May 06

Max Bathroom Comments: The thighs of Sarsis…
Published 1980

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Tagged with: Andrew J. Offutt • bladed weapons • damsel • lizard • Pocket Books • Richard Lyon • ships • Ting!
Jan 14
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FluffyGhostKitten Comments: There’s using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and then there’s this.
Published 1999

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Tagged with: Baen Books • big gun • bird • font problems • Harry Turtledove • helicopters • L. Sprague De Camp • Larry Elmore • lizard • ridiculous hat • robes • shuriken of approval • snake
Aug 05
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pulpfiles Comments: Poor Dick Blade has stabbed his eyes out with his big p- er, polearm!
Our friend pulpfiles delivers the Dick in his latest Blade Book Review! Check it out. — Tag Wizard
Published 1973

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Tagged with: a Blade by any other name • damsel • devil's dumplings • font problems • Jeffrey Lord (aka Roland J. Green) • lizard • muscles • phallic stage • Pinnacle Books • pole weapon • Richard Blade • road flare • tasteful smoke • Tony Destefano • weird pecs
Mar 25
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Tat Wood Comments: Fifty years on, the title’s still hilarious. But note how Jeff Jones has emphasised the turtle’s head and the hero’s arms while leaving it ambiguous what exactly is going on or how many limbs each party is supposed to have.
Published 1969
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Tagged with: Ace Books • dude • faceless • Jack Vance • Jeff Jones • lizard • moon
Oct 04
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Arthur Dent Comments: Just before being killed by the onrushing semi someone else’s life passed before my eyes. It was much more interesting than mine.
Published 1986
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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • bird people • bladed weapons • chainmail lingerie • damsel • Dancing Gods Series • dude • fairies • Jack L. Chalker • lizard • Orbit Books • truckin' • Unicorns! • Unknown Artist Institute
Jan 15

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Tom Luczycki’s Art Direction: I need a guy astride a giant walking fish-thing accompanied by a metallic angel with nippless bazooms. Could you have the guy holding an impossibly small and ineffective bow? Forget about the arrows. The bow is more a symbol for the subtext of the underlying metaphor. And moths. The moths should round things out nicely.
Published 1983

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Tagged with: butterfly • devil's dumplings • dude • Frederik Pohl • Jack Williamson • Kevin Johnson • lizard • loincloth • Nelson Doubleday SFBC • statue • wings
Nov 15
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Good Show Sir Comments:
There once was a hero named Blade
Who travelled through space to get laid
Wrapped his arse in a muff
Cause he thought it looked buff
Now the ladies are running away ‘fraid
Published 1972
Read all about this exciting adventure on the back cover.
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Tagged with: big hair • bladed weapons • damsel • hunkbutt • Jack Faragasso • Jeffrey Lord (aka Manning Lee Stokes) • lizard • Macfadden Books • muscles • Richard Blade • Sir Mix-A-Lot • starkers
May 01
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Tat Wood Comments: I just popped back to France and found some more ripe examples of 70s French cover-art. This has all the worst features of inept collage but was painstakingly painted by a professional artist.
Published 1978
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Tagged with: alien landscape • devil's dumplings • floating lips • French • hair on fire • lizard • moons • Presses Pocket • Robert Sheckley • ruins • shell • starkers • Wojtek Siudmak • WTF
Oct 12
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Raoul Comments: How much longer do I have to sit posing? Your lizard is killing me.
Published 1981

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Tagged with: Berkley Books • cat people • dude • font problems • Jill Bauman • lizard • Nicholas Yermakov • painting in the painting • Simon Hawke
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