Good Show Sir

Dec 17

Good Show Sir Comments: Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit!
Published 1980

(Average: 9.00 out of 10)

Tagged with: hunk • font problems • Haircut 100 • WTF • explosion • Dell Books • Philip K. Dick • space ship • Ting! • BEHIND YOU! • balls • Richard Courtney • framed cover art • robot • rabbit • mushroom cloud • perm

Dec 11

Earth Descended

16 Comments »

I claim this H-bomb-blasted-radioactive-alien-hell-hole planet ... for Earth! Click for full image

Good Show Sir Comments: By the end of “Take Your Alien Child To Work Day” the little fellow was all worn out.
Published 1981

(Average: 6.31 out of 10)

Tagged with: hunk • frickin laser beams • Fred Saberhagen • Tor Books • Tom Kidd • BEHIND YOU! • alien • casually walking away from an explosion • ill-fitting spacesuit • mushroom cloud

Nov 23

Case and the Dreamer and Other Stories

15 Comments »

Just pretend you are asleep... just ignore the naked robot alien man... Click for full image

Billy Awesome’s Art Direction: Give me an Art-Deco Jesus in suspended animation between two vanishing perspective strips of candy dots, being menaced by a space knight.
Published 1974

(Average: 6.73 out of 10)

Tagged with: hunk • robots • glow • neo-jesus • unknown artist • beard-wielding • WTF • Ting! • Signet Books • Theodore Sturgeon • BEHIND YOU!

Nov 19

Chrome Circle

19 Comments »

Night Mare ... BEHIND YOU! Click for full image

Good Show Sir Comments: This cover is so shiny that everything looks black unless you photograph it at the right angle. And then you notice that everything is embossed. The title is embossed. The authors are embossed. The car is embossed. The horse head is embossed. The fox-girl is embossed. It’s like bad cover art Braille for the blind.
Published 1994

(Average: 9.00 out of 10)

Tagged with: hunk • damsel • Mercedes Lackey • shiny oh so shiny • Baen Books • font problems • Larry Dixon • booties • Barclay Shaw • BEHIND YOU! • embossing • fox people • sunglasses • flying horse • Mustang Sally • claws • chrome

Oct 22

The Human Edge

22 Comments »

Two seconds before he shoots himself in the dick Click for full image

Tom Noir Comments: Authors: do your covers often suffer from font problems? Garish costumes? Badly drawn cat people? Half-witted expressions? You may be experiencing BAEN-ITIS.

Published 2003

(Average: 8.19 out of 10)

Tagged with: hunk • cat people • uniforms • strange creature • Baen Books • font problems • David Mattingly • handgun • Gordon R. Dickson • BEHIND YOU! • eyes on stalks • Smirky McSmug

Oct 20

The Rithian Terror

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Fright wig ... BEHIND YOU! Click for full image

Bibliomancer Comments: The Man in the Iron Depends.
Published 1965

Ace Doubles, double the reading pleasure, double the bad cover art.
This is the flip side of last week’s book: Off Center

(Average: 7.69 out of 10)

Tagged with: hunk • frickin laser beams • strange creature • Ace Books • Jack Gaughan • booties • Damon Knight • BEHIND YOU! • puffy shirt • crotch armor • blow drier gun

Sep 16

The Puzzle Planet

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You moron, when I said wear a rubber on this date, I didn't mean on your head Click for full image

Bibliomancer’s Comments: As Sally dressed up in her new titanium hat she suddenly had second thoughts about agreeing to a blind date with that hunky astronaut’s college roommate.

Published 1961

(Average: 8.05 out of 10)

Tagged with: hunk • damsel • strange creature • Ace Books • Ed Emshwiller • BEHIND YOU! • fancy hat • dress for success • Robert A.W. Lowndes • triangle doorway