Nov 13
Click for full imageScott B Comments: The Civil War re-enacted by radio-antennaed Peter Pan fairies and giant ants.
Published 1964
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Scott B Comments: The Civil War re-enacted by radio-antennaed Peter Pan fairies and giant ants.
Published 1964
You might remember this from here!
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November 13th, 2012 at 9:56 am
Aka The Rusk They Had to Take.
Looking closer, is this set on a golf course?
November 13th, 2012 at 11:37 am
This is a classic cover – every time I look I see something new. The antennae! The wings! The ants! The ARMED ants!
Marvellous!
I’ve a feeling these aren’t Peter Pan Fairies, but mere humanoid flying ants, waging war against their deadly rivals the non-humanoid (but still opposable-thumbed) ground-based ants. Or something.
What exactly is an anti-master? Do they keep anti-slaves?
November 13th, 2012 at 11:57 am
The guy in the foreground is peeved because he didn’t get to wear wings.
November 13th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Sergeant: Squad! Camp it … UP!
Soldiers:
Oooh get her! Whoops!
I’ve got your number ducky.
You couldn’t afford me, dear.
Two three.
I’d scratch your eyes out.
Don’t come the brigadier bit with us, dear,
we all know where you’ve been, you military fairy.
Whoops, don’t look now girls
the major’s just minced in with that dolly colour sergeant,
two, three,
ooh-ho!”
November 13th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Are you SURE this cover wasn’t invented especially for this website? Because… wow… it truly boggles the mind.
November 13th, 2012 at 1:30 pm
But you gotta admit, it takes real courage to go into battle in that gear.
November 13th, 2012 at 2:49 pm
“You guys fight the giant ants! I’ll stay back here and do the pointing.”
November 13th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
If the blurb is to be believed, we’re supposed to be rooting for the ants against their flimsily-clad enslavers.
This must be the bit they cut out of those car-repair adverts where Harry Hill claims:’By Jingo, we’re DETERMINED to be the best!’
November 13th, 2012 at 5:33 pm
And something is seriously wrong with his legs. Im not sure which is left or right, the long or the short one.
November 13th, 2012 at 6:57 pm
Wow. Wonder what the cover of ‘Unemployment Insurance in Wisconsin’ looks like. Cows instead of ants maybe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Sherman_Hoar
November 13th, 2012 at 8:19 pm
Ants on Venus? Venus appears to be enjoying a remarkably sunny day with pleasant blue skies. For the only time in forever. Perhaps the fairy/elves were simply enjoying an impossibly pleasant day with a nice picnic lunch, when..ANTS!!
November 13th, 2012 at 9:36 pm
The ants are waving the Stars and Stripes!
November 13th, 2012 at 9:47 pm
American ants on Venus? Hmmm, it figures.
November 14th, 2012 at 7:07 am
In the upper left corner is the logo “Ace Science Fiction Classic”.
Everything new is a “Classic” in America, as you may have noticed…
November 14th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
I want one of them dune buggies.
November 15th, 2012 at 8:31 pm
I bet the main guy there is listening to Flight of the Valkyries on his headphones.
November 15th, 2012 at 10:36 pm
I love the smell off dead Venusian ants in the morning. It smells like…victory.
February 3rd, 2013 at 2:06 pm
It used to be fine weather on Venus in the 1920s – yes, 1920s. It really is a “classic” (reheated Edgar Rice Burroughs, down to the pseudonym), and a sequel to this baby (really):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Radio_Man
The date accounts for the title. In the 1940s you would put the word “Atom” in the title to show that this was a tale of fantastic science. In the 1920s, “Radio” had the same significance.
Got some fine covers there. Arguably “An Earth-Man On Venus” is a better title. “Myles Cabot on Venus” is more specific. But “An Earth-Man On Venus” has the more overt giant ant sexual harassment (by the ant, not of the ant). This is what the public wants, some of it anyway.
It has taken me about five minutes of looking to notice that the chick has wings. A four foot span.
“The Radio Man” sounds like the 1920s original of “The Cable Guy” in which Harold Lloyd plays the radio engineer, and when I say engineer I mean installer. The giant ants probably felt about him like you’d feel about Jim Carrey by the end of the story.