Good Show Sir

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JuanPaul Comments: That expression you get when you realize that you are just cover bait for a bunch of 13 year old geeks.

Published 1980

(Average: 8.75 out of 10)

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Noel Comments: In an ideal world, these would be the UK’s next Eurovision entrants.
Published 1978

(Average: 8.55 out of 10)

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Tom Noir’s Art Direction: “Very well Mistress Raven, I want you to whip me gently until I am hit with my next great cover inspiration. Don’t spare the buttocks. And remember my safe words: poul anderson.”
Published 1980

(Average: 7.21 out of 10)

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Bibliomancer Comments: Finally an explanation for the Earth’s molten core. A crucible in a subterranean foundry!
Published 1976

(Average: 7.76 out of 10)

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And we are back! Woo hoo! Enjoy all these great covers and pieces of art from Frank!

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I couldn’t help but wonder what this cover art was about: the Cosmic Striptease, or The Devil Downstairs. So I looked within, where I found….
Published 1957

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“Beautiful women were Satan’s main weapon. They made sin look so attractive.”

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“Millions of Earthlings gaped while the Martian show went on.” Apparently the Martians had a pretty good grasp of human anatomy.

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Further in, for another story titled, “Excitement For Sale!!”
“He was a mood-merchant, a happiness-huckster, peddling dreams from door to door.”

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Table of contents so you can see all the authors and cover art credit.

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I may have to go back and read this one to get the context for, “women were flung heartlessly into space”.

(Average: 8.84 out of 10)

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Frank Comments: First we have The Star-Crowned Kings a Daw Books publication. I haven’t read it so don’t know what the lady-in-chain has to do with the story. But, I thought, she looks familiar, and I thought I knew where I’d seen her before: Up to the Sky in Ships, a NESFA Press collection of some of A. Bertram Chandler’s short stories. Chandler and Freas were Guests of Honor at that year’s Worldcon, which was the occasion for the book. I guess it was thought that this would be offered to a more adult audience and so the model got to stand up for this painting, so we could all see that the lady-in-chain really is a blonde.
Star Crowned Kings published 1975
Up to the Sky in Ships published 1982

It’s dos-a-dos like an Ace Double and if you flip it over you see the cover for the other collection of shorts in the book, this one from Lee Hoffman.

(Average: 6.91 out of 10)

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Tom Noir Comments:That key unlocks WHAT now??
Published 1993 or 1996

(Average: 8.37 out of 10)

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Tom Noir Comments: No seriously man, I just want to take a little bit off the top!
Published 1990

(Average: 7.09 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Remember that time you walked in on your parents as they were making your brother? Yeah… if you could sum up all those feelings and put it into the expressions of the main characters, who must be wearing caped onesies. Instant classic… though you might need some more therapy afterwards.
Published 1986

Many thanks to Paul D!

(Average: 7.80 out of 10)

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Scott B’s Art Direction: I want a cover with no Sioux, taking place not in space. Just show one of the evil slaver horsemen, but without a horse. Just give him a radio-technology weapon, a bird mask, and a snappy vest.
Published 1966

(Average: 8.88 out of 10)

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