Apr 16
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Remember when you used to dress up in black clothes, paint red eyes on your hoodie, stand with a knife and pretend to sacrifice your little brother to an evil spirit just to gain some physical power that will, in the end, only destroy you? No? Well you haven’t lived man! Now, let’s put that on there.
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Tagged with: bladed weapons • clouds • daemons • evil • evil book • glowing eyes • Marc Olden • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown publisher
Feb 28
Badger Books are the bomb! Stinkbomb. We’ve gotten a number of Badger covers over the years, most of which have sat unused (mainly because Tag Wizard couldn’t meet the high bar we set for alt-text humour). So we figured if we piled enough Badger Books into one heap they would reach critical mass and burst into flames, solving our problem.
So let’s have a go at our first Badger Books Megapost. Today’s theme is
Damsels in Distress,
or, Badger those Babes!
or, BEHIND YOU! RUN!
The Girl From Tomorrow
U.F.O. 517
Night of the Black Horror
Mind Force
Good Show Sir Comments:
1. “I come from the future to … rock your world!”
2. Whence did they come? Thence must we run! Hence.
3. “Get away from me, Nerd!”
4. This is where you’d expect to find Bow-tie Man!
Thanks to Marvin and Roger T. for sending these bad boys in.
Published 1961, 1965
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Tagged with: anatomical issues • Badger Books • BEHIND YOU! • Bron Fane • cleavage • crowd scene • damsel • dude • fear • flying saucer • font problems • glowing eyes • H. Fox • Karl Zeigfreid • Leo Brett • Lionel Fanthorpe • mega post • Patricia Fanthorpe • planets • RUN! • sensible shoes • sky-eyes • space brain • strange creature • tentacles • Unknown Artist Institute • Victor Norwood
Feb 27
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Tor Mented Art Direction: “Here’s my wife’s glamour-studio photo. Turn it into a painting. You’ll have a generic cover, and I’ll have an anniversary gift. Two birds, one stone.”
Published 1994
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Tagged with: Ace Books • big hair • damsel • Dawn Wilson • dog • font problems • glamour • Robin McKinley
Feb 26
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Good Show Sir Comments: “Let’s go clubbin’. Meet girls!” [Grunt]
Published 1950
Thanks to Roland for sending this in.
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Tagged with: caveman • club • font problems • Gerald G. Swan Books • starkers • Unknown Artist Institute • unknown author • WTF
Feb 25
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Good Show Sir Comments: The Bones of Zora … were all that was left after the dance.
Published 1984
Thanks to Jun for sending this in.
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Tagged with: Ace Books • Catherine Crook de Camp • cleavage • damsel • interpretive dance • L. Sprague De Camp • lizard people • scarf • she's got legs she knows how to use them • Victoria Poyser
Feb 21
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Dexter Comments: Let’s do it owlknight long, baby!
Published 1999
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Tagged with: damsel • DAW Books • dude • embossing • feathered cap • Jody Lee • Larry Dixon • maces • Mercedes Lackey • owl • robes
Feb 19
One of our fanboys sent a link to some “funny” science fiction book covers online. Funny as in this smells funny. A lot of these parody covers have a je n’est ce quoi familiarity about them. Check out a few:
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Here is the culprit:
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It seems “E-online” is muscling into on our territory of terrible sci-fi covers. Not only that, they are nicking our proprietary memes such “jazz hands” AND “BEHIND YOU”, not to mention our Dick Blade obsession. So we paid a visit to our solicitor and he said “go away until you give me my back pay”. Later he said “it’s probably just a coincidence, great ideas can be thought up independently, didn’t Newton and Leibniz both invent the calculus?”. “Yes” we said “but Newton later became Lord of Mint and spent his later years hanging counterfeiters! We demand justice”. He said “anyone can take a picture of the same book cover, come back when you have more proof”.
Then we looked some more and found this cover:
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And compared it to this:
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After we accused Bibliomancer of passing off the same cover to Tag Wizard AND Joel McHale, he swore his innocence. So it is obvious that we have a strong case for INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT. After our solicitor finishes his rehab stint we intend to file a legal complaint. E-online will, no doubt, want to settle this in a hurry for a sizeable sum.
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Tagged with: intellectual property theft • Smirky McSmug • WTF
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