Dec 15
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Libraryman comments: This cover has it all!
- Large centipede monster: check
- Flying Manta Rays: check
- Improbable mouths: check
- Pink foliage: check
- Big head Charles Bronson babysitting two “special” people : You better believe a check!
Published 1985 (maybe)
Many thanks to Libraryman!
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Tagged with: aliens • Avon Books • call 555-orthodontic-emergency • damsel • dude • gun • mighty moustache • monsters • Piers Anthony • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Dec 14
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Don Comments: It was originally supposed to be “The Stainless Steel Boob-Juggler’s Revenge”, but then we wouldn’t have room on the cover for this lovely art.
Published 1973
Many thanks to Don!
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Tagged with: Berkley Books • dude • Harry Harrison • suggestive • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Dec 13
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Greengerg Comments: The face is somehow not tasty enough for the man-eating slugs?
Published 1987
Many thanks to Greengerg!
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Tagged with: dude • font problems • Leisure Books • monsters • Shaun Huston • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute
Dec 10
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Art Direction: Now now, the naked gladiator in a helmet theme is completely in this season, so I insist! Make sure to cover his giblets in shadow because we don’t want a meat and two veg hanging out to offend readers. Side bum, is acceptable.
Published 1971
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • dude • Michael Moorcock • monsters • muscles • Nell Books • strange creature • sword • Unknown Artist Institute
Dec 09
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John Comments: There isn’t a joke I could make that would trump the description on the back – “The wife of a powerful figure in CA is found brutally murdered in the couple’s lonely mountain retreat. Wesley Stoneham made certain that all the evidence concerning the murderer of his wife pointed to a nearby hippie community. He had 3 goals in mind: to get rid of his wife, to drive out the hippie commune, and to enhance his own power in the state. He was at the point of achieving them all when Garnna, from the peaceful planet of Zartic finally made contact with Debby, a hippie from the commune, who had problems of her own. Then, Stoneham’s troubles began.” OF COURSE I BOUGHT THIS RIGHT AWAY!
Published 1975
Many thanks to John!
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Tagged with: aliens • beard-wielding • dinosaur • dude • fire • Kelly Freas • Laser Books • Roger Elwood • space • Stephen Goldin • strange creature
Dec 08
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The Tim’s Art Direction: Okay, start with a monster with an improbably wide rear stance. Throw in some terrified citizens in jumpsuits. Now throw some rubble flying in impossible directions in there for good measure.
Published 1980
Rear cover here.
Many thanks to… The Tim!
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Tagged with: damsel • DAW Books • Doris Piserchia • dude • H.R. Van Dongen • jump • monsters
Dec 03
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Art Direction: I don’t know how you did it when you worked for others but here at New English Library, we go out and get drunk. Then take LSD. Then run around the countryside for a good weekend continually engaging in any type of physical fulfillment we can find. Whatever you’ve drawn by the end we’ll shove on some cover.
Published 1978
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Tagged with: Bernard Mathon • Daniel Walther • Dominique Douay • dude • GĂ©rard Klein • Jacques Sternberg • Jean-Pierre Andrevon • Julia Verlanger • Maxim Jakubowski • Michel Jeury • Nathalie Henneberg • New English Library • Philippe Curval • space • Suzanne Malaval • Tony Cartano • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Dec 02
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Danielle’s Art Direction: It’s futuristic? Swords, loincloths, castles and uh…oh put an alien in there.
Published 1967
Many thanks to Danielle!
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Tagged with: Bart Somers • bladed weapons • damsel • dude • Jack Gaughan • loincloth • monsters • Paperback Library
Nov 26
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Don Comments: In the Future
- Your basketball shoes will be shiny.
- Your garage will have lots of random gages and tubes on its walls.
- “Dead Gopher with Habanero” will be a popular flavor of cat food, judging by the expressions of this guy and his cat respectively.
Published 1957
Many thanks to Don!
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Tagged with: dude • Nelson Doubleday SFBC • Robert A. Heinlein • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute
Nov 25
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Rich Comments: One of my favouite books of all time. If I had judged by the cover, I wouldn’t have ever touched it.
Published 1966
Many thanks to Rich!
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Tagged with: Alfred Bester • daemons • dude • evil children • Lester Waldman • Penguin Science Fiction • skulls a-poppin' • WTF
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