Jan 12
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Ken R. Comments: This beauty is from 1945, Duchess Publishing, Canada. It is infamous for it’s ugliness as well as crediting the editor, John W. Campbell, as the author. Ray Cummings sued to have it removed from the shelves, thus it’s scarcity.
You might remember this from here.
Published 1945

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Tagged with: blockhead • Duchess Printing Co • font problems • John Campbell • mushroom cloud • planets • Ray Cummings • rocket • sticks • Unknown Artist Institute
May 13
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Alice Comments: Upon graduation from the Unknown Artist Institute you have unlimited opportunities as an unpaid intern in the movie poster field.
Published 1978

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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • floating head • font problems • little people • mushroom cloud • Roger Zelazny • Sphere Books • Star Wars reference • sweet ride • Unknown Artist Institute
Nov 13
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Arthur Dent Comments: There’d better be a flying nun in this novel or I’m taking it back for a refund.
Published 1973

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Tagged with: alien • Bob Haberfield • damsel • evil children • flying nun • M. John Harrison • mushroom cloud • Panther Books • tasteful smoke
Oct 30
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Baba Louie Comments: Italian sign language: “Whya me Lord?”
Published 1963

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Tagged with: anatomical issues • bighanditis • dude • font problems • H. Fox • John E. Muller • mushroom cloud • planets • R.L. Fanthorpe • Vega Books
Jan 06
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Tom Noir’s Art Direction: I want a cover that oozes manliness from every pore! And I want to see those pores! I want to smell the musky odor of that manliness! I want to bathe in it as it drips down my naked, strapping torso beneath the scorching gaze of a skullsplosion! KABOOM!!!
Published 1988

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Tagged with: Baen Books • dude • font problems • Martin Caidin • Miro • muscles • mushroom cloud • skulls a-poppin' • WTF
Dec 11
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Good Show Sir Comments: By the end of “Take Your Alien Child To Work Day” the little fellow was all worn out.
Published 1981

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Tagged with: alien • BEHIND YOU! • casually walking away from an explosion • dude • Fred Saberhagen • frickin laser beams • ill-fitting spacesuit • mushroom cloud • Tom Kidd • Tor Books
Aug 16
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: No seriously… four different colours of font will completely work! Especially if we add blue arching electricity!
Published 1998
Many thanks to Paul D for sending this in!

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Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • BEHIND YOU! • Brom • dude • electricity • fire • long haired men • magic • metropolitan apocalypse • mushroom cloud • sky-eyes • Terry Brooks
Dec 04
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World gets destroyed by large alien disco balls firing lasers. Lasers that create nuclear explosions. Then we’ll have some women in a tight shirt, unbuttoned just enough to tease our readers. And like every other cover out there, she’ll be completely ignoring the fact that there is a mammoth nuclear explosion going off in the background. Women, eh?

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Tagged with: Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • booties • bracers • casually walking away from an explosion • cleavage • damsel • explosion • frickin laser beams • gun • handguns • Hymn Before Battle series • John Ringo • metropolitan apocalypse • mushroom cloud • once you see it • Patrick Turner • rifle • scope • space ships
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