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Post by severance on Nov 13, 2007 12:16:15 GMT
The return of an old favourite? Maybe not, but I liked it so there
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Post by dem bones on Nov 13, 2007 14:16:45 GMT
Long overdue a revival! It's frustrating, though. When you began the thread I thought it would be a cinch finding stuff to add, but it seems that either I've not bought as many atrocities as I thought or much of the best stuff can be found on the covers of non-genre paperbacks (the Michael Green Art Of Coarse ... paperbacks for Arrow are usually reliable). I'm hoping somebody else has more luck I thought I was onto something when I landed The Inquisitor's House (Sphere 1970) but now I look at it, exciting facial interpretations of the word 'terror' aside, it's not really that awful. Which of them do you suppose has just goosed the girl in the foreground?
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Post by Steve on Nov 13, 2007 16:53:49 GMT
Which of them do you suppose has just goosed the girl in the foreground? Has to be the bloke in the top hat, although by the looks of things, he's also on the receiving end of a bit of inappropriate contact from the bloke who's doing his best to look innocent at the back... Some great choices from Sev to get this one going again. Certainly an old favourite of mine. The 70s was really the golden age for photo covers - here's a NEL from 1975 that I've always enjoyed; It's not just the eye-patch, which is admittedly a lovely touch... shame the budget wouldn't run to a few more piratical props... a parrot maybe... or... considers a Heather Mills joke but decides to leave it... the best part of this composition for me is the bloke in the background who appears to have wandered into the picture by accident on his way to another photo shoot...
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Post by Steve on Nov 13, 2007 17:38:13 GMT
And who could forget this 1974 classic; Although, strictly speaking, I suppose this comes under the category of 'Badly Stuffed Photo Covers'...
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 13, 2007 19:45:27 GMT
I think I'd lay the blame squarely on the photographer for The Inquisitor's House. He's clearly got his girlfriend at the front the job and everyone's just been told the money's been cut
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Post by severance on Jan 6, 2008 11:56:33 GMT
At last... found another contender for this rather dubious honour
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Post by goathunter on Jan 6, 2008 18:21:20 GMT
The background guy on the cover of The Pirate looks like Kramer from Seinfeld (Michael Richards). (It's not him, but there's a resemblance.)
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Post by sean on Jan 7, 2008 15:28:34 GMT
Christ knows how the weresheep guy at the front kept a straight face long enough to photograph! Actually, this book has some good stuff in it, I might give it another read...
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Post by dem bones on Jan 7, 2008 15:34:39 GMT
Oh, that's an absolute beauty! I'm gutted. I've a copy of Triple W from 1963 but the cover is all boring and normal. Any chance of a close-up of the glamorous trio? I think I'm in love!
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Post by Steve on Jan 7, 2008 17:15:17 GMT
That is a stunner, isn't it? That's cheered me up no end, that has.
The werewolf in sheep's clothing is a stroke of genius. Just one thing though; "Witches, Warlocks and Werewolves"? Surely the count (sp?) at the back is a Wampire?
And am I hallucinating - or if you look very carefully at the bottom of the weresheep's bloody fleece, can you see the face of Zippy from Rainbow partially obscured by fog?
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coral
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Post by coral on Jan 22, 2008 21:28:51 GMT
I'ts amazing what you can do with granny's wig and some plastic halloween teeth, they could have at least blended the teeth into the rest of the picture! Not so much badly posed, as badly superimposed. Never fails to make me squirm, I read all these as a kid
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Post by dem bones on Jan 23, 2008 7:48:25 GMT
Meanwhile, we have Robin Reeve -The Book Of Urban Legends ( "From the Mexican stabbed to death by uncooked spaghetti during a hurricane, to the hordes of grown-up alligators plaguing New York's sewers ...." ), (O'Mara, 2002) Getty images I'd give that ten minutes if I were you, etc ....
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Post by coral on Jan 23, 2008 20:52:31 GMT
I checked in this afternoon without time to comment, and I'm still giggling now it's night time! Mr Demonik, that is a world beater, I want to go out and buy it just for that cover
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Post by dem bones on Jan 24, 2008 7:06:26 GMT
It pains me to say it, but the cover is the best thing about it. Apologies to our older members who've suffered it before, but this thread just isn't complete without .... Jessie Douglas Kerruish - The Undying Monster (Tandem, 1975) “Devil or ghoul, the bane of Hammand would have it’s victim”Dannow on the Suffolk Downs: For generations the Hammand family have laboured under a curse, apparently due to an evil ancestor who sold his soul to Satan. To make matters worse, they’re plagued by a werewolf who does for most of them, either rending their bodies or driving them to suicide. Now London-based Miss Luna Bartendale, a psychic detective, is called in by the present owners to see if she can prevent their doom at the fangs and claws of the monster. First published by Heath & Cranton in 1922 and successfully filmed by 20th Century Fox two decades later, Tandem released this paperback version for no apparent reason I can fathom in 1975.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jan 24, 2008 10:03:48 GMT
Its painfully obvious to me that the 'undying monster' was released in 1975 as an attempt to get into the vault's worst ever cover collection. And I'd put a lot of money on it winning.
Craig
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