Jul 11
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Jon Comments: I know those Moorcock/Mayflower covers are like shooting fish in a barrel, but I needed something to go with my chips. I actually got the man himself to sign my copy recently and I told him I felt the film version was underrated. He agreed with me, with the minor change of “under” to “over”. Seemed a nice bloke, though.
Published 1973
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Tagged with: baldness • bear people • beard-wielding • bowler hat • cage • cleavage • damsel • evil • evil doctor • fedora hat • fire • helmet • jeans and a t-shirt • jester • magic • magical orbs • Mayflower Books • metropolitan apocalypse • Michael Moorcock • once you see it • pickaxe • robes • skulls a-poppin' • space sheep • suits you • sun • top hat • umbrella • Unknown Artist Institute • waistcoat • WTF
Jun 29
Joachim Comments: Girl with strategically placed stars (of course). Chola eyebrows and bleached blonde hair with walking shark with gill piercing/oops, I mean a chain-leash…. And she has claws of course — see, the cover is derived entirely from the TITLE!
Published 1975
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Tagged with: chain • cleavage • cyborg • damsel • DAW Books • Kelly Freas • magic • Michael G. Coney • shark • starkers • strange creature • WTF
Jun 27
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Art Direction: The real question is, what can’t we put on the cover? I want everything, a dragon, a muscle bound man in tights, a wizard and even a dwarf. Oh and the standard 80’s teenager thrown into a world they don’t understand but slowly come to love. All emerging from a fine mist.
Published 1985
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Tagged with: ax-wielding • bladed weapons • damsel • dragon • Good Show Sir • Joel Rosenberg • magic • muscles • Nelson Doubleday SFBC • Steve Ferris • sword
Jun 20
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Ian Comments: Reach for your gun! A man wearing nothing but a couple of spangly lights has just materialised and is scaring the women!
Published 1966
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Tagged with: aliens • Belmont Books • bubble helmet • damsel • dude • font problems • gun • magic • muscles • once you see it • space • space suit • starkers • Unknown Artist Institute
Jun 14
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E Comments: According to my husband, his dog chewed up the cover of this book. I think the dog was making a statement. Like why the hell are those people sitting in a hollowed-out asteroid?
Published 1984
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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • daemons • damsel • dude • fire • hair on fire • Lyndon Hardy • magic • monsters • people with hooves • Rowena Morrill • Satan • strange creature • wings • WTF
Jun 13
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Joachim’s Art Direction: Man, surrounded by flowing white firmamental materials, which conglomerate/emanate at/from his manhood… Everyone standing in awe since he’s floating down steps, or, staring at his….
Published 1968
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Tagged with: aurora borealis • Ballantine Books • dude • electricity • floating person • magic • muscles • Robert R. Foster • Robert Silverberg • stairway to heaven • Ting!
May 30
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Jen Comments: All I can say is, anyone who actually bought this for the cover is going to be VERY disappointed.
Published 2010
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Tagged with: candles • chucky the evil toy doll • damsel • DAW Books • embossing • Esther Diamond Series • Laura Resnick • magic • skulls a-poppin' • snake
May 20
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Art Direction: Look this is the 70’s! Who doesn’t have a LSD induced swirling vision of a womans face while walking around topless and carrying their longbow? I had one last night. Just draw, or you don’t get any happy juice!
Published 1973
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Tagged with: damsel • DAW Books • dude • E.C. Tubb • Kelly Freas • longbow • magic • muscles • once you see it • WTF
May 19
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Matt’s Art Direction: Fabric! I want to see lots of fabric. And hands, lots of dramatically posed hands. And least one bare breast, only you’ll have to conceal the nipple with something. How about a cross?
Published 1994
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Tagged with: Baen Books • Bardic Voices Series • cleavage • damsel • Darrell K. Sweet • dude • font problems • ghosts • headband • jester • magic • Mercedes Lackey • once you see it
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