • moon • mouse people • once you see it • peaked cap • planets • rodents • space • space ships • strange creature • tentacles • Tokyo Hayakawa Books • Unknown Artist Institute • utility belt • wall face • WTF
Apr 23
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Tom Noir Comments: The dame walked into my office wearing nothing but a pair of high heels and a V2 rocket. The expression on her face said she was about to go ballistic.
Published 1990
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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • booties • casually walking away from an explosion • cleavage • damsel • explosion • fire • Haircut 100 • Jeff Easley • Jefferson P. Swycaffer • robots • ruffles • shiny • shoulder-mounted gun • TSR Books
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 28
Oh yes! It’s the Easter weekend and that can only mean one thing, some honourable mentions! These have been sent in to us and oh boy they are simply amazing!
So enjoy the covers and have an excellent long weekend (if you get one!) And once again thanks to all who send in covers and comment on the site. You gals and guys are all amazing, also you keep my grammar correct and my tags sensible!
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Tat Wood Comments: it was published in 1970 and tells of all the different ways the Earth will end by 2000 AD (although one would be enough). As we are now a dozen years beyond the Best Before date does it now count as fiction? A bit? Sort of?
Published 1970
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Laura Comments: I came across this book in a used book store and I was hoping that the badly-drawn tough old guys would fit on Good Show Sir.
Published 2007
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Jaouad’s Art Direction: Let’s see… Pynchonesque, Burroughsian, Robert Anton Wilson-like… Oh, I know! Tim from Marketing has a girlfriend who does exotic dancing, right? See if you can get her to pose. Ask her to bring one of her pets. Yes, I know the author will want in on this… I’ll think of something.
Published 1996
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Tagged with: cleavage • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • evil children • explosion • Good Show Sir • Gordon Rattray Taylor • gun • Hawthorne Vance • Honourable Mentions • Panther Books • Paul Di Filippo • shotgun • snake • space sheep • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Mar 12
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David A Comments: I assume after losing 80% of their population over the past 100 years, tigers are finally going to get even with the human race… with the help of a sexy female sidekick, naturally.
Published 1993
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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • casually walking away from an explosion • cat people • cut-offs • damsel • DAW Books • explosion • fire • font problems • Good Show Sir • gun • Jim Burns • metropolitan apocalypse • once you see it • S. Andrew Swann • scars
Feb 27
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Benjamin Comments: “Listen, if this book sells more than 30 copies it’ll be a miracle. It’s done up in a strawberry-ice-cream-pink cover with a bright green toy rocket ship and some cheap plaster busts of LBJ and JFK and a coke bottle and a hamburger on the front — I showed it to a classroom full of gifted children up at the College of Marin and one kid said ‘That’s a toy book.'” – Richard A. Lupoff (Locus #159, 1974)
Published 1974
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Tagged with: bad science • Barry N. Malzberg • damsel • dude • explosion • Good Show Sir • Pocket Books • political figure • space ships • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Feb 26
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Ethan Comments: I just finished raiding my book shelf and I unearthed some truly wretched book covers.
Published 1990
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Tagged with: Bridge Publications • dude • explosion • fire • flowers • Gerry Grace • L. Ron Hubbard • metropolitan apocalypse • Mission Earth series • tuxedo • white-clothed protagonist • WTF
Nov 13
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Scott B Comments: The Civil War re-enacted by radio-antennaed Peter Pan fairies and giant ants.
Published 1964
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Tagged with: Ace Books • antennae • dude • Ed Emshwiller • explosion • flag • giant ants • horns • male skirts • Radio Man Series • Ralph Milne Farley • rifle • war • wings
May 17
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Mangraa’s Art Direction: OK, the main character’s a hot chick, so slap a Barbie head on a soldier’s body, that’ll work. Make this cover look like the end of a Michael Bay sci-fi clusterf***! I want not one, but TWO ships blasting away at her, the entire city burning, maybe throw in a lava spout just to be safe. I want NO EMPTY COVER SPACE!
Published 2004
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Tagged with: Baen Books • damsel • David Mattingly • explosion • font problems • frickin laser beams • gun • Michael Z. Williamson • once you see it • proportional issues • space ships
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