Good Show Sir

Jun 26

Good Show Sir Comments: I wouldn’t kill it while I was still 500 feet above the ground.

Thanks to J Greely for sending this in.

Published 1980

(Average: 7.33 out of 10)

Tagged with: dude • exposed brain • eye-yi-yi • fat guy • Jack Williamson • muscles • Pocket Books • Rowena Morrill • spear • strange creature • tentacles

Feb 28

Badger Books Megapost

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Badger Books are the bomb! Stinkbomb. We’ve gotten a number of Badger covers over the years, most of which have sat unused (mainly because Tag Wizard couldn’t meet the high bar we set for alt-text humour). So we figured if we piled enough Badger Books into one heap they would reach critical mass and burst into flames, solving our problem.

So let’s have a go at our first Badger Books Megapost. Today’s theme is

Damsels in Distress,

or, Badger those Babes!

or, BEHIND YOU! RUN!

She'd run faster but her skirt won't allow it The Girl From Tomorrow

Hey that's the number plate of my car! U.F.O. 517

I've got more pulsating cells to show you Night of the Black Horror

I hate these new dance club spotlights Mind Force

Good Show Sir Comments:

1. “I come from the future to … rock your world!”

2. Whence did they come? Thence must we run! Hence.

3. “Get away from me, Nerd!”

4. This is where you’d expect to find Bow-tie Man!

Thanks to Marvin and Roger T. for sending these bad boys in.

Published 1961, 1965

(Average: 7.71 out of 10)

Tagged with: anatomical issues • Badger Books • BEHIND YOU! • Bron Fane • cleavage • crowd scene • damsel • dude • fear • flying saucer • font problems • glowing eyes • H. Fox • Karl Zeigfreid • Leo Brett • Lionel Fanthorpe • MEGA POST • Patricia Fanthorpe • planets • RUN! • sensible shoes • sky-eyes • space brain • strange creature • tentacles • Unknown Artist Institute • Victor Norwood

Dec 18

Dwellers in the Mirage

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Squids and Nudes: Take 7 Click for larger image

Good Show Sir Comments: Haven’t we seen this couple before?

Published 1952

(Average: 8.71 out of 10)

Tagged with: A. Merritt • Avon Books • big hair • chains • cleavage • damsel • dude • squids and nudes • starkers • tentacles • Unknown Artist Institute

Jun 27

Contact

22 Comments »

You don't look at all like your SETI profile picture Click for larger image

Tom Noir Comments: Can’t believe they got Jodie Foster to star in this.

Published 1963

(Average: 7.75 out of 10)

Tagged with: alien • antennae • bug-eyed • font problems • Fredric Brown • Isaac Asimov • little people • Murray Leinster • Noel Keyes • Paperback Library • Ray Bradbury • Robert Sheckley • rocket • tentacles • Unknown Artist Institute

May 29

The Sword of the Dawn

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It's a squizzard! Click for larger image

Lillie Awesome Comments: I’m not sticking around for the second sword stroke.
Published 1977

(Average: 8.89 out of 10)

Tagged with: bladed weapons • DAW Books • dude looks like a lady • lizards • Michael Moorcock • Richard Clifton-Dey • space sheep • squids and nudes • Squizzard! • starkers • tentacles

May 01

Wulfsyarn

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Murky Murk and the Funky Bunch Click for larger image

RachelJ Art Direction: “This is no ordinary novel. Not even a “A Novel”. This is… “A MOSAIC”. I want every element of the cover– title, subtitle, font, artwork– to blend harmoniously into one vast, resounding “WTF”.

Do it justice, my boy.”

[Note: It’s not my camera. The cover image is just really, really dark and murky and it’s hard to tell what anything is.]

Published 1990

(Average: 7.11 out of 10)

Tagged with: font problems • gibberish title • Gollancz Books • John Brettoner • little people • moon • murky murk • Phillip Mann • shiny oh so shiny • tentacles • WTF

Apr 02

Exodus

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Any other strange body parts? Click for larger image

JuanPaul Comments: Oh Baen, will you ever cease to amaze us?
Published 2008

(Average: 7.62 out of 10)

Tagged with: aquarium • Baen Books • cleavage • Clyde Caldwell • crossdressing alien • damsel • eye-yi-yi • font problems • gams • magic fingers • once you see it • ridiculous hat • Shirley M. Meier • Steve White • submarine • tentacles

Mar 22

Honourable Mentions 18

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Magazines, franchise books, paper dolls and “non-fiction” occult. We have a potpourri jamboree here for another in our continuing series of Honourable Mentions. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

Now add a pinch of Picard Click for larger image

Erik Tollstedt Comments: I want an image of Ernest Hemingway. He should be sitting on a purple couch in outer space. There should be papers flying away from his lap. Also, I’d like to see Ernest Hemingway’s head explode. But not in the normal way. It should explode into several other heads, one of them a sleeping hispanic man, and the other Emperor Ming. And have some sort of purple beam shoot out of his brain too. Yeah, that will convey “creative genius” like nothing else.
Published 1990

Laser Rhodan Click for larger image