Jan 23
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It’s a Two-fer Tuesday – Virgin Planet special!
Good Show Sir Comments:
#1 It says “Cover design Lester, Larkin & Divers” on back cover. Took a three-man team to design an arse cover.
#2 OK lady but if you’ve never seen a man you’re setting your expectations up a little high.
Published 1969, 2000
Thanks to Raoul for sending one in! You might remember this from here and here.
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Tagged with: Baen Books • Clyde Caldwell • crossbow • crotch armor • damsel • dude • helmet • jodhpurs • Lester Larkin & Divers • Mayflower Books • moon • muscles • Poul Anderson • rocket • Sir Mix-A-Lot • starkers • strange creature • two-fer
Sep 27
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Good Show Sir Comments: New candidate for censor sheep: the modesty assault rifle?
Thanks to Melody for sending this in!
Published 1980
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Tagged with: cigarette • damsel • devil's dumplings • gun • Mayflower Books • Melvyn Grant • Michael Moorcock • starkers
Sep 20
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Good Show Sir Comments: Cover art, suitable for framing, from the artist’s website.
From his biography:
Peter died much too soon but at least he was sitting in a bar with a drink in front of him. There are worse ways to go. At his funeral the vicar said he was probably “getting in the rounds” in heaven. I like to think he’s painting there too … He was intelligent and widely read and a regular member of his local pub’s quiz and cricket teams, though he would say that was mainly for the beer! He died in March 1998 in Skegness while he and some colleagues were working on a mural at Butlins, relaxing in the hotel bar after work.
Published 1979
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Tagged with: ax-wielding • booties • cephalopod • cleavage • damsel • eye-yi-yi • Faux-nan • Fritz Leiber • Good Show Sir • hunkbutt • long haired men • Mayflower Books • muscles • nappy • Peter Elson • ridiculous hat • sword • white-clothed protagonist
Mar 03
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John C Comments: Look, you wanted me to modernise the planet so I went to IKEA and got one of their “Flty” anti-gravity beds. It’s not my fault half the bits are missing and the instructions don’t make sense.
Published 1979
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Tagged with: blue number six • blue number two • boats • dude • geometric oddities • gibberish title • Jack Vance • Mayflower Books • naked people standing in boats • none more black • Peter Goodfellow • pole weapons • spear • strange artifact
Jan 09
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Jaouad Comments: Welcome to a new game of Spot The Rockstar! Among this week’s line-up are: Brian May, Ozzy Osbourne, Eddie van Halen, Steve Harris, Jimmy Page, Ian Gillan, John Deacon, Glenn Tipton, Dave Brock, and the ever elusive drum legend Alan Moore.
Published 1976
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Tagged with: bird • bladed weapons • blood • Bob Haberfield • clouds • conch • damsel • dude • magical orbs • male skirts • Mayflower Books • Michael Moorcock • mountains • muscles • necklace o' heads • once you see it • Sir Mix-A-Lot • strange creature • sword • you need a belt
Apr 19
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Jon L’s Art Direction: I want mountains! Mouths! Bad breath in the form of clouds! I’m talking The Emerald City on top of a giant screaming insect hillside chomping on the landscape! With lazer beam eyes! You know – sci-fi!
Published 1970
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Tagged with: abstraction • Bob Haberfield • call 555-orthodontic-emergency • clouds • frickin laser beams • Mayflower Books • Michael Moorcock • mist • WTF
Jun 08
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MisterBob’s Art Direction: Its 1968 – can you make up a new font?
Published 1968
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Tagged with: font problems • Keith Laumer • Mayflower Books • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
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
Mar 02
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Amy Comments: I wish this snap had turned out better but I was getting suspicious glances from the clerk at the bookstore. At any rate, high focus is not entirely necessary to appreciate a fat, be-earringed red Troll doll brandishing a sword whilst riding on an anatomically challenged horse floating above a cloud in front of an angry sun. Winds of Limbo indeed. Also, it says Moorcock *snigger*
Published 1974
WHAT?!?
Many thanks to Amy!
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • horses • Mayflower Books • Michael Moorcock • Mind Implosion • surprised horse • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
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