Feb 22
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Tim Comments: Hot babe fairy queen, standing on slime-mold covered stairway to nowhere. Add in super-wussy fairy dude, you gotta feel for him, they put him in quite possibly the worst costume of all time. And the photo doesn’t do justice to the garishness of the blue background and orange border. And of course lots of different fonts.
Published 1985
Many thanks to Tim!

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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • border • Chronicles of Thomas Covenant • damsel • Darrell K. Sweet • Del Rey Books • dude • font problems • Stephen R. Donaldson
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 11
This covers have all been sent in by River and I thought they might all make an excellent mega post. Thanks very much to River who has also provided some information about each!
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Contains 100 short stories by Hungarian authors.
Published 2003
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This third hardcover reissue contains two novels written by a Hungarian author under English pseudonym. Writing fantasy and science fiction stories under English pen names was very popular in the 90s. And many readers really thought that these writers are from abroad.
Published 1999
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Translating the Hungarian title to English was also a strange tradition in these books just like the English pen names for Hungarian writers. You can read inside that, A szellemlt, means, The Spiritseer. Hardcover.
Published 2005
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j Galaxis is a science fiction magazine published twice a year in Hungary. Guess which years product is this one. 1988? You slipped twenty years. This issue is only three years old.
Published 2008

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • cloaks • daemons • dragon • dude • evil • font problems • magic • MEGA POST • monsters • muscles • robots • sword • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher • vampire • vampires • Wizaaaaaaaard!
Feb 10
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Art Direction: I want this one looking exactly like a scary leaflet you’d get from some crazed new age cult! Naked opaque giant men, lens flares, rings of fire and eighties squiggles! We’ll double our congregation with this. Sorry, I mean readers… or… do I?
Published 1989

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Tagged with: Corgi Books • dude • font problems • Geoff Taylor • lens flare • Lyndon Hardy • magic • magical orbs • muscles
Feb 09
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Many thanks to E for sending this in!
Published 1988

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Tagged with: Don Maitz • evil • fancy hat • font problems • Hugh Cook • magic • Quester Books • Wizaaaaaaaard!
Feb 07
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MisterBOB’s Art Direction: A picture of little girl floating above a jewel and ocean, always sells the book! Trust me – I did media studies!
Published 1995

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Tagged with: Avonova Books • David Lee Jones • evil children • floating person • font problems • magic • Unknown Artist Institute
Feb 04
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Here at Good Show Sir we do try to stay away from self-published books. We understand people tend not to have a lot of money so they can’t afford an artist to draw a wizard making love to a damsel on top of an electricity breathing dragon. This one however… I think needs to be shown to the world! Glorious!
Published Date Unknown

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Tagged with: beard-wielding • font problems • iUniverse Self Publishing • textellent • Victor Farrell
Jan 31
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Christal’s Art Direction: Let’s go for Evil Dead 3, only we’ll place it on The Grid from Tron and give the monsters laser guns! Oh and this time no boomstick, it gave him an unfair advantage.
Published 1984
Amazing! Thanks to Christal!

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Tagged with: Berkley Books • bladed weapons • dude • font problems • frickin laser beams • John Pound • Kevin O'Donnell • monsters
Jan 24
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Matt’s Art Direction: I don’t care what’s on the cover. Just make it difficult to look at. I want a cover so jarring to the senses that you can barely read the title.
Published 1988

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Tagged with: Ace Books • dude • font problems • shoulder pads • Simon Hawke • snake • strange creature • sunglasses • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Jan 19
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Don’s Art Direction: We’d like an electrified Gabby Hayes riding a rhino-walrus-fish with a crank-operated tongue. In space. Just put the necessary drugs on your expense chitty.
Published 1970
Many thanks to Don!

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Tagged with: beast-riding • dude • font problems • Frederik Pohl • Gary Viskupic • Jack Williamson • Science Fiction Book Club • strange creature • WTF
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