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Joachim Comments: You should be looking at the giant sore on my lip!
Published 1974
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Joachim Comments: You should be looking at the giant sore on my lip!
Published 1974
December 10th, 2012 at 9:23 am
The first thing I did was count the fingers and toes.
Doctor Cleaver has very sharp nails on his only foot (how does he stand upright?) but not on his hands.
December 10th, 2012 at 10:20 am
“Hey, you’re not R.D. Laing!”
December 10th, 2012 at 12:07 pm
And blue and orange contrast now goes back to 1974!
December 10th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Is that Jack Nicholson?
December 10th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
“Now I will cut the demon in ha – hey, does anyone smell something burning?”
December 10th, 2012 at 3:28 pm
So did the “patient”, or whatever he is, lose his mind after being levitated naked and in he fetal position by some demonic doctor, or after said doctor chopped garlic on his noggin?
December 10th, 2012 at 4:06 pm
according to sf encyclopedia “The deracinated protagonist of Masque of a Savage Mandarin (1969) takes symbolic revenge upon the world via the systematic destruction – by electromagnetic Rays resembling microwave radiation – of a hapless innocent’s brain”
December 10th, 2012 at 4:32 pm
@Darren: I think it’s Billy Bob Thornton wreaking revenge on Brad Pitt during the filming of ‘Benjamin Button’. He’s clutching the phial of Angelina’s blood with his left hand.
The levitating patient’s head is so misplaced I thought it was a CS Lewis placed over something a bit ruder.
December 10th, 2012 at 5:02 pm
“Paging Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard.”
December 10th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Visit California long enough, and you WILL come across people doing this for real.
December 10th, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Those really are the lamest horns on his patient’s head — as stupid looking as Naomi Wildman’s ridges in Star Trek : Voyager
December 10th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Horns? I thought someone had cracked an egg on his noggin.
This is another example of that delightful genre, the cover picture that gets funnier and funnier the further down the page you scroll. It starts off as just a maniac with a cleaver and a split lip… evolves into an attack on a lunatic with eggshell above his crossed eyes… who develops into a levitator… and finally reveals the clawed foot of the attacker. Good Show, Sir!
December 10th, 2012 at 10:32 pm
I’m rooting for the guy with the cleaver.
December 11th, 2012 at 6:25 pm
Why does the loopy-looking-floating-guy-with-a-cracked-egg-on-his-head look like he’s enjoying himself?
December 13th, 2012 at 6:43 am
Ewww..a truly awful bit of dross. Which one is the Mandarin? Neither looks oriental, and neithet appears to be wearing a mask (or masque). Unknown artist? What,, no one proudly claims this masterpiece? Finest example of a floating baby/man ever and Anonymous gets the credit?
December 13th, 2012 at 2:56 pm
This website (http://ski-ffy.blogspot.com/2011/12/masque-of-savage-mandarin.html) suggests that the artist might be Bob Haberfield.
December 15th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
no has noticed the doctor’s foot?
look, look at the doctor’s foot.
December 16th, 2012 at 10:52 pm
@ ecthroi #17: see the first comment.