Feb 16
Tom Noir Comments: Everybody’s naked, but the crocodile is the only one that looks like it is having fun here.
Published 1973
Tom Noir Comments: Everybody’s naked, but the crocodile is the only one that looks like it is having fun here.
Published 1973
February 16th, 2017 at 11:39 am
You’d be smiling like that too if you were about to witness
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stab himself in the hand!
February 16th, 2017 at 11:40 am
Look at the size of her head relative to her body…I’m betting she’s the real monster.
February 16th, 2017 at 12:01 pm
The ladies arms are fused together below the elbow giving her only one hand.
Blade’s arms appear to be suffering from some terrible wasting disease (and Blade is not so much restraining the Croco-snake as caressing it).
No wonder the Croco-snake is the only happy one!
PS:
“Dick Blade” Really?
PPS:
“Heroic fantasy series”, yeah more like “Teenage power fantasy series”. Imagine if they’d published Narnia “Christian Allegory series”.
February 16th, 2017 at 12:15 pm
Dick looks like he’s been distracted by nakeder, more vulnerable woman out of frame.
February 16th, 2017 at 1:08 pm
@JuanPaul
What makees you think it’s a woman. Judging by the almost complete lack of interest he shows in the nekid ladeez on these covers I suspect that our Dick’s main area of interest is [D|d]ick.
February 16th, 2017 at 1:22 pm
I think the alligator snake might be smiling because she is giving him a reptilian equivalent of a reach-around, maybe a “reach-under,” so as to immobilize him with other-dimensional pleasure as Dick brings down the Blade.
February 16th, 2017 at 1:23 pm
Now that I think on’t, what does “other-dimensional” mean, exactly?
February 16th, 2017 at 2:26 pm
Tonight, on Extreme Personal Grooming, how to use a crocodile as a depilator.
February 16th, 2017 at 2:51 pm
3Dish Blade is trying to break the fourth wall.
February 16th, 2017 at 2:58 pm
Remember what that croc did to Captain Hook, and he had his clothes on! It’s an accident waiting to happen!
February 16th, 2017 at 4:07 pm
Dick doesn’t want to fight. Dick wants to party !
February 16th, 2017 at 4:11 pm
@B’mancer: hm, the alligator and Dick both have something in common. The alligator lives fucking close to water, Dick drinks fucking close to water! 😉
February 16th, 2017 at 4:14 pm
The fantastic, other-dimensional adventures of BLADE strike again!
Seriously, anyone want to venture a guess as to how many covers from this series have previously been on this site? Because as I recall it’s quite a few.
February 16th, 2017 at 4:19 pm
@Anna – Just click the “Richard Blade” tag to see them all.
February 16th, 2017 at 4:34 pm
“As Dick Blade raised his sword to deliver a death blow to the vicious beast, he paused. He was experiencing a strange sensation; a sensation he had never experienced before. Dick didn’t know it at the time, but he was having a thought.”
February 16th, 2017 at 4:35 pm
@Bibliomancer: the head of Dick already looks like a clumsy cut-and-paste, as if they just slapped on the one from that other edition of ‘Liberator of Jedd’ over a magazine ad for Old Spice.
(Is it supposed to look like Patrick Allen in ‘When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth?’ It looks more like Alvin Stardust. That would explain the way he’s holding the knife).
February 16th, 2017 at 9:32 pm
Still my favorite Richard Blade cover.
February 16th, 2017 at 10:49 pm
@Tom: same Bakelite hair.
February 17th, 2017 at 7:53 am
The reptile is happy because it’s thinking “This chump doesn’t know how to hold anything! I’m gonna chomp his arm off! He-he!”
February 17th, 2017 at 7:55 am
Dick has scored the perfect 10/10 here! We have a new champion!
In this set of covers, the naked babe is always in the background while Dick’s in the foreground holding an animal. It makes one wonder… and then shudder and stop oneself from wondering. I guess sometimes he’s in the foreground with another dude, which is also why he’s ignoring the babes. Or sometimes an alien or bot.
Maybe the “other-dimensional” adventures are the way he’s always popping out of the square frame. Even if you’re in the fourth dimension, or The 5th Dimension (age of Aquaaaaaaarius!), or the 8th Dimension (buckaroo), you’re still in a dimension.
February 17th, 2017 at 4:55 pm
So, having taken @Raoul’s advice, and answering my own question, that would be ”seven”. Methinks this series is a pulpy treasure trove for this site, if anyone can find more.
February 17th, 2017 at 5:20 pm
Is his arm growing out of his ear?